{"id":648594,"date":"2017-08-25T13:46:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=648594"},"modified":"2017-08-27T07:54:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T12:54:44","slug":"awards-hand-out-at-the-ut-tyler-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=648594","title":{"rendered":"Awards Handed Out at the UT Tyler Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/U-T-Tyler-Sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/U-T-Tyler-Sign-150x91.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-406011\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211;  The University of Texas at Tyler officials presented faculty awards for outstanding achievement and dedication during 2017 Convocation that was held on Friday. Officials also recognized senior lecturer in economics Susan Doty, who was named to the UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers earlier this year, as well as associate professor of education Dr. Julie Delello and senior lecturer in history Dr. James Newsom, who each received the 2017 Regents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Outstanding Teaching Award.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from the university, award recipients honored at the convocation were:<br \/>\n*Dr. X. Neil Dong, associate professor of health and kinesiology \u00e2\u20ac\u201c President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Scholarly Achievement Award &#8211; This award recognizes outstanding scholarly achievements by a faculty member. Selections are made by a university committee.<br \/>\n*Dr. Kerri Camp, assistant professor of marketing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Provost\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Excellence in Teaching Award &#8211; The Provost\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes faculty whose excellence in undergraduate teaching resulted in their nomination for the UT System Board of Regents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Outstanding Teaching Award.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Dr. Joshua Banta, assistant professor of biology; and Dr. Lindsey-Kay Lauderdale, assistant professor of mathematics \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jack and Dorothy Faye White Fellowship for Teaching Excellence &#8211; This honor recognizes excellence in teaching. Nominations are made by both university faculty and students.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Dr. Lindsey-Kay  Lauderdale \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2017-18 Piper Professor nominee &#8211; This honor focuses on the nominee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s overall excellence in both teaching and scholarly achievement at The University of Texas at Tyler. Nominees are made by faculty and become the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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 the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s White Fellowship.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; The University of Texas at Tyler officials presented faculty awards for outstanding achievement and dedication during 2017 Convocation that was held on Friday. Officials also recognized senior lecturer in economics Susan Doty, who was named to the UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers earlier this year, as well as associate professor of education &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=648594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Awards Handed Out at the UT Tyler Convocation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":406011,"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-648594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 09:24:14","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\/648594","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=648594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648596,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648594\/revisions\/648596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}