CLAS honors outstanding faculty, students

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences honored outstanding faculty and students this spring with more than $50,000 in teaching and students awards. The awards are made possible by gifts from College alumni and friends to KU Endowment.

Rex Martin, professor of philosophy, received the $1,000 Career Achievement Teaching Award presented to a retired faculty member in the College who has distinguished herself or himself through excellence in teaching. Martin will be honored at the College’s new faculty reception in the fall.

The Jessie Marie Senor Cramer and Ann Cramer Root French and Italian and Spanish and Portuguese Faculty Awards are presented annually in the French and Italian and Spanish and Portuguese departments to recognize meritorious teaching and/or research. The amounts of the awards are $5,000 each. Cramer professorships of $5,000 per year for three years are given every three years in both departments to reward excellence in teaching and research.

-Cramer Professorship in French and Italian: Kimberly Swanson, assistant professor of French

-Cramer Award in French and Italian: Caroline Jewers, associate professor of French

-Cramer Professorship in Spanish and Portugese: Robert Bayliss, assistant professor of Spanish

-Cramer Award in Spanish and Portugese: Jonathan Mayhew, professor of Spanish

The recipients of the J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award for 2009 are Jan Sheldon, professor of applied behavioral science; David Mechem, professor of geography; and Jack Wright, professor of theatre and film. The award honors exemplary advising by a faculty member in each of the three divisions of the college: humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. The award provides each recipient $500 and an additional $500 is added to honoree’s base salary.

Four faculty members received graduate mentor awards of $500 each. Alison Gabriele, professor of linguistics, and Theodore A. Wilson, professor of history, will receive the Byron A. Alexander Graduate Mentor Awards. Mabel Rice, professor of speech-language-hearing, and Rolfe Mandel, professor of anthropology, will receive the John C. Wright Graduate Mentor Awards. Recipients are selected on the basis of nominations received from graduate students in the college.

Robert Bayliss	Alison Gabriele	Caroline Jewers
Rex Martin	Jonathan Mayhew	David Mechem
Jan Sheldon	Kimberly Swanson	Theodore A. Wilson
Jack Wright	Mabel Rice	Rolfe Mandel