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August 2009
INSTITUTIONAL
The UH Child Care Center has earned accreditation
from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council
on Accreditation and School Improvement.
ALUMNI
Laurie Glaze received the Houston Woman Magazine
Savvy Sister Award, which recognizes an outstanding woman who
has made a significant career change, interesting business maneuver
or an innovative change to her workplace.
FACULTY/STAFF
Lisa Alastuey, visiting assistant professor
of health and human performance, was named University Health
Educator of the Year by the Texas Association of Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance.
Pharmacy professor Rajender R. Aparasu has
received a one-year, $98,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality to evaluate the use of atypical antipsychotic
agents in the elderly.
College of Technology faculty won the American Society for Engineering
Education (ASEE) Mechanical Engineering Division 2009 Best Poster
Award at its annual conference and exposition. The poster illustrates
the article “A Two-Year Common Template for Mechanical
Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technology,” which
appears in the 2009 ASEE proceedings. Enrique Barbieri, Raresh
Pascali, Miguel Ramos and Dean
William Fitzgibbon co-authored the article.
Margaret Cheung, assistant professor of physics,
received a $219,000 National Science Foundation award to study
the behavior of protein folding and interactions in a cell.
Eugene L. Chiappetta, professor of curriculum
and instruction, received the Texas Chemical Council Excellence
in Industry Education Award.
Rustin Crutchley, clinical assistant professor
in the College of Pharmacy, recently became the first pharmacist
to be accepted into the one-year STAR (Steps Toward Academic
Research) Fellowship Program at the Texas Center for Health Disparities.
Zhu Han, assistant professor of electrical
and computer engineering, received a Best Paper Award at the
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.)
International Conference on Communications for his paper “Crystallized
Rates Region of the Interference Channel via Correlated Equilibrium
with Interference as Noise.”
Andrew S. Jackson, professor emeritus in the
health and human performance department, was honored by the Texas
Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine for his outstanding
contributions to exercise science and sports medicine.
Lewis T. May, adjunct associate professor of
architecture and senior vice president of PageSoutherlandPage,
was a keynote speaker for Landscape Architecture and Resorts:
A New Vision, an international planning and landscape architecture
conference in Amman, Jordan. May’s presentation was “Exporting
the Creative Process.” King Abdullah II of Jordan hosted
and sponsored the conference.
Mark O’Riley, Sanjay Shiwprasad and Emmett
Sullivan, employees in the environmental health and risk management
department, co-authored the presentation “Minimizing Chemical
Waste Without the Big Bang,” which was featured at the
American Society of Safety Engineer’s annual conference.
The presentation was about the department’s success in
safely minimizing the amount of hazardous waste generated at
UH during the past few years.
Tom Oldham, John H. Freeman Professor of Law,
was appointed to the board of editors of the American Bar Association’s
journal Family Law Quarterly.
Norma E. Olvera, associate professor in the
department of health and human performance (HHP), was awarded
a $75,000 grant from Salud America!, a national program of the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to conduct research on reducing
and preventing obesity among Latino youths.
Floyd W. Robinson, director of the Health Center,
and Laura Moore, the center’s chief nurse,
presented the teleseminar “H1N1 (swine fl u virus): Raise
Awareness, Not Concern on Campuses” to the Council on Law
in Higher Education.
Stephen Zamora, Leonard B. Rosenberg Professor
of Law, has been appointed to the Association of American Law
Schools Committee on Freedom and Academic Tenure.
STUDENTS
Three education students received several awards. S.
Siddiqi was selected as a 2009 Barbara Jordan Health
Policy Scholar by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Kelly
Strohacker received the UH College of Education Graduate
Student Research Award and placed second in the Texas Chapter
of the American College of Sports Medicine Student Manuscript
Award Competition. Norah Vasen received the
2009 American Association for Health Education/American Alliance
for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Outstanding
Health Education Major of the Year Award.
May 2009
INSTITUTIONAL
HoustonPBS received a My Source Community Impact
Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The award
recognizes the station’s commitment to education through
its Ready to Learn Family Literacy workshops.
Online Degree World ranked the University of Houston No.
2 in its list of top 100 education tweeters. The list is posted
at www.onlinedegreeworld.
com/blog/2009/top-100-edu-tweeters/.
ALUMNI
Janice Nath (’85), associate professor
of urban education at UH-Downtown, received the Robert B. Howsam
Award from the Texas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
This award honors individuals who have demonstrated leadership
at the state and national levels and have made significant contributions
to education.
Terry Rugeley (’92) received the Regents
Distinguished Research Award from the University of Oklahoma,
where he is the Presidential Professor of History.
Sara Stolt (’06), a graduate assistant
at Michigan State University, received the prestigious Rasmussen
Fellowship and the Topliff Scholarship in clarinet and will study
and perform at the Centro di Studi Carlo della Giacoma in Todi,
Italy, this summer.
FACULTY/STAFF
Geoffrey Brune and Donna Kacmar,
associate professors of architecture, have been elevated to the
American Institute of Architects College of Fellows, one of the
highest honors the organization can bestow upon a member.
Chris Burkhalter, associate athletics director
for communications, has been selected to serve as a member of
the NCAA Division I Softball Committee. Burkhalter will represent
Conference USA from September 2009 to September 2013.
Sandra Guerra Thompson, Law Foundation Professor
of Law and Criminal Justice Institute director, has been selected
as one of the Hispanic Business Magazine’s 25 Elite Women
for 2009. Martha Haun, associate professor of communication,
co-authored the article “Saving Face in Meetings” published
in the Parliamentary Journal.
Bob Heath, emeritus professor of communication,
co-authored the book “Rhetorical and Critical Approaches
to Public Relations II,” which has been published recently.
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, associate professor of
economics, received the European Central Bank 2008 Wim Duisenberg
Research Fellow. The honor recognizes leading economists in academia,
central banks and top research institutions who are international
experts in their field. Kalemli-Ozcan also was given the Marie
Curie Reintegration Award from the European Commission. The award
is designed to attract top-class researchers who work outside
Europe to undertake research in the continent.
Nicolás Kanellos, Brown Foundation Professor
of Hispanic Studies, was recently inducted as a member of Real
Academia Hispanoamerica, the Spanish American Royal Academy for
Literature, Arts and Sciences.
Sanja Korman, lecturer in health and human
performance, won the title of the National Dance Association
2008 K-12 National Dance Educator of the Year.
Juan Madera, assistant professor of hotel and
restaurant management, is the author of the paper “Gender
and Letters of Recommendation: Agentic and Communal Differences.” The
Journal of Applied Psychology has accepted the paper for
publication.
Peter Norton, associate professor of psychology
and director of the Anxiety Disorder Clinic, was named the recipient
of the 2009 American Psychological Foundation Theodore Blau Early
Career Award. This honor is presented to clinical psychologists
for their accomplishments within the practice and carries a $2,000
prize.
Michael Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished
Chair in Law and director of the Institute for Higher Education
Law and Governance, received Stetson University College of Law
inaugural William A. Kaplin Award for Excellence in Higher Education
Law and Policy Scholarship. Olivas’ book “Colored
Men and Hombres Aqui: Hernandez v. Texas and the Emergence of
Mexican American Lawyering” was made into a film by the
Public Broadcasting System.
G. Thomas Schanding Jr., assistant professor
of educational psychology, was selected to participate in the
2009 School Psychology Research Collaboration Conference as an
Early Career Scholar.
Jonathan Schwartz, associate professor of educational
psychology, received the 2007 Outstanding Contribution Award
given by the Counseling Psychologist. Schwartz was co-author
of the winning article, “Guidelines on Prevention Practice,
Research, Training, and Social Advocacy for Psychologists.”
Pradeep Sharma, Bill D. Cook Chair Associate
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is the recipient of the
2009 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award from the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
STUDENTS
Stephanie Ace, political science major, is
the 2008 recipient of the Women Professionals in Government Beverly
Kaufman Scholarship.
Clarissa Hinojosa, doctoral history candidate,
won the History Essay Prize from the Western Conference on British
Studies for the best paper given at its annual conference. Her
essay is titled “Justice Overdue: An Historically-Based
Critical Reinterpretation of Alice Overdo in Ben Jonson’s
Bartholomew Fair.”
Rehan Momin, senior electrical engineering
major, was among a group of students to win the “Extreme
Engineering Challenge” competition at the Society of Hispanic
Professional Engineers national conference.
Natalie Nguyen, education major, was named
Scholar of the Week by the National Society of Collegiate Scholars
for the week of March 16. The organization is an honor society
for freshmen and sophomores with 233 chapters nationwide and
in Puerto Rico.
January 2009
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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