Acting President Neville Pinto and Acting Provost Dale Billingsley recognized dozens of outstanding faculty at the 2016 Celebration of Faculty Excellence Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the Brown and Williamson Club.
“We have a great faculty – a truly amazing faculty – at the University of Louisville,” Pinto said. “We have a faculty who excel in teaching, service, scholarship, research, and creative activity. You are a faculty who care. You are a faculty who raise the bar for all of us as a university.”
The award winners included:
Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity
Paul Griner, English
Rich Lamont, Dental-Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Jeffrey Valentine, Counseling and Human Development
Distinguished Faculty Award in Service
Vicki Hines-Martin, Nursing Education
David Richardson, Surgery
Krzysztof Wolek, Music
Jean Wolph, Middle and Secondary Education
Distinguished Faculty Award in Teaching
Mark Austin, Sociology
Jennifer Brueckner-Collins, Anatomical Science/Neurobiology
Penny Howell, Middle and Secondary Education
Heather Mitchell, Nursing Education
Exemplary Multicultural Teaching Award
Derrick Brooms, Sociology
Community Engagement Faculty Award
Mary-Beth Coty, Nursing Education
Carol Hanchette, Geography/Geosciences
Carlee Lehna, Nursing Education
John Myers, Pediatrics
Paul Weber Departmental Excellence in Teaching Awards
Middle and Secondary Education
Distinguished University Scholar
Jan Potempa, Dental-Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Endowed Faculty
Michael Foster
Michele Foster
Sean Francis
Christian Furman
Eyas Hattab
Elizabeth Jones
Donghan Lee
Gilbert Liu
Joseph Neimat
Dan Popa
Jesse Wright
Patents and Licenses
Amir Amini
Roberto Bolli
Michael Bousamra
Donald Demuth
Neal Dunlap
Ayman El-Baz
Xiao-An Fu
Guruprasad Giridharan
Ronald Gregg
Gerald Hammond
Susan Harkema
Jeffrey Hieb
James Hoying
Kurtis James
Kyung Kang
Henry Kaplan
Steven Koenig
Magdalena Kucia
Chi Li
Frederick Luzzio
Mary Nan Mallory
Nobuyuki Matoba
Curtis McKenna
Shamus McNamara
Robert Mitchell
Michael Nantz
Janina Ratajczak
Mariusz Ratajczak
Haval Shirwan
Michael Sobieski
John Trent
Victor van Berkel
Michael Voor
Kevin Walsh
Stuart Williams II
Shiao Woo
Bo Xu
Esma Yolcu
