The Graduate School has awarded the 2022 Distinguished Dissertation Award to Alise Chabaud Hagan, Ed.D in Educational Leadership. The award recognizes exceptional work by doctoral students that exemplifies the highest levels of scholarship, research, and writing. Hagan earned her doctorate of...
Dr. Roger Rholdon is the SLEMCO/BORSF III Endowed Professor of Nursing in the LHC Group · Myers School of Nursing. His research interests include infant safe sleep practices and the teaching of evidence-based practice to nursing students. Earlier this year, Rholdon was honored as an Outstanding...
Dr. James Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Biology whose areas of research include marine ecosystem ecology, marine fishes, food webs, and stable isotope analysis. He holds the Fritz Lang Foundation Endowed Professorship in Environmental Biology (BORSF). Earlier this year...
Dr. Christopher Giroir is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Foundations & Leadership. He also is the graduate coordinator for the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership program. Earlier this year, Giroir was honored as an Outstanding Doctoral Mentor by the Office of the Vice President...
Fiction writer Dr. Sadie Hoagland is an associate professor in the Department of English. She is the author of the novel “Strange Children” and the short story collection “American Grief in Four Stages.” She has also published work in The Alice Blue Review, The Black Herald, Mikrokosmos Journal...
Dr. Magdy Bayoumi is the department head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His expertise includes sensing technologies and sensor nodes, data processing, and the management of energy applications to military and security fields. Earlier this year, Bayoumi was honored as an...
Dr. Catherine Roche-Wallace is an associate professor of horn and theory, and has served as the coordinator of graduate studies in the School of Music and Performing Arts since 2017. She has performed with orchestras in Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, and Michigan, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and...
Dr. Hung-Chu Lin is the SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Professor in Liberal Arts. Her research focus includes the development of emotions, parenting, attachment relationships, and developmental disabilities. She runs the Developmental Science Laboratory (DSL), which takes an interdisciplinary approach to...
Applied Language and Speech Sciences Ph.D. candidate Megan Quebedeaux has received the 2022 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award. The award recognizes Quebedeaux’s exceptional contributions as the official instructor of record for teaching in the Department of Communicative Disorders in the...
Environmental and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. candidate Ronald Kittle has received the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Kittle has built an impressive record of supporting faculty and undergraduate students in the classroom in his role as a graduate teaching assistant. Dr. Kristina...
