Faculty/Staff Briefs

Faculty and Staff Briefs: March 2017

Published: March 10, 2017 | 10:50 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff Briefs

HONORS & AWARDS Robert Schwartz, Ph.D. (Education), was selected as the recipient of NASPA’s 2017 Robert H. Shaffer Award for Academic Excellence as a Graduate Faculty Member. The award, named for a dean and professor emeritus at Indiana University, recognizes a full-time, tenured faculty member in a graduate preparation program who has inspired and guided […]

Faculty and Staff Briefs: February 2017

Published: February 9, 2017 | 9:26 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff Briefs

HONORS & AWARDS Jeffrey D. James, Ph.D. (Sport Management), has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the Earle F. Zeigler Lecture Award. This distinction is the most prestigious North American Society for Sport Management award and recognizes significant contributions to NASSM and the field of sport management in terms of scholarship, research, leadership and […]

Faculty and Staff Briefs: January 2017

Published: January 13, 2017 | 10:00 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff Briefs

HONORS AND AWARDS Lisa Schelbe, Ph.D. (Social Work), has been selected as a member of the 2017 class of fellows of the Society for Social Work and Research. This distinction recognizes members of the society who have furthered its mission to advance, disseminate and translate research that addresses issues of social work practice and policy […]

Faculty and Staff Briefs: December 2016

Published: December 5, 2016 | 1:21 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff Briefs

HONORS AND AWARDS André Thomas, Ph.D. (Music), will receive the American Choral Directors Association’s 2017 Robert Shaw Choral Award, which is conferred every two years upon a choral leader who has made “unusual contributions to the art of choral music” through teaching, conducting or leadership. Thomas will accept the Shaw Award at the 2017 ACDA national […]

Faculty and Staff Briefs: November 2016

Published: November 8, 2016 | 9:35 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff Briefs

HONORABLE AND NOTABLE Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D. (Medicine) has announced plans to retire in 2017. Brummel-Smith served as a founding chair of the Department of Geriatrics from 2003-2015. Before arriving at FSU, Brummel-Smith served as the medical director to the PACE Elderplace program in Portland, Ore., and as the Bain Chair of the Providence Center on […]

Faculty and Staff Briefs: October 2016

Published: October 10, 2016 | 1:42 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff Briefs

HONORABLE AND NOTABLE Neil Abell, Ph.D., (Social Work) will be honored at the Council on Social Work Education’s 2016 Annual Program Meeting in Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 3-6, 2016. Abell’s article, written along with two FSU doctoral program alumnae, was published in in Volume 51, Issue 2 of the Journal of Social Work Education. The article, […]

Faculty and Staff Briefs: September 2016

Published: September 8, 2016 | 1:45 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff Briefs

Mark Kearley, Ph.D., (Chemistry) has been named the director of the Florida State University Honors program. Kearley looks forward to working with the talented staff to enhance the educational and extracurricular opportunities for the FSU Honors students. “I plan to grow the FSU Honors community by building connections with alumni and engaging faculty to develop […]