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Faculty Recognized for Service to Students, University and Community

April 14, 2009

Cal State Fullerton honored more than one hundred faculty members for outstanding service to students, the university and the community during a special lunch program April 6.

The annual event was sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Faculty evelopment Center.

The honorees for service to students were recognized for activities outside the normal teaching responsibilities, including service to students in mentoring and advising. Recognition for service to the university includes activities for the department, program, school or collegial governance. Service to the external community included activities on a local, state, national and international level.

Recipients by college and department are:

College of the Arts

Service to students:

ART — Cliff G. Cramp, Joseph A. Forkan, Charles E. Grief, Christian Hill, Donald E. Lagerberg, Dana J. Lamb, Brandon E. Strathmann and Lawrence T. Yun

THEATRE AND DANCE — Maria Cominis and Eve Himmelheber

Service to university:

MUSIC — Kenneth J. Walicki

Mihaylo College of Business and Economics

Service to students:

ACCOUNTING — Fatima A. Alali, Gerry H. Grant, Andrew D. Luzi, Mohsen Sharifi, Kimberly A. Tarantino

BUSINESS WRITING — Linda L. Fraser and Teeanna Rizkallah

ECONOMICS — Radha S. Bhattacharya, Victor Brajer and Andrew W. Gill

FINANCE — Michael LaCour-Little, Weili Lu and Xiaoying Xie

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DECISION SCIENCES — Ofir Turel

MANAGEMENT — Harold Fraser, Thomas Johnson, Dmitry Khanin, Kazimierz “Casey” Kleindienst, David Leibsohn and B. Thomas Mayes

MARKETING — Neil A. Granitz and Katrin Harich

Service to the university:

ECONOMICS — David C. Wong

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DECISION SCIENCE — Zvi Drezner, Pawel J. Kalczynski, Bhushan Kapoor and Barry A. Pasternack

Service to the external community:

ACCOUNTING — Vivek Mande and Kathleen Wright

BUSINESS WRITING — Kathy A. Brzovic

ECONOMICS — Mira Farka and Jane V. Hall

MARKETING — Susan Cadwallader and Aubrey LeBard

College of Communications

Service to Students:

HUMAN COMMUNICATION STUDIES — Toni Nielson

Service to the university:

COMMUNICATIONS — Genelle I. Belmas and Andi Stein

RADIO-TV-FILM — Jule Selbo

Service to the community:

COMMUNICATIONS — Beth B. Evans, Thomas N. Clanin and Paul M. Lester

HUMAN COMMUNICATION STUDIES — Nise Frye-Bloomfield and HyeKyeung Seung

RADIO-TV-FILM — Larry W. Ward

College of Education

Service to the university:

EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP — Ronald E. Oliver and Ken Strichter

ELEMENTARY AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION — Teresa J. Crawford, Loretta Donovan, Andrea M. Guillaume, Karen S. Ivers, Kimberly A. Norman, Chris G. Renne and Hallie Yopp Slowik

SECONDARY EDUCATION — Mark Ellis and Kristen L. Shand

SPECIAL EDUCATION — Kristin K. Stang

Service to the external community:

ELEMENTARY AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION — Ruth Yopp-Edwards

SPECIAL EDUCATION — Belinda D. Karge

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Service to the university:

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING — Uksun Kim and Binod Tiwari

COMPUTER SCIENCE — Ning Chen and Song C. “James” Choi

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING — David J. Cheng, Mohinder S. Grewal, Hassan Hamidi-Hashemi and Mostafa Shiva

College of Health and Human Development

Service to students:

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT STUDIES — Janna Kim

HEALTH SCIENCE — Jie W. Weiss

KINESIOLOGY — Kathleen Webster and Lenny D. Wiersma

NURSING — Dana N. Rutledge and Penny C. Weismuller

Service to the university:

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT STUDIES — Katherine Bono and Leslie K. Grier

HUMAN SERVICES — Kristi L. Kanel

Service to the external community:

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT STUDIES — Sharon B. Seidman

HEALTH SCIENCE — Michele Mouttapa

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Service to students:

AMERICAN STUDIES — Erica Ball, Carrie Lane and Pamela L. Steinle

CHICANA AND CHICANO STUDIES — Alexandro Gradilla

ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND LINGUISTICS — Ellen H. Caldwell

HISTORY — Jochen Burgtorf

MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES — Janet L. Eyring

PHILOSOPHY — Jeeloo Liu

POLITICAL SCIENCE — Stephen J. Stambough

PSYCHOLOGY — Kristin Beals, Iris Blandon-Gitlin, Barbara Cherry and William D. Marelich

SOCIOLOGY — Jorge Fontdevila and Eileen Walsh

Service to the university:

ANTHROPOLOGY — Sara Johnson

COMPARATIVE RELIGION — Paul J. Levesque

ENGLISH, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND LINGUISTICS — Sheryl I. Fontaine, Joanne Gass and Stephen Westbrook

GEOGRAPHY — Mark H. Drayse

MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES — Reyes Fidalgo

PHILOSOPHY — Mitchell E. Avila

PSYCHOLOGY — Eriko Miyahara, Douglas J. Navarick and Laura Zettel-Watson

Service to the external community:

MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES — Jinghui “Jack” Liu

PHILOSOPHY — Amy B. Coplan

PSYCHOLOGY — Aaron T. Goetz

College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Service to students:

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE — Amybeth Cohen, David B. Drath and Michael H. Horn

CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY — Christina A. Goode

Service to the university:

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE — Kathryn Dickson

CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY — Richard L. Deming and Katherine Kantardjieff

Service to the external community:

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE — Merri L. Casem