Triumphs and transitions
IUPUI
M. Jay Gladden has been appointed dean of the IU School of Physical Education and Tourism Management, pending approval of IU's trustees. He comes to the post from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he has served as associate dean for the last two years. Gladden succeeds P. Nicholas Kellum who is stepping down as dean of the school, the country's oldest school of physical education, which also has one of the country's newest programs to train professionals in the areas of tourism, conventions and event management.
E. Jane Luzar has been appointed the founding dean of the IUPUI Honors College, subject to approval by the Board of Trustees, beginning July 1. She has been serving the University of Fliorida as associate dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
At the University of Florida, Luzar has responsibility for student services and programs for over 4,000 graduate and undergraduate students in CALS. She also administered the college's distance education program and off-campus academic programs. She administered and regularly taught in the CALS Upper Division Honors Program and participated in development of UF's First Year Florida freshman experience program.
Outstanding faculty and staff were recognized and honored April 17 at the Chancellor's Academic Honors Convocation, a formal, robed ceremony presided over by Chancellor Charles Bantz and Vice Chancellor Uday Sukhatme.
Among the award recipients were: Carol Hostetter, School of Social Work, the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching Full Time; Richard Ward, professor of anthropology, the Alvin S. Bynum Award for Excellence in Academic Mentoring for Faculty; Maureen Kinney, assistant director for undergraduate programs and academic adviser, Kelley School of Business, the Alvin S. Bynum Award for Excellence in Academic Mentoring for Staff; John Nurnberger, Joyce and Iver Small Professor of psychiatry, the Glenn W. Irwin Jr. M.D. Research Scholar; Frederick Bein, professor of geography, the Chancellor's Faculty Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement; Kurt Kroenke, professor of medicine, Obioma Nnaemeka, professor of world languages and cultures, Marianne Wokeck, professor of history, the Chancellor's Professorships.
Also recognized were the Trustees Teaching award recipients: Kelley School of Business -- W. Todd Roberson and Richard Rogers; IU-Purdue Columbus -- Fredricka Joyner and Rodney Neal Lynch; School of Dentistry -- Patricia Capps, Pam Anne Ford, Esperanza Angeles Martinez Mier, Gail Williamson and Jack Windsor; School of Education -- Mary Jo Dare and Elizabeth Wood; School of Engineering and Technology -- Karen Alfrey, Debra Sue Burns, Jan Cowan, Eliza Yingzi Du and Robert Michael Wolter; School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences -- Karyl Rickard; Herron School of Art and Design -- Sherry Stone Clifton and Andrew Todd Winship; School of Informatics -- Felisa Marie Tennant; School of Journalism -- Robert Dittmer; School of Law-Indianapolis -- James Davis Dimitri, James Nehf and Antony Page; School of Liberal Arts -- M. Catherine Beck, Gail Bennett-Edelman, Catherine Dobris, Aye Nu Duerksen, Kathryn Glidden, Johnny Goldfinger, Sharon Henriksen, Susan Hyatt, Erik Lars Lindseth and Jim Edward Powell; School of Library and Information Science -- Jingfeng Xia; School of Medicine -- Margaret Bauer, Andrew Beckman, Derron Bishop, H. Glenn Bohlen; Angela Carbone, Thomas Davis, Joseph DiMicco, Robert Emmons Emerson, Waqas Shafqat Ghumman, Richard Brian Gunderman, Kenneth Gwirtz, Bryan Hainline, Nasser H. Hanna, Ahdy Helmy, David Ingram, John Collins Kincaid, John Michael Kunzer, Diane Lorant, Mary Alice Maluccio, James McAteer, Edward McKee, Rakesh Mehta, Glenn Merkel, Alexander Mih, David E. Miller, Mara Nitu, Jacqueline O'Donnell, Beth Ann Pfau, Marian Pfefferkorn, Timothy Pohlman, Kamnesh Pradhan, Rick Ralston, Peter Roach, Martin Ronan, Michael P. Ryan, Jeanne Schilder, Gattadahalli S. Seetharamaiah, Mark Seifert, Don Jay Selzer, Chandru P. Sundaram, Gabi Waite, James Walker, Lee Garett Wilbur, Deanna Ruth Willis, Stephen Edward Wolverton and Curtis Wright; School of Nursing -- Lesley Milgrom, Mary Elizabeth Riner, Carol Shieh and Deborah Stiffler; School of Physical Education and Tourism Management -- Rafael Enrique Bahamonde and Anthony Kaleth; School of Public And Environmental Affairs -- Sheila Kennedy and Thomas Stucky; School of Science -- John Guare, Yogesh Narayan Joglekar, John McGrew, Evgeny Mukhin, Joan Rainey, Gary Rosenberg and Yuni Xia; School of Social Work -- Carol Hostetter and Sabrina Sullenberger; University College -- Corinne Ulbright; and University Libraries -- Polly Boruff-Jones and Anthony Stamatoplos.
Jeffrey Xavier Watt, associate professor of mathematics and associate chair of the Department of Mathematical Science, was presented with the Distinguished University Teaching of Mathematics Award by the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America during the group's spring meeting in March. As the associate chair of the department, Watt has responsibility for the undergraduate math curriculum with enrollments of 12,900 students each year and oversees the education of the 190 undergraduate math majors in pure, applied, actuarial and math education options.
