The President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration
The President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration is given to a full-time member of the faculty of the University who has exhibited extraordinary achievement in the integration of teaching and research or creative accomplishments, and service. The award was established in 1996 to recognize faculty members who have excelled in all three areas of their professions and consists of a specially-designed certificate and a cash gift in the amount of $3,000.
Nominations are being solicited from the academic deans and will be reviewed by a selection committee appointed by the Office of the President. Members of the 2012 selection committee are: William Blair, Liberal Arts Professor of American History, Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, and 2011 recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration, College of the Liberal Arts; Ingrid Blood, Professor of Communications Sciences and Disorders and Chair of the Selection Committee, College of Health and Human Development, and Chair of the Committee; Craig Cameron, Berg Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eberly College of Science; and Barbara Christ, Senior Associate Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences.
The deadline for nominations is Monday, January 16, 2012.
Guidelines and criteria for nominations
Previous recipients of the President's Award include:
2011 - William Blair, Liberal Arts Professor of American History, Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, College of the Liberal Arts
2010 - R. Scott Kretchmar, Professor of Exercise and sport Science, College of Health and Human Development
2009 - Roger Finke, Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies, College of the Liberal Arts
2008 - Nancy Tuana, DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, Humanities and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, College of the Liberal Arts
2007 - Timothy W. Simpson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Design, College of Engineering
2006 - Lakshman Yapa, Professor of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
2005 - Loukas N. Kalisperis, Professor of Architecture, College of Arts and Architecture
2004 - Susan M. McHale, Professor of Human Development, College of Health and Human Development
2003 - Arthur C. Miller, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
2002 - Karen Linn Bierman, Director of Children, Youth, and Families Consortium, College of the Liberal Arts
2001 - Steven H. Zarit, Professor of Human Development and Assistant Director of the Gerontology Center, College of Health and Human Development
2000 - Gary W. Peterson, Professor of Soil and Land Resources, College of Agricultural Sciences
1999 - Ann C. Crouter, Professor of Human Development, College of Health and Human Development
1998 - Peter C. Jurs, Professor of Chemistry, Eberly College of Science
1997 - Murry R. Nelson, Professor of Education and American Studies, College of Education
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