Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Eleven UNCW faculty members were recognized for excellence in teaching, service and scholarship during the fall faculty meeting Sept. 6.

“Since coming to UNCW over a year ago, I have witnessed the excellence of our faculty,” said UNCW Provost Marilyn Sheerer. “In so many different ways, they go far beyond the call of duty in supporting our students and challenging them to expand their horizons. Honoring such faculty with special awards is one small way that we have to praise their work. I am so pleased to be part of the annual recognition ceremony.”

Psychology professor Carrie Clements is the recipient of the Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award, one of the most prestigious recognitions conferred at UNCW. The award underscores the importance of teaching, emphasizing the recipient’s efforts to encourage, recognize and support excellence in teaching across the university. Clements also received the Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award at the fall meeting.

Clements, a faculty member of the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, joined UNCW in 1997 as a visiting assistant professor. She was appointed to a tenure-track position in 1998, and was promoted to professor in 2009. From 2004-14, she was the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence; she was director of the Center for Faculty Leadership from 2010-14. Clements is a past recipient of the Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award, a distinguished Faculty Scholar Award, and the J. Marshall Crews Distinguished Faculty Award from the UNCW Alumni Association.

Psychology professor Carrie Clements, center, with Chancellor Jose V. Sartarelli and Provost Marilyn Sheerer, was recognized with the Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award and the Distinguished Teaching Fellowship Award at the fall faculty meeting Sept. 6.

Management professor Jessica Magnus was also bestowed the Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award for outstanding contributions to the university’s instructional program. Magnus, a faculty member of the Department of Management in the Cameron School of Business, came to UNCW in 2005 and was promoted to professor in 2015. She has previously been recognized with the Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award.

Amy Kirschke, chair and professor in the Department of Art and Art History, is the recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award. Presented by Faculty Senate Chair Stephen Meinhold, the award recognizes excellence in scholarship, research and creativity. Kirschke came to UNCW in 2005 and was promoted to professor in 2010. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the UNCW Global Citizen Award and the prestigious international Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Visiting Fellowship from the Smithsonian’s National Gallery.

Management professor Stephen Harper is the recipient of the J. Marshall Crews Distinguished Faculty Award, presented by the Alumni Association to a faculty member who embodies the qualities of service, leadership and student support personified by Crews. Over his 33-year career at Wilmington College and UNCW, Crews served as a professor of mathematics, registrar, director of admissions and dean of students.

Harper, who joined the UNCW faculty in 1976, is the Duke Energy/Betty Cameron Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Cameron School of Business. He has written several books and received numerous awards for teaching, scholarship and service. Harper also has served as president of four organizations, as a member of the board of directors of numerous corporations and nonprofits and as a visiting professor in Duke University’s Executive MBA program.

Other 2016 award recipients are:

Lecturers of the Year

• Babette Boyd, Department of Sociology and Criminology, College of Arts and Sciences
• Amy Long, Department of Environmental Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
• Patricia White, School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services

Graduate Mentor Award 2016

• Steven Emslie, professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

Excellence in e-Learning Award

• Megan Hodgson Blumenthal, lecturer, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences

UNCW Distinguished Scholarly Engagement and Public Service Award

• Senior Scholar – Janna Robertson, professor of Secondary Education, Watson College of Education
• Junior Scholar – Victor Malo-Juvera, assistant professor of English, College of Arts and Sciences

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Management professor Jessica Magnus, center, received the Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award.

Amy Kirschke, with Faculty Senate Chair Stephen Meinhold, is the recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award.

Management professor Stephen Harper, recipient of the J. Marshall Crews Distinguished Faculty Award, poses with UNCW Alumni Association board member Lolita Bryant '04, '11M.