UA Action Card, Director Receive National Honors
The University of Alabama Action Card and director of the UA card program have been recognized recently with two national awards.
Faculty & Staff
UA Education Professor Inducted as Fellow into American College of Sports Medicine
Dr. Matt Green, associate professor of kinesiology in The University of Alabama’s College of Education, was recently inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Sports Medicine.
UA Professor Receives Journalism Award
Dr. Ed Mullins, retired professor of journalism and former dean of The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences, received the 2007 Distinguished Special Achievement in Journalism Award from Auburn University’s Journalism Advisory Council on April 6.
UA Education Professor Appointed to Fellowship
Dr. Matt Curtner-Smith, professor of kinesiology and department head at The University of Alabama’s College of Education, was recently appointed as a Fellow into the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
UA Social Work Professor Receives Fulbright Award
Dr. Ellen Csikai, associate professor of social work at The University of Alabama, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the University of Debrecen in Hungary during the 2007-08 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
UA Engineering Professor Earns NSF Career Award
Dr. James P. Hubner, assistant professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics at The University of Alabama, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. NSF’s CAREER Awards recognize top-performing young scientists and engineers who are beginning their careers.
Schlesinger Named Winner of UA’s Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award
Dr. Harris Schlesinger, professor of finance and Frank Park Samford Chair of Insurance, is the recipient of The University of Alabama’s 2006 Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.
UA Law Professor Receives Alabama Rivers Alliance Award
William L. Andreen, Edgar L. Clarkson Professor of Law at The University of Alabama School of Law, has received the 2007 River Hero Award from the Alabama Rivers Alliance in recognition of his commitment and work to protect and restore rivers and watersheds.
UA’s Mary Stone Named American Accounting Association’s 2007 Outstanding Educator
Dr. Mary Stone, director of the Culverhouse School of Accountancy at The University of Alabama, has been named the 2007 winner of the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.
UA Professor Receives IIE’s Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award
Dr. Gary Moynihan, professor of industrial engineering at The University of Alabama, was recently awarded the 2006 Institute of Industrial Engineers’ Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award for Region Three.