John Knox Wins Teaching Hall of Fame Award
John Knox PhD’96 (atmospheric sciences) was recently honored with the University System of Georgia’s Felton Jenkins Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award at a gala held at Trilith Studios in Atlanta. Georgia governor Brian Kemp, University of Georgia (UGA) chancellor Sonny Perdue, and the presidents of the 26 USG institutions of higher education were present. Knox, who is the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Geography at UGA, was one of three faculty honored with this award system-wide. He is just the eighth UGA winner of the award since it was created in 1997 and the first since 2019. Knox has taught nearly 7,000 students at UGA in more than 140 sections of courses since 2001 and is also associate director and undergraduate coordinator of UGA’s growing atmospheric sciences program. Nominator Jada Smith, a First Honor (4.00 GPA) graduate of UGA in 2023, said in her nominating letter, “Dr. Knox is the reason I chose UGA, stayed at UGA and thrived at UGA.”
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