LMU faculty and administrators gathered on April 6, 2022, in the Hilton Center for Business for the 2002 Faculty Awards ceremony honoring those professors who have distinguished themselves, and marking service anniversaries and others who are retiring.
The President’s Fritz B. Burns Distinguished Teaching Award, named for a major benefactor to the university, was given to Elizabeth Drummond, associate professor of history.
The 2022 Rains Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Works, named for university benefactor Liliore G. Rains, was presented to Leon Wiebers, professor of theatre arts and dance.
The Rains Service Award, which recognizes a tenured member of the professoriate whose service exemplifies the LMU mission, was presented to Marne Campbell, associate professor and chair of African American Studies.
Kristen Covino, assistant professor of biology, was awarded the LMU Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Term Faculty Distinguished Teaching Awards, developed in 2020-21 by the Committee on Excellence in Teaching in partnership with the Provost’s Office, recognize outstanding teaching within the current term faculty with at least a two-year teaching record. The honors went to Ky Henderson, visiting assistant professor of journalism, and Maseru Suzuki, clinical assistant professor of studio arts.
The 2022 Part-Time Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award was given to Michael Noltemeyer, of the rhetorical arts/core faculty.
The LMU Ascending Scholar Awards awardees were: Mikki Kressbach, School of Film and Television; Christopher Murillo, College of Communication and Fine Arts; Mandy Korpusik, Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering; Vanessa Diaz, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts; and Graham Beattie, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts.
The faculty members recognized for service anniversaries were:
10 Years of Service: Bryant Keith Alexander; Fernando Estrada; Christopher Finlay; Kerstin Fisk; Mitchell Hamilton; Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo; Kevin McDonald; Heather Tarleton; Leon Wiebers.
15 Years of Service: Anthony Bodlovic; Saeri Cho Dobson; Dennis Draper; Adam Fingerhut; Richard Fox; Cecilia González-Andrieu; Nadia Kim; Nora Murphy; Dermot Ryan; Rebecca Sager; Daniel Speak; Sarah Strand; Molly Youngkin.
20 Years of Service: Constance Chen; Philip Chmielewski; Ben Fitzpatrick; Garland Kirkpatrick; Eric Magnuson; Juan Mah y Busch; Blake Mellor; Edward Mosteig; Katherine Noon; Kyra Pearson; Luis Proenca; Gregory Ruzzin; Charles Swanson; Carolyn Viviano.
25 Years of Service: José Badenes; Diane Benedict; Robert Burchfield; Ellen Ensher; Paul Humphreys; Edmundo Edward F. Litton; Barbara Marino.
30 Years of Service: Véronique Flambard-Weisbart; Lawrence Wenner; Anatoly Zhuplev.
35 Years of Service: Michael Foy; Cheryl Grills; Gail Wronsky.
40 Years of Service: John Bulman; Charles Higgins.
45 Years of Service: Rudolf Fleck; Peter Hoffman.
The ceremony also honored the retiring faculty members:Cara Anzilotti; Marta Baltodano; Michael Berg; Antonia Darder; Stephen Duncan; Jennifer Eich; Charles Erven; Rudolf Fleck; Victoria Graf; Michael Horan; Paul Humphreys; James Landry; Debra Linesch; Mark Morelli; Bohdan Oppenheim; John Reilly; Barbara Rico; Chuck Rosenthal; Beth Stoddard; Charles Vance.
