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FACULTY HONORS CONVOCATIONAPRIL 11, 2019

THOMPSON ALUMNI CENTER

2 FACULTY HONORS CONVOCATION 3UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA

PROGRAM

INTRODUCTION Timi Barone, Ph.D. Vice President, UNO Faculty Senate

WELCOME Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D. Chancellor

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SYSTEM AWARD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

University of Nebraska Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award Recognized by Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D. Chancellor

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA AWARDS

Alumni Outstanding Teaching Awards Presented by college deans and Lee Denker, President and CEO, UNO Alumni Association

Distinguished Research or Creative Activity Award Presented by Sara Myers, Ph.D. Assistant Vice Chancellor, Research and Creative Activity

Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award Presented by Deborah Smith-Howell, Ph.D. Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs Dean, Graduate Studies

Outstanding Service Learning Faculty Award Presented by Julie Dierberger, M.A. Director, Service Learning Academy

Excellence in Teaching Award Presented by Hesham Ali, Ph.D. Dean, College of Information Science & Technology

Outstanding Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award Presented by Bret Blackman Associate Vice President, Information Technology Services Chief Information Officer, UNO

Faculty Excellence in Global Engagement Award Presented by Jane Meza, Ph.D. Associate Vice Chancellor, Global Engagement International Programs

Excellence in Community Engagement Award Presented by Deborah Smith-Howell, Ph.D. Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs Dean, Graduate Studies

2018-2019 Named Professorships and Chairs Presented by Candice Batton, Ph.D. Assistant Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs

CLOSING REMARKS Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D. Chancellor

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OUTSTANDING TEACHING AND INSTRUCTIONAL CREATIVITY AWARD

Bill Mahoney, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Informatics in the College of Information Science and Technology. Mahoney is the graduate program chair for the masters in cybersecurity and is also the principal investigator for the Scholarship for Service program – a student aid program for cybersecurity students managed by the National Science Foundation. His research areas include code obfuscation, reverse engineering and anti-reverse engineering techniques, and vulnerability analysis, particularly with respect to critical infrastructure equipment. He regularly teaches in both the cybersecurity and computer science areas and is a reviewer for several Information Warfare publications and conferences.

WILLIAM MAHONEY Interdisciplinary Informatics


COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

ALUMNI OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARDS

ASHLEE DERE Geography/Geology

RAMÓN GUERRAEnglish

LAURA WALLS Foreign Languages and Literature

Associate professor Ramón Guerra's primary teaching and research focus is Latino/Latina Literature within American Literature, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries. As a member of the English and Latino/a and Latin American Studies faculty, Guerra offers undergraduate and graduate courses that examine Latino/a Literature and cultures through fiction, poetry, oral history, memoir, and more. He teaches courses in American Literature that focus on the post-WWII era-present. He has published works on Latinos and the American Dream; Mexican American writer Américo Paredes; and Mexican American Realism Writing.

Laura Walls is an assistant professor who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in composition, bilingualism, sociolinguistics, and heritage language pedagogy. Walls also has taught a study abroad course and developed the Spanish heritage language series at UNO. Her scholarship bridges the fields of sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and heritage language pedagogy. She also is an affiliated faculty member of the Office of Latino/Latina American Studies at UNO.

Assistant professor Ashlee Dere's research focuses on soils within the critical zone. She primarily investigates how variables such as climate and geology control weathering rates and soil formation. She also studies how intensive agricultural land use influences soil and solute geochemistry. Her research includes field sites in the Appalachian Mountains, Wales, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Australia, and Italy. Her studies of land use are centered at UNO’s Glacier Creek Preserve and the Intensively Managed Landscapes Critical Zone Observatory in eastern Iowa. Dere also studies ways to incorporate critical zone science and research into undergraduate and high school classrooms.

JILLIAN POYZER Accounting

SHARI DEVENEY Special Education & Communication Disorders

Jillian Poyzer’s primary teaching focus is taxation, focusing on federal income tax at the individual and business entity level. Her classes are at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced level. Beyond teaching technical knowledge in the classroom, Poyzer also assists and mentors students in professional development to help set them up for success as they transition from student to accounting professional. She created and leads the Accounting Careers Program and is its advisor and is the College of Business Administration’s accounting internship coordinator.

Shari DeVeney’s principal academic focus is speech-language pathology, for which she teaches coursework at the undergraduate and graduate level. DeVeney teaches courses related to speech sound production and disorders; language and reading disorders; fluency disorders; augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems; and, research methods in communication sciences and disorders. Her primary area of research involves early communication skills and related behaviors of infants and toddlers at risk for delay in speech-language acquisition – work that informs her teaching and classroom interactions.

TODD RICHARDSON Goodrich Scholarship Program

Associate professor Todd Richardson teaches in the Goodrich Scholarship Program, which provides full tuition scholarships and a rigorous curriculum to high-achieving Nebraska residents who might not otherwise be able to afford college. Richardson's teaching emphasizes creative citizenship, which attempts to preserve the best elements of our cultural inheritance while encouraging students to create new cultural possibilities. His expertise is in American literature and folklore, and his courses focus on nostalgia, ghost stories and ghostlore, and loneliness in contemporary American culture.

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONCOLLEGE OF EDUCATION

COLLEGE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE


COLLEGE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

UNL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

MATTHEW HALE Interdisciplinary Informatics

CHUNGWOOK SIM Civil Engineering

An assistant professor, Matthew Hale’s research interests include security and software engineering, focusing on building and testing secure web services, mobile applications, wearables, and combatting human-centric social engineering problems. He has won competitive research grants to investigate attack vectors in hybrid mobile applications; to identify and mitigate consumer-wearable security issues in the internet of things, and to conduct cybersecurity STEM outreach events. A current research project, CyberTrust, focuses on exploring the psychology of phishing, identifying behavioral and structural antecedents of trust, and providing targeted personalized training to prevent future victimization.

Chungwook Sim is an assistant professor in the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He directs the Large-Scale Structures Laboratory at the Peter Kiewit Institute on UNO’s campus and has taught reinforced concrete design I and II, foundation engineering, and seismic design at UNO since 2015. Sim’s research focus includes modeling and testing of structural concrete; health monitoring of aging infrastructures; and development of data repositories for multi-hazards. Sim is also the faculty advisor for the American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter at UNO.

COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION, FINE ARTS AND MEDIA

PAIGE TOLLERCommunication

Paige Toller is an associate professor and the assistant director of UNO’s School of Communication. She has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level. Her courses include qualitative methods, health communication, speech communication in business and the professions, and interpersonal communication. Toller’s research interests are bereavement, parental grief, and end-of-life communication. She has published articles in Communication Studies, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journal of Family Communication, Sex Roles, and Southern Communication Journal. She also is on the editorial board for the Journal of Applied Communication Research.

OUTSTANDING GRADUATE MENTOR AWARD

Christine Erlander Beard earned her MM and DMA in flute performance from the University of Texas at Austin, and her BM from Arkansas State University. She joined UNO’s faculty in 2002 and was named UNO’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor in 2011. She has had guest teaching residencies at the Conservatorio Giraldo Giraldi and the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (both in Argentina), the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and the Leuven Academy of Music LUCA (Belgium). She has twice served as Visiting Professor of Flute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is the Regents-Foundation Professor of Flute and International Studies at UNO where she teaches flute, chamber music, and contemporary music literature, and serves as Coordinator of Woodwind Studies, Recitals, and Music Entrepreneurship.

CHRISTINE BEARD Music

Dustin Slivka is the chair of the school of Health & Kinesiology’s graduate program committee and the director of the Exercise Physiology Laboratory. He specializes in exercise physiology and muscle biology where students at all levels work with him to conduct multi-disciplinary research. His research is funded by the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health and focuses on investigating the impacts (both positive and negative) of temperature and altitude on human health and performance.

DUSTIN SLIVKA Health & Kinesiology

DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH OR CREATIVE ACTIVITY AWARD


Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch completed her Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is an assistant professor in Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. She pursues two research lines: service-learning and language learning for Spanish L2 and heritage language learners, and vocabulary learning in interaction. Her research has been published in Foreign Language Annals, Hispania, and The Heritage Language Journal, among others.

CECILIA TOCAIMAZA-HATCH Foreign Languages and Literature

OUTSTANDING SERVICE LEARNING FACULTY AWARD

EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD

Brian Dorn’s work takes a human-centered approach to investigating problems at the nexus of human-computer interaction, computing education, and the learning sciences. His primary research interest focuses on the design and evaluation of educational technologies supporting the teaching and learning of programming, computational thinking, and related content. As the Union Pacific Community Chair of Computer Science Education, he also is actively involved in advocacy and training work to support universal access to computing education in primary and secondary schools both regionally and nationally. At UNO he has taught a wide range of courses from introductory computer programming, to user-experience design, to new graduate coursework for in-service teachers learning to teach computer science. He co-directs the UNO BRIDGE Lab with colleagues in IS&T, and he serves as co-editor of the international journal Computer Science Education.

BRIAN DORN Computer Science

FACULTY EXCELLENCE IN GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT AWARD

Erica Rose is Library Science Faculty and Program Coordinator for UNO’s undergraduate library science program. She has an MLS from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has been teaching library science for over a decade. As a fully online instructor, she is a true believer in the effectiveness and potential for online learning. Before coming to higher education, she spent 20 years working in libraries of all shapes and sizes, and she is proud to call herself a 21st century librarian. Whether serving in the field or in the college classroom, she strives to infuse joy into education and public service.

ERICA ROSE Teacher Education

Phani Tej Adidam is a professor of marketing, and teaches courses related to international business, marketing strategies, sales management, and brand management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also is the director of the Center for International Business Initiatives in the College of Business Administration, and has taught at 12 business schools across the globe as a visiting professor. His primary research is in the area of sales management, competitive intelligence, and branding.

PHANI TEJ ADIDAM Marketing and Entrepreneurship

OUTSTANDING INNOVATION IN TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY AWARD


Chris Allen is a professor of global media communication in the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s School of Communication. He received his Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Missouri, and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Iowa State University. He taught at the University of North Dakota before he began teaching at UNO in 1996. Allen worked as a radio news reporter and news director, and was executive producer of The Omaha News for more than 15 years. He was granted a Fulbright award to teach at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman in 2011. He leads an annual student trip to London to study media outlets and industries there, and has been faculty advisor to the Omani Students in Nebraska student group since 2012.

CHRIS ALLEN Communication

FACULTY EXCELLENCE IN GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT AWARD

EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD

Joseph Allen is an associate professor of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He earned his Ph.D. in organizational science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, his MA in I/O psychology from UNCC, and his BS in psychology from Brigham Young University. His research focuses on the study of workplace meetings, organizational community engagement, and occupational safety and health. He has more than 100 publications in academic outlets, and has given more than 75 invited presentations on his research. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Business and Psychology, among others. He directs the Center for Applied Psychological Services, the Center for Meeting Effectiveness lab, and the Community Engagement Research Center lab that houses the Volunteer Program Assessment at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (VPA-UNO). His research has attracted internal and external grant funding of more than $4 million since 2010.

JOSEPH ALLEN Psychology

These faculty are being honored for their new or renewed appointments to the following professorships/chairs:

College-Specific Professorships

Catherine Co Economics Ward Y. Lindley and George T. Lindley Professorship

Chris Decker Economics John Lucas Diamond Professorship

Sarah Edwards Teacher Education Dr. Hollie Bethel Professor of Education

Susan Eldridge Accounting Union Pacific Professor of Accounting

Matt Germonprez Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis

Mutual of Omaha Distinguished Chair of Information Science and Technology

Carson Holloway Political Science Ralph Wardle Diamond Professorship

Gina Ligon Management Jack and Stephanie Koraleski UNO CBA Professorship in Collaboration Science

Rebecca Pasco Teacher Education Margaret Killian Diamond Professorship

Patrick Rault Mathematics Dr. George Haddix Community Chair in Mathematics

Steven Shultz Finance, Banking and Real Estate

Hollis and Helen Baright Foundation Professor of Real Estate Studies

Roopa Venkatesh Accounting William C. Hockett Diamond Professorship

David Volkman Finance, Banking and Real Estate

Col. Guy M. Cloud, Jr. and Patricia Cloud Professor of Investment Sciences

Debora Wisneski Teacher Education John T. Langan Professor of Early Childhood Education

Campuswide Professorships

Charles Johanningsmeier

English Isaacson Professorship

2018–2019 NEW AND RENEWED PROFESSORSHIPS AND CHAIRS


Phani Tej Adidam Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Executive Management Education Professorship

Laura Alexander Religious Studies Goldstein Family Community Chair in Human Rights

Jack Armitage Accounting Distinguished Alumni Professorship of Accounting

Mahboub Baccouch Mathematics James M. Earl Diamond Professorship

Dhundy Bastola Interdisciplinary Informatics

Charles W. and Margre H. Durham Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Technology

Kent Blansett History Charles W. and Mary C. Martin Professor of Western American History

Tracy Bridgeford English Albert W. and Helen J. Jefferis Chair of English Literature

Campuswide Professorships

Christine Beard Music Regents/Foundation Professorship

William Blizek Philosophy Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professorship

David Carter Counseling Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professorship

Carol Ebdon Public Administration Regents/Foundation Professorship

Jeffrey French Psychology D.B. and Paula Varner Professorship

Bruce Johansen Communication Kayser Chair

Lisa Kelly-Vance Psychology Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professorship

Jeremy Lipschultz Communication Isaacson Professorship

Guoqing Lu Biology Isaacson Professorship

Elliott Ostler Educational Leadership Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professorship

Sajda Qureshi Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis

Frederick W. Kayser Chair

Roni Reiter-Palmon Psychology D.B. and Paula Varner Professorship

Amy Rodie Marketing and Entrepreneurship

James R. Schumacher Chair of Ethics

Yong Shi Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis

Isaacson Professorship

2018–2019 CONTINUING PROFESSORSHIPS AND CHAIRS

College-Specific Professorships

Mark Celinscak History Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Christine Cutucache Biology Haddix Community Chair in Science

Kathleen Danielson Teacher Education Isaacson Professorship

Raj Dasgupta Computer Science Union Pacific Chair of Information Science and Technology

Douglas Derrick Interdisciplinary Informatics


Julie Dierberger Service Learning Academy

Paul Sather Distinguished Director for Service Learning

Brian Dorn Computer Science IS&T Community Chair of STEM

Dale Eesley Marketing and Entrepreneurship

John Morgan Community Chair in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Franchising

Angela Eikenberry Public Administration David Scott Diamond Professorship

Ann Fruhling Interdisciplinary Informatics


Robin Gandhi Interdisciplinary Informatics


Washington Garcia Music Robert M. Spire Chair of Music

Neal Grandgenett Teacher EducationDr. George and Sally Haddix Community Chair in STEM Education

David Helm Arts Edwin Clark Diamond Professorship

Lyn Holley Gerontology Dr. Chuck Powell Professor of Gerontology

Christopher Kelly Gerontology Leo Missinne Professor of Gerontology

Shuanglin Lin EconomicsHarlan and Nancy Noddle Professorship of Business Administration

Pete Madsen Music Marguerite Scribante Professor in Music

William MahoneyInterdisciplinary Informatics

Cheryl Prewett Diamond Professorship

Julie Masters Gerontology Terry Haney Chair of Gerontology

Dora Matache Mathematics Maury and Nancy Lipton Chair of Mathematics

Wai Ning Mei Physics Milo Bail Chair in Physics


Mike Messerole Health and Kinesiology Professor Robert Ackerman Faculty Fellow of Community Engagement

Christopher Moore Physics Dr. George F. Haddix Community Chair in Physical Science

Hugh Reilly Communication Robert T. Reilly Professor of Communication

Jennifer Riley Accounting William C. Hockett Diamond Professorship

Wei Rowe Finance, Banking and Real Estate

Nebraska Bankers Association Professorship

Martina Saltamacchia History Charles W. and Mary C. Martin Professor of History

Lisa Sample Criminology and Criminal Justice

Elizabeth H. Reynolds and Beverly B. Reynolds Professor of Public Affairs and Community Service

Dustin Slivka Health and Kinesiology Dean's Award of Excellence Professorship

Nicholas Stergiou Biomechanics UNO Distinguished Community Research Chair in Biomechanics

William Tapprich Biology Sophie and Feodora Kahn Professorship in Biology

Scott Tarry Aviation Distinguished Professor in Aviation

Mark Wohar Economics College of Business Administration Distinguished Professorship

Peter WolcottInformation Systems and Quantitative Analysis


Jong-Hoon Youn Computer ScienceUnion Pacific Chair of Information Science and Technology

Qiuming Zhu Computer ScienceUnion Pacific Chair of Information Science and Technology

University of Nebraska at Omaha Administration Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., Chancellor B.J. Reed, Ph.D., Senior Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs Dan Shipp, Ed.D., Vice Chancellor, Student Success Doug Ewald, M.A., Vice Chancellor, Business, Finance and Business Development Trev Alberts, Vice Chancellor, Athletic Leadership and Management; Director of Intercollegiate Athletics

The Colleges David Boocker, Ph.D., Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Nancy A. Edick, Ed.D., Dean, College of Education Louis Pol, Ph.D., Dean, College of Business Administration John Bartle, Ph.D., Dean, College of Public Affairs and Community Service Hesham Ali, Ph.D., Dean, College of Information Science & Technology Michael Hilt, Ph.D., Dean, College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media Deborah Smith-Howell, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs; Dean, Graduate Studies David Richards, M.A., M.L.I.S., Dean, Criss Library

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Academic Programs Lance C. Pérez, Ph.D., Dean, College of Engineering

University of Nebraska Board of Regents Timothy Clare, J.D. Robert Schafer, J.D. Howard Hawks, M.B.A. Paul Kenney Jim Pillen, D.V.M. Bob Phares Elizabeth O'Connor, J.D. Barbara Weitz

Student Regents University of Nebraska at Omaha, Renata Valquier Chavez University of Nebraska at Kearney, Logan Krejdl University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Hunter Traynor University of Nebraska Medical Center, Sarah Hotovy

University of Nebraska Administration Hank M. Bounds, Ph.D., President Susan M. Fritz, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Provost Chris Kabourek, M.B.A., Vice President, Business and Finance; CFO James P. Pottorff, Vice President and General Counsel

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