By Steve Gilliam , University Relations
Faculty, staff and students received awards for excellence in teaching, research, scholarship and service during the UNCG’s Excellence Day on May 3. The award winners are:
Faculty and staff honors
• Staff Excellence Awards – Mary Culkin, director of the Office of Disability Services, and Patty Booker, office manager, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
• Alumni Teaching Excellence Awards – Dr. Vidyaranya B. Gargeya, professor, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, and Dr. Elizabeth Keathley, assistant professor, School of Music.
• Research Excellence Awards – Dr. Patti Reggio, Marie Foscue Rourk Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Dr. Patricia Crane, assistant professor, School of Nursing.
• Gladys Strawn Bullard Awards for Service – Dr. Mary L. “Mel” Schumaker, University Teaching and Learning Center (awarded posthumously and accepted by her husband, Tom); Eloise McCain Hassell, lecturer, Department of Business Administration, and student Amanda Lawing of Greensboro.
• UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching – John J. Gamble Jr., professor, Department of Dance.
Graduate student awards
• Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards – Laura Moore, School of Music; Elizabeth Wilkinson, English Department, College of Arts and Sciences; Christine Proulx, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human Environmental Sciences; Talani Torres, Department of Dance, School of Health and Human Performance; and W. David Scales, Department of Educational Research Methodology, School of Education.
• Outstanding Dissertation Award – Dr. Paula Sisk, Ph.D. in nutrition, dissertation topic: “Lactation Counseling for Mothers of Very Low Birth Weight Infants: Effect on Maternal Anxiety, Infant Intake of Human Milk and Infant Health in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.”
• Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award – Paulo Graziano, psychology major, thesis, “Vagal Regulation and Children’s Social Competence.”
• George and Beatrice Goldman Fisher Gerontology Thesis Prize – Debra Lynde Craig, M.S. degree in human development and family studies, thesis, “Household Income and Depressive Mood among Single Women in Midlife.”
