Congratulations to all faculty who were recognized for their accomplishments on Faculty Honors Day.

Karen Adsit and Charles Nelson

Karen McGuffee and Bryan Hampton

Roger Thompson and Jonathan McNair

Tom Buchanan and Margaret Kovach

Timothy Gaudin

Rebecca Cook

2007 UTNAA Outstanding Teacher Awards
Michelle White, History
Manuel Santiago, Chemistry

2006-2007 SGA Outstanding Professor Awards
Michelle White, History
Chris Stuart, English

2007 Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award
Johnny and Carol Kimmons

Special Recognition for Outstanding University Service
Karen Adsit and Charles Nelson

Faculty and Administrative Committee Chairs
Fran Bender, Academic Standards Committee
Michel Holder, Admissions Committee
Mike Jones, Athletics Board
Leila Pratt, Athletics Committee
Karen McGuffee, Bookstore Committee
John Garrett, Budget and Economic Status Committee
Beni Asllani, Classroom Technology Committee
Joe Wilferth, Committee on Committees
Bruce Hutchinson, Curriculum Committee
Steve Kuhn, Departmental Honors Committee
Philip Oldham and Barbara Wofford, Desegregation Compliance Committee
Lauren Ingraham, Faculty Development Committee
Jean Howard-Hill, Faculty Handbook Committee

College of Arts and Sciences Awards

Herbert Burhenn, Professor and Dean

Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award
Stephen Walden

Outstanding Teacher Award
Bryan Hampton
Karen McGuffee

Outstanding Service Award
Jonathan McNair
Roger Thompson

Outstanding Advisor Award
Margaret Kovach
Tom Buchanan

Outstanding Research Award
Timothy Gaudin

Outstanding Creative Scholarship Award
Rebecca Cook

College of Business Awards

Richard Casavant, Professor and Dean

Max Finley Merit Professors
Beni Asllani
Rich Becherer
Beverly Brockman
Chris Brockman
J. R. Clark
Stan Davis
Tom Gavin
Michael Jones
Bento Lobo
Michael Long
Mark Mendenhall
Marsha Scheidt
Joanie Sompayrac
Valerie Taylor
Greg Thibadoux
Steve White

College of Health, Education and Professional Studies Awards

Mary Tanner, Professor and Dean

Outstanding Teaching/Advising Award
Hinsdale Bernard
Catherine Kendall

Outstanding Research/Scholarship Award
Sandra Watson
Gary Wilkerson

Outstanding Service/Outreach Award
Linda Johnston
Lisa Muirhead

School of Nursing Faculty Award
Kay Lindgren

Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award
Gretchen Davis
Ben Roy
Dalton Award
Larry Tillman
Dean Stinnett Award
Sarah Sandefur

Catherine Kendall, Larry Tillman, Linda Johnston, Hinsdale Bernard, Sandra Watson, Gary Wilkerson,
Linda Hill, Lisa Muirhead, Kay Lindgren, Sarah Sandefur

New Faculty in 2007-2008

College of Arts and Sciences
Vivian Anderson-Barrera, Lecturer
Sybil Baker, Assistant Professor
Thomas Balazs, Assistant Professor
Jose Barbosa, Assistant Professor
Nominanda Barbosa, Lecturer
Andrea Becksvoort, Lecturer
Michael Bohannon, Senior Military Instructor
Ann Buggey, Lecturer
Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Assistant Professor
Steven Cheek, Lecturer
Margaret Clark, Lecturer
Jon Coddington, Visiting Professor
Ralph Covino, Assistant Professor
Christopher Cunningham, Assistant Professor
Joshua Davies, Assistant Professor
Suzy Davis, Lecturer
Joshua Edwards, Lecturer
Jeannie Hacker-Cerulean, Lecturer
Julie Hobbs, Lecturer
Jean Howard-Hill, Lecturer
Gaye Jeffers, Assistant Professor
Leslie Jensen-Inman, Lecturer
Sara Jorgensen, Assistant Professor
Jisook Kim, Assistant Professor
Melissa Laeser, Lecturer
Mary McCampbell, Lecturer
Tiffany Mitchell, Lecturer
Sheena Monds, Lecturer
Christy Murphy, Lecturer
Heather Palmer, Assistant Professor
Victor Segura, Lecturer
Benjamin Smith, Professor & Department Head
Juanita Tumelaire, Lecturer
Kristin Whitson, Lecturer
Kenyon Wilson, Assistant Professor
Andrew Workinger, Lecturer

College of Business
Lisa Burke, Associate Professor
Dan Quarles, Lecturer
Keith Richards, Assistant Professor
Wendy Roth, Lecturer
Jennifer Stanley, Lecturer
Anne Wilkins, Lecturer

College of Engineering and Computer Science
Tricia Thomas, Visiting Assistant Professor

College of Health, Education and Professional Studies
Pam Carter, Lecturer
Barry Dale, Assistant Professor
Amy Doolittle, Assistant Professor
Kelli Hand, Lecturer
Darrell Meece, Associate Professor
Scott Monterde, Assistant Professor
Elizabeth O’Brien, Assistant Professor
Kimberly O’Kelley, Assistant Professor
Amber Roache, Clinical Instructor
Karen Sarnosky, Lecturer

Lupton Library
Colleen Harris, Assistant Professor
Brian Kysela, Assistant Professor

Special Recognition for Outstanding University Service
Past Recipients

2006 Fran Bender
2005 Deborah Arfken, Richard Rice
2004 Alan White
2003 John Fulmer, Paul Watson
2002 Marvin Ernst, John Trimpey
2001 The SACS Reaccreditation Team
2000 Phil Kazemersky, Verbie Prevost
1999 Randy Walker
1998 Donald Klinefelter
1997 Mike Jones
1996 Bill Butterfield
1995 Roland Carter
1994 Martha Butterfield
1993 Bob McNeely
1992 Arlie Herron
1991 Rock Wilson
1990 The SACS Reaccreditation Team
1989 Robert Fulton
1988 Peter Pringle, Jack Freeman
1987 Ben Gross

Doug Kutz, Faculty/Administrative Relations Committee
Cherry Guinn, Faculty Rating of Administration
John Lynch, Faculty Research Committee
Anthony Steinhoff, General Education Committee
Stephen Kuhn, Grade Appeals Committee
Vicki Petzko, Graduate Council
Barbara Norwood, Honor Court Committee
Helen Eigenberg, Institutional Review Board
Janet Secrest, Instructional Excellence Committee
Tom Gavin, Library Committee
Ann Moore, Part-Time Faculty Committee
Tammy Garland, Petitions Committee
David Sachsman, Publications Board
Doug Kutz, Scholarships Committee
Debbie Ingram, Speakers and Special Events Committee
Michael Bell, Student Rating of Faculty Instruction Committee
Philip Oldham, University Technology Committee

Faculty Senate Officers
Gavin Townsend, President
Joe Wilferth, First Vice President
Oralia Preble-Niemi, Second Vice President
Gretchen Potts, Secretary
Richard Rice, Past President

Marcia Noe, Secretary of the Full Faculty

Lyn Miles, University of Tennessee Faculty Council Chair

UT Board of Trustees Committee Representative
Gavin Townsend, Academic Affairs and Student Life Committee

Ann Holmes

University Academic Advisor Award
Ann Holmes and Vicki Petzko

UC Foundation Professorships 2007
Beni Asllani, Management
Christopher Horne, Political Science, Public Administration & Nonprofit Management
Virginia Magnus, Graduate Studies Division
Beverly Simmons, Lupton Library
Charlene Simmons, Communication
Bart Weathington, Psychology

Tenure and Promotion 2007

Faculty Tenured
Jooyong Ahn, Music
Nicholas Boer, Health and Human Performance
Christopher Brockman, Finance
John Freeman , Graduate Studies Division
Gregory Heath, Health and Human Performance
Philip Oldham, Chemistry
Brian O’Leary, Psychology
Margaret Roblyer, Graduate Studies Division
Christine Ryan, Lupton Library
Manuel Santiago, Chemistry
Andrea Schurr, Lupton Library
Michelle Vineyard, Human Ecology
Sandra Watson, Teacher Preparation Academy
Kathleen Wheatley, Management
Michelle White, History
David Young, Art

Promotion to Full Professor
Ron Buffington, Art
Matt Greenwell, Art
Zibin Guo, Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography
Frank Jones, Engineering
Katherine Lindgren, School of Nursing
Jonathan Mies, Physics, Geology and Astronomy
Jane Reagor, Human Ecology
Janet Secrest, School of Nursing
John Tucker, Biological and Environmental Sciences

Promotion to Associate Professor
Christopher Brockman, Finance
Gail Dawson, Management
Kevin Ford, Music
Margaret Kovach, Biological and Environmental Sciences
Craig Laing, Sociology, Anthropology and Geography
Sean Richards, Biological and Environmental Sciences
Cheryl Robinson, Human Ecology
Christine Ryan, Lupton Library
Manuel Santiago, Chemistry
Andrea Schurr, Lupton Library
Michelle Vineyard, Human Ecology
Sandra Watson, Teacher Preparation Academy
Michelle White, History


Kyle Anderson, Li Yang, Frank Jones, Dawn Ellis, Ron Cox

Linda Hill

Theresa Liedtka and Toni Carter

College of Engineering and Computer Science Awards

James Cunningham, Professor and Acting Dean

Cole Outstanding Engineering Teacher Award
Ronald Cox

Outstanding Computer Science Teacher Award
Dawn Ellis

Research Award
Kyle Anderson
Frank Jones
Li Yang

Graduate School Award

Stephanie Bellar, Professor and Associate Dean

Graduate School Advisor Award
Linda Hill

Lupton Library Award

Theresa Liedtka, Professor and Dean

Dr. Joseph A. Jackson Library Faculty Development Award
Toni Carter

Grants and Program Review Awards 2007

Philip B. Oldham, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Grants and Research Award

Greg Grant
Cherry Guinn
Ann Holmes
Valerie Radu
Ignatius Fomunung
Ed McMahon
Cecelia Wigal
Irv Resnick

State and National Review Panelists

Joe Dumas
Helen Eigenberg
John Graef
Greg Grant
Gregory Heath
David Ross

Office for Students with Disabilities Award

Michelle Rigler, Director

World of Difference Award
David Ashe, Mathematics

Faculty with Exceeds Expectations for Rank, 2006-2007

College of Arts and Sciences
Mario Abril, Music
Boris Belinskiy, Mathematics
Frances Bender, English
Stuart Benkert, Music
Earl Braggs, English
Ron Buffington, Art
David Carrithers, Political Science, Public Administration and Nonprofit Management
Joseph Ford, Music
Elizabeth Gailey, Communication
Gregory Grant, Chemistry
Bryan Hampton, English
Ralph Hood, Psychology
Christopher Horne, Political Science, Public Administration and Nonprofit Management
Bruce Hutchinson, Economics
Rebecca Jones, English
Kyle Knight, Chemistry
Lingju Kong Mathematics
Margaret Kovach, Biological and Environmental Sciences
Gwendolyn Kurtz, English
Craig Laing, Sociology, Anthropology and Geography
Terri LeMoyne, Sociology, Anthropology and Geography
Charles Lippy, Philosophy and Religion
Marc Loizeaux, Mathematics
Wilfred McClay, Humanities
Karen McGuffee, Criminal Justice
Maggie McMahon, Art
Richard Metzger, Psychology
Jonathan Mies, Physics, Geology and Astronomy
Marcia Noe, English
Lynn Ourth, Psychology
Gretchen Potts, Chemistry
Leila Pratt, Economics
Brian Ribeiro, Philosophy and Religion
Sean Richards, Biological and Environmental Sciences
Aaron Shaheen, English
Jenny Smith, English
Ronald Smith, Mathematics
William Smotherman, Theatre and Speech
Victoria Steinberg, Foreign Languages and Literatures
Anthony Steinhoff, History
Felicia Sturzer, Foreign Languages and Literatures
Gavin Townsend, Art
John Tucker, Biological and Environmental Sciences
Lucas van der Merwe, Mathematics
James Ward, History
Kristine Whorton, English

College of Health, Education and Professional Studies
Marisa Colston, Health and Human Performance
Kay Cowan, Teacher Preparation Academy
Lucien Ellington, Teacher Preparation Academy
Gene Ezell, Health and Human Performance
Nancy Fell, Physical Therapy
Kristi Gibbs, Graduate Studies Division
Linda Hill, School of Nursing
Virginia Magnus, Graduate Studies Division
Peggy Roblyer, Graduate Studies Division
Janet Secrest, School of Nursing
Catherine Smith, Physical Therapy
Christine Smith, School of Nursing
Sandra Watson, Teacher Preparation Academy
Gary Wilkerson, Health and Human Performance

College of Business
Richard Becherer, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Christopher Brockman, Finance
J.R. Clark, Probasco Chair
Thomas Gavin, Accounting
Michael Jones, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Bento Lobo, Finance
Michael Long, Finance
Mark Mendenhall, Management
Joanie Sompayrac, Accounting
Charles White, Management

College of Engineering and Computer Science
Kyle Anderson, Computational Engineering
Prakash Damshala, Engineering
Ignatius Fomunung, Engineering
Ronald Goulet, Engineering
Joseph Kizza, Computer Science
Gary McDonald, Engineering
Cecelia Wigal, Engineering
Kathy Winters, Computer Science
Li Yang, Computer Science

Lupton Library
Toni Carter
Jason Griffey
Beverly Simmons

December 14, 2007