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IU TO HONOR OUTSTANDING FACULTY AND STUDENTS
AT FOUNDERS DAY ON MARCH 27
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University will honor outstanding faculty members and students at its annual Founders Day ceremony on March 27. The program will begin at 2 p.m. in Assembly Hall on the Bloomington campus.
Fourteen IU professors and four associate instructors will be recognized for their outstanding teaching, research or service to the university. The award recipients teach on the Bloomington, Columbus, Indianapolis and South Bend campuses.
To be named Distinguished Professor are Milos Novotny and Joan Austin. Novotny is a professor of chemistry on the Bloomington campus and Austin is a professor of nursing at the Indianapolis campus' School of Nursing.
The most prestigious academic appointment IU can offer, Distinguished Professorships are approved by the president and trustees on recommendations of the University Distinguished Ranks Committee. The rank honors outstanding scholarship, artistic or literary distinction, or other achievements that have won significant recognition by the recipient's peers.
Recipients of the 1998 President's Award will be William Itter, professor of fine arts; Eugene Kleinbauer, professor of art history; Claude Cookman, assistant professor of journalism; David Moller, associate professor of sociology; and Dr. Robert Einterz, clinical associate professor of medicine. Itter, Kleinbauer and Cookman are from the Bloomington campus, while Moller and Einterz are from the Indianapolis campus.
The Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award, the oldest of IU's teaching honors, will be presented to Jennifer Li-Chia Liu, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Bloomington. The Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial Award, also for outstanding teaching, will go to Patricia (Dolan) McNeal, director of the Women's Studies Program at the South Bend campus.
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.
Glenn Gass, associate professor of music at Bloomington, 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.
The W. George Pinnell Award for Outstanding Service will be given to Myrtle Scott, professor of education at Bloomington. The University Faculty Council established the Pinnell Award in 1988, honoring the memory of Pinnell, a 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. He 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 Albert Wertheim, professor of English and of comparative literature at Bloomington; and Beverly Flynn, professor of nursing at the School of Nursing in Indianapolis.
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.
The Part-Time Teaching Award will go to Joyce Lucke, professor of anthropology at Columbus.
Recipients of the Lieber Associate Instructor Awards will be John Cadigan, economics; Frank Hodge, business; Bradley Smith, sociology; and Cynthia Brantmeier, Spanish and Portuguese.
Initiated 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 ceremony on March 27 at a reception in the John Mellencamp Pavilion.
(Christopher Turner, 812-855-0850)