2024 Salute to Faculty Excellence Award Winners

• UNT Foundation Awards
• Teaching Awards
• Research Awards
• Office of the Provost Awards
• President's Awards
• Service Awards

UNT FOUNDATION AWARDS

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UNT Foundation Eminent Faculty Award

James Meernik

Regents Professor, Political Science

UNT Foundation Faculty Leadership Award

 

Joseph Oppong

Professor, Geography and the Environment
Academic Associate Dean, Toulouse Graduate School

 

UNT Foundation Community Engagement Award

 

Lauren Mathews

Clinical Associate Professor
Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology

 

UNT Foundation Outstanding Lecturer Award

 

Marissa Zorola

Principal Lecturer, Merchandising and Digital Retailing

 

TEACHING AWARDS

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DSI CLEAR Outstanding Canvas Course and Teaching Award

 

 

Kathryne Beebe

History

 

 

Jae Webb

Management

 

DSI CLEAR Outstanding Coursera Course and Teaching Award

 

Dexter Purnell

Marketing

Piper Professor Award Nominee

 

Marjorie Tieslau

Economics

 

President's Council Teaching Award

 

Kathryne Beebe

History

 

 

Frances Perkins

Media Arts

 

J.H. Shelton Excellence in Teaching Award

 

Özlem Altıok

Women's and Gender Studies

RESEARCH AWARDS

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Early Career Award for Research and Creativity

 

Elizabeth Skellam

Chemistry

 

Teacher Scholar Award

 

Haley Zettler

Criminal Justice

 

Creative Impact Award

 

Kimberly Cole Luevano

Instrumental Studies

 

Research Leadership Award

Andrey Voevodin

Materials Science and Engineering

Decker Scholar Award

 

Jyoti Shah

Biological Sciences

Toulouse Scholar Award

Xi Cece Leung

Hospitality and Tourism Management

 

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST AWARDS

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Adjunct Award for Teaching Excellence

 

Jennifer Gray

Communication Studies

Presidential Early Career Professor Award

 

Martinque Jones

Psychology

 

Ulys and Vera Knight Faculty Mentor Award

 

Jannon Fuchs

Biological Sciences

University Distinguished Teaching Professor Award

 

Matthew Heard

English

 

Jeonghyun "Annie" Kim

Information Science

Paul Leenhouts

Early Music

University Distinguished Research Professor Award

David Childs

Instrumental Studies

 

Jincheng Du

Materials Science and Engineering

 

Arkadii Krokhin

Physics

 

Regents Professor Award

 

Jiangping Chen

Information Science

Pudur Jagadeeswaran

Biological Sciences

Panayiotis Kokoras

Composition Studies

 

SERVICE AWARDS

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Citation for Distinguished International Service Award

 

Ricardo González-Carriedo

Teacher Education and Administration

 

President's Council University Service Award

 

William E. Acree

Chemistry

 

Outstanding Library Faculty Award

 

Catherine Sassen

Cataloging and Metadata Services

 

PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS

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UNT Community Award

 

Jaime Baxter-Slye

Biological Sciences

 

Bob Rogers Service and Community Engagement Award

 

Tao Zhang

Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation