MEDIA CONTACT: Andrew La Plant
561-297-0884, alaplant@fau.edu
BOCA RATON, FL (April 16, 2007) – Florida Atlantic University President Frank T. Brogan and Provost John Pritchett will host the University’s 38th Honors Convocation on Tuesday, April 17 at 5 p.m. at the University Theater, in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, on FAU’s Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road.
The annual ceremony recognizes the University’s most outstanding students and faculty. (A full list of honorees is listed below.) Students to be honored include eight university scholars, representing each of FAU’s colleges; the Phi Kappa Phi scholars; the Stan and Renee Wimberly Scholar; and the Student Academic Athletes of the Year.
A new award will be given at this year’s convocation, the Nancy Blosser Service Award. It is named in honor of Board of Trustee member Nancy Blosser, who has a long record of rendering volunteer service to the University. The Nancy Blosser Service Award will be given to Hank Stern, who was instrumental in helping to launch FAU’s commercial music program.
Faculty honors include the presentation of the FAU National Alumni Association’s Degree of Difference Award, University Researchers of the Year awards, teaching and advising awards, and the Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, which is determined by FAU students. The recipient of this award, Dr. Kathryn Keller of the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, will present the keynote address.
UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS
College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs Deborah Bruce
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Kristina Countryman
Barry Kaye College of Business Deborah Donaldson
College of Education Andrea Schlessel
College of Engineering and Computer Science Jaime Fraser
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College Laura Owens
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing Joshua Phillips
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Natalia Acosta
DISTINGUISHED STUDENT AWARD
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Rhonda Graves
PHI KAPPA PHI SCHOLARS
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Lorraine Fuhrman
STUDENT ACADEMIC ATHLETES OF THE YEAR
Megan Coyne and Ryan Kinsley
THE UNIVERSITY CLUB SCHOLAR
College of Engineering and Computer Science Christopher Vinci
THE STAN AND RENEE WIMBERLY SCHOLAR
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College Eric Seymour
NANCY BLOSSER SERVICE AWARD
Henry Stern
UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS OF THE YEAR AWARDS
Jie Wu
Professor of the Year – Sponsored/Project Oriented, Engineering and Computer Science
Allan Barsky
Professor of the Year – Creative/ Scholarly, Social Work
Yoshimi Shibata
Associate Professor of the Year – Sponsored/Project Oriented, Biomedical Sciences
Mihaela Cardei
Assistant Professor of the Year – Sponsored/Project Oriented, Engineering and Computer Sciences
UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND ADVISING AWARDS 2006-07
Undergraduate Teaching Awards
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Gina Carreno
Barry Kaye College of Business Patrick Bernet
Barry Kaye College of Business Eric Chiang
College of Education Joseph Furner
College of Education Mary Lou Duffy
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing Marguerite Purnell
College of Engineering & Computer Science Khaled Sobhan
College of Engineering & Computer Science Martin Solomon
Undergraduate Advising Awards
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters Prisca Augustyn
College of Education Marsha Lynch
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College Terje Hoim
THE DISTINGUISHED TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing Kathryn Keller
For more information on the Honors Convocation, call 561-297-0884.
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