Outstanding Faculty Recognized at Annual Banquet
05/16/2016
JSU President John Beehler and Provost Rebecca Turner honored the university’s faculty during the annual Faculty Awards Banquet on May 10. The following were recognized:
DISTINGUISHED AWARDS
Faculty Scholar Lecturer Award: Dr. Safaa Al Hamdani
Cleo & Carla Thomas Outstanding Community Education and Service Award: Teje Sult
Earlon & Betty McWhorter Outstanding Teacher Award: Rodney Bailey
Raymond & Ruth Ringer Faculty Development Award: Dr. Robert Carter
Dr. George Mehaffy Excellence in Learning Technology Award: Dr. Jan Case
William A. Meehan Legacy Award: Dr. Steve Whitton
SERVICE PINS
Ten Years
- Mohammed G. Alam
- Thomas J. Chandler
- Taleah H. Collum
- Richard R. Kania
- Raina Kostova
- Jane A. Kushma
Robert J. Laudry- Tamara J. Levi
- Christopher Murdock
- Eduardo Pacheco
- Teje H. Sult
- Charlcie P. Vann
- Jennifer Savage
Fifteen Years
Jonathan T. Adams- Scott W. Beckett
- Elizabeth F. Martin
- Janice L. Case
- Roxanna Conroy
- Amy P. Franklin
- Jennifer L. Gross
- Mijitaba Hamissou
- Kory Hill
- Cynthia Jensen
Gena Thornburg- Alfred C. Nichols
- Valerie Rimpsey
- Cynthia A. Sneed
- John E. Sneed
- Janet G. Steward
Twenty Years
- Jeffery J. Dodd
- John H. Jones
Teresa P. Reed
Twenty-five Years
- Randall C. Davis
Thirty Years
- Doris S. Bennett
PROMOTION (effective October 2016)
Distinguished Lecturer
- David Myer
Distinguished Professor
- Carmine DiBiase
Associate Professor
- Dean Buttram
- Kyoko Johns
- Alexandra Martinez
- James Woodard
- Ellen Peck
- Erin Rider
- Jimmy Triplett
Professor
- Tina Deshotels
- Debra Goodwin
- Bethany Latham
- William Lowe
- Tim Roberts
- Jamie Runnells
- Nathan Wight
TENURE (effective Fall Semester 2016)
- Jamie Runnells
- Erin Rider
- Ellen Peck
- James Woodward
- Dean Buttram
- Jimmy Triplett
- Alexandra Martinez
- Joe Morgan
- Kyoko Johns
FACULTY RECEIVING DOCTORATE
- Dr. Basil Conway, IV
RETIRING FACULTY
- Linda Cain
- Chi C. Chao
- Elizabeth Engley
- Kelly Gregg
- Sherry Kennedy
- Legare McIntosh
- Jennifer Savage
FACULTY RESEARCH AWARDS
College of Arts and Sciences
- Safaa Al-Hamdani
- Jan Case
- Samuel Chukwuemeuka
- Doug Clark
- Guillermo Francia, III
- Joanne Gates
- Larry Gray
- Pitt Harding
- Gordon Harvey
- Tanveer Islam
- Richard R.E. Kania
- Kihyun Kim
- Jaedeok Kim
- Youngmi Kim
- Srinivasrao Krishnaprasad
- Allison McElroy
- Hyesung Park
- Nancy Mellen
- Ronald Mellen
- Sarah Miles
- Maureen Newton
- Al Nichols
- John Oles
- Linda Plotnick
- James Rayburn
- Jeffery Ryan
- Manabu Saeki
- David Steffy
- David Thornton
- Monica Trifas
- Stephen Tsikalas
- Lisa Williams
- Steven Whitton
College of Commerce and Business Administration
- Doris Bennett
- Benjamin Boozer
- Shawn Carter
- Ronnie Clayton
- Taleah Collum
- Brent Cunningham
- Ben Hardy
- Mark Hearn
- Rob Laundry
- Jeffrery Zanzig
- Keith Lowe
- E. Hill Mayfield
- Cynthia McCarty
- David Palmer
- Lenn Rainwater
- Cynthia Sneed
- John Sneed
- Xiang Yi
- Michael Featherstone
College of Education and Professional Studies
- Joseph Akpan
- Michael Alvidrez
- Jimmy Barnes
- Janet Bavonese
- Basil Conway, IV
- Teresa Gardner
- Debra Goodwin
- Russell Hammack
- Kingsley Harbor
- Kory Hill
- Kyoko Johns
- Jerry Kiser
- Gina Mabrey
- Reginald Overton
- Kelly Paynter
- Emily Sims
- Wendy Stephens
- Gena Thornburg
- Ronald Thornburg
- Kim Townsel
- Jennifer Troncale
- Christi Trucks
- Hungwei Tseng
- Melanie Wallace
- Kimberly Warfield
- Shelia Webb
College of Nursing
- Betsy Gulledge
- Kimberly Helms
- Lori Hill
- Leigh Ann Keith
- Rebecca Peinhardt
- Christie Shelton
- Phyllis Waits
- Laura Pruitt Walker
- Myna Williamson
Houston Cole Library
- Paula Barnett Ellis
- John-Bauer Graham
- Bethany Latham
- Jodi Poe
- Yingqi Tang
- Charlcie Vann
2015-2016 QEP FACULTY MENTORS
- Don Bennett
- Christy Burns
- Mark DaParma
- Susan Ashley Dean
- Larry Gray
- Lori Hill
- Leigh Ann Keith
- Kihyun Kim
- Raina Kostova
- Bryce Lafferty
- Sarah Miles
- James Rayburn
- Julie Staples
- Richard Watkins
2015-2016 CERTIFIED ONLINE INSTRUCTORS
- Taleah Collum
- Annette Daugherty
- Safaa Al Hamdani
- Mijitaba Hamissou
- Julia Hill
- Christopher Murdock
- Anita Kay Prickett
- Erin Rider
- Jennifer Savage
- Julie Staples