OSU names new Regents Distinguished Teaching Award and Research Award winners

Friday, September 12, 2008

STILLWATER, OK. (Sept. 12, 2008) -- Regents Distinguished Teaching Award winners and Regents Distinguished Research Award winners for 2008 were approved by the Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents at its Sept. 12 meeting.  

President Burns Hargis will formally recognize these outstanding faculty members during Fall Convocation. Recipients will receive a plaque and a permanent salary increase of $1,000, on top of normal merit increases recommended by respective department heads.

For the Regents Distinguished Teaching Award, each college may nominate up to three people. A review and selection committee composed of an undergraduate and a graduate student, two faculty members at large, two department heads and the provost identifies the winners. Each college has one recipient except the College of Arts and Sciences, which has two recipients due to the large number of faculty.

This will be the 18th year in which these awards have been presented. Receiving the 2008 teaching awards will be:

·      W. Steve Damron, animal science professor
·      Glenn O. Brown, biosystems and agricultural engineering professor
·      Hugh S. Manon, English associate professor
·      Jonathan C. Comer, geography professor
·      Carol B. Johnson, accounting associate professor
·      Sue C. Parsons, teaching and curriculum leadership associate professor
·      Jane L. Swinney, design, housing and merchandising assistant professor
·      Anthony W. Confer, Regents Professor and Sitlington Chair, pathobiology
·      Christine D. Clary, pediatrics associate professor, Center for Health Sciences

The Regents Distinguished Research Award recognizes research excellence at Oklahoma State University. Recipients are selected based on the evidence of outstanding and meritorious achievements. These winners demonstrate a distinguished record of past and continuing excellence in research and are clearly recognized nationally and internationally. Receiving the 2008 research award will be:

·     Hailin Zhang, plant and soil sciences professor and Santelmann/Warth Professor
·     Martin J. Wallen, English professor
·     Charles I. Abramson, Regents Professor of psychology
·     Tom J. Brown, marketing professor
·     Kathryn Castle Aichele, teaching and curriculum leadership professor
·     Hongbing Lu, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor
·     Byoungho Jin, design, housing and merchandising professor
·     Michael S. Davis, physiological sciences professor
·     Edward F. Goljan, professor at the Center for Aerospace and Hyperbaric Medicine, Center for Health Sciences