UALR will honor some of its top faculty at the 2016 Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 14, at the George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology Auditorium.

The evening will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a ceremony, followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public.

The annual event celebrates the excellence of faculty in three categories – teaching, research, and public service. Each UALR college has nominated a faculty member, and an independent selection committee will choose three university-wide winners.

The winner of the Bailey Teaching Award will receive $10,000 from the Bailey Foundation. Winners of the Faculty Excellence in Research and Faculty Excellence in Public Service awards will receive $5,000.

For more information, contact the Office of the Provost at 501.569.3204.

The following is a list of the college-level nominees:

TEACHING

• Gary Geissler, professor of marketing and advertising
• Kristen McIntyre, associate professor of speech communication and director of the Communication Skill Center
• Jess Porter, associate professor of geography
• Ann Robinson, professor of educational psychology and the founding director of the Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education
• Kelly Terry, associate professor of law and co-director of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning
• Ningning Wu, professor of information science

RESEARCH

• Theresa Beiner, Nadine Baum distinguished professor of law and associate dean for academic affairs
• Stephanie Farewell, associate professor of accounting
• Clifford Franklin, associate professor of audiology and speech pathology
• Julien Mirivel, associate professor of speech communication and interim chair of the Department of Criminal Justice
• Michael Warrick, professor of sculpture
• Shucheng Yu, assistant professor of computer science

PUBLIC SERVICE

• Adjoa Aiyetoro, associate professor of law
• Samuel Atcherson, associate professor of audiology
• Joe Felan, associate professor of management
• John Kirk, George W. Donaghey distinguished professor of history and director of the Institute on Race and Ethnicity
• Karen Kuralt, associate professor of rhetoric and writing
• Thomas Wallace, advanced instructor of information technology and information science