FACULTY HONORS CONVOCATIONAPRIL 12, 2018

THOMPSON ALUMNI CENTER

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PROGRAM

INTRODUCTION Laura Grams President, UNO Faculty Senate

WELCOME Jeffrey P. Gold Chancellor

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SYSTEM AWARD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

University of Nebraska Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award Recognized by Jeffrey P. Gold Chancellor

University of Nebraska Innovation, Development and Engagement Award Recognized by Jeffrey P. Gold Chancellor

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA AWARDS

Alumni Outstanding Teaching Awards Presented by college deans and Lee Denker, President and CEO, UNO Alumni Association

Distinguished Research or Creative Activity Award Presented by Scott Snyder Associate Vice Chancellor, Research and Creative Activity

Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award Presented by Deborah Smith-Howell Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs Dean of Graduate Studies

Outstanding Service Learning Faculty Award Presented by Julie Dierberger Director, Service Learning Academy

Excellence in Teaching Award Presented by Susan Eldridge Chair, Department of Accounting

2017-2018 Named Professorships and Chairs Presented by Candice Batton Assistant Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs

CLOSING REMARKS Jeffrey P. Gold Chancellor

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OUTSTANDING TEACHING AND INSTRUCTIONAL CREATIVITY AWARD

Tammie M. Kennedy, Ph.D., is associate professor of English. Kennedy joined the UNO faculty in 2009, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetorics, film, memory studies, creative nonfiction, and writing theory and pedagogy.

She is editor of the Women’s Archive Project, a student-produced digital archive exhibiting the experiences and contributions of UNO-affiliated women. She co-edited Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education, which was named 2018 Best Co-edited Book by the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Kennedy has published in more than 20 top-tier journals and contributed chapters to several books. Much of her scholarly and creative work focuses on the rhetoric of remembering practices and how the embodied qualities of memory shape identity, writing, and knowledge production.

TAMMIE KENNEDY English

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

ALUMNI OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARDS

RAMAZAN KILINÇ Political Science

CHRISTINE CUTUCACHEBiology

JOHN CONRAD Chemistry

Christine Cutucache, Ph.D., is a tumor immunologist and science education researcher. She is interested in student-centered, inquiry-based practices to improve learning outcomes. As an undergraduate, Cutucache was active in undergraduate research and now leads a productive laboratory filled with undergraduates, affording them the same opportunities. She values training students to be scientists and problem solvers. Further, she emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of biomedicine across her courses.

John Conrad, Ph.D., serves as an assistant professor of chemistry. His teaching load extends from freshman- level general chemistry courses through senior/graduate-level biochemistry courses. His student-focused approach, and various active learning strategies, consistently encourage students to take learning into their own hands, all while presenting material with a high level of enthusiasm. Teaching activities continue into the research lab, with an environment that provides professional development while exposing them to novel biochemical research.

Ramazan Kılınç, Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science and co-director of the Islamic Studies Program at UNO. He received his Ph.D. (2008) from Arizona State University and M.A. (2001) and B.A. (1999) from Bilkent University, Turkey. He is the author of Alien Citizens: State and Religious Minorities in Turkey and France (Cambridge, forthcoming) and co-author of Generating Generosity in Catholicism and Islam: Beliefs, Institutions, and Public Goods Provision (Cambridge, 2018).

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA INNOVATION, DEVELOPMENT AND ENGAGEMENT AWARD

Nick Stergiou, Ph.D., is the Distinguished Community Research Chair in Biomechanics and professor, as well as the director of the Biomechanics Research Building and the Center for Research in Human Movement Variability at UNO. He was appointed as the assistant dean of the Division of Biomechanics and Research Development, and is the founding chair of the Department of Biomechanics. He is a professor in the Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health of the College of Public Health at UNMC. His research focuses on understanding variability inherent in human movement and he is an international authority in the study of nonlinear dynamics.

He has been inducted into the National Academy of Kinesiology and as a fellow to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Stergiou’s research has impacted training techniques of surgeons, and the treatment and rehabilitation of pathologies, such as peripheral arterial disease. He has received over $30 million in personal funding from NIH, NASA, and the Department of Education, among others. He received the largest grant in the history of UNO; a $10.1 million NIH P20 grant, allowing the development of the Center for Research in Human Movement Variability. He has several inventions and procured a private donation to build the Biomechanics Research Building, opened in August 2013, which is the first building dedicated to biomechanics research in the world.

NICHOLAS STERGIOU Biomechanics

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DALE EESLEY Marketing & Entrepreneurship

MELISSA CAST-BREDE Teacher Education

Dale T. Eesley, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Franchising, the John Morgan Community Chair in Entrepreneurship, and an associate professor of entrepreneurship and strategy. Eesley’s research has focused on the behavior of entrepreneurs in various contexts. Eesley seeks to build entrepreneurial skills and opportunities for students by starting organizations and events such as the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference, Maverick Business Plan and BigIdea! Pitch competitions, Breakthrough Weekend, Stedman’s Café, an Entrepreneurial Living Learning Community, the Maverick Venture Fund, and a junior high summer camp.

Melissa Cast-Brede, Ph.D., is an associate professor of library science in the Department of Teacher Education. Prior to joining, Cast-Brede was the education/psychology librarian at UNO Criss Library. Previously, Cast-Brede served as an education librarian at universities in Oklahoma and as director of member services at the Association of College and Research Libraries. She is a graduate of Grinnell College, University of Missouri, and Emporia State University.

REBECCA LUTTE Aviation Institute

Rebecca Lutte, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the UNO Aviation Institute. She has a B.S. in Professional Aeronautics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; an M.P.A. and a Ph.D. in public administration, UNO. Lutte is a commercial multi-engine pilot and flight instructor. She specializes in online course development and delivery. Her research interests are in the areas of aviation regulatory policy, aviation workforce issues, and sustainable development in air transportation.

COLLEGE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

UNL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

JEREMY BAGUYOS Interdisciplinary Informatics, Music

LIBBY JONES Civil Engineering

Jeremy Baguyos has spent his career in pursuit of innovation in music, especially where art and information technology intersect. Favorite projects involve improvisations with computers, real-time interactive computer music composition, and multimedia/intermedia. He has been at UNO for more than a decade and is a dual-appointment professor in both the School of Interdisciplinary Informatics and the School of Music. He attended Johns Hopkins University (Peabody) and Indiana University. He grew up in Kansas.

Elizabeth G. Jones, Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of Civil Engineering, strives to be a servant teacher who unleashes students in service to their education, their profession, and their world. Her research interests include transportation systems, humanitarian engineering, and engineering education. Outside of the classroom, she spends time as the faculty advisor for the University of Nebraska’s Engineers Without Borders USA Student Chapter, working with students on small engineering projects in Madagascar, Uganda, and Zambia.

COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION, FINE ARTS AND MEDIA

SHELBY VANNORDSTRANDMusic

Shelby VanNordstrand joined the music faculty at UNO in 2012. She has appeared as a soprano soloist from Omaha to Indonesia, China, Japan, and Oman. Her students have been named winners of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Student Auditions at the state, regional, and national levels and winners of the National Opera Association's Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition. As a clinician, she has presented at the National Collegiate Music Society Conference, the National Opera Association Conference, the Central Regional National Association of Teachers of Singing Conference, and other state and regional conferences.

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONCOLLEGE OF EDUCATION

COLLEGE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

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Steven N. Rodie is a professor of biology at UNO. He has been a University of Nebraska faculty member for 23 years, and is the former director of the UNO Center for Urban Sustainability. He teaches courses in sustainable landscape plants and design, landscape and environmental appreciation, environmental problems/solutions, and green infrastructure stormwater management. His research focuses on green infrastructure assessment, and his service learning projects include rain gardens and outdoor classrooms with Omaha and Ralston Public Schools. Rodie is a fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects and the North American Teachers and Colleges of Agriculture, and is a registered landscape architect in Nebraska, Kansas, and California.

STEVEN RODIE Biology

OUTSTANDING GRADUATE MENTOR AWARD

Elliott Ostler, Ed.D., is a Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professor and member of the Educational Leadership Department in the College of Education. He has published nearly 100 articles and conference papers, six books, earned a United States Design Patent, and collaborated on numerous projects across the university system resulting in nearly $10 million in external funding. His research focus is in applied STEM education, which brings together the elements of academic science and learning/pedagogy theory to generate usable products at all levels of education. His current research collaborations are sponsored by the National Science Foundation and National Security Agency, and investigate applications in quantum cryptography and mathematical models for representing language.

ELLIOTT OSTLER Educational Leadership

OUTSTANDING SERVICE LEARNING FACULTY AWARD

Dan Hawkins, Ph.D., is an associate professor and department chair in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Before coming to UNO in 2006, he earned a B.S. in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Penn State University. He studies fatherhood and sport, including current projects examining the relationship between father involvement and the quality of men’s lives and the social predictors of encouraging children to play American football. He has taught many courses at UNO at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including classes on the sociology of families and fatherhood, social aspects of sport, research methods, and social statistics, as well the capstone senior thesis course.

DANIEL HAWKINS Sociology

EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD

DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH OR CREATIVE ACTIVITY AWARD

Jennifer Riley, Ph.D., is the William C. Hockett Diamond Professor of Accounting and director of the Master of Accounting program in the College of Business Administration. She joined the UNO faculty in 2007, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in accounting information systems. Her research interests include judgment and decision-making, cognitive biases, and how technology affects the behavior and decisions of accountants. Riley’s research has been published in the Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and The CPA Journal. Riley is a C.P.A. and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.JENNIFER RILEY

Accounting

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2017–2018 NEW AND RENEWED PROFESSORSHIPS AND CHAIRSThese faculty are being honored for their new or renewed appointments to the following professorships/chairs:

Laura Alexander Religious Studies Goldstein Family Community Chair in Human Rights

Mahboub Baccouch Mathematics James M. Earl Diamond Professorship

Dhundy Bastola Interdisciplinary Informatics

Charles W. and Margre H. Durham Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Technology

Kent Blansett History Charles W. and Mary C. Martin Professor of Western American History

Tracy Bridgeford English Albert W. and Helen J. Jefferis Chair of English Literature

Christine Cutucache Biology Haddix Community Chair in Science

Kathleen Danielson Teacher Education Isaacson Professorship

Raj Dasgupta Computer Science Union Pacific Chair of Information Science and Technology

Douglas Derrick Interdisciplinary Informatics

Mutual of Omaha Distinguished Chair of Information Science and Technology

Julie Dierberger Service Learning Academy

Paul Sather Distinguished Director for Service Learning

Dale Eesley Marketing and Entrepreneurship

John Morgan Community Chair in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Franchising

Jeffrey French Psychology D.B. and Paula Varner Professorship

Ann Fruhling Interdisciplinary Informatics

Charles W. and Margre H. Durham Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Technology

Washington Garcia Music Robert M. Spire Chair of Music

Guoqing Lu Biology Isaacson Professorship

Pete Madsen Music Marguerite Scribante Professor in Music

William Mahoney Interdisciplinary Informatics

Cheryl Prewett Diamond Professorship

Dora Matache Mathemetics Maury and Nancy Lipton Chair of Mathematics

Michael Matthews Mathematics Dr. George F. Haddix Community Chair in Mathematics

Mike Messerole Health & Kinesiology Professor Robert Ackerman Faculty Fellow of Community Engagement

Christopher Moore Physics Dr. George F. Haddix Community Chair in Physical Science

Sajda Qureshi Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis

Frederick W. Kayser Chair

Janice Rech Mathematics Dr. George F. Haddix Community Chair in Mathematics

Hugh Reilly Communication Robert T. Reilly Professor of Communication

Roni Reiter-Palmon Psychology D.B. and Paula Varner Professorship

Jennifer Riley Accounting William C. Hockett Diamond Professorship

Amy Rodie Marketing and Entrepreneurship

James R. Schumacher Chair of Ethics

Martina Saltamacchia History Charles W. and Mary C. Martin Professor of History

Nicholas Stergiou Biomechanics UNO Distinguished Community Research Chair in Biomechanics

William Tapprich Biology Sophie and Feodora Kahn Professorship in Biology

Scott Tarry Aviation Distinguished Professor in Aviation

Jong-Hoon Youn Computer ScienceUnion Pacific Chair of Information Science and Technology

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2017–2018 CONTINUING PROFESSORSHIPS AND CHAIRS

Phani Tej Adidam Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Executive Management Education Professorship

Jack Armitage Accounting Distinguished Alumni Professorship of Accounting

Christine Beard Music Regents/Foundation Professorship

William Blizek Philosophy Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professorship

David Carter Counseling Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professorship

Mark Celinscak History Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Catherine Co Economics Ward Y. Lindley and George T. Lindley Professorship

Chris Decker Economics John Lucas Diamond Professorship

Brian Dorn Computer Science IS&T Community Chair of STEM

Carol Ebdon Public Administration Regents/Foundation Professorship

Sarah Edwards Teacher Education Dr. Hollie Bethel Professor of Education

Angela Eikenberry Public Administration David Scott Diamond Professorship

Susan Elridge Accounting Union Pacific Professor of Accounting

Richard File Accounting Major Thomas A. and Beverly Ward Spencer Professorship in Government Accounting

Robin Gandhi Interdisciplinary Informatics

Charles W. and Margre H. Durham Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Technology

Gregory Gelfond Computer Science FirsTier Banks Visiting Professor of Information Science and Technology

Matt Germonprez Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis

Mutual of Omaha Distinguished Chair of Information Science and Technology

Neal Grandgenett Teacher Education Dr. George and Sally Haddix Community Chair in STEM Education

David Helm Arts ‒ Art and Art History

Edwin Clark Diamond Professorship

Lyn Holley Gerontology Dr. Chuck Powell Professor of Gerontology

Charles Johanningsmeier

English Ralph Wardle Diamond Professorship

Bruce Johansen Communication Kayser Chair

Christopher Kelly Gerontology Leo Missinne Professor of Gerontology

Lisa Kelly-Vance Psychology Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professorship

Shuanglin Lin Economics Harlan and Nancy Noddle Professorship of Business Administration

Jeremy Lipschultz Communication Isaacson Professorship

Julie Masters Gerontology Terry Haney Chair of Gerontology

Wai Ning Mei Physics Milo Bail Chair in Physics

Elliott Ostler Educational Leadership Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professorship

Rebecca Pasco Teacher Education Margaret Killian Diamond Professorship

Wei Rowe Finance, Banking and Real Estate

Nebraska Bankers Association Professorship

Lisa Sample Criminology and Criminal Justice

Elizabeth H. Reynolds and Beverly B. Reynolds Professor of Public Affairs and Community Service

Yong Shi Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis

Isaacson Professorship

Steven ShultzFinance, Banking and Real Estate

Hollis and Helen Baright Foundation Professor of Real Estate Studies

Dustin Slivka Health and Kinesiology Dean's Award of Excellence Professorship

Roopa Venkatesh Accounting William C. Hockett Diamond Professorship

David VolkmanFinance, Banking and Real Estate

Col. Guy M. Cloud, Jr. and Patricia Cloud Professor of Investment Sciences

Debora Wisneski Teacher EducationJohn T. Langan Professor of Early Childhood Education

Mark Wohar EconomicsCollege of Business Administration Distinguished Professorship

Peter Wolcott Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis

Mutual of Omaha Distinguished Chair of Information Science and Technology

Qiuming Zhu Computer ScienceUnion Pacific Chair of Information Science and Technology

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University of Nebraska at Omaha Administration Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., Chancellor B.J. Reed, Ph.D., Senior Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs Dan Shipp, Ed.D., Vice Chancellor, Student Success Don Leuenberger, M.A., Interim Vice Chancellor, Business and Finance Trev Alberts, Vice Chancellor, Athletic Leadership and Management, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics

The Colleges David Boocker, Ph.D., Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Nancy A. Edick, Ed.D., Dean, College of Education Louis Pol, Ph.D., Dean, College of Business Administration John Bartle, Ph.D., Dean, College of Public Affairs and Community Service Hesham Ali, Ph.D., Dean, College of Information Science & Technology Michael Hilt, Ph.D., Interim Dean, College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media Deborah Smith-Howell, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs; Dean, Graduate Studies David Richards, M.A., M.L.I.S., Dean, Criss Library

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Academic Programs Lance C. Pérez, Ph.D., Interim Dean, College of Engineering

University of Nebraska Board of Regents Timothy Clare, J.D. Robert Schafer, J.D. Howard Hawks, M.B.A. Paul Kenney Jim Pillen, D.V.M. Bob Phares Bob Whitehouse, M.S. Hal Daub, J.D.

Student Regents University of Nebraska at Omaha, Carlo Eby University of Nebraska at Kearney, Logan Krejdl University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Hunter Traynor University of Nebraska Medical Center, Carissa Lueck

University of Nebraska Administration Hank M. Bounds, Ph.D., President Susan M. Fritz, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Provost Chris Kabourek, M.B.A., Interim Senior Vice President Business and Finance Stacia Palser, J.D., Interim Vice President and General Counsel Wendy Hind, J.D., Ph.D., Vice President, University Affairs

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