CLASS faculty, student and staff awards and recognitions
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department, program, school and center awards
Dr. Francis Receives Honorary Degree from Moscow University
Dr. David Francis, chair of the Department of Psychology and director of TIMES (Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics), received an honorary degree from Moscow University.
Professor Robert Heath Formally Acknowledged As Asset to Public Relations Industry
For 35 years, Robert Heath, University of Houston Professor Emeritus of Communication, has mentored aspiring public relations (PR) practitioners, delivered international addresses on PR and authored numerous articles and books on the topic. His tireless efforts haven’t gone unnoticed by his peers. This year, Heath is being formally acknowledged as an asset to the industry. Read more »
faculty honors and awards, 2007 – 2008
School of Theatre and Dance faculty members win Buffy Award
Karen Stokes, associate professor, received the award for Best choreographer in the Evening-Length Concert category, for her piece, Hometown. Jhon Stronks, adjunct faculty, received honors for Best choreographer in the 15-40 minutes category for Ok, I'm Here...Now What? and Best choreographer in the Under 15 minutes category for A View From the Edge. The 2008 Buffy Awards were presented at the close of the Big Range Dance festival on June 15.
Hoagland received Jackson Poetry Prize
Tony Hoagland has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded to an American Poet who has published at least one book of recognized literary merit but has not yet received major national acclaim.
Professor Schiff in Communication Wins Fulbright Award
Dr. Fred Schiff was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, which is the premier international faculty exchange program, run by the U.S. Department of State. He will be going to northern Brazil for the fall semester on a teaching-research fellowship. Dr. Schiff will be collaborating with Brazilian faculty and graduate students to design and carry out a cross-national study of upper class elites. Upper class elites and media corporations are central to political mobilization and regime legitimacy. The research objective is to study class cultures and taken-for-granted media assumptions in order to understand the effects and limits of what he calls the "ideological management" of society.
Cong wins Fulbright grant to China
Dr. Xiaoping Cong, Associate Professor in the Department of History, has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to China for 2008-9. Prof. Cong will spend the next year in China conducting research for her next book, which will focus on the analysis of legal cases of marriage and how this legal practice helped the construction of a gender ideology in 20th century China. Prof. Cong's first book, Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State (University of British Columbia Press, 2007), recently was awarded the Academic Excellence Award for 2008 by the Chinese Historians in the U.S. organization.
Backus wins 2008 University of Houston Faculty Award
Margot Backus is the winner of the 2008 University of Houston Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research, for her outstanding contributions to undergraduate research on campus. She is currently working in Ireland, having won a 2007-8 Irish American Cultural Institute/National University of Ireland-Galway Visiting Fellowship.
Imberman Receives New Scholars Award
The AEFA Awards Committee has chosen Dr. Scott Imberman to be the recipient of the New Scholars Award for doctoral scholars for 2008. He will present the results of his research at the 2009 AEFA conference.
Brosnan Wins Faculty Award
Dr. Kathleen A. Brosnan received the University of Houston Alumni Association's Outstanding Faculty Award for 2007. The award recognizes a faculty member for bringing credit to the University of Houston through her accomplishes as a scholar. Read more »
student honors and awards
Ari Malka awarded $10k fellowship
Ari Malka was awarded the 2008 Leslie W. Joyce and Paul W. Thayer Graduate Fellowship in I-O Psychology. The $10,000 fellowship is awarded by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology to a student committed to conducting applied research on training and development. Ari, a second year graduate student, works under Christiane Spitzmueller on her project on training and selection at Exxon-Mobil.
dean's list
The Dean's List, a tabulation of the names of all undergraduate honor students, is compiled each semester. To qualify for this recognition in CLASS, students must earn a 3.50 minimum grade point average (the grade of S is not counted) in twelve or more semester hours completed during the semester. At least nine of the twelve semester hours must be letter grades. Students who earn a grade of I (except in a senior honors thesis course), D, F, or U during the semester are excluded from consideration for the Dean's List.
