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September 2011
FACULTY/STAFF
Lyle McKinney, assistant professor of educational psychology, received the 2011 Research Grant Award for his project "Failure to File: Examining the Characteristics of Persistence Rates of Community College Students Who Do Not File a FAFSA” at the Council for the Study of Community Colleges conference.
UH Law Center Dean Ray Nimmer has been recognized in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice areas of copyright law, information technology law, litigation — intellectual property, litigation — patent, patent law and trademark law.
Jordan Paust’s essay “Armed Drones: Responding to Professor Radsan’s Questions” was published in Journal of the National Security Forum. Paust is the Mike and Teresa Baker Law Center Professor.
Health and human performance (HHP) faculty members Mark Clarke, Charles Layne, Daniel O’Connor, William Paloski and Adam Thrasher were awarded a $1 million NASA grant to study the modulation of muscle function by lower limb loading during space flight. Paloski is the principal investigator. HHP professor Richard Simpson, will serve as the principal investigator of another $1 million NASA grant which will fund the investigation of the effects of long-term exposure to microgravity on salivary markers of innate immunity. Clarke, O’Connor, Paloski and Thomas Lowder are part of the research team.
Ronald Turner, Alumnae Law Center Professor of Law, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Margit Wiesner, associate professor in educational psychology, has been named Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
STUDENTS
Health and human performance graduate student Stefan Madansingh has been chosen by the Canadian Space Agency to collect data using the European Space Agency's new short-arm centrifuge at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne.
Staci Passe, educational psychology doctoral student, received the Outstanding Paper Award for “Eating Disorder Symptoms, Self-harm and Alcohol Consumption” at the 2011 Houston Symposium for Research in Education and Psychology.
Katherine Ramos, educational psychology doctoral student, received the Outstanding Poster Award for her presentation “Development of a New Measure of Helping at Work” at the 2011 Houston Symposium for Research in Education and Psychology.
July/August2011
FACULTY/STAFF
Michael Ahearne, C.T. Bauer Chair Professor in Marketing, won the American Marketing Association Sales Special Interest Group 2011 Excellence in Research Award for "Energizing the Reseller’s Sales Force: The Power of Brand Identification," which he co-wrote. The award recognizes a professional selling and/or sales management article published during the previous year that has made a significant contribution to the sales discipline.
Suncica “Sunny” Canic, Cullen Distinguished Professor in the department of mathematics, was selected to serve as a member of the National Institutes of Health’s Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. Her four-year term runs until June 2015.
Rex Du, Hurley Professor of Marketing, won the 2011 Best Paper Award at the American Marketing Association's Advanced Research Techniques forum. The award recognizes the paper “Quantitative Trendspotting,” which he co-wrote.
Roland Glowinski, Cullen Professor of Mathematics, received the 2011 Computational Fluid Dynamics Award from the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics. The award, given every two years, recognizes outstanding and sustained contributions to the broad field of computational fluid dynamics.
Marketing professor Vanessa Patrick was named to the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Research.
Honors College professor Dan Price was recently awarded a digital humanities start-up grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Bret Wells, professor of law, made the presentation “Tax Ethical Issues Surrounding Reporting Uncertain Tax Positions” at the Tax Executive Institute’s Legal Ethics seminar.
STUDENTS
Yang Cheng, a supply chain and logistics technology student, recently received the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration.
Music student Geraldine Ong received the Audience Favorite Award in the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg National Young Artist Concert competition. Ong also won first prize in the concerto competition of the New Orleans International Piano Festival.
Music students Jonathan Tao and Alfonso Hernandez won first prize and second prize, respectively, in the Texas Music Teachers Association Collegiate Young Artist competition state finals.
May/June 2011
FACULTY/STAFF
Aaron Bruhl, associate professor of law, presented a paper on statutory interpretation at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association.
Meredith J. Duncan, George Butler Research Professor of Law, was sworn in as a member of the Texas State Bar Grievance Committee for the 2011-2014 term.
The Southwest Catalysis Society, the local chapter of the North American Catalysis Society, has honored one of its founders for a lifetime of work in catalysis research and practice. James Richardson, professor emeritus of chemical and biomolecular engineering, was one of three individuals honored with an Excellence in Applied Catalysis Award, a new award given by the society.
Students
Joon Park’s paper “Diversity and Team Performance: A Meta-Analysis" won the 2011 Robert J. Wherry Award for the Best Paper at the Industrial Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior conference. Park is a management doctoral student.
Management doctoral student Cory Angert and assistant management professor Seemantini Pathak co-wrote the paper “The Institutional Environment and Gender Diversity on Boards of Directors,” which was presented at the annual meeting of the Strategic Management Society.
April 2011
FACULTY/STAFF
Kairn Klieman, associate professor of history, was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship for research in Ghana from the West African Research Association. The grant is funded through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the U.S. State Department. Klieman will research the role that U.S. oil companies played in establishing the Takoradi-Cairo route, a supply line that provided petroleum and other materiel to the Allies in North Africa during World War II. She will also gather information on the approaches Ghana is employing as a new oil-producer.
The newly published book “Reversing the Obesogenic Environment,” was co-written by Rebecca Lee, professor of health and human performance and director of the Texas Obesity Research Center. Lee also was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to work with researchers in Guadalajara, Mexico. Lee will assist in developing education and training protocols for health care practitioners and researchers to better document and define obesity as well as the environmental factors that contribute to obesity.
Brian McFarlin, professor of health and human performance, was voted president-elect of the Texas chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Natalia Milanesio’s article “Food Politics and Consumption in Peronist Argentina,” which was published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, was awarded the Sturgis Leavitt Award from The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. The prize is given annually for the best article written in any language on a Latin American or Iberian subject with preference for those that have an appeal beyond a single discipline. Milanesio is assistant professor of history.
Michael A. Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law and director of the Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance, has been inducted into the 2011 "class" of Fellows of the American Educational Research Association. Olivas also was named as the 2010 Immigration Professor of the Year by the ImmigrationProf Blog.
Gordon L. Paul, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair and professor of the clinical psychology, received the Texas Psychological Association 2010 Outstanding Contribution to Science Award.
Allison Redmon, Moores School of Music graduate student and band director at Houston Christian High School, received a grant from Fund for Teachers and will travel to the United Kingdom to attend music festivals in London and York.
Earl L. Smith III, dean of the College of Optometry and Greeman-Petty Professor, is the 2010 recipient of the Charles F. Prentice Medal Award from the American Academy of Optometry (AAO). The honor is awarded annually to an outstanding scientist who has contributed significantly to the advancement of knowledge through research in the visual sciences and is the highest distinction given by the AAO.
Adam Thrasher and Richard Simpson have received a grant from the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research Foundation’s Mission Connect project. The one-year study is titled “Immune Responses to Functional Electrical Stimulation Exercise in Humans with Spinal Cord Injury.”
STUDENTS
Hilton College students Daniel C. Green, Kendra McDaniel and Emily Paez received Outstanding Lodging Student Awards from the Hotel & Lodging Association of Greater Houston.
March 2011
FACULTY/STAFF
Rigoberto C. Advincula, professor of chemistry, was invited to participate in the National Academy and Keck Future Initiative on Imaging Science Think Tank conference. Advincula was selected from a pool of several hundreds of applicants. Advincula also received the Philippine Development Foundation Excellence in Science and Technology Award.
Leonard Bachman, associate architecture professor, earned best paper at the 2010 International Conference on Architectural Education for “The Teaching of Research and the Research on Teaching: Two Frameworks and Their Overlay in Architectural Education.”
At the 2011 American Concrete Institute annual convention,
Abdeldjelil “DJ” Belarbi, chair and professor of the department of civil
and environmental engineering, received the Joe W. Kelly Award, an
international award given to distinguished individuals to recognize
outstanding contributions in education relating to the broad field of
concrete. Also at the convention, UH’s ACI student chapter captured
third place in the international FRP Composites competition.
Shannon
Buggs, director of communication for the College of Liberal Arts and
Social Sciences, has been named one of “Houston’s 50 Most Influential
Women of 2010” by Houston Woman Magazine. Each honoree was first
nominated for inclusion on the “50 Women” list by a subscriber of
Houston Woman Magazine and then selected by the staff of the
publication. More than 400 women were nominated.
Margaret S.
Cheung, assistant professor of physics, received a $247,136 Department
of Energy research award to study the efficiency of solar energy
conversion of artificial photosynthetic materials under thermal
agitation using multiscale molecular simulations.
Xiaoping Cong,
associate professor of history, recently published an autobiographical
essay in the book “Discovering History in the United States: A
Collection of the Reflections of Chinese Historians Who Have Studied and
Are Working in the United States.”
Mark Clarke, professor of
health and human performance, was recently elected to the Phi Kappa Phi
National Honor Society at the University of Maine.
Blake Ives,
professor of decision and information sciences, was one of two
recipients to be honored with The Leo Award for Lifetime Exceptional
Achievement in Information Systems.
Donald Van Nieuwenhuise,
professor of geosciences, participated as a selection panelist for the
fifth annual Iraq Scholars and Leaders Program selection process.
STUDENTS
A
team of four marketing students from the Program for Excellence in
Selling won first place in the 2011 National Collegiate Sales
Competition. The team consisted of Rebekah Elliott, Taylor Herbert,
Jozette Bionat and Adrian Sese.
Marketing doctoral student Babak
Hayati was named winner of the 2010 ISBM (Institute for the Study of
Business Markets) Doctoral Support Award for his research on
"Performance Impacts of a Key Account Team's Social Capital: A Social
Network Perspective.
February 2011
FACULTY/STAFF
JéAnna Abbott, Spec’s Charitable Foundation Professor in Social Responsibility in the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, and Mary Dawson, assistant professor of hotel and restaurant management, co-wrote the paper "Hospitality Culture and Climate: Keys to Retaining Hospitality Employees and Creating Competitive Advantage." The paper was published in the International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration.
Joel Bloom, associate professor of educational psychology, received the David K. Brace Award, the highest award of excellence given by the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance. He also received a doctor of humanities degree for chiropractic medicine by the Texas Chiropractic College.
Jamison Kovach, assistant professor of organizational leadership and supervision and project management programs in the department of information and logistics technology in the College of Technology, was awarded in the Faculty Excellence Award from the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering in recognition of excellence in teaching, service to the profession and scholarship. The award is the highest recognition given by the association.
A team representing UH won second place in a recent citywide accessible website building competition, the Accessible Internet Rally, which matches teams of web designers and developers with nonprofit organizations to build new websites or enhance existing ones to make them more accessible for people with disabilities. Team members were Jennifer Lazzaro, instructional designer in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, and UH Libraries staff members Christina Morris, Rachel Vacek, Sean Watkins and Frederick Young.
Norma Olvera, associate professor of the educational psychology, had the article "Physical Activity in Latino Children: Research and its Implications" published in the Journal of Applied Research on Children. Olvera, who also is director of (BOUNCE Behavior Opportunities Uniting Nutrition Counseling and Exercise), received an honorable mention from the Texas Council on Cardiovascular Disease for its 2010 promotion awards.
January 2011
FACULTY/STAFF
Margaret S. Cheung, assistant professor of physics, received a $247,136 Department of Energy research award to study the efficiency of solar energy conversion of artificial photosynthetic materials under thermal agitation using multiscale molecular simulations.
David R. Dow, University Distinguished Professor at the UH Law Center, discussed execution protocol as the keynote speaker at the fourth annual meeting of the American Constitution Society Michigan chapter.
Meredith Duncan, George Butler Research Professor of Law, was elected to The American Law Institute, an independent organization that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve the law.
Peter Hoffman, Newell H. Blakely Chair in Evidence and professor of law, is the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist grant in law. He will consult on legal education with officials at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, India. This is his second Fulbright Specialist grant.
Alex Ignatiev, director of UH’s Center for Advanced Materials, participated in the first Heads of Space Agencies Summit organized by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) as part of its 50th anniversary celebration. Ignatiev, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professor of physics, chemistry and electrical and computer engineering, also gave a presentation on using lunar resources to fabricate thin film solar cells that would be used to beam energy to Earth at IAA’s anniversary celebrations in Nagoya, Japan.
Craig Joyce’s article "A Curious Chapter in the History of Judicature" made the Social Science Research Network’s Top Ten Most Cited List for recently published scholarship in intellectual property. Joyce is the Andrews Kurth Professor of Law.
Thomas Kubiszyn, chair and professor of the department of educational psychology, received the Texas Psychological Association 2010 Outstanding Contribution to Education Award.
Stuart Long, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Long is also UH’s interim vice chancellor/vice president for research and technology transfer as well as associate dean of undergraduate research at The Honors College.
The Training and Genetics of the Exercise Response Study was recently renewed by the National Institutes of Health for an additional funding of more than $3.5 million for five years. The study is designed to examine the interaction between obesity, exercise and genetics. Health and Human Performance faculty members Brian McFarlin, Daniel O’Connor and Tony Jackson will collaborate with principal investigator Molly Bray at The University of Alabama at Birmingham to conduct the study.
Roberta Nutt, visiting professor of counseling psychology in the College of Education, received the Texas Psychological Association 2010 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award.
Richard Olenchak, professor of curriculum and instruction, presented at a one-day seminar on inspiring and cultivating creativity in students for a delegation of educators from Haidian District Bureau of Education in Beijing, China, during their recent visit to Houston.
Michael A. Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law and director of the Institute of Higher Education Law and Governance, delivered the Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic Freedom at the University of Michigan.
Gordon L. Paul, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair and professor of the clinical psychology, received the Texas Psychological Association 2010 Outstanding Contribution to Science Award.
Jerry Rogers, professor of civil engineering, served as one of three editors of the American Society of Civil Engineers' special symposium proceedings to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Hoover Dam project. Rogers’ paper titled "The New Town of Boulder City: City Planning and Infrastructure Engineering for Hoover Dam Workers" was one of 20 papers selected nationally for inclusion in the proceedings.
Donnie Rowell, maintenance chief at the Hilton University of Houston, received the Hotel & Lodging Association of Greater Houston Operations Award. This honor is given to a hospitality employee whose job dedication is especially noteworthy.
STUDENTS
Chemistry students Nicel Estillore and Roderick Pernites won best poster awards in the Collodis Division at the fall American Chemical Society national meeting.