CLASS faculty, student and staff awards and recognitions
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faculty honors and awards, 2008 – 2009
Perales wins Women's Studies Summer Fellowship
Dr. Monica Perales was awarded the 2009 Women's Studies Faculty Summer Fellowship from the University of Houston Women's Studies Program. Professor Perales will use the fellowship to start research on a new project examining Mexican motherhood, citizenship and labor on the U.S./Mexico border.
Breitmeyer receives fellowship
Breitmeyer
University of Houston Developmental Psychology Professor Bruno Breitmeyer was recently named a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science for his "sustained and outstanding distinguished contributions" to the field.
Breitmeyer joins seven other University of Houston faculty on the esteemed fellows list at the Association for Psychological Science: Richard Evans, Donald Foss, Merrill Hiscock, Richard Kasschau, Gordon Paul, Lynn Rehm and L.A. Witt.
(Brandon Moeller)
Ross M. Lence Teaching Excellence Awards
The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences announced the winners of the Ross M. Lence Teaching Excellence awards during the 2009 Spring Commencement ceremonies held May 15. This year’s honorees were:
Leasure, Wen, and Hecker
In the Humanities: Xiaohong (Sharon) Wen, Director of Chinese Studies
In Social Sciences: J. Leigh Leasure, Assistant Professor of Psychology
In Visual and Performing Arts: Rachel Hecker,
Associate Professor of Art (Painting)
The award is named in memory of former CLASS professor Ross M. Lence, a professor of Political Science from 1971-2006, a John and Rebecca Moores Scholar and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Political Science department for 23 years.
Recipients of the Ross M. Lence Award received a plaque and a $3,000 prize. Click the names above to learn more about the winners.
Kotarba recipient of lifetime achievement award
Kotarba
Sociology department chairman Joe Kotarba is the recipient of the
George Herbert Mead Award, the lifetime achievement award presented
annually by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.
For the complete story visit UH Today.
Related News
Kotarba recently co-authored a new book exploring how music offers significant insight on individuals’ beliefs, personalities, interests, and cultural backgrounds. Read the full story in the April issue of Graffit-e.
CLASS Faculty Receive Awards
CLASS faculty among UH outstanding faculty recognized with awards and appointments.
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| Curtis Haaga | Nina Tucci | W. Lawrence Hogue |
| Lecturer, Philosophy |
Associate Professor, French | John and Rebecca Moores Professor, English |
department, program, school and center awards
Hispanic Studies cooperative Ph.D. program receives grant
The UH Hispanic Studies program and the University of Texas-Pan America Spanish Ph.D. program combine resources in the cooperative Ph.D. program in Spanish, called Pathways to the Professoriate. The program allows students the opportunity to pursue a doctorate in Spanish from UH through advanced interactive courses on the UTPA campus through the use of technologies such as interactive TV (ITV) and Blackboard.
The $297,000 grant, which was co-authored with Dr. Nicolás Kanellos, Brown Foundation professor of Hispanic Studies at UH, was awarded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to improve the existing program and expand it to other disciplines.
FIPSE grants support innovative educational reform projects that can serve as national models for the improvement of post-secondary education. Money from the grant will also go to support networking opportunities between the graduate faculty at UH and UTPA, and to conduct an extensive program evaluation so the UTPA/UH model for collaborative doctoral education can become a model for the development of doctoral-level educational opportunities at Hispanic Serving Institutions around the country.
Read the full story (pdf)
Center for Public History received grant
The Center for Public History received a $75,000 grant from Houston’s Ron Stone Foundation to establish the Ron Stone Academy for the Teaching of Texas History. UH will provide a 1-1 match. The program is scheduled to hold its first classes in the summer of 2010.
student honors and awards
Joseph Stromberg awarded Environmental Institute grant
Joseph Stromberg from the Center of Public History, was awarded a grant from the Environmental Institute of Houston for his dissertation, “Atomic Cowboys: Regulation and Resistance to Nuclear Power in Texas.” The total amount of the award is $12,500 which will help him complete the research and writing for the dissertation.
Fall 2009 CLASS scholarship recipients announced
The CLASS Scholarship Committee has selected the winners of the Fall 2009 CLASS scholarships. Dr. Sarah Fishman, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies served as Chair of the committee. In all, 26 students were selected to receive the various awards given out each fall. To view a list of the recipients and read their essay submissions, visit the CLASS Scholarship website.
Jaramillo wins C.W. Moores Fellowship
Alejandra Jaramillo, a Ph.D. candidate in Mexican history working with Dr. Susan Kellogg, won the 2009-2010 C.W. Moores Fellowship for advanced female graduate students from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston. She will use the fellowship to continue researching and writing her dissertation, titled "Litigious Paupers: Natives and Colonial Demands in Tlaxcala, 1540-1750."
Joseph awarded a 2009 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship
Janine Joseph, Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing, was among 31 graduate students in the nation to be awarded a 2009 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship. The two-year award is intended to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished new Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen field. The fellowship includes a grant of $20,000 and a tuition grant of one-half the tuition cost of a U.S. graduate program attended by the fellow. Read the full story on the in the Expanding Minds section of the UH web site.
McDaniel Wins First Place in National Choral Competition
Gregory McDaniel won first place out of 150 entrants at the American Choral Directors Association National Undergraduate Conducting Competition in Oklahoma City on March 6, 2009. McDaniel is an undergraduate, vocal music education student from the studios of Betsy Weber and Timothy Jones. Read more at the Moores School of Music web site.
dean's list
The Dean's List, a tabulation of the names of all undergraduate honor students, is compiled each semester. To qualify for this recognition in CLASS, students must earn a 3.50 minimum grade point average (the grade of S is not counted) in twelve or more semester hours completed during the semester. At least nine of the twelve semester hours must be letter grades. Students who earn a grade of I (except in a senior honors thesis course), D, F, or U during the semester are excluded from consideration for the Dean's List.
