JSU Presents Annual Faculty Awards
05/10/2017
On Tuesday, May 9, JSU held its annual faculty awards program, which seeks to recognize faculty achievements, years of service, and retirements.
Dr. Rebecca Turner, provost and vice president for academic affairs, welcomed those in attendance, and Dr. John M. Beehler, president, delivered the President’s Welcome.
This year's honorees were as follows:
- Faculty Scholar Lecturer Award – Jeffrey Dodd
- Cleo & Carla Thomas Outstanding Community Education and Service Award – George Cline
- Earlon & Betty McWhorter Oustanding Teacher Award – Paul Beezley
- Raymond & Ruth Ringer Faculty Development Award – Lori Hill
- Dr. George Mehaffy Excellence in Learning Technology Award – Jennifer Foster
- William A. Meehan Legacy Award – Rebecca Turner
Service Pin Recipients:
Ten Years:
- Mark DaParma
- Windon E. Edge
- Kimberly D. Helms
- Elizabeth S. Knight
- Todd L. McKerchar
- Linda A. Mitchell
- Eryn V. Oft
- Melinda O. Staubs
- Melanie Wallace
Fifteen Years:
- Don S. Bennett
- Robbie B. Boggs
- Horace Dean Buttram
- Robert E. Carter
- Michael D. Featherstone
- Lori C. Galloway
- Aaron Garrett
- Allen W. Gilbert
- Curtis L. Gladen
- Laurie A. Heathcock
- Augustine Ihator
- Dana L. Ingalsbe
- Jaedeok Kim
- Youngmi Kim
- Ronald R. Mellen
- Anita K. Prickett
- William T. Roberts
- Bill H. Schmidt
- Daniel E. Smith
- Roland A. Thornburg
Twenty Years
- Jan Gryko
- Chris D. Hosmer
- Jerry D. Kiser
- Kimberly J. Whorton
Twenty-Five Years
- Safaa H. Al Hamdani
- George R. Cline
- Deborah W. Prickett
Thirty Years
- Joanne E. Gates
- Karen I. Henricks
- William J. Hug
Promotion:
Effective October 2017
Distinguished Professor:
- Freddie Clements
- Richard Kania
Professor:
- Doug Clark
- Paula Barnett-Ellis
- Doug Gordon
- Larry Gray
- Robert Landry
- Nelson Mwebi
- Chris Murdock
- Donald Prudlo
- Jeff Ryan
Associate Professor:
- Jeremy Benson
- Ben Boozer
- Cynthia Connor
- Betsy Gulledge
- Kimberly Helms
- Tanveer Islam
- Bryce Lafferty
- Stacey Mann
- Todd McGahey
- Andrew Nevala
- Harry Nuttall
- Lori Tolley-Jordon
- Jennifer Troncale
- Laura Walker
- Priscilla Wilson
Tenure:
Effective Fall 2017 Semester
- Jeremy Benson
- Ben Boozer
- Cynthia Connor
- Betsy Gulledge
- Kimberly Helms
- Tanveer Islam
- Kihyun Kim
- Bryce Lafferty
- Stacey Mann
- Todd McGahey
- Andrew Nevala
- Lori Tolley-Jordan
- Jennifer Troncale
- Laura Walker
- Priscilla Wilson
Doctoral Degree Recipients:
- Jeannie Frazier
- Allison Newton
Retiring Faculty:
- Jerry Chandler
- Richard Cobb
- SFC Charles Dunaway
- Donna Etheredge
- Karen Henricks
- George Lauderbaugh
- Nancy Mellen
- Susan Sellers
- Gail Steward
- Steven J. Whitton
- MSG David Williams
- LTC David Wood
Research Awards:
- Joseph Akpan
- Michael Alvidrez
- Tom Anderson
- Paula Barnett-Ellis
- Janet L. Bavonese
- Makenzie Bayles
- Doris Bennett
- Benjamin Boozer
- Jennifer Bruzek
- Shawn Carter
- Jan Case
- Samuel Chukwuemeka
- Ronnie Clayton
- Taleah Collum
- Basil Conway IV
- Sarah Cusimano Miles
- Sarah Donley
- Melissa Duckett
- Donna Dunn
- Teresa J. Gardner
- Joanne E. Gates
- Vijaya Gompa
- John-Bauer Graham
- Larry A. Gray
- Elizabeth D. Gulledge
- Russell Hammack
- Pitt Harding
- Ben Hardy
- Mark Hearn
- Kimberly D. Helms
- Lori Hill
- Shih-Kai Huang
- Kyoko Johns
- Tammy Killen
- Kihyun Kim
- Jaedeok Kim
- Carley Knight
- Srinivasarao Krishnaprasad
- Rob Landry
- Bethany Latham
- Tamara Levi
- C. Patrice Lockett
- Keith Lowe
- Cynthia McCarty
- Gina Moses Mabrey
- Harry Nuttall
- Melinda Odom Staubs
- John Oles
- Kelly Paynter
- Rebecca D. Peinhardt
- Jodi Poe
- Laura Pruitt Walker
- James Rayburn
- Erin Rider
- Tim Roberts
- Daniel Rubin
- Emily Sims
- Julie Staples
- David Steffy
- Wendy Stephens
- Kimberly Stevens
- Yingqi Tang
- Roland Thornburg
- David Thornton
- Kim H. Townsel
- Monica Trifas
- Jennifer M. Troncale
- Hungwei Tseng
- Tommy Turner
- John Upchurch
- Phyllis Waits
- Hanrong Wang
- Cassandra Ward
- Steven J. Whitton
- Myrna Williamson
- Xiang Yi
- Jeff Zanzig