Monday Memo April 17, 2017

Dean’s Message

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to remind you that our Celebration of Excellence is just over a week away – Tuesday, April 25 at 2 p.m. There will be great company, food, and “adult” beverages. This new and improved event will include displays of our honorees throughout Bigelow Hall. You will be able to view them at your leisure as you catch up with old colleagues and meet new ones. My remarks will be brief; we are not planning a long program.

To add to the fun, we will be drawing for some really great prizes. Everyone who attends will get a drawing ticket, but those who pre-register for the event by Friday, April 21 at 12 noon will get a second ticket and thus double their chances to win (NOTE: you must be in attendance in order to win). I know staff will be particularly excited about the five separate “Staff De-Stress Day” prizes we will be giving away (hint: the prize includes a day off)!

I am very excited to announce this year’s honorees (below). The Celebration of Excellence is our opportunity to recognize the expertise, talent, and commitment of some of our most outstanding people in the College. As is always the case, the field of A&S talent is very deep so the awards selection process can be a difficult one. However, I am pleased with this year's slate of candidates. Thanks to all who took the time to nominate colleagues and who served on the selection committees. Your time and effort make honoring these people possible.

Lastly, I want to take the opportunity to congratulate the twenty-nine A&S faculty whose promotions were recently approved by the University Board of Trustees. Their promotions will take effect July 1, 2017. Just one more reason to celebrate on the 25th!

I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible next Tuesday. Be sure your colleagues know about it and plan to attend, and don’t forget to pre-register in order to double your chances of winning one of sixteen great prizes!

Sincerely,

 Kimberly Leonard

Kimberly Kempf-Leonard

Dean

The UofL Board of Trustees recently approved the promotion of the following 29 A&S faculty. Congratulations to them all!

  • Mary Ashlock (Communication) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • D. Mark Austin (Sociology) – promoted to Professor
  • Pamela Beattie (Comparative Humanities) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Genevieve Carlton (History) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Mary Ann Carothers, MFA (Fine Arts) – promoted to Professor
  • C. Andrew Day (Geography & Geosciences) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Marci DeCaro (Psychological & Brain Sciences) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Jian Du-Caines (Physics & Astronomy) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Danielle Franco (Chemistry) – promoted to Associate Professor (Term)
  • Karen Freberg (Communication) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Lauren Freeman (Philosophy) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Linda Fuselier (Biology) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • John Gibson (Philosophy) – promoted to Professor
  • Ryan Gill (Mathematics) – promoted to Professor
  • Frank Goetzke (Urban & Public Affairs) – promoted to Professor
  • Delin Lai (Fine Arts) – promoted to Professor
  • Jinjun Liu (Chemistry) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Michael Menze (Biology) – awarded tenure as Associate Professor
  • Aleeta Powe (Chemistry) – promoted to Associate Professor (Term)
  • Shira Rabin (Biology) – promoted to Associate Professor (Term)
  • Theresa Rajack-Talley (Pan-African Studies) – promoted to Professor
  • Christine Rich (Chemistry) – promoted to Professor (Term)
  • David Roelfs (Sociology) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Susan Ryan (English) – promoted to Professor
  • Sandra Sephton (Psychological & Brain Sciences) – promoted to Professor
  • Daniel Vivian (History) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Bernadette Walter (Psychological & Brain Sciences) – promotion to Professor (Part-time)
  • Jennifer Westerfeld (History) – promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
  • Ann Elizabeth Willey (English) – promoted to Professor

A&S Distinguished Faculty Awards

Teaching

For Full-Time Teaching
Ying Kit Chan
Fine Arts

For Part-Time Teaching
Sarah Miller
Communication

Outstanding Scholarship, Research & Creative Activity

In the Humanities
Wendy Pfeffer
Classical & Modern Languages  

In the Basic & Applied Sciences
Craig Grapperhaus
Chemistry  

In the Social Sciences
Janet Woodruff-Borden
Psychological & Brain Sciences  

Career Achievement Award
Frank Zamborini
Chemistry

Service

For Service to the Community
Andrew Rabin
English

For Service to the University
Keith Lyle
Psychological & Brain Sciences

Career of Service
Elaine Wise
Comparative Humanities/English                                                            

Additional Faculty Awards 

Faculty Supervisor Award
Deborah Keeling
A&S Dean’s Office & Criminal Justice

Innovative Teaching Award [New]
Raymond J. Chastain
Physics & Astronomy

Outstanding Director of Graduate Studies
Gregory S. Hutcheson
Classical & Modern Languages

Outstanding Graduate Mentor
Stephen P. Yanoviak
Biology

Diversity & Engagement Awards

Community Service Award [NEW]
Peter Morrin
Center for Arts & Culture Partnerships (retired)

Diversity Champion Award 
Khaldoun Almousily
Classical & Modern Languages

Victor A. Olorunsola Endowed Research Award for Young Scholars

Tiffany Calvert
Fine Arts

Andrea Gaughan
Geography & Geosciences

Farshid Ramezanipour
Chemistry

Outstanding Performance Awards for Staff

Winners

D.J. Biddle
Geography & Geosciences

Mona Francis
A&S Dean’s Office  

Jessica Kidd
Political Science      

Melissa Moody
A&S Dean’s Office                  

Taleia Willis
English                                     

Honorable Mention

Theresa Berbet
Fine Arts                            

Daniel Brian
A&S Dean’s Office                

Shari Gater
Comparative Humanities      

Neal Stolowich
Chemistry                          

Additional Staff Awards

Enhanced Efficiencies Award [NEW]
Jessica Kidd
Political Science

Staff Supervisor Award
Mark Rubenstein
A&S Dean’s Office

Kudos

Political Science major Judson Adams earns Truman Scholarship
A&S junior Judson Adams was awarded a 2017 Truman Scholarship. He is one of only 62 students nationwide, and the only student from Kentucky to receive this prestigious award. Adams is a Political Science major with minors in Spanish and Aerospace Studies, and is public affairs officer in UofL’s Air Force ROTC cadet wing. The $30,000 scholarship will help Adams pursue a J.D. degree at Georgetown University, practice law as a Judge’s Advocate General Officer in the Air Force, and eventually use his experience in the military and in prosecution and ethics law to shape policy.

Alumna Kara Stivers earns Mary Churchill Humphrey Scholarship
The 2017-2018 Mary Churchill Humphrey Centenary Memorial Scholarship was awarded to alumna Kara Stivers (‘15 Honors, summa cum laude, Political Science/ History/minor in Russian Studies). This scholarship, funded by a College of Arts and Sciences endowment, will help support Stivers’ graduate study at the University of Oxford, where she has been accepted to pursue an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies. She was nominated for this award by Department of Political Science professors Charles Ziegler, David Buckley, and Kristopher Grady.

Prof. Grapperhaus named Research Exemplar
Prof. Craig Grapperhaus (Chemistry) has been designated a Research Exemplar by The Research Exemplar Project at Washington University School of Medicine. The program defines exemplary researchers as individuals who conduct high-quality, high-impact research and demonstrate professionalism and integrity in their work. The project aims to identify the practices that exemplars use to lead and manage their research labs. Prof. Grapperhaus will be interviewed by the program in May and featured on the P.I. Program website.

Three A&S professors chosen for Academic Leadership Development Institute
The Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) is pleased to announce the first cohort of faculty for the Academic Leadership Development Institute (ALDI). The purpose of ALDI is to create a professional learning community of underrepresented faculty who are interested in future administrative leadership positions. Campus provosts nominated candidates for the yearlong initiative.Members of the first cohort represent 14 colleges and universities around the state. Of the four UofL representatives chosen, three are currently in the College of A&S: Sherri Wallace (Political Science), Baron Kelly (Theatre Arts), and Dewey Clayton (Political Science).The various sessions will be held at different sites around the state.

Announcements

Faculty & Staff: Volunteers needed for College for a Day May 20
On May 20, UofL is partnering with local Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other youth organizations for the sixth annual College for a Day event which introduces middle and high school students to campus life. We need UofL faculty, staff and students to lead sessions on: architecture, citizenship in the nation, electronics, emergency preparedness, engineering, environmental science, first aid, graphic arts, law, medicine, robotics and sustainability. For more information, contact Niki King Jones at 852-2566 or visit the College for a Day website.

Vote for Study Abroad Photo Contest by April 21
Please cast your vote to determine the "A&S Favorite" for the 10th Annual A&S Study Abroad Photo Contest, co-sponsored by Murphy's Camera. A&S students who traveled abroad in 2016 have submitted a fantastic set of photos this year.
View submissions and Vote.

Teaching, Research, Creative Activities & Engagement

Prof. Chan (Fine Arts) presents at FATE conference
Prof. Ying Kit Chan (Fine Arts) presented at the 16th Biennial Foundation In Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Conference hosted by the Kansas City Art Institute. His talk was "Integrating Sustainability into the Art Curriculum." Prof. Chan was the organizer of the first FATE biennial conference hosted by the University of Louisville in 1986.

Prof. Biberman (English) publishes new book
Prof. Matthew Biberman’s (English) book, “Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis,” was recently published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. In it, Prof. Biberman analyzes early adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in order to identify and illustrate how both social mores and basic human psychology have changed in Anglo-American culture.

Resilient Families Project: Sharing the Science of Resilience in Flint, Michigan
Following the Flint, MI water crisis, the Resilient Families Project team (Psychological & Brain Sciences) sought to connect their work in risk, resilience, mindfulness and happiness to the community of Flint. Eleven students from UofL’s Resilient Families Project (RFP) team @Wayside Christian Mission’s Hotel Louisville have been working since last June to collaborate with members of the Flint community to plan and launch a Resilience Summit in Flint, Michigan. This work was supported by a grant awarded to Prof. Lora Haynes by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) (an international organization for professionals in psychology) to engage in the teaching and application of the science of psychology. To learn more, visit Resilient Families Project (Flint).

In the News

Franklin County population growth rate exceeds state average (The Frankfort State Journal, 4/5/17) – On the Kentucky State Data Center (Urban & Public Affairs) population census.

‘Game of Thrones’ language inventor to speak at UofL (Insider Louisville, 4/10/17) – On a talk by Linguist David Peterson sponsored by the Department of Comparative Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences.

UofL Theatre Arts closes 2016-17 season with adaptation of classic Greek tragedy Antigone (KyForward, 4/11/17) – On the last play of the Department of Theatre Arts’ 2016-2017 season.

Newspaper Chooses To Focus On "Troubled Past" Of The Passenger Who Was Violently Dragged Off A United Flight (Media Matters, 4/11/17) – Prof. John Ferré (Communication) on the ethics of publishing information about passenger’s history unrelated to the incident.

Make America think again (The Courier-Journal, 4/11/17) – Prof. Ricky Jones (Pan-African Studies) on the nature of work and technology today.

The Reason Why Couples Use Child-Like Nicknames In Relationships Makes Perfect Sense (Elle UK, 4/12/17) – Prof. Frank Nuessel (Classical & Modern Languages) on the meaning behind nicknames.

Nobel-winning scientist Peter Agre to lecture on diplomacy at free public talk at UofL (KyForward, 4/13/17) – On Nobel Prize winner Peter Agre’s May lecture at UofL, sponsored by the Chemistry Graduate Student Association in the College of Arts and Sciences.