2012 NSHE Board of Regents' Awards
Regents' Scholar Award (Undergraduate)
Emily Tamadonfar - Honors, B.S. Biology
Regents' Scholar Award (Graduate)
Nicholas Thaler - Ph.D. Clinical Psychology
Regents' Rising Researcher Award
Sajjad Ahmad, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Regents' Academic Advisor Award - Graduate
Curtis Love, William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration
UNLV Awards
Harry Reid Silver State Research Award
Shawn Gerstenberger, Environmental & Occupational Health
UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Awards
- John Bowers, English
- Alfredo Fern?ndez-Gonz?lez, Architecture
- Cecilia Maldonado-Daniels, Environmental & Public Affairs
Alex G. and Faye Spanos Distinguished Teaching Award
Yi-Tung Chen, Mechanical Engineering
Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award
- Indranee Clarke, Dance
- Steve DeVito, English
- Regina Dickerson, English
James S. McPhee Librarian of the Year
Lateka Grays
Outstanding Thesis Award
Elian Aljadeff-Abergel, Sports Education Leadership-Physical Education, "Effects of Classwide Self-Management Intervention on Second Grade Students' Social Skills in Physical Education." Committee Chair: Shiri Ayvazo
Outstanding Dissertation Award
- Ajay Kalra, Civil & Environmental Engineering, "Association of Hydroclimate Variables in the Colorado River Basin." Committee Chair: Sajjad Ahmad
- Amanda Williams, Geoscience, "Co-development of biological soil crusts, soil geomorphology, and landscape biogeochemistry in the Mojave desert, Nevada, U.S.A. implications for ecological management." Committee Chair: Brenda Buck
Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award
- Bradley Donohue, Psychology
- Bing Zhang, Physics & Astronomy
Barrick Scholar Award
- Bo Bernhard, Hotel Administration
- Ganqing Jiang, Geoscience
Outstanding Department Chair / School Director
Todd Jones, Philosophy
Administrative Faculty Committee Leadership
Shaun Franklin-Sewell
Administrative Faculty Member of the Year Award
Christina Hernandez, Jean Nidetch Women's Center
Academic Advisor Award (Undergraduate)
Vaune Kadlubek, Division of Health Sciences
Academic Advisor Award (Graduate)
Curtis Love, Hotel Administration
Educational Outreach Faculty Excellence Award
Lori Candela, Nursing
Faculty International Development Award
- Tim Bungum, Environmental & Occupational Health
- Janet White, Architecture
CSUN Faculty Awards
- Business: Janet Runge
- Education: William Speer
- Engineering: Mohamed Trabia
- Fine Arts: Cathy Allen
- Health Sciences: Carolyn Yucha
- Hotel Administration: Vincent Eade
- Liberal Arts: Abigail Aguilar
- Sciences: Frank Van Breukelen
- Urban Affairs: Gary Larson
UNLV Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award
Christopher Kearney, Psychology
2012 College and School Awards
Academic Success Center
- Service Award: Sal Mora
- Student-Centered Award: Elizabeth Linkous
- Outstanding Faculty: Todd Jones; Joseph Nika
School of Allied Health Sciences
- Distinguished Scholar Award: Janet Dufek, Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences
- Distinguished Teaching Award: Chad Hensley, Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences
Lee Business School
- Teacher of the Year: Robert Chatfield, Finance
- Researcher of the Year: William Messier, Accounting; Andrew Hardin, Management Information Systems
- Service Provider of the Year: Michael Sullivan, Finance
School of Community Health Sciences
- Excellence in Research: Jay Shen, Health Care Administration and Policy; Sheniz Moonie, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Excellence in Service: Michelle Chino, Environmental and Occupational Health; Chris Cochran, Health Care Administration and Policy
College of Education
- Distinguished Research Award: Hasan Deniz, Teaching & Learning; and Nancy Lough Educational Research, Cognition & Development
- Distinguished Teaching Award: Karen Grove Teaching & Learning
- Distinguished Service Award: Michael Nussbaum, Educational Research, Cognition & Development
- Early Career Award: Peggy Schaefer-Whitby, Educational & Clinical Studies
- Collaborative Group Award: Northern NV Rural Tele-Counseling Program; Larry Ashley, Educational & Clinical Studies
Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
- Distinguished Teacher Award: Lee Misch, Computer Science
- Distinguished Researcher Award: Sajjad Ahmad, Civil & Environmental Engineering
College of Fine Arts
- Charles Vanda Award for Excellence in the Arts: Randall Stout Architecture
- Outstanding Teacher of the Year: Anthony Barone, Music
- Outstanding Part-Time Teacher Award: Kurt Rasmussen, Music
William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration
- Claudine Williams Distinguished Chair Award: Robert Woods
- Sam & Mary Boyd Distinguished Professor for Research: Carola Raab
- Sam & Mary Boyd for Distinguished Service Award: Christian Hardigree
- Ace Denken Distinguished Researcher: Bo Bernhard
College of Liberal Arts
- Donald Schmiedel Lifetime Service Award: Rainier Spencer, Interdisciplinary Programs
- Rita Deanin Abbey Teacher of the Year Award: John Unrue, English
- William Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship: Peter Gray, Anthropology
- William Morris Award for Excellence in Teaching: P. Jane Hafen, English
- College of Liberal Arts' Diversity Award: Margarita Jara, Foreign Languages
School of Nursing
- Excellence in Teaching: Patricia Alpert
- Excellence in Service: Lori Candela
- Excellence in Research: Jessica Doolen
College of Sciences
- Distinguished Service Award: Bryan Spangelo, Chemistry
- Distinguished Researcher Award: Kentaro Nagamine, Physics & Astronomy; Jichun Li, Mathematical Sciences
- Distinguished Teacher Award: Andrew Hanson, Geoscience Kathleen Robins, Chemistry
- Distinguished Classified Staff Award: Gail Michel-Parsons, Physics & Astronomy
University Libraries
- Outstanding Library Faculty Scholarship Award: Paula McMillen, Education Librarian
- Outstanding Library Faculty Service Award: Jeanne Brown
