CFS wishes a fond farewell and congratulations to Professor David Chiriboga and Professor Carol MacKinnon-Lewis on their retirement from USF.
Throughout his 20-year career at the USF, Dr. Chiriboga has devoted substantial time to teaching, research and scholarly activity.
Dr. Chiriboga has a long history of producing outstanding researchers in the field of aging, serving as a mentor for numerous postdoctoral fellows and students, many of whom are Koreans. He is the recipient of the GSA Minority Mentorship honor, which is given annually to an individual who has exemplified outstanding commitment and dedication to mentoring minority researchers in the field of aging. He was also the recipient of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education's Hiram J. Friedsam Mentorship Award. Read more here.
Dr. MacKinnon-Lewis joined USF in 2001 as a Full Professor and has contributed substantially to teaching, research and scholarly activity.
She was instrumental in the vision for development and implementation of the Graduate Certificate program in Children's Mental Health in the Department of Child and Family Studies (CFS). It was the first fully-online Certificate on the USF campus. She worked with the Provost's Office in initiating a policy for fee waivers for out-of-state students so that their tuition approximated that of in-state students. This was critical for the recruitment of non-Florida residents and was later extended to all Certificates on the campus. Read more here.