Honors and awards received by faculty, staff and students

WORLD-RENOWNED RESEARCHER JOINS FACULTY
UH recently received a $5.5 million Texas Emerging Technology Fund grant. The grant enabled UH to recruit Jan-Åke Gustafsson, a renowned figure in the study of hormones. The grant also supports the creation of the Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling by UH and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute. Gustafsson will lead the center.

PROF TAPPED FOR TAMEST BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Fazle Hussain, Roy & Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was among five elected to the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas board of directors.

POET HAYAN CHARARA RECEIVES NEA FELLOWSHIP
Hayan Charara, creative writing student, has received a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.

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ALUMNI

Jill Finke, 07, received the 2008 Leadership Award for the Western Group Ambulatory Surgery Division of HCA Health Care.

FACULTY/STAFF

William Fitzgibbon, College of Technology dean, has been named a visiting scholar at the University of Delhi Lady Shri Ram College, one of India’s highest-ranked colleges in undergraduate education in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics. The visiting scholar program is sponsored by the Mathematical Sciences Foundation.

Professor Tyler Priest, director of Global Studies at Bauer College, received the Alice Hamilton Prize for Best Article Outside Environmental History for 2007. The award is one of
four granted each year by the American Society for Environmental History and recognizes Priest’s article, "Extraction Not Creation: The History of Offshore Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico," as the best article on environmental history published in a scholarly journal other than ASEH's Environmental History.

STUDENTS

Business student Tom Chang was one of three recipients of the 2008 Ascend/Houston Society of CPAs. He also received the 2008 Accounting Excellence Award given by the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Business student Dan Neely won the Government and Nonprofit Section 2008 Outstanding Dissertation Award of the American Accounting Association for his dissertation, "The Effectiveness of Governance Regulation in the Tax-Exempt Sector: Evidence from the Nonprofit Integrity Act of 2004."

Babu John Mariadoss received the 2008 Doctoral Dissertation Award from the American Marketing Association Selling and Sales Management Special Interest Group
for best dissertation in the field of selling and sales management.

The Hispanic Business Student Association chapter at Bauer College was named the 2008 National Hispanic Business Association Leadership Chapter of the Year.

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