The Quad

UMKC celebrated the promotion and tenure of 24 members of its faculty on September 1st at Pierson Auditorium. Among them were seven from the College. We congratulate them here as well.

	Awarded Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure Rosalyn M. Bertram (School of Social Work)
	Awarded Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure Mona Lyne (Political Science)
	Awarded Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure Diane Louise Mutti-Burke (History)
	Awarded Promotion to Professor Keith Buszek (Chemistry)
	Awarded Promotion to Professor Delwyn Catley (Psychology)
	Awarded Promotion to Professor Clancy Martin (Philosophy)
	Awarded Promotion to Professor Kati Toivanen/strong> (Art & Art History)

New Staff

• Steven Siegel  — Sr. Research Design Engineer
  (Physics)

Years of Service Awards

• 30 years: Connie Powell
  (Dean’s Office)
• 10 years: Cecelia Brewer
  (APP Coordinator)
• 10 years: Cynthia Stofiel
  (Theatre Dept)

Retirements

Lester Porter,  (Physics) Senior Research Design Engineer retired on July 30, 2010 after 15 years of service to the College of Arts and Sciences.  Les worked to design and build scientific equipment for both Physics and Chemistry faculty, as well as researchers at the Stowers Institute.   Les trained faculty in the research shop, and a few generations of students on safe and effective machining practices in the student shop.  He brought much needed improvement to the existing machinery, expanded the shops’ capabilities and also making them more responsive to the users’ needs.  Les also helped members of the Society of Physics Students build impressive demonstrations such as the giant vortex generator and the electromagnetic can crusher.

• see: http://cas.umkc.edu/physics/sps/projects/vortex/vortex.html and http://cas.umkc.edu/physics/sps/projects/cancrusher/cancrusher.html

A&S faculty and staff were among those honored on February 15, 2010 during UMKC’s “Celebrating Excellence” ceremony. They are:

Jara Stewart (A&S Continuing Education) Staff Council Governing Board Award for 2010	Todor Gounev (Chemistry) Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Jerzy Wrobel (Physics) and James Falls (History) Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Tamera Murdock (Psychology) Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring	Pellom McDaniels (History) Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Diversity

• www.umkc.edu/provost/awards
  Photos by Bob Greenspan

We congratulate the winners and commend them for their commitment to their students. They will be formally recognized at a College awards event in the Fall.

	Alumni Good Teaching Award: Awarded annually to an outstanding regular teacher in The College of Arts and Sciences ($1000). Michael Kruger (Physics)
	Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award: Awarded annually to one regular faculty member in The College of Arts and Sciences for outstanding teaching ($1000). Caroline “Molly” Davies (Geosciences)
	Dean’s Non-Regular Lecturer Award: Awarded annually to one non-regular faculty member in The College of Arts and Sciences for outstanding teaching ($1000). The nominee should have teaching as his/her primary mission. Bob Riggs (Physics)