William Klug is Professor of Biology at The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College) in Ewing, New Jersey. He served as Chair of the Biology Department for 17 years. He received his B.A. degree in Biology from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.Prior to coming to The College of New Jersey, he was on the faculty of Wabash College as an Assistant Professor, where he first taught genetics, as well as general biology and electron microscopy. His re-search interests have involved ultrastructural and molecular genetic studies of development, utilizing oogenesis in Drosophila as a model system. He has taught the genetics course as well as the senior cap-stone seminar course in human and molecular genetics to under-graduate biology majors for many years. He was the recent recipient of the first annual teaching award given at The College of New Jer-sey granted to the faculty member who “most challenges students to achieve high standards.” He also received the 2004 Outstanding Pro-fessor Award from Sigma Pi International, and in the same year, he was nominated as the Educator of the Year, an award given by the Research and Development Council of New Jersey..