{"id":30577,"date":"2010-08-23T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=30577"},"modified":"2010-08-24T12:08:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:08:18","slug":"utt-faculty-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=30577","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler Faculty Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=30745\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30745\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/08\/U-T-Tyler-Sign1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"U-T Tyler Sign\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30745\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; University of Texas at Tyler officials presented faculty awards during the 2010-11 Opening Convocation Aug. 23, UT Tyler President Rodney Mabry announced.<br \/>\nRecipients and their awards are:<br \/>\n\u00b7        2010 Regents\u2019 Outstanding Teaching Award \u2013 Suzanne Pundt, senior lecturer in biology; Dr. Blake Bextine, assistant professor of biology; and Dr. Jill Blondin, associate professor of art history.<br \/>\nThis honor recognizes the nominees\u2019 overall commitment and excellence in undergraduate teaching among UT System faculty members. Nominees are recommended by the President of each UT System and are reviewed by an external committee comprised of academic administrators, faculty, students and the UT System Board of Regents.<br \/>\n\u00b7        President\u2019s Scholarly Achievement Award \u2013 Dr. Mary Fischer, associate dean and professor of accounting.<br \/>\nThis award recognizes outstanding scholarly achievements by a faculty member. Selections are made by a university committee.<br \/>\n\u00b7        2010 Provost\u2019s Excellence in Teaching Award \u2013 Dr. Paul Roberts, associate professor of human resource development.<br \/>\nThe Provost\u2019s Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes faculty whose excellence in undergraduate teaching resulted in their nomination for the Regents\u2019 Outstanding Teaching Award.<br \/>\n\u00b7        White Fellowship for Teaching Excellence \u2013 Dr. Kathy Missildine, assistant professor of nursing.<br \/>\nThis honor recognizes excellence in teaching. Nominations are made by both university faculty and students.<br \/>\n\u00b7        2010-11 Piper Professor nominee and White Fellowship for Teaching Excellence \u2013 Dr. Eric Stocks, assistant professor of psychology.<br \/>\nThis honor focuses on the nominee\u2019s overall excellence in both teaching and scholarly achievement at UT Tyler. Nominees are made by UT Tyler faculty and become the university\u2019s candidate for the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Excellence in Teaching award, which annually recognizes 15 professors for superior teaching at the college level in Texas. This nominee also automatically receives UT Tyler\u2019s White Fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; University of Texas at Tyler officials presented faculty awards during the 2010-11 Opening Convocation Aug. 23, UT Tyler President Rodney Mabry announced. Recipients and their awards are: \u00b7 2010 Regents\u2019 Outstanding Teaching Award \u2013 Suzanne Pundt, senior lecturer in biology; Dr. Blake Bextine, assistant professor of biology; and Dr. Jill Blondin, associate professor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=30577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler Faculty Awards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 06:08:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30577"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30926,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30577\/revisions\/30926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}