KU Kudos: Faculty and staff achievements, September 2024
LAWRENCE — It's time to celebrate Jayhawk colleagues' achievements: KU News Service staff accepted submissions and combed websites, social media and newsletters for recent external honors and awards for current faculty and staff at the Lawrence, Edwards and Medical Center campuses and affiliates.
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Abiodun Akinwuntan, dean of the School of Health Professions, will serve as treasurer of the Board of Governors for the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. His two-year term will begin at the organization's annual meeting in November in Atlanta.
Matt Beck, associate professor of accounting, received a 2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award for The Accounting Review. The award was presented to recipients in the form of a monetary prize and certificate Aug. 14 at the 2024 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Clint Chadwick, Howard Fitch/Fred Ball Professor in the School of Business, is part of the 2024 winning author team for the Best Convention Paper Award for the Human Resources (HR) Division of the Academy of Management. The paper is titled “It’s Different: Examining the Effect of Firm Employee-oriented HRM on Employee Downsizing Following Mergers & Acquisitions.”
Yvonne Colgrove and Jason Rucker, faculty members in the Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science & Athletic Training, were selected winners of the J. Warren Perry Award from the Journal of Allied Health. Its editorial board voted their article, "Beginning with the End in Mind: A Product Evaluation of Integrated Clinical Education Courses," as the best manuscript to appear in its fall 2023, winter 2023, spring 2024 and summer 2024 issues. They will be honored during the 2024 annual conference of the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions in October.
“Words Is a Powerful Thing,” a book by Brian Daldorph, senior lecturer in English, won the Hefner-Heitz Award for Nonfiction, which will be presented at the Kansas Book Festival on Sept. 27.
Elizabeth Embry, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, was named a Distinguished Research Fellow through the Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden). Embry will receive a €10,000 grant as part of the yearlong fellowship to support her ongoing research on entrepreneurial innovation in the built environment to address climate change. She also presented to the UNU-FLORES in May as part of its Nexus Seminar Series to connect scholars with policymakers.
The 2025 Leadership Lawrence class, part of a program offered through the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, includes Maria Fisher, Dole Institute of Politics; Noel Rasor, KU Public Management Center; and Mahnoor Salmann, Institute of Leadership Studies.
Arpita Ghosh, associate professor of counseling psychology, won the Early Career Professional award from the Society for Vocational Psychology.
Joyce Grayson, director of Rural Health Education & Services, has been named a Kansas 2024 Community Star by the State Office of Rural Health at the Kansas Department of Health. Community Stars are recognized through a national program of the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health.
The Natural Areas Association awarded the 2024 George B. Fell Lifetime Achievement Award to Kelly Kindscher, senior scientist with the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research and professor in the Environmental Studies Program.
The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has appointed Stephanie Kuhlmann, associate professor of pediatrics, and Donna Sweet, professor of internal medicine. As board members, their leadership and contributions will help advance the agency’s mission of public protection.
Linda Luckey, assistant dean in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and Nancy Snow, professor of philosophy, received a grant of $46,040 from the Educating Character Initiative at Wake Forest University for the IRISE Values Adoption Initiative.
Devon Mihesuah, the the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the Hall Center for the Humanities, was invited by Penn State to give a talk on Indigenous gardening traditions and their relevance to food sovereignty and community health today.
Uma Outka, William R. Scott Law Professor, was invited to give a talk as a distinguished visitor at Lewis & Clark Law School for their Distinguished Visitor & Graduate event. Her Sept. 26 presentation was titled “Centering Low-Income Households in Energy Law.”
Janet Pierce, Distinguished Professor in the School of Nursing, is the WiSTEMM Educator Award honoree for Central Exchange’s 11th annual STEMMy Awards. The award recognizes a full-time faculty member in a STEMM field who has been recognized by her institution/community as an excellent educator based on student or faculty assessments and community accolades.
Kim Templeton, professor of orthopedic surgery & sports medicine, has been awarded the Group on Women in Medicine and Science Leadership Award for an established individual from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Alexandra Werbin, residency and fellowship program manager at the School of Medicine-Wichita, was named one of the Young Professionals in Education by the Wichita Business Journal.
The Best of Lawrence awards, produced by the Lawrence Journal-World, recognized numerous individuals, units and places at KU in its 2024 edition.
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A paper by Brad Cokelet, associate professor of philosophy, was included in the esteemed Philosopher’s Annual, which gathers the top 10 articles during the year in the field of philosophy.
The Kansas Board of Regents has named eight Faculty of the Year award recipients for 2024, three of whom are current KU faculty members: Linda D'Silva, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science & Athletic Training; Tera Fazzino, associate professor of psychology and associate director of the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research & Treatment at the KU Life Span Institute; and Catherine Siengsukon, professor and director of research in the Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science & Athletic Training.
Christopher Johnson, professor of music education & music therapy, was named the 19th recipient of the Senior Researcher Award from the National Association for Music Education for his significant, long-term scholarship in music education.
The 2024 Rocket Grants — a partnership between Charlotte Street and the Spencer Museum of Art — have awarded a total of $60,000 for 10 artist projects in the Lawrence and Kansas City area. Recipients include Fally Afani Ruzik, communications manager in the School of Music, and Brian Hawkins, lecturer in visual art.
A new geologic map of Lincoln County published by the Kansas Geological Survey received second place in the “Thematic Map” category at the Esri International User Conference. KGS contributors were John Dunham, Emily Bunse, Kolbe Andrzejewski, Robert Sawin and Anthony Layzell.