College of Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Dr. Kamesh Namuduri, Professor

- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

Dr. King Man Siu, Assistant Professor

- Star Reviewer Award, Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Materials Science and Engineering

Dr. Diana Berman, Assistant Professor

- Early Career Development Award, National Science Foundation

College of Health and Public Service

Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology

Dr. Katsura Aoyama, Associate Professor

- Public Service Award, Texas Speech and Hearing Association

Emergency Management and Disaster Science

Dr. Laura Siebeneck, Associate Professor

- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, Federal Emergency Management Agency Higher Education Program

Dr. Gary Webb, Professor

- Dr. B. Wayne Blanchard Award for Academic Excellence in Emergency Management Higher Education, Federal Emergency Management Agency Higher Education Program

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

English

Dr. Angela Calcaterra, Associate Professor

- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Dr. Aja Martinez, Assistant Professor

- Vision Award Inaugural Winner, Coalition for Community Writers, for Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory

Dr. John Peters, Distinguished Research Professor

- 2021 Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies, The Joseph Conrad Society of America

Dr. Priscilla Ybarra, Associate Professor

- 2021-2022 Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

- 2021-2022 Rethink Outside Fellow, Blue Sky Funders Forum

History

Dr. Wesley Phelps, Associate Professor

- 2021 Fellow of the East Texas Historical Association

Dr. Olga Velikanova, Assistant Professor

- 2021 Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation Fellow

Media Arts

Dr. Jacqueline Vickery, Associate Professor

- Honorific Award for the "Community Media Project of North Texas”, National Endowment of the Arts

College of Music

Composition Studies

Dr. Sungji Hong, Lecturer

- First Prize, Kazimierz Serocki 17th International Composers' Competition, Polish Society for Contemporary Music and ISCM Polish Section funded by The Ministry of Culture in Warsaw, Poland

- 2021 Vidimus Stellam Award for solo flute, National Flute Association

Instrumental Studies

Dr. Kimberly Cole Luevano, Professor

- Classical Commissioning Grant, Chamber Music America

- Commissioning Grant with Composer David Biedenbender, Barlow Endowment for Music Composition of Brigham Young University

College of Visual Arts and Design

Design

Dr. Hae Jin Gam, Associate Professor

- Best Paper Winner in Apparel, Textiles, and Merchandising,2021 Annual Conference of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS)

Dr. Douglas May, Assistant Professor

- One Gold Award, Two Silver Awards and Three Honorable Mention Awards in the Protest Poster 2 Competition, Graphis, Inc.

Dr. Stephen Zhang, Assistant Professor

- Best of Show (Kenneth M. Shuck Memorial $3,000 Cash Award) for Hidden at Watercolor USA 2021, Springfield Art Museum

- Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Watercolor Award for Granada,2021 Transparent Watercolor Society of America 45th Annual National Exhibition

- Best of Show for Together at 14th Annual Watermedia Showcase, Artists Network Artists Network and Watercolor Artist

New College

Marketing

Dr. Seth Ketron, Clinical Assistant Professor

- 2021 Outstanding Reviewer of the Year, Journal of Product and Brand Management