04/27/10

2010 Faculty and Staff Award Recipients

From the desk of Dr. Vahid Lotfi, Acting Provost:

Good Morning:

I am delighted to announce the recipients of the 2010 faculty and staff awards. All recipients will be honored at the Fall Academic Affairs Convocation scheduled on Wednesday, September 1. The University of Michigan-Flint is indeed fortunate to have the excellent caliber of faculty and staff to serve our students. Please join with me in congratulating the following faculty and staff:

Teaching Excellence Award
Randy Repic

Distinguished Service Award
Teddy Robertson

Scholarly or Creative Achievement Award
Michael Farmer

Alvin D. Loving Junior Faculty Initiative
Jie Song

Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Junior Faculty Award
Li-hsuan Yang

Lois Rosen Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award
Suleyman Uludag

Dorothea E. Wyatt Award
Michelle Rosynsky

The Olivia P. Maynard and Olof Karlstrom
Faculty Award for Civic Engagement
Jeff Kupperman

University of Michigan-Flint Nominee for the
Presidents Council Professor of the Year Award
Steven Althoen

I owe my gratitude to the Scholarships, Awards, and Special Events Committee who reviewed applications, support documentation, and made very difficult decisions for all of the awards other than the Lois Rosen Award and the Presidents Council Award. Thank you very much for the huge task that you completed. Committee members include: Chair Kazuko Hiramatsu, Hannah Furrow, Weiqi Li, Marianne McGrath, Edgar Torres, and Johnny Young. Thanks also goes to members of the Advisory Board of the Thompson Center for Learning and Teaching for the selection of the Lois Rosen Award recipients: Chair David Ametrano, Judith Ableser, Jacob Blumner, Bill Irwin, Dan Lake, Marilyn McFarland, Keith Moreland, and Jan Worth-Nelson.

These awards could not be possible without the many nominators and the time that they took to put forth their colleagues’ nominations and I thank the following for doing so: Lois Alexander, Ricardo Alfaro, Jami Anderson, Joe Bohland, John S. Ellis, Mary Jo Finney, Eric Freedman, Lauren Friesen, Susan Gano-Phillips, Guluma Gemeda, Lixing Han, John Helmuth, Richard Hill-Rowley, Martin Kaufman, Alicia Kent, Heather Laube, Vahid Lotfi, Kristen Matthias, Sheri Mayrberger, Sara McDonnell, Seyed Mehdian, Juan Mestas, Keith Moreland, Steve Myers, Michael Pardales, Chris Pearson, Kenneth Schilling, Mary Jo Sekelsky, Deborah Snow, Robert Stach, Charles Thomas, Maureen Tippen, Jessica Tischler, D. J. Trela, Shu-Yi Tu, Stephen Turner, Chris Waters, Bill Webb, Gary Weisserman, Monique Wilhelm, Kathleen Woehrle, Jan Worth-Nelson, Thomas Wrobel and Mona Younis.

I hope that you can join us at the Academic Affairs Convocation to congratulate and honor our award recipients. Thanks.

Vahid

Congratulations to all our winners and nominees!

04/23/10

RCAC Recepients – Winter, 2010

The Office of Research and the Research & Creative Activity Committee are pleased to announce the results of the winter 2010 Request for Proposals.  Twelve proposals were received, requesting more than $198,000 in funding.   In total, 6 awards, totally $74,371, were distributed to the following researchers:

  • Jessica Anderson, Ph.D., Chemistry/Biochemistry Department, Principal Investigator 
    Prevention of Cancer and Immune Disorders with Sufficient Vitamin D
  • Gabriella Hristova, Ph.D., Music Department, Principal Investigator 
    Recording of Bulgarian Choral Music for Submission to Music Publishers
  • Janet Haley, MFA, Theatre, Principal Investigator 
    Restoration of Spirit:  The Glenwood Cemetery Site-Specific Theatre Project
  • Heather Dawson, Ph.D.,  Biology, Principal Investigator 
    Spatial distribution, movement and habitat preference of large and metamorphosing
    Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), a Great Lakes exotic species
  • Sy Banerjee, Ph.D.,  School of Management, Principal Investigator 
    Erin Cavusgil, Ph.D., co-Investigator
    Nikki Taylor, MBA, co-Investigator
    Understanding the Mobile Internet Needs for the UM Flint Campus Community
  • Dauda Abubakar, Ph.D., Africana Studies/Political Science,  Principal Investigator 
    Identity Politics, Citizenship and Violence in Post-Colonial Africa:  Nigeria in Comparative Perspective

Congratulations to the recepients!

04/22/10

UM-Flint at NCUR

We’re happy to announce that senior UROP student, Nkemdilim Nwodo represented the University at the 24th annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). This year’s NCUR was hosted by the University of Montana in Missoula, MT.

Nkemdilim presented her research project entitled “High School Dropout Rates in Michigan School Districts: The Influence of Poverty, Educational Attainment, and Location for the Years 2004-2007.” Dr. Dana Dyson from Political Science is her faculty advisor.

Congratulations on your efforts Nkemdilim!