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November 2007
FACULTY/STAFF
Jerald Strickland, assistant vice chancellor
for international studies and programs, was elected Distinguished
Scholar in the National Academies of Practice in Optometry for
his significant and enduring contributions to health care practice.
Strickland also is director of UH reaffirmation of accreditation
for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He also
served as interim senior vice chancellor/senior vice president
for academic affairs and provost and dean and professor in the
College of Optometry. The National Academies of Practice is composed
of 10 academies representing health care practices. Only 150 active
distinguished practitioners may be members of each academy.
INSTITUTIONAL
The Cullen College of Engineering received a
$600,000 National Science Foundation grant to provide scholarships
for students in the college’s accelerated Bachelor of Science
to graduate degree program. The program combines coursework for
the bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and/or Ph.D.
ALUMNI
W. Benjamin “Ben” Fry, (’72)
has been appointed president of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy
by Gov. Rick Perry.
Dong Liang (’95), associate professor
at Texas Southern University, has been appointed chair at Texas
Southern University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences’
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Liang also was awarded
an $838,600 U.S. Department of Defense research grant for his
project titled “Predictors of Survival: Chemotherapy in
Ovarian Cancer.”
Denise Martinez (’06) was named the Houston
Area Pharmacy Association’s 2007 Young Pharmacist of the
Year.
FACULTY/STAFF
Yuhua Chen, assistant professor of electrical
and computer engineering, was awarded a three-year, $300,000 grant
from the National Science Foundation to develop technology leading
to the next-generation Internet infrastructure, making telemedicine
and telesurgery possible in the future.
Agnes DeFranco, assistant vice president for
undergraduate studies, was installed as immediate past president
of Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals. DeFranco
is also professor of hotel and restaurant management.
Meredith Duncan, research law professor, had
her article “In-House Counsel’s Ethical Obligations
When Supervising Non-lawyer Assistants” published in Volume
87 of the Bureau of National Affairs Inc.’s Corporate Practice
Series.
Victor Flatt, A.L. O’Quinn Chair in Environmental
Law, will be the keynote speaker at the Washington Bar Association’s
Environmental and Land Use Law Section mid-year meeting. Flatt
also will address the American College of Architects national
meeting. Flatt’s article on U.S. climate change legislation
has been accepted for publication in the Northwestern University
Law Review Colloquy.
Kevin W. Garey, associate professor of pharmacy,
has received several grants for his research on infectious diseases,
including $112,000 from Viropharma, $77,000 from Salix Pharmaceuticals
and $75,000 from AstraZeneca.
David Francis, Department of Psychology chair
and Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics
director, received an honorary degree from Moscow University.
Lonny Hoffman’s article “Burdens
of Jurisdictional Proof” was accepted for publication by
the University of Alabama Law Review. Hoffman is Butler Research
Professor at the UH Law Center.
Ming Hu, professor of pharmacy, has received
a $186,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study
chemoprevention of lung cancer with Anti-tumor B. She also received
a $75,000 grant to investigate biological and pharmaceutical considerations
in herbal and supplemental product standardization. The Gustavus
& Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation awarded the grant.
Paul Janicke, professor of law, had his commentary
on the congressional patent law reform effort published in Max
Planck Institute journal.
Craig Joyce, professor of law and co-director
of the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law,
was appointed to the LexisNexis Law School Publishing Advisory
Board.
Kishore Mohanty, professor of chemical and biomolecular
engineering, is being recognized as a Society of Petroleum Engineers
Distinguished Member for 2007. The designation goes to those “whose
achievements and/or service to the society are deemed worthy of
special recognition.”
Michael A. Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished
Chair of Law and the Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance
director, was appointed to the American Bar Association Council
Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar’s Special
Committee on Security of Position.
Gordon L. Paul, Hugh Roy & Lillie Cranz
Cullen Distinguished Professor of Psychology, presented a lecture
titled “Complex Recovery: Assessment and Strategies,”
at the Thresholds Science, Service and Recovery Conference.
Cambridge University Press has published Jordon Paust’s
book “Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration’s Unlawful
Responses in the War on Terror.” Paust is the Mike and Teresa
Baker Law Center Professor.
Ben Sheppard, director of the A.A. White Dispute
Resolution Center at the UH Law Center, has been named to the
Center for American and International Law Institute for Transnational
Arbitration’s Academic Council.
Jerald Strickland, assistant vice chancellor
for international studies and programs, was elected Distinguished
Scholar in the National Academies of Practice in Optometry for
his signifi ant and enduring contributions to health care practice.
Strickland also is director of UH reaffi rmation of accreditation
for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He also
served as interim senior vice chancellor/senior vice president
for academic affairs and provost and dean and professor in the
College of Optometry. The National Academies of Practice is composed
of 10 academies representing health care practices. Only 150 active
distinguished practitioners may be members of each academy.
Julianna Szilagyi, associate professor of pharmacy,
and Jessica L. White, clinical assistant professors
of pharmacy, were recognized among the American Association of
Colleges of Pharmacy’s 2007 Teachers of the Year.
Diana Velardo, supervising attorney of the Immigration
Clinic at the UH Law Center, was a guest speaker at the Coalition
Against Human Trafficking and Rescue and Restore’s Health
Care Conference.
Sandra G. Webb, program manager for the UH Historically
Underutilized Business Program, was named Small Business Advocate
of the Year at the Houston area Minority Enterprise Development
(MED) Week. MED is a U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority
Development Agency initiative. In Houston, the Houston Minority
Business Enterprise Center and its partners presented MED Week
2007.
STUDENTS
Sarah Garnaat, Justin Springer
and Kaela Wilson, clinical graduate students
in the Department of Psychology, each had research submissions
independently selected for presentation at the Thresholds Science,
Service and Recovery Conference.
Andrew Laegeler, pharmacy undergraduate, received
the Houston Area Pharmacy Association 2007 Student of the Year
Award and the Gulf Coast Society of Health-System Pharmacists
2007 Outstanding Student Award.
Rashim Singh, pharmaceutical graduate student,
received a $30,000 fellowship from the Gulf Coast Consortia. Singh’s
research is on fl avonoid metabolism under the supervision of
pharmacy professor Ming Hu.
October 2007
FACULTY/STAFF
JéAnna Abbott, Spec’s Charitable
Foundation Professor in Social Responsibility at the Conrad N.
Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, was one of
only two people chosen nationally to participate in a weeklong
faculty internship program, sponsored by Hyatt Hotels and Resorts.
The internship matches faculty interests with company objectives,
providing experiences so they can implement what they learned
in the classroom.
Sharon Bode, Dietetic Internship Program director
and associate clinical professor of health and human performance,
received the 2007-2008 Houston Area Dietetic Association (HADA)
Outstanding Dietetics Educator Award. She is the HADA’s
nominee for the
Texas Dietetic Association Award.
Two faculty members of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture
recently have published books relating to their field. Jeffrey
Brown, assistant professor, wrote “Powers Brown
Architecture: NeoArchitecture.” Rafael Longoria,
professor, co-edited “The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture
of Ecology, Economy and Equity.”
Juanita Copley, professor of curriculum and
instruction, was named mathematics consultant for the national
HeadStart program.
Robbie Evans, Urban Experience Program director,
received a plaque from Alpha Phi Alpha for her “outstanding
work” with the student body.
Jerome Freiberg, professor of education, celebrates
the 30th anniversary of the publication Journal of Classroom Interaction,
which he edits.
Gino Lim, professor of advanced linear optimization,
received the Moving Spirit Award from the Institute for Operations
Research and Management Science.
Dmitri Litvinov, associate professor of electrical
and computer engineering and of chemical and biomolecular engineering,
was invited to serve as an associate editor of Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Transactions on Nanotechnology
journal and joined the Open Applied Physics Journal editorial
board. He also received the Cullen College of Engineering 2007
Junior Faculty Research Award.
Richard Liu, professor of electrical and computer
engineering, was selected to serve on the National Academy of
Science Committee on Radiation Source Use and Replacement.
Stuart Long, professor of electrical and computer
engineering, was appointed to the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Region IV board of directors. Long
also is associate dean of undergraduate research and of The Honors
College.
Gretta McClain, manager of general accounting
operations, received the Division of Administration and Finance
President’s Award.
David Mikics, professor of renaissance literature,
had his book “A New Handbook of Literary Terms” published.
Dale Pease, professor emeritus in health and
human performance, received the Honor Award from The Texas Association
for Health, Physical Education Recreation and Dance. The award,
which is the association’s second-highest honor, recognizes
people who “demonstrate leadership, achieve excellence and
represent the education profession well.”
Tyler Priest, professor of management and director
of Global Studies in the C.T. Bauer College of Business, will
receive the 2007 Geosciences in the Media Award from the American
Association of Petroleum Geologists for his book “The Offshore
Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar
America.” The award is given annually to recognize a journalistic
work that contributes to the public understanding of geology,
energy resources or the technology of oil and gas exploration.
Arlene Ramirez, lecturer in the Conrad N. Hilton
College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, spoke at the Hospitality
Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) Annual Tradeshow
and Convention. She also developed the first module of the Accounting
Certificate Program that HFTP will launch this fall. The program
is aimed at enevel staff to demonstrate competency in different
areas.
Kamel Salama, professor of mechanical engineering,
was inducted into the Materials Information Society 2007 Class
of Fellows in recognition for his distinguished contributions
to
materials science and engineering.
Stowe Shoemaker, associate dean of research
and Donald Hubbs Professorship in the Conrad N. Hilton College
of Hotel and Restaurant Management, presented a session on pricing
to the 2007 Revenue Conference. Shoemaker also had two books published,
“Marketing Essentials in Hospitality and Tourism: Foundations
and Practices” and “Marketing Leadership
in Hospitality and Tourism: Strategies and Tactics for a Competitive
Advantage.”
Robert K. Wimpelberg, College of Education dean,
has been elected to the Texas Public Education Reform Foundation
board of directors.
Joanne Jung-Eun Yoo, assistant professor of
hotel and restaurant management, was invited to join the Journal
of Convention and Event Tourism editorial board.
STUDENTS
Allegra McGrew, doctoral educational leadership
student, has been invited to speak at the Association of Texas
Professional Educators annual conference.
Blanca Snyder, doctoral educational leadership
student, has been selected to participate in the 28th Annual Graduate
Student Policy Seminar.
Ogechi Ukazu, Moores School of Music student,
was awarded a Preparatory and Continuing Studies Teaching Internship
to teach a program on instruments of the band and orchestra at
the after-school program at Yellowstone Academy. This internship
is in conjunction with the Abiola Initiative in Music Education.
August 2007
INSTITUTIONAL
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
at the University of Houston was honored with the Buildings Magazine
Citation of Excellence Award, while the UH Welcome Center
was the recipient of the publication’s Projects Innovations
Award. Each will be featured in the October issue of the magazine.
ALUMNI
Ed Horton (’74), owner of Tanglewood Pharmacy,
was installed as Texas Pharmacy Association president.
Lourdes M. Cuellar (’73, ’79), was
re-elected as president of the Texas Society of Health-System
Pharmacists Research & Education Foundation.
Carrie M. Sacky (’80) received the Texas
Pharmacy Association Pharmacy Enhancement Award for rendering
exceptional service to support the pharmacy profession through
industry public media.
FACULTY/STAFF
Kim K. Birtcher, clinical associate professor
of pharmacy, was awarded diplomate status with the Accreditation
Council for Clinical Lipidology. Birtcher is one of the first
pharmacists in the nation to earn the clinical lipid specialist
credential.
Joel Bloom, associate professor of health and
human performance, was selected chair of the Mayor of Houston’s
Wellness Council Senior Wellness Committee.
Diana Shu-Lian Chow, associate professor of
pharmacological and pharmaceutical sciences, received a $45,000
grant from the Gillson Longenbaugh Foundation for her research
into the treatment of breast cancer.
The International Association for Accounting Education and Research
(IAAER), in collaboration with KPMG, awarded $25,000 to Kaye
Newberry, professor of accounting, and her research team.
The award was one of five given worldwide as part of IAAER’s
Research on Defining, Recognizing and Measuring Liabilities grant
program.
The U.S. Office of Naval Research awarded a $400,000 grant to
Kirill Larin, assistant professor of mechanical
engineering and biomedical engineering, to develop a noninvasive
tool that can diagnose decompression sickness for scuba divers,
submarines and airplane pilots. Larin also was selected to participate
in the Office of Naval Research's Young Investigator program.
Stuart Long, associate dean of educational activities
in the Cullen College of Engineering, received the Electrical
and Electronics Engineers Inc.’s Antennas & Propagation
Society Outstanding Service Award. Long also is professor of electrical
and computer engineering and associate dean of undergraduate research
and of The Honors College.
Norma Olvera, associate professor of health
and human performance, received the Houston chapter of Phi Delta
Kappa’s Advocate for Education 2007 Bridge to the Future
Award. The organization promotes high-quality education, in particular,
publicly supported education.
Gerhard Paskusz, electrical and chemical engineering
professor emeritus, received the DuPont Minorities in Engineering
Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. The
award honors an engineering educator who shows leadership in the
conception, organization and operation of pre-college and college
activities designed to increase participation of underrepresented
students in engineering and engineering technology.
AstraZeneca awarded a $219,000 grant to Vincent H. Tam,
assistant professor of pharmacological and pharmaceutical sciences,
to investigate the use mathematical modeling and simulation of
microbial response to antimicrobial agents.
Jerry J. Waite, associate professor of information
and logistics technology, received the International Graphic Arts
Education Association Fred J. Hartman Award. The award recognizes
outstanding service to the organization and contributions and
accomplishments in graphic arts teaching, research and/or service.
STUDENTS
Pharmacy students earned awards and other honors. Kandi
Icenhower and Simi Bassett won first
and second place, respectively, in the Patient Counseling Competition
at the Texas Pharmacy Association’s (TPA) annual meeting.
Ngocanh (Jennifer) Phan placed second in the
TPA Innovative Pharmacy Project competition for “Proper
Assessment of Smoking Status for Hospitalized Patients.”
The C. T. Bauer College of Business’ National Association
of Black Accountants (NABA) Chapter took first place at the NABA
National Case Study Competition—the first time that a team
from a non-historically African American college won. George
Gamble, professor of accounting, coached the team. Student
team members were Jerrica Lewis, Ayodeji
Ebunlomo, Chrystal Osborne, Brittany
Washington and Brittany Webb.
July 2007
INSTITUTIONAL
The UH Welcome Center and Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center for the Arts at UH were chosen to appear
as outstanding designs in the American School & University
Educational Interiors Showcase August edition. The Mitchell Center
was honored for interior renovation. The Welcome Center was commended
for outstanding design in the Student Centers/Service Areas Category.
UH also received the Associated Masonry Contractors
of Houston Golden Trowel Award for Design Excellence in the Use
of Masonry for an Educational Facility Category for the Welcome
Center and parking garage.
ALUMNI
Former Texas Supreme Court Justice Ruby Kless Sondock
(’61) received the Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism
Sandra Day O’Connor Award for Professional Excellence.
FACULTY/STAFF
William Dupre, associate professor of geosciences,
and Randolph Thummel, professor of chemistry,
were awarded the 2007 College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
John C. Butler Excellence in Teaching Award.
Marc Garbey, chair and professor of computer
science; Victoria Hilford, instructional assistant professor of
computer science; and student Sravan Vadakattu received the Best
Paper Award in the data engineering track for “WIMI-Web
Interface to Medical Information” at the Software Engineering
and Data Engineering Conference.
Kishore Mohanty, professor of chemical and biomolecular
engineering, will receive the 2007
Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Member Award.
Laura Oren’s paper “Honor Thy Mother?:
The Supreme Court’s Jurisprudence of Motherhood” was
listed on Social Science Research Network’s top 10 download
list for women, gender and the law. Oren is a Law Foundation Professor
of Law and
co-director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy.
Julie Martin Trenor, research and instructional
assistant professor and director of undergraduate student recruitment
and retention for the Cullen College of Engineering, was appointed
to the Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network board
of directors.
Staff members in the Office of University Relations
received numerous state, local and national awards. Creative Services
and University Marketing offices received the
Texas Public Relations Association (TPRA) Best of Texas Silver
Award for the University of Houston Magazine fall 2006
inaugural edition in the External Magazine Category. The offices
also garnered the National Admissions Advertising Gold Award in
the Annual Report Category for the 2006 President’s Annual
Report. The offices also received the National
Admissions Advertising Merit Award and the Public Relations Society
of America Houston (PRSA Houston) Excalibur Gold Award in the
Collateral – Brochure Category for the Be admissions view
book.
Phyllis Gillentine, graphic designer 2 in the
Office of Creative Services, garnered the Council for the Advancement
and Support of Education District IV (CASE) Special Award for
design improvement for the University Career Services folder.
Doris Huang, graphic designer 2 in the Office
of Creative Services, received two International Association of
Business Communicators Houston (IABC Houston) merit awards for
publication design for the annual report and the admissions view
book. Huang and Jo Anne Davis-Jones, managing
editor in of the Office of Creative Services, received the PRSA
Houston Excalibur Gold Award and the Houston Press Club Lone Star
Gold Award for overall publication for the annual report. Thomas
Shea, photographer 2 in the Office of Creative Services,
received CASE District IV Excellence and Grand awards for color
photography and black and white photography, respectively.
The Office of University Marketing received
the TPRA Best of Texas Merit, PRSA Houston Gold Excalibur Award
and an IABC Bronze Quill Award for The Jump ad campaign summer
2006 series.
The Office of University Relations garnered
a CASE District IV Grand Award for Cougar e*Link in the Electronic
Newsletters Category. The office also won the Houston Advertising
Federation Silver ADDY in the Direct Marketing-Flat Category for
the Discover Houston brochure for direct marketing.
Darcie Champagne, university marketing director,
received the PRSA Houston Bronze Excalibur Award in the External
Communications Category for the alumni communications plan. Greg
Holland, marketing manager in the Office of University
Marketing, received the IABC Bronze Quill for creative writing
of the university’s planned giving ad campaign and a PRSA
Houston Excalibur Silver Award in the Electronic Newsletter/E-zine
Category for Cougar e*Link.
Lisa Merkl, senior science writer/editor in
the Office of University Communication, won an IABC Bronze Quill
Award and a PRSA Houston Excalibur Gold Award for news release
writing.
Cheryl Amoruso, Justin Dart, Jr. Center for
Students with DisABILITIES director, was re-appointed to the Houston
Commission on Disability for a two-year term.
Carlo Deason, College of Technology academic
adviser 2, was recognized as the Cross-Cultural Studies Program
Outstanding Graduate Student for 2006 at UH-Clear Lake School
of Human Sciences and Humanities.
STUDENTS
Senior Ebonie Floyd was named the Conference
USA Female Athlete of the Year. She is the third Cougar and the
first conference track and field athlete to win the award.
Optometry student Juan Menjivar received a Varilux®
Student Grant Award from Essilor of America Inc. for his case
study.
Construction management student Jason Perez
won a silver medal in the 2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships.
June 2007
INSTITUTIONAL
KUHT-TV, HoustonPBS, received numerous awards,
including several National Communicator Awards, which honors creative
excellence in the communication field.
“Living with the Lion: Childhood Cancer” won a
National Communicator Award of Excellence and a Silver Telly.
The Telly Awards recognize outstanding local, regional and cable
TV commercials and programs as well as video and film productions.
“The connection” won a National Communicator Honorable
Mention Award.
“Living Smart with Patricia Gras” earned a Silver
Telly, a National Communicator Honorable Mention Award, two
National Videographer Awards of Excellence and a National Videographer
Award of Distinction. The show received the 2007 Texas Medical
Association Anson Jones M.D. Citation of Merit Award. This competition
honors Texas news media for excellence in communicating health
information to the public. The show also was presented with
a 40th Worldfest Independent Film Festival Silver Remi Award.
“InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse” and the show “Art
is All Around Us: Downtown” featuring Fujio Watanabe received
Communicator Awards of Distinction and Bronze Tellys.
The Association for Continuing Higher Education Region VII presented
its 2007 Distinguished Non-Credit Program Award to UH
Continuing Education for its Petróleos de Venezuela
S.A. (PDVSA) Accelerated Learning English-as-a Second-Language
program. Mercedes Suraty-Clarke is the director
of the program, designed for engineers at the petroleum company
PDVSA.
FACULTY/STAFF
The “Connecticut Insurance Law Journal” accepted
for publication law professor Seth Chandler’s
article “Genetically Modified Liability Insurance.”
His article “Restricted Non-Cooperative Games” was
accepted for publication in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
and was presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Computer
Algebra Systems and Their Applications at Beijing’s Graduate
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Graduate College of Social Work Dean Ira C. Colby
was named the U.S. representative to the International Association
of Schools of Social Work board of directors.
Paul Janicke, Houston Intellectual Property
Law Association Professor of Law and director of the UH Law Center
Intellectual Property and Information Law Program, spoke about
patent law reform efforts at the Biotechnology Industry Organization
Conference. He also was the keynote speaker at the San Francisco
Intellectual Property Law Association’s annual institute.
Marcus Karl Maroney’s song “Shiloh”
was a finalist for the 2007 Sacred Voice competition in the Sacred
Song Cycle category. The international competition is for new
faith-based vocal compositions.
Beverly McPhail, Women’s Resource Center
director, received the 2007 Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council
Community Award.
Steven Mintz, John and Rebecca Moores Professor
of History and director of the American Cultures Program at UH,
was elected president-elect of the Society for the History of
Children and Youth, an international organization of scholars.
Mintz also received a $45,000 National Endowment for the Humanities
grant to fund a weeklong digital history seminar at the New York
Public Library.
Jordan Paust, Mike and Teresa Baker Law Center
Professor, was re-elected to the Lieber Society on the Law of
Armed Conflict’s executive committee. The “Catholic
University Law Review” published his presentation titled
“Responding Lawfully to Al Qaeda,” in its 2007 Volume
56 publication.
Susan K. Rogers, visiting assistant professor
of architecture and director of the Gerald D. Hines College of
Architecture Community Design Resource Center, was a juror in
the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Seventh
Annual Student Design Competition.
The University of California-Davis Law Review accepted for publication
Sandra Guerra Thompson’s article “Beyond
a Reasonable Doubt?: Reconsidering Uncorroborated Eyewitness Identification
Testimony.” Her article “Immigration Law and Long-Term
Residents: A Missing Chapter in American Criminal Law” appeared
in the “Ohio State University Journal of Criminal Law.”
Guerra Thompson is Law Foundation Professor of Law and Criminal
Justice Institute director.
Alan A. Phillips, purchasing director, received
the National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP) Neil
D. Markee Communicator of the Year Award. The award recognizes
members who make outstanding contribution to the profession through
teaching or writing published articles or representing the profession
or NAEP to the public.
STUDENTS
Music students Devin Collins and Bradley
Sayles are winners of the 2006 Louisa Sarofim composition
competition. Collins won the undergraduate division for his “String
Quartet No. 2.” Sayles won the graduate division for his
“The Lily.”
May 2007
ALUMNI
Harkishin Aswani (’84), managing director
of Tolaram Group, was appointed Singapore’s honorary consul-general
to Nigeria.
The Texas Commission on the Arts appointed poet Larry
D. Thomas (’70) as the 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate.
Xiuli Wang (’00) received a 2007 Asian
American Engineer of the Year Award from the Chinese Institute
of Engineers-USA in cooperation with the National Engineers Week
Foundation.
FACULTY/STAFF
Vladimir Zaitsev, laboratory supervisor, received
the Department of Chemistry Outstanding Staff Award.
Anthony R. Chase, associate professor of law,
was reappointed to the Dallas Federal Reserve board of directors
for a three-year term. Chase is the board’s deputy chair.
Gary Cheng, assistant professor of engineering
technology and assistant professor of industrial engineering,
received the 2007 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator
Award.
Richard H. Dickerson, university archivist in
the M.D. Anderson Library Special Collections, was appointed to
the Houston History Association board of directors.
Augustina Reyes, professor of educational leadership
and cultural studies, received a National Museum of Mexican Art
Women of Achievement Award.
STUDENTS
The Department of Chemistry recognized outstanding students.
The Outstanding Freshman Award was presented to Mackenzie
Green. Outstanding Sophomore awards went to Joseph and
Timothy Krill and James Writer.
Danish Haque and Ngoc Pham received
Outstanding Junior awards. Birte Wolff and Saba
Javed received Outstanding Senior awards.
The Dr. James R. Cox Scholarship for Synthetic Chemistry was
given to Saba Javed. The department presented Outstanding Seniors
First Place Major Fields Test awards to Nathaniel Reisinger
and Birte Wolff. The department named
Laurent Fremond and Dinesha Weeratunga
Outstanding First-Year Teaching Assistants and Minh Nguyen,
Yu Shin Park and Ramakrishana Ponnapati
Outstanding Teaching Assistants for organic chemistry. William
Bryan and Dana Gheorghe were named Outstanding
Teaching Assistants for the upper-level laboratory. Graduate Research
awards went to Hendrich Chiong, Katherine
Cimatu, Timothy Fulghum and Marzena
Zaczek. Henry Justin Moore received
the Research Scholarship.
Gary Bryant, doctoral student in history, received
a Mellon Research Fellowship to conduct research at the Virginia
Historical Society. Bryant’s research focuses on the increase
in wage labor among women in the Confederate South.
Kelly Love, graduate music student, placed second
in the Texas Music Educators Association’s graduate division
essay contest on music education. Her essay is titled “Concepts
in Music Education.”
Julita Rincon, undergraduate student, received
the National Museum of Mexican Art Young Visionary Award.
April 2007
ALUMNI
Xiuli Wang (‘00) received a 2007 Asian
American Engineer of the Year Award from the Chinese Institute
of Engineers-USA, in cooperation with the National Engineers Week
Foundation.
FACULTY/STAFF
Christine Agnew, assistant professor of law,
was nominated to serve on the Council of the American Bar Association
Section of Taxation.
Janok Bhattacharya, Robert E. Sheriff Professor
in Sequence Stratigraphy, will receive the Grover E. Murray Memorial
Distinguished Educator Award from the American Association of
Petroleum Geologists.
Xiaoping Cong’s book “Teachers’
Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State”
was published recently. She is an assistant professor of history.
Meredith J. Duncan, George Butler Research Professor
of Law, presented her article “Rape Sans Rapist: The Need
for Clearer Lines Between Forcible Rape and Nonconsensual Sex”
at the Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference
held at the University of Richmond School of Law.
Fredell Lack, C.W. Moores Jr. Endowed Professor
of Music, received the TexASTA Phyllis Young Outstanding Studio
Teacher of the Year Award for 2007. The award recognizes excellence
in private studio string teaching.
Aibing Li, assistant professor of geophysics,
received a $450,000, five-year National Science Foundation Faculty
Early Career Development Award, which supports teacher-scholars
who most effectively integrate research and education within the
mission of their organization.
Thomas Oldham, John H. Freeman Professor of
Law, co-produced a new edition of “Texas Family Code and
Related Provisions.”
Michael A. Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished
Chair of Law and Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance
director, delivered a paper on germaneness in academic freedom
norms at the Association of American Law Schools’ annual
meeting.
Ioannis Pavlidis, Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor
in the Department of Computer Science, and the Computational Physiology
Lab received contracts totaling $1.7 million from the Department
of Defense to research the psychophysiology of stress with emphasis
on its facial manifestations.
Irene Rosenberg, Royce R. Till Professor of
Law, wrote the article “The Bible for Lawyers—Legal
Principles in the Story of Creation,” which has been accepted
for publication by the Criminal Law Bulletin.
STUDENTS
Kelly Love, graduate music student, placed second
in the Texas Music Educators Association’s graduate division
essay contest on music education. Her essay is titled “Concepts
in Music Education.”
February 2007
FACULTY/STAFF
Rudy Casparius, senior lecturer in the Conrad
N.
Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management
and director of the Latin American Hotel and Hospitality
Management programs, received the Angel of Merit
medal from Mexico’s Cessa University. The award
recognizes his lifetime contributions to the hospitality
industry and education.
Sara Haynes, manager of donor and alumni records
in the Division of University Advancement, was named
president of the Texas Gulf Coast Affiliate of the Y-ME
National Breast Cancer Organization board of directors.
Rupa Iyer, director of Biotechnology Programs
and research associate professor in the College of
Technology, was awarded a $141,156 grant from the
National Science Foundation for the development of two
undergraduate biotechnology laboratory courses.
Jeremy Pettit, assistant professor of psychology,
received a $525,000 grant from the National Institute
of Mental Health to study factors that predict depression
in teenagers, as well as the transmission of parental
depression to children.
Lynn Simpson, clinical associate professor of
pharmacy and executive vice chair of pharmacy
practice, will receive the American Pharmacists
Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists’
Outstanding Chapter Adviser Award.
STUDENTS
Maureen Alika, Gloria Orozco
and Mesias
Pedroza received awards for research they presented
at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for
Minority Students organized by the American Society
for Microbiology.
January 2007
INSTITUTIONAL
The Black Leadership Network (BLN), an organization
of African-American faculty and staff, received The Texas Association
of Partners in Education Gold Award in the Texas Collegiate Partnership
category for The Event, the organization’s college readiness
conference. The award recognizes BLN as a leader in developing
innovative partnerships with schools.
The UH Writing Center received a $250,000 grant
from the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation to broaden research and
implementation of its Writing in the Disciplines initiative.
ALUMNI
The Texas Pharmacy Association named Texas Rep. Chuck
Hopson (‘65) Pharmacist of the Year; Stephanie
Erwin (‘02) Young Pharmacist of the Year; and Heather
Lewandowski (‘91) Outstanding Consultant Pharmacist.
Carol Lewis (‘89, ‘92), Olympic
athlete and sports commentator; Jack B. Moore
(‘77), president of Cameron Inc.; and Texas Sen. John
Whitmire (‘75, ‘76) received the Houston
Alumni Organization (HAO) Distinguished Alumni Awards. Jeff
Fuller (‘95), UH’s associate director of
admissions, received HAO’s Outstanding Volunteer Award.
The organization’s Distinguished Service Award went to Cathy
Coers Frank (‘80), co-founder of Reunions by Class
Act.
FACULTY/STAFF
Andy Achenbaum, professor of history and social
work, was named an Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
Fellow.
Kyung-Hee Bae, assistant director of the UH
Writing Center, will receive a Leadership Mentoring Program Award
from the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages organization.
She also will present a paper dealing with the evolving perception
of nonnative English speaking teachers at the organization’s
annual conference in March.
A UH sponsored team won the 2006 AIR-Houston Rally’s top
trophy for creating the most accessible Web site in its division.
The team created the Woodlands Civic Ballet’s Web site.
Members included Web developers Komal Agrawal,
Office of the Dean of Students; Jonathan Bruder
and Cathy Burkholder, both in the Department
of Information Technology; Oscar Martinez, Office
of Creative Services; and Nahn Nguyen and Suganya
Ramadas, both in the College of Liberal Arts and Social
Sciences.
Joel A. Bloom, associate professor of health
and human performance, was named Physical Education Division editor
for the Journal of the Texas Association
for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Head football coach Art Briles was named Conference
USA Coach of the Year.
Paul M. Collins Jr., assistant professor of
political science, was presented with the Council of Graduate
Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished
Dissertation Award. The award cites his dissertation for making
an unusually significant contribution to the social sciences.
Ronald S. Harwerth, John and Rebecca Moores
Professor of Optometry and chair of the Department of Vision Sciences,
received the American Academy of Optometry Charles F. Prentice
Medal Award in honor of his contributions in vision sciences.
The academy’s Cornea and Contact Lens Section presented
its Max Schapero Memorial Lecture Award to Jan P.G. Bergmanson,
professor of optometry.
Ming Hu, professor of pharmaceutics, received
a $22,500 grant from the Parenteral Drug Association Foundation
for “Effect of Formulation Processes on Stability and Activity
of Parenteral Administered Sirna.”
Joan Krause, George Butler Research Professor
of Law and Health Law and Policy Institute co-director, spoke
on “Fraud in Universal Coverage: The Usual Suspects (and
Then Some)” at the Kansas Law Review 2006 Annual Symposium.
Martin Melosi, Distinguished University Professor
of History and Center for Public History director, received a
Fulbright Senior Specialist Award. Melosi will give a keynote
address at the Fifth International Water History Association Conference
in Finland. He also will participate in a postgraduate research
program sponsored by Finland’s Tampere University of Technology.
Tom Oldham, John H. Freeman Professor of Law,
was named a member of the American Bar Association Family Law
Quarterly board of editors.
Nancy B. Rapoport, professor of law, was named
to the American Board of Certification board of directors.
Jeff T. Sherer, clinical assistant professor
of pharmacy, was appointed to the editorial board of the Texas
Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Journal and to the Sturge-Weber
Foundation’s medical advisory board.
Kelly M. Standifer, associate professor of pharmacology,
was named a 2006 Teacher of the Year by the American Association
of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Vincent H. Tam, assistant professor of clinical
sciences, received the Young Investigator Award and a one-year,
$20,000 grant from the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists
for his work in “Modeling Combination Antimicrobial Therapy.”
Tam also has received a one-year, $25,748 grant from Merck to
study “Comparative Susceptibility of Various Betalactams
to the Inoculum Effect.”
Thomas T. C. Hsu, John and Rebecca Moores Professor
of Civil Engineering, received the American Concrete Institute
and the Reinforced Concrete Research Council 2007 Arthur J. Boase
Award. The award recognizes his extensive research advancing the
understanding of torsion in structural concrete members, and for
his contributions to codification of design for shear and torsion.
Ira Wolinsky, professor of health and human
performance, emeritus, co-edited “Sports Nutrition: Vitamins
and Trace Elements” second edition that was recently published.
STUDENTS
Four students in the School of Theatre and Dance won awards at
the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology Southwest regional symposium.
Nara Lesser took first place in the Graduate
Make-Up Designer category. McKay Talley earned
first place as prop designer in the Graduate Technical category.
Beverly Vega received first-place costume designer
for undergraduate design, and Stormy Mitchell
won an honorable mention in the Graduate Costume Design category.
Graduate optometry students Heather Anderson,
Ling Huang, Jason Marsack and Danielle
Robertson received the American Academy of Optometry
William C. Ezell Fellowships.
Senior Kevin Kolb was named Conference USA Offensive
Player of the Year and 2006 Media Conference USA Offensive Player
of the Year.
College of Technology received the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Region Five Student
Branch Membership Growth Award for 2005, which recognizes outstanding
leadership and results in membership development activities.
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