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Updates, Congratulations and Additional News Posted: March 27, 2008 Posted: November 1, 2007 Congratulations! List of recently tenured on appointment faculty members, effective 09/01/2007 Posted: August 20, 2007 Congratulations! List of recently tenured and/or promoted faculty members, effective 9/1/2007 Posted: April 22, 2007 Posted: November 16, 2006 The Distinguished Teaching Award Committee is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2006/2007 Distinguished Teaching Award. Funded and sponsored by the University of Memphis Alumni Association , this award annually recognizes excellence in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The following UM faculty members have received sufficient nominations from faculty colleagues, alumni, and students to place among the top nominees for the 2006/2007 Distinguished Teaching Award. They also have met the further eligibility requirements to become part of the group of finalists from which the four 2006/2007 Distinguished Teaching Awards recipients will be selected after further evaluation supervised by the Committee. The Award will be presented to the four recipients at the Spring 2007 Faculty Convocation. While only four faculty will receive the award, it is a great honor for the nominees listed below to have reached this stage in the process, and for this achievement they are to be congratulated. Accordingly, we are publishing this list to bring them to your attention, and we trust that you too will want to recognize them. 2006/2007 Distinguished Teaching Award Finalists Lawrence J. Abbott, Accountancy John Amis, Health and Sport Sciences/Management Lawrette B. Axley, Nursing Fernando Burgos, Foreign Languages and Literatures Leigh Anne Duck, English Jack Grubaugh, Biology Sharon Horne, Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research Dennis H. Laumann, History Brad McAdon, English Robert R. Marchini, Physics Monika Nenon, Foreign Languages and Literatures Albert Okunade, Economics Robin Poston, Management Information Systems John T. Ronan, English Posted: October 19, 2006 Congratulations! List of recently tenured and/or promoted faculty members, effective 9/1/2006 Posted: October 13, 2006 Dr. Robert B. Cooter, Professor in the Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership, has been appointed Distinguished Professor in Urban Literacy effective August 21, 2006 for a five year term. Posted: July 31, 2006 Professional Development Assignments for 06-07 (Microsoft Word) Posted: May 26, 2006 Listing of Professor Emeritus for 2006-2007 (Microsoft Word list) Posted: April 12, 2006 Announcing the Award Winners for Faculty Convocation 2006 (more info) Congratulations! Posted: April 11, 2006 (updated June 7, 2006) Retiring Faculty 2006 (Microsoft Word list) Posted: March 27, 2006 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Award 2006 We cannot walk alone. You are cordially invited to attend the thirtieth annual presentation of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Award to Dr. John P. Bakke, Professor Emertius, Department of Communication, University of Memphis April 4, 2006 Posted: November 10, 2005 The Distinguished Teaching Award Committee is pleased to announce that the following UM faculty members have received sufficient nominations from faculty colleagues, alumni, and students to be the top nominees for the 2005/2006 Distinguished Teaching Award. Having met all eligibility requirements, they have become the finalists from whom the four 2005/2006 Distinguished Teaching Awards recipients will be selected following further evaluation supervised by the Committee. The Awards will be presented at the Spring 2006 Faculty Convocation. While only four faculty will receive the award, it is a great honor for the nominees listed below to have reached this stage in the process, and for this achievement they are to be congratulated. Accordingly, we are publishing this list to bring them to your attention, and we trust that you too will want to recognize them. 2005/2006 Final Distinguished Teaching Award Nominees Lawrette Bright Axley, Nursing Posted: November 4, 2005 Jed Jackson, chair of the Art Department, has received a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for 2990-06 fiscal year. The award includes a cash payment of $5,000 and an exhibit at the Tennessee Arts Commission gallery in Nashville next summer. Posted: November 1, 2005 Click to read the names of faculty members who were approved for tenure upon appointment by the Tennessee Board of Regents at the Fall 2005 quarterly meeting. Posted: October 28, 2005 Listing of Professor Emeritus for 2005 Posted: October 12, 2005 Dr. Marj Luttrell is now the Interim Dean of the Loewenberg School of Nursing. Dr. Luttrell has been with the School of Nursing since 1988 and has served as its Associate Dean. She also served as Interim Dean from 1990-1992. Prior to that time, she served as the Associate Dean of Students at Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans. Dr. Luttrell received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986 and an M.S.N. from the University of Texas Galveston Medical Branch in 1977. Posted: September 22, 2005 Dr. Phillip Kolbe, associate professor, in the Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate recently was awarded the Morgan Keegan Professorship. Posted: July 22, 2005 University College Associate Dean David Arant has been selected for next year's Roy H. Park Distinguished Visiting Professorship by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . The professorship is sponsored by the Triad Foundation and allows UNC-Chapel hill to bring in a professor from around the country for one semester. Arant will spend spring semester 2006 teaching graduate classes and doing research in his area of expertise, media ethics. Posted: July 22, 2005 Professor Dixie Crase has been elected the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences President-Elect for 2005-2006. Crase, who has taught Family and Consumer Science at the University of Memphis since 1968, has been a member of AAFCS since the mid-60's. Posted: July 22, 2005 Peggy Quinn, Assistant Professor of Fashion Merchandising, was recently elected Scholarship Direct of the Executive Women International Scholarship Program. The program is directed at high school juniors and those in the Adult Students in Scholastic Transition program. 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