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UNCG Gives Year-End Awards for Teaching, Research, Scholarship 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 Celebration of Excellence on May 7. The award winners were:

Faculty and staff honors

• Staff Excellence Awards – Sarah Cottrell, housekeeper in the Alumni House; and Steven Siler, utilities manager in physical plant.

• Gladys Strawn Bullard Awards for Service – Kelly K. Ryan of Glenwood, Md., a junior communications major; Dr. Bennett H. Ramsey, associate professor, Department of Religious Studies; and Nora Reynolds, executive director for outreach programs, Division of Continual Learning.

• Alumni Teaching Excellence Awards – Dr. Rebecca Adams, professor, Department of Sociology; and Eloise M. Hassell, assistant professor, Department of Business Administration, Bryan School of Business and Economics.

• Research Excellence Award – Dr. Christopher Ruhm, Jefferson-Pilot Excellence Professor of Economics, Bryan School of Business and Economics; and Dr. Christian Moraru, assistant professor, Department of English.

• UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching – Dr. Russ McDonald, professor, Department of English.

Graduate student awards

• Outstanding Dissertation Award – Dr.  Joyce T. Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Department of English, now teaching at UNC Wilmington, dissertation titled, The Empowering  Re-memberings of History and Myth in the Poetry of Three African Caribbean Writers: Walcott, Brathwaite and Philip.

• Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award –  Charles Dantzler “Dan” Albergotti of Greensboro, Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, thesis titled, Roll Call at the River.

• George and Beatrice Goldman Fisher Gerontology Dissertation Prize – Dr. Regina Graham of Mocksville, Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, School of Education, now Davie County coordinator for Big Brothers, Big Sisters Services Inc., dissertation titled, I Have a Testimony: A Perspective of Death, Grief and Widowhood in African American Culture.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards –
    Karen Mustian of Greensboro, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, School of Health and Human Performance.
    David Kish, School of Music.
    Gretchen Martin, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences.
    William “Bryce” Hagedorn, Department of Counseling and Educational Development, School of Education.

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