The Awards keep coming in!  I love this time of the year!

 

Please join me in congratulating the following faculty on their promotion to Senior Lecturer:

            Dorothy Alvarez, Modern Languages

            Jennifer Buckwalter, Modern Languages

            Michelle Cipriano, Modern Languages

            Byron Crews, English Language and Literatures

            Michelle Metzner, English Language and Literatures

 

Congratulations also to Julianne Weinzimmer, Sociology, for receiving the Faculty Diversity Advocate Award from the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Community Engagement.  Julianne received the award mainly for creating and incorporating a version of the Dayton Dialogue on Race Relations into her Sociology of Race and Ethnicity course that gives students the opportunity to talk about race and ethnicity in very real and personal ways within small groups facilitated by trained leaders.  Quanita McRoberts, Liberal Studies, received the MLK Jr. Distinguished Service Award for an undergraduate student in the same ceremony.

 

35 Years in a Row!  It doesn't get much better than that!  Congratulations to our Model United Nations Team for earning OUTSTANDING DELEGATION and other numerous awards at the recent 2014 MUN Conference in NYC that was attended by over 2,500 students representing 25 countries. The MUN TEAM is made up of 23 students from the colleges of Liberal Arts, Education and Human Services, Business, Engineering and Computer Science, and Science and Mathematics.  It is truly a campus team!  The Team sat on 12 committees, representing Canada.

 

Congratulations especially to MUN Faculty Advisors Donna Schlagheck, Political Science, and Vaughn Shannon, Political Science, for guiding the team yet again to great success.  President David and Angelia Hopkins accompanied the team on their trip and have high accolades for how impressive our students were and how well they represent Wright State.  President Hopkins was so moved that he presented Donna Schlagheck with his coveted 'Tip of the Hat'.  This is only the 6^th time that he has provided this acknowledgment since he started the tradition last fall.  Congratulations Donna!  We will cover more about the team in our upcoming CoLA Newsletter.

 

 

Model UN Team 2014 

 

 

Congratulations also to David Booth, Music, for becoming a member of the American Bandmasters Association (ABA), an elite and exclusive association of highly accomplished and nationally recognized authorities and leaders in the band conducting and music profession.  Membership is by invitation only, and is considered to be a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of a career that consistently evinces significant accomplishments of the highest order.  There are only 300 members of this prestigious group.  As you will remember, David directed the Wright State Wind Symphony last year at Carnegie Hall.  What a great honor for David and for Wright State!