Faculty, staff and students at UNCG received awards for excellence in teaching, research, scholarship and service during the institution’s Excellence Day on May 4. The award winners are:
Faculty and staff honors
Staff Excellence Awards – Carole Lindsey-Potter, office manager with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program; Julian Cheek, costume shop supervisor with the Department of Theatre.
Alumni Teaching Excellence Awards – Dr. K. Porter Aichele, professor, Department of Art; Karen A. Poole, lecturer, Department of Exercise and Sport Science.
Research Excellence Awards – Dr. Prashant Palvia, professor, Department of Information Systems Operations Management; Dr. Sandra Shultz, assistant professor, Department of Exercise and Sport Science.
Gladys Strawn Bullard Awards for Service – Mary Hardenbergh, registration services coordinator in the Registrar’s Office; student Cana Gyongos of Cary; Dr. Charles Tisdale, associate professor, Department of English.
UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching – Dr. Colleen Kriger, associate professor, Department of History.
Graduate student awards
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards – James Smisek, School of Music; Michelle Johnson, College of Arts and Sciences; Bradley van Eeden-Moorefield, School of Human Environmental Sciences; and Cindra Kamphoff, School of Health and Human Performance.
Outstanding Dissertation Award – Dr. Nicholas Crawford, Ph.D. in English, dissertation topic: “Legitimacy and Subjectivity in English Renaissance Drama.”
Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award – Glenn Perkins, history, thesis topic: “Accommodating Strangers: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wilmington, N.C., Boardinghouses.”
George and Beatrice Goldman Fisher Gerontology Dissertation Prize – Dr. Sonja “Yvette” Murphy, Ph.D. degree in human development and family studies.
George and Beatrice Goldman Fisher Gerontology Thesis Prize – Tamara Adams, M.S. degree in gerontology.
Student Excellence Awards
Only juniors and seniors can receive Student Excellence Awards. The students were chosen from approximately 5,000 UNCG juniors and seniors and are nominated by their academic departments. Nominees for the awards must have overall grade point averages of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. Listed with their academic majors and hometowns, winners are:
Avery County – Jesse Allen Stafford, biology, Plumtree.
Davidson County – Corey S. Roman, nursing, Lexington; Sara E. Neeves, human development and family studies, Thomasville.
Durham County – Jennifer Ellen Cromling, media studies, Durham.
Forsyth County – Regis Georges Froment, French; Matthew John Lanctot, mathematics; Kimberly Ann Martin, interior architecture; Ramona Melissa Moxley-King, interior architecture, all of Winston-Salem; Amber Lee Moffitt, English, Rural Hall.
Guilford County – Carrie Ellen Nicolson, special education; Lauren Michael Oliver, media studies; Danby Beth Seldin, English; and Elizabeth Bracewell Stiles, biochemistry, all of Greensboro; Meghann Leigh Vaughn, performance, Stokesdale; Cynthia Marie Smith, accounting, Oak Ridge; Lauren M. Smith, nursing, High Point; Brian Peter Mehl, chemistry, Jamestown.
Mecklenburg County – Justin Nathaniel Outling, political science; and Abigail Jennifer Rothe, exercise and sport science, both of Charlotte.
New Hanover County – Kristen D. Lee, business administration, New Bern.
Randolph County – Jill Dawn Whitley, biology, Seagrove.
Rockingham County – Andrea Compton Pruitt, nursing, Eden.
Transylvania County – Erin Tara Connarn, media studies, Pisgah Forest.
Wake County – Kelly Lynn Gott, exercise and sport science; Kathleen Megan Kelly, psychology, both of Apex.
Watauga County – Mary Delina Pritchett, music performance and performance, Vilas.
Wilkes County – Jennifer Marie Ashton, chemistry, Hays.
Connecticut – Valerie Ann Banning, exercise and sport science, Ellington.
New Jersey – Nina Marie Madsen, dance, Sussex; Adam Christopher Murphy, music education, Erial; Sarah Katherine Weber, speech pathology and audiology, Ocean.
Ohio – Heather Kelly, music education, Cincinnati.
Oregon – Jaime L. Ableman, elementary education, Albany.
