Dr. Lloyd “Pete” Morley, professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Alabama, is the recipient of the 2005 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Richard M. Emberson Award.
Dr. Charles L. Karr has been named dean of The University of Alabama College of Engineering.
Tuscaloosa advertising executive Gary Creek has been named director of marketing communications at The University of Alabama.
Dr. William H. Weems, director of the Safe State Occupational Safety and Health Consultation Program in the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama, has been awarded the William J. Higgins award, the first national OSHA award for safety excellence in the small business community.
Deborah Hamilton, project manager for The University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, has been awarded the 2005 Dr. Minnie C. Miles Endowed Excellence Award.
Dr. George C. Rable, professor and Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at The University of Alabama, has been named president of the Society of Civil War Historians.
Charles G. “Skip” Snead, director of the School of Music and professor of horn in The University of Alabama’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.
The University of Alabama College of Engineering recently announced Dr. Charles Karr, associate dean for research and graduate studies, as the 2005 T. Morris Hackney Endowed Faculty Leadership award recipient.
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees has conferred the highest honor it gives to a faculty member to Dr. Ernest A. Mancini, professor of geological sciences and director of the Center for Sedimentary Basin Studies, both in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences. Mancini has been named a University of Alabama Distinguished Research Professor by the board.
Dr. Theodore Trost, an associate professor of religious studies at The University of Alabama who is cross appointed to New College, has been awarded a research grant from the Louisville Institute, a program of the Lilly Endowment Inc.