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2016 College Awards

The BSOS community congratulates the winners of our 2016 College Awards. Our hard-working faculty and staff exemplify the College's motto to Be the Solution to the world's great challenges!

2016 Dean's Medal

Dr. Wendy Whittemore is the 2016 recipient of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Dean’s Medal—the highest honor bestowed upon a member of the BSOS community. Dean Gregory Ball presented the award to Dr. Whittemore at the BSOS Faculty/Staff Recognition Reception on Tuesday, April 12.

For the past 16 years, Dr. Whittemore has served as the Associate Director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program (ENSP)—a unique interdisciplinary undergraduate major on campus. During the course of her extraordinary 32-year career at the University of Maryland, Dr. Whittemore also served as academic coordinator for the men’s basketball team, Assistant Director in the Division of Letters & Sciences and Associate Director of the College Park Scholars—Environmental Studies Program. Dr. Whittemore plans to retire in the summer of 2016.

“We are so grateful for all that Wendy has done to develop and nurture the Environmental Science and Policy Program,” Dean Ball said. “We are especially thankful for all that she has done to create a truly collaborative and productive environment for students who wish to cross over the traditional academic boundaries in order to 'Be the Solution' to the world’s greatest environmental challenges. I can think of no worthier recipient of the BSOS Dean’s Medal.”

2016 Outstanding Development/Administration Awards
This award recognizes and rewards the important contributions of faculty, professional, undergraduate and graduate student advisors in our College.

Feinian Chen
Sociology (Graduate)

Kathryn Weiland
Government and Politics (Undergraduate)

Robert Koulish
Behavioral and Social Sciences (Undergraduate)

2016 Excellence in Teaching Award
The Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes faculty members who have made distinctive contributions to classroom instruction within the College of Behavioral & Social Sciences. These individuals represent the finest examples of scholar-teachers.

Rashawn Ray
Sociology

Joel Simmons
Government and Politics

Joey Brown
Sociology

Maureen Shader
Hearing & Speech Sciences

2016 Excellence in Mentorship Award
The Excellence in Mentorship Award recognizes faculty members who demonstrated exemplary performance as role models in mentoring students or faculty colleagues. The particular emphasis of this award is mentoring as a component of undergraduate education.

Jessica Goldberg
Economics

2016 Outstanding Staff Award
This award recognizes employees whose efforts have been extraordinary and who provide invaluable daily support of our students, faculty and administrators as they pursue their goals.

Meredith Tabor 
Psychology

Sybil Paige
Anthropology

2016 George M. Phillips Award
The George M. Phillips Award recognizes outstanding contributions made by graduate students to topics of significant community and public concern.

Joseph Braun
Government and Politics

Christopher Jonathan Seitz-Brown
Psychology

Excellence in Research Award
This award recognizes tenure-track and professional-track faculty members who have made significant contributions to the research agenda of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences over the past year. Outstanding publications, originality or pioneering nature of the research, impact of the research, and/or research productivity may all be considered for this award.  There will be two awards to acknowledge the contributions of both tenure-track and professional-track faculty.

Jeff Lucas
Sociology

Matt Hansen
Geographical Sciences

2016 Excellence in Service Award
This award recognizes tenure-track and professional-track faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and its students through their work on committees, task forces, projects, and development of relationships with other units or outside institutions.

Linda Moghadam
Sociology

Mengxue Li
Behavioral and Social Sciences

2016 Excellence in Diversity Award
This award recognizes individuals whose work promotes the diversity mission of our College. Examples might involve innovative efforts to include diversity in a course or curriculum, mentoring of diverse students, efforts that build community among diverse students, faculty, and staff, to name a few possibilities. This award is open to all members of the College community (faculty, graduate students, and staff).

Malaika Serrano
Behavioral and Social Sciences

 

Published on Fri, Apr 15, 2016 - 2:05PM

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