2020€¦ · Excellence in English Language Institute Instruction Excellence in Instructional Design Excellence in Professional Service Recognition of Service to the University Emeritus

2020

U N I V E R S I T Y O F C E N T R A L F L O R I D A

The Founders’ Day Honors Convocation celebrates outstanding academic achievements of our faculty members and students. As we recognize these achievements, we remember the efforts of those women and men who made this university a reality, and we prepare for the accomplishments of the future.

Thank you for helping us honor the outstanding work being highlighted.

FOUNDERS’ DAY HONORS CONVOCATION

2020

WELCOME

Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Excellence in Graduate Teaching

Excellence in Research

Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students

Excellence in Faculty Academic Advising

Excellence in Librarianship

Excellence in English Language Institute Instruction

Excellence in Instructional Design

Excellence in Professional Service

Recognition of Service to the University

Emeritus and Emerita

Emeritus and Emerita Members of the Faculty and Administration

Reach for the Stars

Pegasus Professor

Past Recipients of the Pegasus Professor Award

Retired and Retiring Faculty

Student Awards

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Table of Contents

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College of Arts and Humanities

Matthew Bryan

Nick Shrubsole

Sandra Sousa

Laurie Uttich

College of Business Administration

Christopher Leo

College of Community Innovation and Education

Gregg Buckingham

Abby Milon

Amanda Walden

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Issa Batarseh

Sudeshna Pal

College of Health Professions and Sciences

Suha Saleh

Adam Wells

E X C E L L E N C E I N U N D E R G R A D U A T E T E A C H I N G

C O L L E G E A W A R D S

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Karin Chumbimuni Torres

College of Sciences

U N I V E R S I T Y A W A R D

College of Medicine

Dorilyn Hitchcock

College of Nursing

Laura Gonzalez

College of Optics and Photonics

Christopher Kyle Renshaw

College of Sciences

Karin Chumbimuni Torres

Lori Dunlop-Pyle

Brittany Durrani

Matthew Rex

Sandra Wheeler

Rosen College of Hospitality Management

Wei Wei

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Elizabeth Horn


Dana Joseph


Stacy Van Horn


YeonWoong Jung


Carey Rothschild

College of Medicine

Claudia Andl

College of Nursing

Ladda Thiamwong

E X C E L L E N C E I N G R A D U A T E T E A C H I N G


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Carey Rothschild

College of Health Professions and Science



Pieter Kik

College of Sciences

Michael Mousseau


Jeeyeon Hahm

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Vladimir Solonari


Lisa Baudot


William Russell


Kareem Ahmed


Michael Rovito

College of Medicine

Dinender Singla

College of Nursing

Mindi Anderson

E X C E L L E N C E I N R E S E A R C H


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Demetrios Christodoulides




Demetrios Christodoulides

College of Sciences

Zenghu Chang


Edwin Torres Areizaga

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E X C E L L E N C E I N M E N T O R I N G D O C T O R A L S T U D E N T S


Ronald DeMara


Engineering, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences

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E X C E L L E N C E I N M E N T O R I N G D O C T O R A L S T U D E N T S


Stephanie Vie


Social Science, Humanities, Education, Business, Art and Health

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E X C E L L E N C E I N F A C U LT Y A C A D E M I C A D V I S I N G

Patricia Farless



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E X C E L L E N C E I N L I B R A R I A N S H I P

Tina Buck

UCF Libraries


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E X C E L L E N C E I N E N G L I S H L A N G U A G E I N S T I T U T E I N S T R U C T I O N


Mark Kerlin

UCF Global

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E X C E L L E N C E I N I N S T R U C T I O N A L D E S I G N


Baiyun Chen

Division of Digital Learning

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E X C E L L E N C E I N P R O F E S S I O N A L S E R V I C E


Beatriz Reyes-Foster

College of Sciences

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Burnett Honors College

Ronnie Korosec


James Brown

Stephen Ethridge

Marcella Farina

Patricia Farless

Mark Gerstein

Scott Hall

Lori Ingle

Carla Poindexter

Terry Thaxton

Kristina Tollefson


Joseph Milon

David Scrogin


David Boote

R E C O G N I T I O N O F S E R V I C E T O T H E U N I V E R S I T Y

2 0 Y E A R S

Juli Dixon

Suzanne Martin

Abby Milon

Stephen Sivo

Lynn Unruh

Mark Winton


Linan An

Suryanarayana Challapalli

Quanfang Chen

Luis Rabelo

Kirk Scammon

Yongho Sohn

Rajan Vaidyanathan

College of Graduate Studies

Shawn Burke

Rae Hanson

Dean Reed

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Robin Kohn

College of Sciences

Aniket Bhattacharya

Costas Efthimiou

Deguang Han

Peter Hancock

Christine Hanlon

Patrick Higgins

Mark Rapport

Kimberly Renk

Pamela Thomas


2 0 Y E A R S


Sue Bauer

Nancy Swenson

Office of Research

Jaydeep Mukherjee


Deborah Breiter Terry

UCF Libraries

Richard Harrison

Terrie Sypolt


Lyman Brodie

Madelyn Flammia

Keith Koons

Shelley Park

3 0 Y E A R S


Robert Everett

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Kien Hua

Kuo-Chi Lin

Zhihua Qu


James Ross

3 0 Y E A R S

College of Sciences

Clint Bowers

Sudipto Choudhury

Michael Johnson

David Nickerson

Alfons Schulte

Janan Smither

Office of Research

Jeffrey Sonne

4 0 Y E A R S


Charles Hughes

5 0 Y E A R S


Walter Gaudnek


Charles Dziuban

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EMERITUS AND EMERITA

Diane Andrews

Associate Professor Emerita, Nursing Systems

Deborah Breiter Terry

Professor Emerita, Tourism, Events and Attractions

Paul Desmarais

Associate Lecturer Emeritus, Nursing Practice

Mary Ann Feldheim

Associate Professor Emerita, Public Administration

Daniel Holsenbeck

Senior Vice President Emeritus

Mujtaba Husain

Professor Emeritus, Clinical Sciences

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Kuo-Chi Lin

Associate Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Ali Orooji

Associate Professor Emeritus, Computer Science

Haripada Saha

Professor Emeritus, Physics

Rosemarye Taylor

Professor Emerita, Educational Leadership and Higher Education

Thomas Wan

Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Informatics

Denise Young

Associate Vice President Emerita

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Louis J. AciernoRichard AdicksBetty Anderson

Henry R. AndersonLarry C. Andrews

Robert L. ArmacostLee H. Armstrong

Vicky ArnoldKaren Aroian

Graeme L. BakerDale BandyBeth Barnes

Virginia Barr-HendersonKarl-Heinrich Barsch

Donna BaumbachJohn F. Bergner, Jr.

John E. BiegelPatricia J. Bishop

Timothy BlairRobert BledsoeDavid L. BlockRobert BohmJohn R. Bolte

Glenn D. BoremanSubir K. Bose

William BozemanJack Brennan

Thomas BrewerRobert C. BrighamWilliam R. BrownRonald A. BrowneDoug Brumbaugh

Wayne A. BurroughsWilliam G. Callarman

Penelope CananJohn Cannon

William F. CarrollChristian ClausenTrevor Colbourn

Newel W. ComishKristin G. Congdon

Ida CookDavid Cooper

Richard A. CornellElaine B. Cox

Albert T. CraigRichard Crepeau

Glenn N. CunninghamDuane L. DavisMarcela Del Rio

Richard G. DenningNarsingh Deo

Robert DipboyePaul DombrowskiHelen Donegan

Ronald D. DuttonArthur M. Dutton

Charles D. DziubanLlewellyn M. Ehrhart

Leslie L. EllisBurton E. Eno

Ernest E. EricksonWilliam K. Esler

Thomas G. EvansFred Fedler

Lloyd W. Fernand, Jr.José FernándezRobert G. FlickRobert C. FordMyron FottlerEarl C. Fowler

Ke FrancisTerry J. Frederick

Robert Nash GennaroRichard D. Gilson

Paul GiordanoAvelino Gonzalez

Stephen Goodman

Harold E. GreenHarold L. Griffith

Ratan Kumar GuhaHarry O. Hall

Richard C. HardenJ. Paul Hartman

Dona Lea HedrickDavid E. Hernandez

Terry L. HickeyCharles (Ross) Hinkle

Djehane HosniYasser Ali HosniSusan HubbardJohn W. Hubler

Thomas Huddleston, Jr.Phyllis J. Hudson

Cynthia HutchinsonMichael C. HynesDavid B. Ingram

Mourad E. H. IsmailDiane M. JacobsDavid R. Jenkins

Rosie Webb JoelsMark Johnson

William H. JohnsonDaniel Jones

Halsey R. JonesFrank E. Juge, Jr.

Jeffery KaplanHusain Kassim

James KattRobert D. Kersten

Jean KijekJames L. Koevenig

David T. KuhnShiou-San Kuo

Marcella L. KysilkaWendell LawtherShirley A. Leckie

E M E R I T U S A N D E M E R I T A M E M B E R S O F T H E F A C U LT Y A N D A D M I N I S T R A T I O N

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Aaron LibermanLeslie Sue Lieberman

Jane LiebermanRalph A. Llewellyn

Steve LotzErnest J. Lytle

Brooks C. MadsenDonald Malocha

Linda MalonePatricia Cripe Manning

Bruce E. MathewsGuy Mattson

James D. McBrayerWilliam McGee

Nancy R. McGeeJack McGuire

Waldron M. McLellonMilan D. Meeske

Charles N. MicarelliD. Howard MilesCalvin C. MillerErnest E. Miller

Charles N. MillicanWaltraud Q. Morales

Ben B. MorganLucy Crymble Morse

Michael MoshellFaissal MoslehyAmar MukherjeeThomas A. MullinPatrick Murphy

David W. NicholsonChad Nye

M. Timothy O’KeefeStuart E. OmansJohn A. Osborne

Bernard OstleMary Palmer

Peter T. PanousisSampath Parthasarathy

Gordon W. PaulBruce Pauley

George E. PawlasAndrew Payer

Robert Leroy PenningtonJulia Pet-ArmacostJohnny L. PherigoRonald L. Phillips

Roy PickeringJennifer C. Platt

Robert D. PritchardBurt Pryor

Ransford C. PyleA. Essam Radwan

Richard C. ReidenbachWallace W. ReiffSamuel Richie

Frank D. RohtlerJack B. Rollins

Ronald S. RubinJohn H. Salter

Carol SaundersGerald J. Schiffhorst

James SchottGeorge F. Schraeder

Jamie SchwartzDavid F. Scott, Jr.

Donald SeayKathryn Seidel

Howard SherwoodJerrell H. ShofnerWilliam T. Silfvast

Frances Blackwell SmithStanley Smith

Harry W. SmithFranklin F. SnelsonPaul N. Somerville

Steven E. SorgDonald Stap

Allyn Mac Lean StearmanConsuelo E. StebbinsGeorge I. Stegeman

June S. StillmanValerie Storey

I. Jack StoutSteven Sutton

Michael J. SweenyHaven C. SweetMichael Taylor

Walter K. TaylorPhillip K. TaylorJames S. Taylor

Anthony P. TesoriMargaret ThomasWilliam ThompsonHerbert C. TowleLeVester Tubbs

Richard D. TuckerNicolaos S. TzannesCharles M. UnkovicMary P. Van HookEric Van StrylandLynn W. Walker

Ron WallaceMarty Wanielista

Bruce WhislerRoseann S. White

Gary E. WhitehouseWilfred Wienke

Diane WinkRudy J. Wodzinksi

J. Gary WolfJames WrightBurton Wright

Edgar B. WycoffMarvin M. Yarosh

Gour-Tsyh (George) YehMark Young

Yousef A. YousefBoris Zeldovich

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REACH FOR THE STARS

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Kareem Ahmed


Luca Argenti

College of Sciences & College of Optics and Photonics

Jacquelyn Chini

College of Sciences

Kelly Kibler


REACH FOR THE STARS

PEGASUS PROFESSOR

DR. RONALD DEMARA joined UCF in 1992, fresh from his doctoral program after previously working at IBM as an electrical engineer. At the time, UCF was one of the smaller universities in the United States with a graduate degree program in his field of microprocessor hardware design. His research since then has centered on making computer chips more compact, reliable and greener. Microprocessors are ubiquitous today, fulfilling vital roles ranging from thermostats to robotic vacuums.

While DeMara has had international success with his research, he is innovating ways to help students learn.

“I created an infrastructure called the Evaluation Proficiency Center so students can take their exams online, giving graduate teaching assistants and faculty more time to help tutor,” DeMara says.

PEGASUS PROFESSOR ‘20

“Knowledge provides the opportunity to contribute.”

WATCH VIDEO

http://youtu.be/oCzurqQqnho

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DR. JOSEPH HARRINGTON is an internationally renowned planetary scientist and a key member of UCF’s Planetary Science group. His research centers on exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars other than the sun. He also has an asteroid named after him: Joeharrington.

“Once I got here, the research group I founded made the first separate detection of day and night on an exoplanet and the first detection of disequilibrium chemistry on an exoplanet, which is a potential sign of life,” Harrington says. “We developed the methods we will use to detect life, once we have telescopes powerful enough to make the right measurements of planets that are hospitable to life.”

His work has been featured on the cover of the journal Science and has had several publications in Nature, bringing worldwide publicity for UCF.


“Reach for the planets.”

WATCH VIDEO

http://youtu.be/njkRZWScnxM

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DR. JULIA LISTENGARTEN is a theatre professor in a league of her own. Not only does she create and direct theater performances, she also writes about contemporary playwriting and theatre making – she’s published four books and over 20 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals.

Dean Jeffrey Moore describes her as dynamic.

“Julia is very diverse in her commitments. She has published with major journals but still has time to ‘run things’ at Theatre UCF,” he says. “She’s never satisfied with the status quo and cares deeply about the program and our students. She always goes the extra mile.”

While Listengarten says seeing her students up on stage is her biggest joy as a professor, she’s also been involved in two large, collaborative projects.


“The arts foster creativity and inspire change.”

WATCH VIDEO

http://youtu.be/PA_nCf-TrQ0

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“Virtual reality has long been a dream. Finally, it is a reality.”

DR. GREGORY WELCH

is not a nurse, he is a computer scientist and engineer. So why is he in the College of Nursing? Dean Mary Lou Sole has called his appointment an “experiment.”

“He was our first faculty to be a non-nurse,” Sole says. “What would a computer scientist bring to us? He brought us his computer science knowledge to help us address clinical questions related to healthcare.”

One of those needs was how students practice on patients. It’s important for students, whether they are studying to become nurses or physicians, to learn how to interact with patients, and to diagnose things such as a stroke. Welch and his team developed the very first physical-virtual patient.

“It looks a little bit like a department-store mannequin.”

WATCH VIDEO

http://youtu.be/DdliLXzVdqg

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Mohamed Abdel-AtyMaureen Ambrose

Deborah BeidelKevin BelfieldClint BowersDaniel Britt

Humberto CampinsZenghu ChangArlen F. ChaseDiane Z. Chase

Demetrios ChristodoulidesJoshua ColwellHumberto CruzHenry Daniell

Peter J. Delfyett, Jr.Lisa Dieker

Aristide DogariuKaren Dow

Charles D. DziubanLlewellyn M. EhrhartJose B. Fernandez

Robert FolgerMichael Georgiopoulos

Avelino GonzalezDavid Hagan

Kerstin HamannPeter Hancock

Kien A. HuaCharles E. Hughes Michael C. Hynes

Jana JasinskiJayanta Kapat

Naim KapucuWaldemar Karwowski

Alain KassabRanganathan Kumar

Donald MalochaReed Noss

Jennifer PlattTison PughZhihua Qu

Talat RahmanDebra R. Reinhart

Kathleen RichardsonMartin Richardson

Robin RobertsJeff Rupert

Eduardo SalasSudipta Seal

Mubarak ShahYongho SohnMary Lou Sole

Eric Van StrylandStella Sung

Martine VanryckeghemLinda Walters

Marty WanielistaGraham WorthyJames WrightShin-Tson Wu

Cherie YestrebskyCynthia Young

Jiann-Shiun Yuan

P A S T R E C I P I E N T S O F T H E P E G A S U S P R O F E S S O R A W A R D

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Patrick Rushin


Bradley Braun


Walter Doherty

Dave Edyburn

Michael Flint

Donna Frazee

Michael Hynes

Bobby Jeanpierre

Kathleen King

Rosemarye Taylor

Thomas Wan


Mostafa Bassiouni

Kuo-Chi Lin

Fidelia Nnadi

Ali Orooji


Cecyle Carson

Mary Dillon

Tom Ehren

Michael Frumkin

Kenyatta Rivers

John Ryalls

Gerald Smith

Bonnie Yegidis

College of Nursing

Patricia Lafferty

Susan Ricci

College of Sciences

David Kaup

John Malala

Philip Pollock

David Rollins

Haripada Saha

Office of Research

Daniel Hull

UCF Libraries

Margaret Scharf

R E T I R E D A N D R E T I R I N G F A C U LT Y

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Taylor Pryor


Marisa McCarty


Kyler Gray


Irene Tanner


Danielle Scognamiglio

College of Medicine

Cody Autrey

S T U D E N T A W A R D S

F O U N D E R S ’ A W A R D S

College of Nursing

David Frederick


Hannah West

College of Sciences

Jenna Dovydaitis

College of Undergraduate Studies

Jady Chen


Sean McGrinty

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H O N O R S I N T H E M A J O R


Anna Kester

O U T S T A N D I N G M A S T E R ’ S T H E S I S

College of Sciences

Lea Harvey

O U T S T A N D I N G D O C T O R A L D I S S E R T A T I O N


Saundra Tabet

College of Sciences

Alireza Safaei

S T U D E N T A W A R D S


Daniel Rosato

College of Sciences

Julia Carlin

College of Sciences

Alyson Johnson

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Our sincere appreciation to the following university groups and department personnel for their assistance:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Commencements, Convocations, and Recognitions Committee

Faculty Excellence

Faculty Excellence Awards Committees

Founders’ Day Committee

Office of Instructional Resources

Office of Presidential Events

The University of Central Florida adopted the Pegasus as the university’s official symbol to reflect the institution’s purpose. The Pegasus represents the harmony between the humanities and the sciences and also the efforts of UCF, its students, staff, faculty, and alumni to Reach for the Stars.

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2020€¦ · Excellence in English Language Institute Instruction Excellence in Instructional Design Excellence in Professional Service Recognition of Service to the University Emeritus