Faculty Service Awards add up to more than 1,300 years of service
Six faculty members with 40 years of service to UofL were among the 45 people President James Ramsey and Provost Shirley Willihnganz honored at the Faculty Service Awards ceremony May 4, 2015. May 6, 2015The honorees represented a total of more than 1,300 years of service to the university.
The annual Faculty Service Awards honor faculty who have been at UofL 25 or more years, in five-year increments. They receive dinner at the University Club and Ramsey and Willihnganz present each with a certificate. Faculty with 25 years of service get a choice of a captain’s chair or rocker. Those with 30, 35, 40, 45 or more years receive a crystal bowl with the name and years of service engraved on it.
For photos of this year’s ceremony, click here.
This year’s honorees were:
40 Years
College of Arts and Sciences
James T. Grubola, Fine Arts
Yvonne V. Jones, Anthropology
Frank Nuessel, Classical & Modern Languages
School of Dentistry
Mark L. Bernstein, Surgical & Hospital Dentistry
School of Medicine
Jesse H. Wright, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
School of Engineering
Mickey R. Wilhelm, Industrial Engineering
35 Years
College of Arts and Sciences
Wendy E. Pfeffer, Classical & Modern Languages
Charles E. Ziegler, Political Science
School of Medicine
R. Neal Garrison, Physiology & Biophysics and Surgery
Gerald M. Larson, Surgery
Kenneth R. McLeish, Medicine (Nephrology & Hypertension)
30 Years
College of Arts and Sciences
John P. Ferré, Communication
John C. Morrison, Physics & Astronomy
William M. Pierce Jr., Chemistry
Nancy M. Theriot, Women’s & Gender Studies
Bruce M. Tyler, History
Shirley C. Willihnganz, Communication
College of Education and Human Development
Ann M. Swank, Health & Sport Sciences
School of Medicine
Bryan D. Carter, Pediatrics
David A. Casey, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Jon Bernard Klein, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics and Medicine (Nephrology and Hypertension)
Stephen A. McClave, Medicine
Daniel J. O’Brien, Emergency Medicine
William M. Pierce Jr., Pharmacology & Toxicology
Andrew M. Roberts, Physiology & Biophysics
School of Engineering
Ahmed H. Desoky, Computer Engineering & Computer Science
Ibrahim N. Imam, Computer Engineering & Computer Science
25 Years
College of Arts and Sciences
Joy Lynn Hart, Communication
Ewa Kubicka, Mathematics
Grzegorz Kubicki, Mathematics
Thomas Riedel, Mathematics
Wei-Bin Zeng, Mathematics
College of Business
Jian (Jeff) Guan, Computer Information Systems
Mahesh C. Gupta, Management & Entrepreneurship
Jozef M. Zurada, Computer Information Systems
School of Dentistry
Henry Greenwell, Oral Health & Rehabilitation
School of Law
Manning G. Warren, III, Commercial Law
School of Medicine
Rita Colella, Anatomical Sciences & Neurobiology
Susan Galandiuk, Surgery
Veronnie Faye Jones, Pediatrics
James W. Snyder, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Walter L. Sobczyk, Pediatrics
Stephen F. Wheeler, Family & Geriatric Medicine
School of Engineering
Aly A. Farag, Electrical & Computer Engineering
School of Music
Frederick A. Speck, Music Theory & Composition