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(Posted 5-13-04)
Contact: Steve Gilliam, 336-334-5371

UNCG Awards Honor Excellence
In Teaching, Research and Service

GREENSBORO – Faculty and staff members and students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro received awards for excellence in teaching, research, scholarship and service during the institution’s Excellence Day on May 5. The award winners were:

Faculty and staff honors

• Staff Excellence Awards – Chris Aaroe, a project manager with physical plant in the Division of Business Affairs, and Touger Vang, processing supervisor with the Financial Aid Office.

• Gladys Strawn Bullard Awards for Service – Ronnette King, assistant director for EDE with  the Office of Financial Aid; Mary Jo Helfers, an associate professor in the School of Nursing; and graduate student Sarah Olive of Greensboro.

• Alumni Teaching Excellence Awards – Dr. Christopher Hodgkins, professor, Department of English, and Dr. Jewell Cooper, assistant professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

• Research Excellence Awards – Dr. Michael McIntosh, professor, Department of Nutrition, and Dr. Laurie Wideman, assistant professor, Department of Exercise and Sport Science.

• UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching – Dr. Kelly Burke, School of Music.

• Carnegie Foundation/CASE North Carolina Professor of the Year Award – Dr. Russ McDonald, professor, Department of English

Graduate student awards

• Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards – Kari Henley, School of Human Environmental Sciences; Anita Jo Harrell, School of Health and Human Performance; Emily Orr, School of Music; Lori Reese, College of Arts and Sciences;  and Jean Rohr, School of Education.

• Outstanding Dissertation Award – Dr. John W. Turner, DMA degree, School of Music, for his dissertation titled "Schenkerian Analysis and the Performance of Large-Scale Structure.”

• Outstanding Master’s Production Award – Lauren Tepper, MFA, Department of Dance, for her thesis performance and choreography.

• George and Beatrice Goldman Fisher Gerontology Dissertation Prize – Karen Mustian, Certificate in Gerontology.

Student Excellence Awards

• Guilford County – Christina Ragain of High Point, chemistry; Anne Marie Taber of Pleasant Garden, English; William A. Johnson Jr., exercise and sport science;  Adam Ronan, history and art history; Sara Smith, economics and music; Cheryl Stewart, exercise and sport science; Sarah Zeien, communication sciences and disorders, all of Greensboro.

• Mecklenburg County – Emily Burrows, public health education; Konstantina Marinakos, music; all of Charlotte.

• Wake County – Caroline Ring of Cary, physics; Ashley Flanagan of Fuquay Varina, Spanish; Rachel Marcus of Raleigh, English.

• Asheboro – Megan Murray, communication sciences and disorders.

• Booneville – Joni Vestal, chemistry and biology.

• Burlington – Joshua Green, information systems and operations management.

• Goldsboro – Kelly Doss, sociology.

• Grimesland – Vonda Sheppard, chemistry and biochemistry.

• Hickory – Janelle Tripoli, exercise and sport science.

• Lenoir – Christa Saunders, interior architecture.

• Morganton – Seth King, history.

• Mount Holly – Courtney Piercy, political science and English.

• Reidsville – Stephen A. Brown, music and political science

• Shelby – Jessica Wallace, communication sciences and disorders.

• Stedman – Andrew Strickland, communication and political science.

• Tennessee – Kevin Harvey of McMinnville, history; Sarah Nelson of Oak Ridge, biology;

• Martinsville, Va. – Brittany Utt, communication sciences and disorders.

• Birmingham, Ala. – Sarah Norville, interior architecture.

• Quincy, Ill. – Melissa Hejlik, philosophy.

• Poolesville, Md. – Natalie Olden-Stahl, biology and anthropology.

Only juniors and seniors are eligible to receive the Student Excellence Awards. The students were chosen from approximately 5,000 UNCG juniors and seniors and represent a select group. Nominees for the awards must have overall grade point averages of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. The students were nominated by faculty from the departments in which they are majoring. Nominations were evaluated by the Student Excellence Awards screening committee, with final selections made by the UNCG Honors Council. The awards were established in 1971 to recognize UNCG juniors and seniors with outstanding academic accomplishments. Recipients of the awards must be judged "superior to other able students" in such qualities as intellectual talent, analytic or critical ability, creativity, originality and initiative, and perseverance in academic pursuits.

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