Doc Wearing Hat for Halloween
| Doc Ruiz
Ruiz Teaching Awards (in blue below)
The 1995 UNCA Teacher Award
The 1997 Natural Sciences Award
The 2004 Board of Governors Award
2009-2010 Ruth and Leon Feldman 2017 Scholarly and Creative |
Newspaper Caption: "Michael Ruiz, professor of physics at UNCA, uses computer technology to help illustrate lectures to the students, including these non-science majors who are taking a course called The Physics of Sound and Music. Ruiz got funding for the computer design program through the National Science Foundation, one of the options discussed by the state's college and university presidents during a meeting in Asheville Thursday." Asheville-Citizen-Times, Mountains, Friday, October 31, 1997, page B1. (Photo by John Coutlakis)
Prof. Ruiz was the first faculty member to receive all three major UNCA teaching awards. His innovative use of educational multimedia materials delivered over the Internet has received international recognition.
Your author's e-texts were featured as a top story on CNN in 2002. His e-texts are successful because you only download a small piece at a time - you download what you need at the moment and nothing more!
E-Book Learning. The Top Story in Science/Technology (CNN) on August 31, 2002.
CNN: NEXT@CNN (Aired Saturday, August 31, 2002 and Sunday)
From left to right: Earl Brackett on Drums, Bryan White on Bass Guitar, Landon Bellavia
on Clarinet, Shannon Siemens on Flute, Doc on Keyboard, William Bryan (Liam)
on Trumpet, and Tonisha Jackson Conducting.
From left to right: Tim Leogrande on Drums, Doc Ruiz on Synthesizer, Grant Cuthbertson
(a former sound student from Fall 1995) on Bass Guitar, Eric Lenington on Trombone,
Christa Ruiz (the Doc's daughter visiting) on Synthesizer, and Landon Mattox on Guitar.
Bear Footage by Doc Ruiz, May 25, 2008. WLOS Clip June 6, 2008.
Bear Footage by Doc Ruiz, December 1, 2015.
Movie made during the 2010-2011 Academic Year. Private Screening April 28, 2011.
University Mascot Rocky the Bulldog (2006, Alabama - 2016, Asheville)
Doc Hugs Daughter Frances on "What Not to Wear" Episode. By the way, Claire Chapman, who nominated Frances and is first to appear in the above excerpt, is the daughter of the physician whose commercial airline pilot father saw the SR-71 as a UFO in the 1960s. Claire and Frances were in an Asheville preschool together in the mid 1980s.