Michael Bentley

Michael Lee “Mike” Bentley (Educ ’85) received the award for Outstanding Science Teaching and Contributions to Science Education by the Virginia Association of Science Teachers at their annual meeting in November 2021. At that meeting, he delivered a paper for the first time via YouTube video because the conference went virtual due to the pandemic. In 2021, he presented programs on the climate crisis to community groups and to his city council and continued volunteer work on Plowshare Peace and Justice Center’s board, as secretary of the regional Sierra Club, Citizen’s Climate Lobby, and Virginia’s Interfaith Power and Light. At 75, he is well and doing what good he can.