A&S Award-Winning Faculty

	A&S Award-Winning Faculty
	Council for the Advancement and Support of Education CASE Wyoming Professor of the Year (2008) Theresa Bogard, Professor, Department of Music George Duke Humphrey Distinguished Faculty Award 2009 This is a university-wide award. Bryan Shader, Professor, Department of Mathematics Presidential Faculty Achievement Award for 2009 This is a university-wide award. Henry J. "Hank" Harlow, Professor, Department of Zoology & Physiology John P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Awards for 2009 This is a university-wide award. Robert McGreggor "Gregg" Cawley, Professor, Department of Political Science UW Alumni Association/Student Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award for 2009 This is a university-wide award. Margaret Flanigan Skinner, Academic Professional, Department of Zoology & Physiology A&S Exemplary Faculty Award 2008 Funded by an anonymous donor, this award recognizes a senior faculty member who has served as a role model, not only in teaching and research, but also through service on committees and task forces. This years winner is Stephen Jackson, Department of Botany. Gallatin Beuf Golden Apple Award The Beatrice Gallatin Beuf Golden Apple Award annually recognizes outstanding freshman-level teaching in an A&S course. April Heaney, Department of English 2009-10 Seibold Professorship Margaret Haydon, Art Department Tenured faculty members with a demonstrated and effective commitment to teaching are eligible for this annual award, which allows the recipient a year in which to pursue some project that will enhance his or her teaching abilities. 2009-10 Seibold Award for Academic Professionals Judy Antell, American Indian Studies Program The purpose of this award is to give Academic Professional Lecturers and Academic Professional Research Scientists, who have a commitment to teaching, an opportunity for a year’s leave to pursue study or develop a project that will benefit some aspect of their professional lives and enhance their teaching. Flittie Sabbatical Grant All the Flittie Sabbatical grants awarded by the University this year went to an A&S faculty member. The Flittie, named for donor and former professor Edwin Flittie, pays for all or part of the salary of faculty on sabbatical that is not covered by the University. Brett Ewers, Associate Professor, Department of Botany 2009 A&S Top Teachers The A&S Top Teachers are chosen each year by the graduating seniors. This year the Top Teachers are: Scott Freng, Psychology; Ron Frost, Geology and Geophysics; Duncan Harris, English; Cary Heck, Criminal Justice; Emily Hind, Modern and Classical Languages-Spanish; Amy Krist, Zoology and Physiology; Kate McKeage, Music; Cindy Price, Communication and Journalism; Bryan Shader, Mathematics; and Seth Ward, Religious Studies. 2009 Basic Research Grant award recipients The College of Arts and Sciences, through its indirect cost returns, has limited funds available to support research projects and creative activities of individual A&S academic personnel during the academic year. Normally, individual awards will not exceed $3,000. This competition is open to all academic personnel; however, emphasis is given to junior personnel with research responsibilities, and to senior personnel developing new areas of expertise. Recipients are: Willie Bauer, Assistant Professor, History, “Growing Old in Indian Country: Aging, Community and Nation in the Indian West” David Brinkman, Professor, Music, “Investigation of Music Education in Wyoming and Neighboring States” Anna Chalfoun, APRS, Zoology/Physiology, “The influence of landscape context on the effects of habitat fragmentation” Michelle Chamberlin, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, “Differentiated Instruction: Responding to the Diverse Needs of College Mathematics Students” Brett Deacon, Assistant Professor, Psychology, “The Efficacy and Acceptability of Augmenting Exposure Therapy with Antagonistic Actions or Safety Behavior Fading: A Randomized, Controlled Trial” Cary Heck, Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice, “Evaluating the relative perceived impacts of sanctions and incentives commonly used in rural drug court programs” Casey Kearns, Assistant Professor, Theatre/Dance, “Cobalt Studios Scenic Painting Intensive Summer 2009” Tom Minckley, Assistant Professor, Botany, “Understanding Portugal's Coastal Environment 30-40 Thousand Years Ago” Quincy Newell, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, “Marginal Mormons: Second Class Saints in the Nineteenth-Century Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” Nicole Quackenbush, Assistant Professor, English, “A Rhetoric of Access in Action: Ed Roberts, the Wheelchair, and the Center for Independent Living” Mark Sheridan-Rabideau, Assistant Professor. Music, “Tabacon: The Continental Trombone Quartet” Todd Surovell, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, “An Independent Evaluation of the Younger Dryas ET Impact Hypothesis” Jason Thompson, Assistant Professor, English, “LGI-Wyoming creation of the video game DRILL” Beth Vandenborgh, Assistant Professor, Music, “The Romantic Cello: A Recording of Twentieth Century Gems from the Rudolf Matz Collection” Shaun Wulff, Associate Professor, Statistics, “Personal Coherence and the Bayesian Paradigm” Margie Zamudio, Associate Professor, Sociology/Chicano Studies, “Gendered Migration from El Salvador” Bonnie Zare, Associate Professor, Women's Studies, “Learning to Talk about Social Justice in India” Jing Zhou, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, “Ceria-based metal catalysts for water-gas shift reaction”
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