Faculty Affairs Newsletter
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The Annual Faculty Recognition Event “Leaders in Learning” was held April 4, 2023
Congratulations to all of the awardees!
Research Awards
N. T. Veach Award for Distinguished Research and Creativity
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Masud Chowdhury, School of Science and Engineering
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Trustees’ Faculty Fellow Award
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John Spertus, School of Medicine
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Teaching Awards
Elmer F. Pierson Good Teaching Awards
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Catherine Boles, School of Dentistry
Ryan Copus, School of Law
Emily Hillman, School of Medicine
Karen Landay, Henry W. Bloch School of Management
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Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching: early career faculty
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Owen Belcher, Conservatory
Jessica Magana, School of Science and Engineering
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Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching: mid-career / senior faculty
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Candace Schlein, School of Education, Social Work and Psychological Sciences
Darla McCarthy, School of Medicine
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Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring
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Yugyung Lee, School of Science and Engineering
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Excellence in mentoring Undergraduate Researchers, Scholars and Artists
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Alison Graettinger, School of Science and Engineering
Paul Rulis, School of Science and Engineering
Jeff Rydberg-Cox, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Diversity, Engagement, Service and Leadership Awards
Chancellor’s Award for Embracing Diversity
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Jennifer Waddell, School of Education, Social Work and Psychological Sciences
Gail Williams (awarded posthumously), University Libraries
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Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement
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Stefanie Ellison, School of Medicine
Joseph Parisi, Conservatory
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Leadership and Career Contributions and Awards
Chancellor’s Award for
Exceptional Leadership
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Gerald Wyckoff, School of Pharmacy
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Chancellor’s Award for Career
Contributions to the University
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Roger Sommi, School of Pharmacy
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New Curator’s Distinguished Professors
Curator’s Distinguished Teaching Professor
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Tina Niemi, School of Science and Engineering
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Curator’s Distinguished Professor
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Massimiliano Vitiello, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Fulbright Awards
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Belgium
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Virginia Blanton, Ph.D., Curators' Distinguished Professor, will go to the Ruusbroec Institute in Antwerp, Belgium, to research English nuns who sought refuge in Catholic Flanders during the Reformation.
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Israel
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Yotam Haber, D.M.A., associate professor of music composition in the UMKC Conservatory, will go to the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Israel to further develop the cross-fertilization of his creative work with traditional Jewish liturgical cantillation practices.
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The Rules of Engagement Faculty Development Sessions
UMKC Faculty are invited to gather for casual conversations over lunch to discuss issues related to the best practices of Community Engaged Scholarship. These gatherings are cosponsored by CAFE and UMKC's Division of External Relations and Constituent Engagement.
Have a conversation you'd like to host or a best practice with a community partner that you'd like to highlight? Contact Julie Sutton and Nate Addington.
Mark your calendars now for:
Community Partnerships: How to Find Them, Start Them, and Keep Them
April 28 | 12:00-1:00
Featuring: Dina Newman, Director, UMKC Center for Neighborhoods and Jake Wagner, Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Design and Faculty Founder of the Center for Neighborhoods
Register Now!
Upcoming Topics Include:
The Ins and Outs of Partnering with Local Governmental Offices and Officials
Date/Time TBD
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Dissemination 2.0
Where: Office of Research Development -4747 Troost 207
When: 4/28/2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Presenter(s): Rebecca Best
Looking for new way to increase the impact and reach of your research? These workshops are for you! The Office of Research Development & CAFE Research Pillar is sponsoring a two-part workshop led by our very own Dr. Rebecca Best that will take you through the quick and straightforward process of promoting your latest research through a post on an edited academic blog or media outlet, such as the blog associated with a journal you publish in or something more general.
*This workshop has 2-parts. Attendees must attend 4/28 and choose to join either 5/4/23 or 5/10/23.
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Make Your Voice Heard: COACHE Survey is Still Open!
Thanks to all that participated in the COACHE survey. If you haven’t had a chance to provide your feedback regarding faculty job satisfaction-there is still time. The survey is open to eligible faculty until Monday, April 10th. A survey link from COACHE has been sent to your UMKC email. The purpose of COACHE is to improve the academic workplace for faculty like you and others in your department, division, and the institution as a whole. Implementation of any initiative will often fail without faculty engagement and input. Faculty input can make all the difference in garnering strong and representative feedback as well as developing and implementing policies based on the outcomes of that feedback.
In an effort to make the right inferences from the UMKC COACHE survey data, the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) has gathered a diverse group of faculty that will work collaboratively to make sense of the data and provide input into future policy development.
Meet your COACHE Steering Committee members:
- Karen Brown, Conservatory
- Bryan Boots, Bloch School of Management
- Keerthana Sateesh, School of Dentistry
- Tiffani Riggers-Piel, School of Education, Social Work and Psychological Sciences
- Viviana Grieco, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Mikah Thompson, School of Law
- Jenifer Allsworth, School of Medicine
- Amanda Grimes, School of Nursing and Health Studies
- Kendall Guthrie, School of Pharmacy
- Todor Gounev, School of Science and Engineering
- Brenda Linares, Libraries
- Alexis Petri, Office of Research Development
- Amy Prettijohn, Institutional Research
- Carol Sholy, Institutional Research
- Diane Fillion, Vice Provost Faculty Affairs
- Lorie Holt, CAFE, COACHE Director
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Get Your Course(s) Ready for Fall
A day long conference full of resources for fall course preparation
When: Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
Where: Virtual Conference
Topics will include course design and planning, syllabus construction and overviews from: Missouri Online, desktop support and classroom technologies, student disability services, student support, the Library and more! Watch future issues of FAN for more information on the program. Tune in for the whole day or just drop into the sessions you need. All of the sessions will be recorded and posted for those who cannot attend live.
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Dr. Holly Hagle, April 20th, 2023, 3-4pm
Join us each Third Thursday of the Month at 3:00 P.M. for our Research Speakers Series. Our guest speakers are from the UMKC Collaborative to Advance Health Services (ColCAHS) leadership team will share the work on the Collaborative. More than twenty staff and a cadre of specialists and consultants make up the project teams across a portfolio of grants and contracts. Most of the grants have, as a common theme, increasing the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices in the health, behavioral health and allied health fields. More on CAHS here . This event is hosted by the Office of Research Development and CAFE Research & Creativity Pillar.
To get on our list of guest researchers, email Shannon Wheeler
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Intramural Funding Announcement
FY2022-2023 Funding For Excellence Program:
Pool 2 - Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
The Office of Research & Economic Development at UMKC is pleased to accept applications for the
FY2022-2023 Funding For Excellence grants program in the fields of Arts, Humanities and Social
Sciences. The deadline for submission is Friday, April 21st at 5 p.m. CST.
FFE is an institutionally-funded awards program to support the highest level of research, scholarship, and creativity by UMKC faculty. Click to access the entire announcement with all of the application tiers.
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Early Career Faculty Award Program
This program offers annual grant support to UMKC faculty early in their careers
$1000 grants offer support for collaborations, meetings, travel and networking. The deadline for this annual program, sponsored by the UMKC Emeritus College, is April 15, 2023. Funds are available by Summer 2023 for supported proposals through 2024.
Detailed information is available at the UMKC Emeritus College website.
Application for funds is fully on-line from the same website. Early applications are encouraged.
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