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School of Business, CLAS honor faculty

The School of Business and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have honored outstanding, faculty and students with a slew of awards to end the 2007-08 academic year.

The School of Business presented several teaching awards at its graduate recognition ceremony May 16 at the Lied Center. Keith Chauvin, associate dean of academic affairs, presented the awards.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences honored outstanding faculty and students this spring with more than $20,000 in teaching and student awards.

School of Business

School of Business faculty members Dennis Rosen, Bill Beedles, Alee Phillips, Wally Meyer, Kelly Welch and Dan Spencer received teaching awards.

"The faculty members of the School of Business have a long tradition of excellence in teaching, research and service," Chauvin said. "I am proud to report that this tradition continues in the school."

  • Rosen, associate professor of marketing, received the Undergraduate Business Council Outstanding Educator Award. Each year, student members of the Undergraduate Business Council vote for the recipient.
  • Beedles, professor of finance, received the Graduate Business Council MBA Outstanding Professor Award. Student members of the Graduate Business Council chose Beedles as their top professor in the MBA program.
  • Phillips, lecturer in accounting, received the Beta Gamma Sigma Outstanding Educator Award. Phillips was nominated and selected for this award by student members of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society.
  • Meyer, director of Entrepreneurship Programs, and Welch, lecturer in finance, received the Henry A. Bubb Award for Outstanding Teaching. Each year, two faculty members are chosen to receive the Bubb award based on student evaluations of teaching and a survey of seniors and master's degree students in their last year of course work.
  • Spencer, associate professor of business, received the Gordon Fitch Service Award. This annual award recognizes a faculty member who devotes energy and heart to students, the School of Business and KU. Spencer is also the faculty director of the International Business Resource Connection.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

"The College's students and faculty make tremendous contributions through their teaching, research and scholarship," said Joseph E. Steinmetz, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "We are honored to recognize them at this time with these awards."

  • Akira Yamamoto, professor of anthropology and linguistics, will receive the $1,000 Career Achievement Teaching Award, which is presented to retired faculty members in the College who have distinguished themselves through excellence in teaching. Yamamoto will be honored at the College New Faculty reception in fall 2008.
  • Kimberly Swanson, assistant professor of French and Italian, and Antonio Simoes, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, will receive the $5,000 Jessie Marie Senor Cramer and Ann Cramer Root awards. The awards recognize meritorious teaching and/or research in the French and Italian and Spanish and Portuguese departments.
  • The recipients of the J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award for 2008 are Marjorie Swann, associate professor of English, for the humanities; Matthew Buechner, associate professor, Division of Biological Sciences, for natural sciences; and Robert Rowland, chair and professor of communication studies, for social sciences. The award honors exemplary advising by a faculty member in each of the three divisions of the College. The award provides each recipient $500 and an additional $500 is added to honoree's base salary. Recipients will be honored at the College's Distinction/Highest Distinction ceremony at 11 a.m. May 18 at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
  • Four faculty will receive graduate mentor awards of $500 each during the graduate recognition ceremony. William C. Johnson, professor of geography, and Geraldo de Sousa, associate professor of English, will receive the Byron A. Alexander Graduate Mentor Awards. J. Christopher Brown, associate professor of geography, and Rick Ingram, professor of psychology, will receive the John C. Wright Graduate Mentor Awards. Recipients are selected on the basis of nominations received from graduate students in the college.
  • The American Studies Program received the $1,000 Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award honoring a College department or program for exemplary work to improve advising at KU.

KU HISTORY:

One of KU's most recognized landmarks was unveiled on this day in 1924. The "Uncle Jimmy" Green statute that stands in front of Lippincott Hall, created by artist Chester French, honors KU's first law dean. James Woods "Uncle Jimmy" Green served as dean of the School of Law for 41 years. After his death in 1919, a group of law students and alumni, who referred to themselves as Green's "boys" commissioned the statue. French originally declined the request to create the statue but changed his mind after visiting KU and hearing stories of affection and commitment to "Uncle Jimmy." For more, see www.kuhistory.com.