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IU to honor outstanding faculty and students during annual Founders Day observance March 5
Feb. 16, 2000
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University will honor its outstanding faculty and students at its annual Founders Day ceremony on March 5. The program will begin at 2 p.m. in Assembly Hall on the Bloomington campus.
Thirteen IU professors and two associate instructors will be recognized for their outstanding teaching, research or service to the university. The award recipients teach on IU's Bloomington, Indianapolis, Northwest, East and South Bend campuses.
Receiving the President's Award will be Valerie N. Chang, associate professor of social work; Pamela R. Jeffries, assistant professor of nursing; Victor E. Malinovsky, clinical associate professor of optometry; and Marilyn S. Watkins, division chair and associate professor of education. Chang and Jeffries are from the Indianapolis campus, Malinovsky teaches at IU Bloomington, and Watkins is at IU East.
The Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award, the oldest of IU's teaching honors, will be presented to Lawrence H. Einhorn, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis. The Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial Award, also for outstanding teaching, will go to Georgia Kay Strange, associate professor of fine arts at IU Bloomington.
The Frederic Bachman Lieber Award was established in 1954 by Katie D. Bachman in honor of her grandson. The Herman Frederic Lieber Award was originally sponsored by the IU Foundation and is now sponsored by Mrs. Herman Lieber of Indianapolis.
Scott Sernau, associate professor of sociology at IU South Bend, will receive the Sylvia E. Bowman Award. Bowman, a respected scholar and author, gave 34 years of service to IU as a professor, academic administrator, and chancellor for regional campus administration. The Bowman Award, established in 1994, honors exemplary faculty members in discipline areas related to American civilization.
Curtis Jay Bonk, associate professor of education at IU Bloomington, will receive the Wilbert Hites Mentoring Award, a new honor this year. The award was established by Ronald A. Hites, Distinguished Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington, in honor of his late father. Hites Award recipients must display outstanding mentoring qualities that provide students or colleagues with the academic support, advice and encouragement needed to establish their own career and educational goals.
The W. George Pinnell Award for Outstanding Service will be given to Edwin H. Greenebaum, professor of law at IU Bloomington, who will retire this year after 33 years at the university; Richard W. Hug, associate professor of public and environmental affairs at IU Northwest; and Gary Wiggins, head of the Chemistry Library and director of the Chemical Information Center at IU Bloomington.
The University Faculty Council established the Pinnell Award in 1988, honoring the memory of the former executive vice president of the university who also served during his career as president of the IU Foundation and dean of IU's Kelley School of Business. Pinnell was known for his stewardship, leadership, initiative, and service to the university, the state and the national government. The award recognizes faculty members or librarians who have shown exceptional breadth of involvement and depth of commitment in service to the university, their profession or the public.
Recipients of the John W. Ryan Award for Distinguished Contributions to International Programs and Studies will be Hugh C. Hendrie, the Albert Eugene Sterne Professor of Psychiatry in the IU School of Medicine, and Howard D. Mehlinger, professor emeritus of education at IU Bloomington.
The Ryan Award was initiated in 1991 and named for the man who was president of IU from 1971 to 1987. Ryan, now president emeritus, was instrumental in fostering IU's commitment to excellence in international education. The award honors faculty members or librarians who have made exceptional contributions to the university's international programs and studies.
Receiving the Lieber Memorial Teaching Associate Awards will be IU Bloomington doctoral students Matthew Kwane Oware in sociology and Kristina K. Horn Sheeler in communication and culture.
Established in 1961, the Lieber Awards have been presented each year to outstanding teachers among the university's graduate students who combine their programs of advanced study with instructional employment in their schools and departments.
Certificates for students who have earned academic honors will be distributed immediately following the March 5 ceremony at a reception in the John Mellencamp Pavilion.
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)