Faculty Recognition

G. William Barnard, Religious Studies, Christopher H. Hanna, Law, John Maguire, Chemistry, and Beth Newman, English, were named University Distinguished Teaching Professors in spring 2002 and are now members of SMU's Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Lewis R. Binford, Anthropology, Richard Bozorth, English, and Joerg Rieger, Theology, received the 2002 Dedman College Godbey Lecture Series Authors' Awards for outstanding scholarly research. Binford received the award for his book, Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets; Bozorth was honored for Auden's Games of Knowledge: Poetry and the Meanings of Homosexuality; and Rieger was recognized for God and the Excluded: Visions and Blindspots in Contemporary Theology.

Carole Brandt, Meadows, received the Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel La Catolica, the highest distinction granted to non-Spaniards who promote good relations between Spain and America.

Edward Countryman, History, was elected to the Society of American Historians. Election signifies a combination of research and literary distinction, and membership is limited to 200 members.

Craig Flournoy, Journalism, received second place in the Mass Communication and Society Division for the best graduate student paper presented at the 2001 national convention of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The paper was titled "Media Ownership and Bias: Study of News Magazine Coverage of the 2000 Presidential Election Campaign."

Tom Fomby, Economics, received the United Methodist Church's 2002 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.

David Freidel, Anthropology, was appointed a University Distinguished Professor.

Serge Frolov, Religious Studies, was named to the Nate and Ann Levine Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies.

Ezra Greenspan, English, was named the first holder of the Edmund J. Kahn and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities.

John S. Lowe, Law, was elected vice president of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.

Richard Mason, Information Technology and Operations Management, received the 2001 Leo Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems from the Association of Information Systems at the International Conference on Information Systems.

Patricia Mathes, Education and Lifelong Learning, was named to the TI Reading Chair.

Tom Mayo, Law, received the 2002 Heath Award from the Dallas County Medical Society. He is the first lawyer to receive the award.

Joseph McKnight, Law, received an Outstanding Fifty-Year Lawyer Award at the 2002 annual meeting of the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation.

David Meltzer, Anthropology, was appointed to the Henderson-Morrison Chair.

Jack Myers, English, won The Violet Crown Award from the Writers' League of Texas for the "Best Literary Book" published in Texas or by a former Texan in 2001 for The Glowing River: New and Selected Poems.

Geoffrey Orsak, Electrical Engineering, was named a 2002 Distinguished Lecturer for the Signal Processing Society, a division of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Simon Sargon, Music, was awarded honorary membership in The American Conference of Cantors in recognition of his creative contributions to American Jewish music. The Dallas Jewish Historical Society also has named Sargon a recipient of the first Sikora Humanitarian Award in honor of his contributions to Jewish life in Dallas.

Lawrence Shampine, Mathematics, has been honored by Maple, a software for doing mathematical computations, by identifying him as a Differential Equations Expert on a poster that includes historic figures and contemporary experts in mathematics who have contributed to Maple.

Frank Tomasulo, Cinema-TV, was elected executive vice president of the University Film and Video Association (UFVA).

Gordon Walker, Cox, and Tammy Madsen (formerly of Cox and now at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University) received the 2002 Glueck Best Paper Award from the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management for their paper "The Evolution of Heterogeneity in Performance."

Shlomo Weber, Economics, received a Humboldt Research Prize. The prizes are granted annually to internationally recognized scholars to conduct research in Germany. Awardees are invited to spend between four and 12 months at a German research institution.

Bonnie Wheeler, English, was elected a member of The New Chaucer Society's Trustees and Finance Committee (2002-2006); elected to the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship's Advisory Committee (2002-2004); and elected secretary and member of the board for the Consortium on Teaching the Middle Ages (TEAMS).