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Kudos! To UTSA's brightest and best

(July 26, 2004)--Kudos! acknowledges UTSA faculty, staff and students for all the things they do -- whether it's achieving great things in work, education and community service, receipt of a well-deserved award, publication of a book or article, recognition for respected research findings, or daily dedication and hard work.

E-mail Kudos! items to Leigh Anne Gullett.

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  • Michele Tencza, recent graduate and member of Sigma Tau Delta, Alpha Chi and Honors Alliance, was named the Alpha Chi Benedict Fellow for the 2004-05 year.
  • The UTSA Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team brought home the Rookie of the Year Award at the 2004 SIFE Regional Competition and Career Opportunity Fair. Consuelo M. Ramirez was the team's adviser and was named a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow in recognition of her leadership and support.
  • Tom Cannon, director of the tourism management program and assistant professor of marketing in the College of Business, has been elected the 2004-06 chair of the American Marketing Association Academic Division's Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure Marketing special interest group.
  • Elissa Foster, assistant professor of communication, presented her paper "Looking Backward to Go Forward: Hospice as a Progressive Model of Health Care Delivery" at the Eastern Communication Association Conference in the Top Competitive Paper Panel, Health Communication Interest Group.
  • Jude Valdez, vice president for extended services, was honored with the Special Commendation Award at the annual conference of Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education. Valdez worked closed with Sen. Leticia Van de Putte to craft legislation for the Doctoral Incentive Loan Repayment program.
  • Sombrilla Magazine won the San Antonio Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America's El Bronce Award for Best Magazine.
  • The UTSA Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter was awarded the Excelsior Award (Revere Bowl) for chapters who show significant improvement in chapter operations and the Grand Chapter Scholarship Cup for chapters ranking first in academics among fraternities on campus.
  • Shirley Boteler-Mock, researcher at the Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC), presented her paper, "Running to Freedom: Black Seminoles in Texas and Mexico" based on her book "My Black Seminole Ancestors: Running to Freedom," which was funded by a grant from the San Antonio Area Foundation.
  • Rosalind Horowitz, professor in the College of Education and Human Development, presented a paper, "The Linguistic and Cognitive Role of Joke-telling in the Elementary Classroom" with Neal Norrick, chair of linguistics at Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany. The paper was presented at the Society for Text and Discourse Conference in Madrid, Spain.
  • Linda Chalmers, executive director of the Office of Undergraduate Studies, was elected to the national leadership position of chair of the Advising Administration Commission of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Chalmers will serve in the position until October 2006.
  • Michael T. Frye, a doctoral student in electrical engineering, received the Best Presenter of the Session award and a travel grant of $550 from the 2004 American Control Conference in Boston, Mass. The paper (co-authored with Yuanlin Lu and Chunjiang Qian), "Decentralized Output Feedback Control of Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems Interconnected by Ummeasurable States," was one of only 800 papers accepted from more than 1,700 submitted.
  • In appreciation for and recognition of faculty teaching excellence, the Office of Disability Services honored 24 recipients of the Faculty Excellence Award. A list of the 24 honored faculty members and their respective departments follows:
    Department of Anthropology, Richard E. Adams; Department of Art and Art History, Jennifer H. Davy, Neil Maurer, Roxi Lee McCloskey; Department of Biology, Brenda U. Claiborne; Department of Chemistry, Katherine Vafeades; Department of Criminal Justice, Jeffrey Cancino; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Alyson Ponomarenko; Department of English, Classics and Philosophy, Rebecca Cross; Department of History, David W. Hansen, Gaye Okoh; Department of Information Systems, William A. Conklin, Robert J. Kaufman; Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Alycia D. Maurer; Department of Management, Richard D. Pina; Department of Marketing, Richard L. Utecht; Department of Music, David D. Heuser, Kasandra K. Keeling, Laura L. Kelly, Deborah Schwartz-Kates; Department of Psychology, Ruben O. Rivas; Department of Political Science and Geography, Kathleen J. Hancock; School of Architecture, Mark A. Blizard, John G. Webb.

 

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