{"id":3195,"date":"2011-04-26T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2012-11-08T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:57:10","slug":"faculty-celebrated-with-awards-recognition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/faculty-celebrated-with-awards-recognition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty celebrated with awards, recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faculty known for their commitment to students and the university received awards during a ceremony at the High Country Conference Center on April 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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President’s Award for Faculty and Academic Professionals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\"Joseph
Joseph Collentine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Laurie
K. Laurie Dickson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Blase
Blase Scarnati<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Joseph Collentine<\/strong>, chair of Modern Languages, K. Laurie Dickson<\/strong>, chair of Psychology, and Blase Scarnati<\/strong>, director of the University First Year Seminar Program and associate professor for the School of Music, received the President\u2019s Award for Faculty and Academic Professionals from NAU President John Haeger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The three were singled out to receive the award for their exemplary contributions to the NAU mission in at least three categories: creativity in teaching, creative use of technology, advising, assessment, recruitment\/ retention, collaborative research, diversity and service.<\/p>\n

Haeger and Liz Grobsmith<\/strong>, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, presented more than 70 awards, including faculty promotions, to those who demonstrate excellence in their profession throughout the year.<\/p>\n

Among them were six faculty members who were presented with the Teacher of the Year Award<\/a> from their colleges, and others were recognized for promotion and tenure status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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2011 Distinguished Teaching Fellows<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\"Cynthia
Cynthia Hartzell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Michelle
Michelle Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Sheila
Sheila Nair<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Tom
Tom Paradis<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Cynthia Hartzell<\/strong>, Michelle Miller<\/strong>, Sheila Nair<\/strong> and Tom Paradis<\/strong> also were honored as the 2011 Distinguished Teaching Fellows.<\/p>\n

The three-year appointment recognizes the scholars\u2019 impact on undergraduate learning and provides them the opportunity to develop and teach their “dream course.” They also become board members on the NAU Teaching Academy.<\/p>\n

Hartzell, an associate professor and associate chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, teaches courses in physical chemistry and continues to work on bringing innovations to her courses and labs. She teaches, as she puts it, \u201cto see a light bulb go on.\u201d The grants she has written have provided new lab equipment to support her teaching innovations and mentoring opportunities.<\/p>\n

Miller is a professor of psychology who emphasizes that teaching is about learning and student success. Her leadership in the course redesign efforts<\/a> on campus and within her department has contributed to reducing the failure rate by one-half. In addition, she lives out a teaching philosophy that \u201call students can learn\u201d and that \u201cstudent effort is the basis for successful teaching and learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nair is a professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs whose work in global human rights, global poverty and global politics leads students to say they are \u201cconstantly stimulated to analyze, contextualize and understand complex internal political matters.\u201d This stems from an integration of her own research into the curriculum and her commitment to having students not only to think outside the box, but also to \u201cprobe the construction of the box.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paradis, professor of Geography, Planning and Recreation, keeps students involved in community-based studies to move, as one student writes, \u201cthe abstract to the tangible.\u201d In this spirit, Paradis designs his physical geography lab science course not only to \u201cenhance student understanding of the theoretical aspects\u2026but to teach to enable students to access, interpret, and understand data.\u201d As director of the Office of Academic Assessment, he has been instrumental in helping faculty throughout campus to understand that \u201cteaching, learning, and assessment are interdependent.\u201d<\/p>\n

A complete list of awards and promotions is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Faculty known for their commitment to students and the university received awards during a ceremony at the High Country Conference Center on April 20. President’s Award for Faculty and Academic Professionals Joseph Collentine, chair of Modern Languages, K. Laurie Dickson, chair of Psychology, and Blase Scarnati, director of the University First Year Seminar Program and…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}