Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards for 2009-2010 Academic Year
Faculty
J. GORDON ARBUCKLE, Assistant Professor
• 2010 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Early Achievement in Extension Award
• 2010 ISU Early Achievement in Extension Award
• Team Achievement Award for his work with Bioeconomy Conversations II: Food, Feed, and Fuel
CARMEN BAIN, Assistant Professor
• Awarded an Early Career Award from the RSS Endowment Committee
TERRY BESSER, Professor
• 2009 Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award
SHARON BIRD, Associate Professor
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of Contemporary Sociology
• Appointed to The Ohio State University ADVANCE Program’s External Advisory Board
• Selected by the International Gender, Work and Organization planning committee to organize 19 paper sessions on “Organizations, Organizing and Gender Inequality” for the 6th bi-annual International Gender, Work and Organization conference
MATT DELISI, Associate Professor
• Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Criminal Justice
BETTY DOBRATZ, Professor
• Steering Committee, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 2009-2010
MARY EMERY, Adjunct Professor
• 2010 Welcome Wagon Award, Great Plains IDEA Meeting
JAN FLORA, Professor
• 2010 Faculty Award for Diversity Enhancement, ISU CALS
• Honored for 15 years of service to ISU Extension
CORNELIA FLORA, Distinguished Professor
• 2010 Faculty Award for Diversity Enhancement, ISU CALS
• Honored for 15 years of service to ISU Extension
• University Extension Award for "Achievement by an Educational Team" for team participation in the Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative. 2009
CORNELIA FLORA & CORRY BREGENDAHL
• Honored for their part in the Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative
ANDREW HOCHSTETLER, Associate Professor
• 2009 James L. Maddex, Jr. Paper of the Year Award
GLORIA JONES JOHNSON, Professor
• 2010 LAS Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
• Appointed to a three-year term on the Editorial Board of the American Sociological Review
• Appointed to serve on the Provost task force to examine Women’s Role in Administrative Positions
• Appointed to a three year term to serve on the Committee on Disability
• Appointed to serve on the Faculty Council of Minority Graduate Funding Opportunities
• Selected to serve on the University Committee on Women
• Elected to the Graduate Council
DANIEL KRIER, Associate Professor
• Honored at the LAS Convocation for his promotion to Associate Professor
ABDI KUSOW, Associate Professor
• 2009 "Who's Who in America"
PAUL LASLEY, Professor and Chair
• Recognized as an "Iowan of Influence" in "Iowa Farmer Today" magazine for his many years of service with the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll
ROBERT MAZUR, Professor
• Promoted to Professor of Sociology
• 2010 Regents Faculty Excellence Award
LOIS WRIGHT MORTON, Professor
• Honored for her 10 Years of Service from Iowa State University Extension.
• Named Interim Director of Leopold Center
• Promoted to Professor of Sociology
LOIS WRIGHT MORTON, JAMIE BENNING & JACKIE COMITO
• 2010 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Team Award.
LOIS WRIGHT MORTON & ELISE REGEN
• "Best Poster" for their presentation at the annual RSS Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin. Their poster was titled, "Humans as a Key Variable in Managing for Grassland Resilience."
DAVID PETERS, Assistant Professor
• 2010 Emory S. Bogardus Award for Outstanding Teaching
CARL ROBERTS, Associate Professor
• Visiting International Fellowship in research methods (May 5-28; Institute of Social Research, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK) £2000.
STEPHEN SAPP, Professor
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of Rural Realities
KATHLEEN WAGGONER, Adjunct Associate Professor
• 2010 Jerry Shakeshaft Teaching Award
WILLIAM WOODMAN, University Professor
• 2009 College of LAS Outstanding Achievement in Teaching award
Graduate Students
RACHEL CURTIS,Graduate Student
• 2010 Gerald E. and D. Eileen Klonglan Scholarship
• 2010 George Henry and Maude Drew Von Tungeln Scholarship
CHERYL DAVIDSON, Graduate Student
• 2010 University Research Excellence Award
MATT HOFFMAN,Graduate Student
• Best Paper Award at the AFHVS
KELSEY KASKA, Graduate Student
• 2010 Joe M. Bohlen Memorial Scholarship
CHRIS KAST, Graduate Student
• 2009 Graduate Student Senate Peer Research Award
ANNA KOSLOSKI, Graduate Student
• 2009 Graduate Student Senate Peer Teaching Award
JOSEPH MALUAL , Graduate Student
• 2010 The Butler Travel Grant for International Research in Sustainable Agriculture
VERONICA RAU-MASON , Graduate Student
• 2010 Gerald E. and D. Eileen Klonglan Scholarship
• 2010 George Henry and Maude Drew Von Tungeln Scholarship
• 2010 Alpha Kappa Delta - Academic Advancement Scholarship
CLAUDIA PRADO-MEZA, Graduate Student
• 2010 The Butler Travel Grant for International Research in Sustainable Agriculture
• 2010 George Freeman Memorial Scholarship
MATTHEW MOORE, Graduate Student
• 2009 Graduate Student Senate Peer Teaching Award
JILL KNAPP MORAVEK, Graduate Student
• 2010 University Research Excellence Award
ABENAKYO MULEMA, Graduate Student
• 2010 The Butler Travel Grant for International Research in Sustainable Agriculture
KYLE NEUBAUER, Graduate Student
• 2010 Teaching Excellence Award
BERNARD OBAA, Graduate Student
• 2009 Butler Travel Grant for International Research in Sustainable Agriculture
• 2009 Dr. Norman Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program Fellowship
DIVINITY O’CONNOR-ROBERTS, Graduate Student
• 2009 Graduate Student Senate Peer Research Award
MICHAEL OREN, Graduate Student
• 2009 Graduate and Professional Student Senate Research Award
ELISE REGEN, Graduate Student
• 2009 Fulbright Scholarship
ADRIENNE RIEGLE, Graduate Student
• 2010 The Sociology Department Achievement Fund
Undergraduate Students
STEPHANIE CLARK, Undergraduate Student
• 2010 Mary W. Lees Scholarship
NICOLE CORTUM, Undergraduate Student
• 2010 Wallace E. Barron Award
KELLEY GLANZ, Undergraduate Student
• 2010 Eric O. Hoiberg Scholarship in Public Service and Administration in Agriculture
NICHOLAS HARRIS, Undergraduate Student
• 2010 George Henry and Maude Drew Von Tungeln Scholarship
ASHLEE HESPEN, Undergraduate Student
• 2010 Marvin B. Lind Scholarship in Rural Sociology
BRITTANY JURGEMEYER, Undergraduate Student
• 2010 Sadie Gardine Lasley Memorial Scholarship
• 2010 Marvin B. Lind Scholarship in Rural Sociology
JACOB SWANSON, Undergraduate Student
• 2010 Eric O. Hoiberg Scholarship in Public Service and Administration in Agriculture
Staff
AUTUMN CARTAGENA, Academic Advisor
• Exemplary Peer Mentor Supervisor for the 2009-2010 academic term
• 2010 Learning Communities Outstanding Innovations Award
• 2010 ISU Award for Early Achievement in Academic Advising
DWIGHT DAKE, System Support Specialist
• 2010 College of LAS P&S Award for Excellence in Information Technology
MARK HAGLEY, Academic Advisor
• 2010 College of LAS Ruth Swenson Award for Outstanding Advising
NICK VAN BERKUM, Communications Specialist
• 2010 College of LAS P&S Outstanding New Professional
