Christopher Anderson, Theology/ Sacred Music, was awarded the 2006 Max Miller Book Prize from Boston University School of Theology
for his book Max Reger and Karl Straube: Perspectives on an Organ Performing Tradition.

José Bowen, Meadows Dean/Music; Robert Frank, Music/Theory and Composition; and Simon Sargon, Music/Composition, were awarded 2006 ASCA Plus awards by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in New York.

Jaime Clark-Soles, Theology, received a 2005-07 Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion grant for “Teaching Biblical Exegesis in Theological Schools,” a collaborative project
involving 12 participants from North American seminaries and divinity schools.

 

Mel Coffee, Journalism, was named a 2006 Educator in the Newsroom Fellow by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation. His host station was KSBW-TV in Salinas, California. He was the only professor from a Texas university to receive the honor.

 

Craig Flournoy, Journalism received a 2006 James Madison Award from the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas. He gave the award to his journalism students to honor their work on the Light of Day Project, which he has helped to lead.

Amar Gande, Finance, received the 2006
Addison-Wesley prize for coauthoring the best paper – “Enhancing Security Value by Ownership Restrictions: Evidence From a
Natural Experiment” – published in Financial Management during 2004-06.

Samuel Holland, Music/Piano, was named the Texas Music
Teachers Association’s 2006 Collegiate Teacher of the Year.

Benjamin Johnson, History, was a finalist for the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, given by the Dallas Institute of Humanities to honor work by an early-career humanist that has significance beyond the University.



 

David Karp, Music/Piano, was honored by the new music
ensemble Voices of Change at its 2006 spring gala benefit for his lifetime participation in and promotion of new music composition, teaching and performance.






Peter Raad, Mechanical Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2005, received the Best
Paper Award at the 2006 IEEE Semi-berm Conference in Dallas, and was elected a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Robert W. Righter, History, has written a book, The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Alan Wagner, Music Education, received be Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Scholarship, 2005, for A Bio-Bibliography of Composer Warren Benson (EdwinMellen Press).