21 faculty and staff honored for outstanding achievements
Twenty one UMKC faculty and staff received UMKC’s top honors yesterday afternoon, February 15, at a university-wide ceremony, Celebrating Excellence. The 20 awards, nine of which are new for 2010, recognize outstanding achievements in research and creative activity, teaching, student mentoring, service and engagement.
“Celebrating Excellence is a way to honor and to fully appreciate the extraordinary work and talent that our university community offers our students and the greater community,” Provost Gail Hackett told the audience in Spencer Theatre at the James C. Olson Performing Arts Center. “These awards reflect not only the exceptional research, teaching and service that go on each day in every academic unit and division at our university, but they also point the way toward UMKC’s future and toward the goals that we set for ourselves – as individuals and as an institution.”
Celebrating Excellence, which will become an annual February event, was hosted by Provost Hackett. Presenting the awards were Chancellor Leo Morton; UM System President Gary Forsee; Mel Tyler, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management; Ron MacQuarrie, Dean of Graduate Studies; Dr. Lynda Bonewald, Curators’ Professors and Interim Vice Chancellor for Research; Carol Hintz, Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources; and Crisanne Arnold, President of Staff Council.
Faculty and Staff Awards and awardees:
Staff Awards:
Human Resources Campus Collaboration Staff Award: Eve McGee, Social Worker, UMKC School of Nursing
Student Affairs Student Mentor Award: Tim Quinn, Senior Research Assistant, UMKC School of Medicine
Staff Council Governing Board Award: 2009 Awardee – Bonnie Painter, Coordinator for Business Affairs, UMKC’s Center for Academic Development
Staff Council Governing Board Award: 2010 Awardee – Jara Stewart, Office Support Staff IV, Continuing Education, UMKC’s College of Arts & Sciences
Chancellor’s Education First Staff Award: Nancy Bahner, Administrative Associate II, UMKC School of Pharmacy
Chancellor’s True Unsung Hero Award: Adela Fleming, Manager of Student Services, UMKC School of Law
Teaching Awards:
Elmer F. Pierson Outstanding Teaching Awards:
- Law: Jasmine Abdel-khalik, Associate Professor, UMKC School of Law
- Dentistry: Donna Deines, Associate Professor, UMKC School of Dentistry
- Medicine: David Bamberger, Professor, UMKC School of Medicine
- Business: Shad Dowlatshahi, Professor, UMKC’s Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching: Todor Gounev, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UMKC’s College of Arts & Sciences
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring: Tamera Murdock, Professor and Chair, Psychology, UMKC’s College of Arts & Sciences
Chancellor’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching: Andrew Granade, Assistant Professor, UMKC’s Conservatory of Music and Dance
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching: Jerzy Wrobel, Professor, Physics Department, UMKC College of Arts & Sciences; and James Falls, Associate Professor, History Department, UMKC College of Arts & Sciences
Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching: Cameron Lindsey, Associate Professor, UMKC School of Pharmacy
Research and Creative Activity Awards:
N.T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity: Anthony Persechini, Professor, UMKC’s School of Biological Sciences
Trustees Faculty Fellowship Award: Anthony Persechini, Professor, UMKC’s School of Biological Sciences
Trustees Faculty Scholar Award: Brian Geisbrecht, Assistant Professor, UMKC’s School of Biological Sciences
Service and Engagement Awards:
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement: Mary Kay Kisthardt, Professor, UMKC School of Law
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Diversity: Pellom McDaniels, Assistant Professor, History Department, UMKC’s College of Arts & Sciences
Chancellor’s Award for Career Contributions to the University: Nancy Mills, Dean and Professor, UMKC’s School of Nursing