Wall of awards

2012 Faculty & Staff Awards

UNLV employees recently were honored at the 2012 Academic Recognition Ceremony with systemwide and universitywide awards for notable research, teaching, and service.

2012 NSHE Board of Regents' Awards

Regents' Scholar Award (Undergraduate)

Emily Tamadonfar - Honors, B.S. Biology

Regents' Scholar Award (Graduate)

Nicholas Thaler - Ph.D. Clinical Psychology

Regents' Rising Researcher Award

Sajjad Ahmad, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Regents' Academic Advisor Award - Graduate

Curtis Love, William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration

UNLV Awards

Harry Reid Silver State Research Award

Shawn Gerstenberger, Environmental & Occupational Health

UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Awards

  • John Bowers, English
  • Alfredo Fern?ndez-Gonz?lez, Architecture
  • Cecilia Maldonado-Daniels, Environmental & Public Affairs

Alex G. and Faye Spanos Distinguished Teaching Award

Yi-Tung Chen, Mechanical Engineering

Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award

  • Indranee Clarke, Dance
  • Steve DeVito, English
  • Regina Dickerson, English

James S. McPhee Librarian of the Year

Lateka Grays

Outstanding Thesis Award

Elian Aljadeff-Abergel, Sports Education Leadership-Physical Education, "Effects of Classwide Self-Management Intervention on Second Grade Students' Social Skills in Physical Education." Committee Chair: Shiri Ayvazo

Outstanding Dissertation Award

  • Ajay Kalra, Civil & Environmental Engineering, "Association of Hydroclimate Variables in the Colorado River Basin." Committee Chair: Sajjad Ahmad
  • Amanda Williams, Geoscience, "Co-development of biological soil crusts, soil geomorphology, and landscape biogeochemistry in the Mojave desert, Nevada, U.S.A. implications for ecological management." Committee Chair: Brenda Buck

Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award

  • Bradley Donohue, Psychology
  • Bing Zhang, Physics & Astronomy

Barrick Scholar Award

  • Bo Bernhard, Hotel Administration
  • Ganqing Jiang, Geoscience

Outstanding Department Chair / School Director

Todd Jones, Philosophy

Administrative Faculty Committee Leadership

Shaun Franklin-Sewell

Administrative Faculty Member of the Year Award

Christina Hernandez, Jean Nidetch Women's Center

Academic Advisor Award (Undergraduate)

Vaune Kadlubek, Division of Health Sciences

Academic Advisor Award (Graduate)

Curtis Love, Hotel Administration

Educational Outreach Faculty Excellence Award

Lori Candela, Nursing

Faculty International Development Award

  • Tim Bungum, Environmental & Occupational Health
  • Janet White, Architecture

CSUN Faculty Awards

  • Business: Janet Runge
  • Education: William Speer
  • Engineering: Mohamed Trabia
  • Fine Arts: Cathy Allen
  • Health Sciences: Carolyn Yucha
  • Hotel Administration: Vincent Eade
  • Liberal Arts: Abigail Aguilar
  • Sciences: Frank Van Breukelen
  • Urban Affairs: Gary Larson

UNLV Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award

Christopher Kearney, Psychology

2012 College and School Awards

Academic Success Center

  • Service Award: Sal Mora
  • Student-Centered Award: Elizabeth Linkous
  • Outstanding Faculty: Todd Jones; Joseph Nika

School of Allied Health Sciences

  • Distinguished Scholar Award: Janet Dufek, Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences
  • Distinguished Teaching Award: Chad Hensley, Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences

Lee Business School

  • Teacher of the Year: Robert Chatfield, Finance
  • Researcher of the Year: William Messier, Accounting; Andrew Hardin, Management Information Systems
  • Service Provider of the Year: Michael Sullivan, Finance

School of Community Health Sciences

  • Excellence in Research: Jay Shen, Health Care Administration and Policy; Sheniz Moonie, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Excellence in Service: Michelle Chino, Environmental and Occupational Health; Chris Cochran, Health Care Administration and Policy

College of Education

  • Distinguished Research Award: Hasan Deniz, Teaching & Learning; and Nancy Lough Educational Research, Cognition & Development
  • Distinguished Teaching Award: Karen Grove Teaching & Learning
  • Distinguished Service Award: Michael Nussbaum, Educational Research, Cognition & Development
  • Early Career Award: Peggy Schaefer-Whitby, Educational & Clinical Studies
  • Collaborative Group Award: Northern NV Rural Tele-Counseling Program; Larry Ashley, Educational & Clinical Studies

Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering

  • Distinguished Teacher Award: Lee Misch, Computer Science
  • Distinguished Researcher Award: Sajjad Ahmad, Civil & Environmental Engineering

College of Fine Arts

  • Charles Vanda Award for Excellence in the Arts: Randall Stout Architecture
  • Outstanding Teacher of the Year: Anthony Barone, Music
  • Outstanding Part-Time Teacher Award: Kurt Rasmussen, Music

William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration

  • Claudine Williams Distinguished Chair Award: Robert Woods
  • Sam & Mary Boyd Distinguished Professor for Research: Carola Raab
  • Sam & Mary Boyd for Distinguished Service Award: Christian Hardigree
  • Ace Denken Distinguished Researcher: Bo Bernhard

College of Liberal Arts

  • Donald Schmiedel Lifetime Service Award: Rainier Spencer, Interdisciplinary Programs
  • Rita Deanin Abbey Teacher of the Year Award: John Unrue, English
  • William Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship: Peter Gray, Anthropology
  • William Morris Award for Excellence in Teaching: P. Jane Hafen, English
  • College of Liberal Arts' Diversity Award: Margarita Jara, Foreign Languages

School of Nursing

  • Excellence in Teaching: Patricia Alpert
  • Excellence in Service: Lori Candela
  • Excellence in Research: Jessica Doolen

College of Sciences

  • Distinguished Service Award: Bryan Spangelo, Chemistry
  • Distinguished Researcher Award: Kentaro Nagamine, Physics & Astronomy; Jichun Li, Mathematical Sciences
  • Distinguished Teacher Award: Andrew Hanson, Geoscience Kathleen Robins, Chemistry
  • Distinguished Classified Staff Award: Gail Michel-Parsons, Physics & Astronomy

University Libraries

  • Outstanding Library Faculty Scholarship Award: Paula McMillen, Education Librarian
  • Outstanding Library Faculty Service Award: Jeanne Brown

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Campus Units:

School of Integrated Health Sciences,  Department of Anthropology,  School of Architecture,  Lee Business School,  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction,  School of Public Health,  Department of Computer Science,  Department of Dance,  College of Education,  Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education,  Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering,  Department of English,  Department of Environmental and Global Health,  Department of Finance,  College of Fine Arts,  Department of Geoscience,  Department of Healthcare Administration and Policy,  Department of Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences,  Division of Health Sciences,  William F. Harrah College of Hospitality,  Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies,  Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences,  College of Liberal Arts,  University Libraries,  School of Life Sciences,  Department of Mechanical Engineering,  School of Music,  School of Nursing,  Department of Philosophy,  Department of Physics and Astronomy,  Department of Psychology,  College of Sciences,  Department of Teaching and Learning,  Greenspun College of Urban Affairs,  Department of World Languages and Cultures,  Division of Student Affairs,  The Care Center

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