Additional Year-End Faculty and Staff Honors (May 2, 2008)

To the Campus Community:

I am pleased to announce that the following members of the Rutgers-Camden faculty and staff have received honors from their academic units for demonstrated excellence in teaching, service, and research.  The following list is representative of those honors at this time:

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Research Award:          Dr. Ivo Jansen (assistant professor, accounting)

Full-Time Faculty Teaching Award:       Dr. Gene Pilotte (senior associate dean and professor, finance)

Part-Time Lecturer Teaching Award:    Larry Cantwell (management)

Dean’s Service Award:             Jonathan Muse (assistant dean, academic affairs)

SCHOOL OF LAW

Professor of the Year:   Prof. Robert Williams (professor II)

Grand Marshall:            Prof. Camille Spinello Andrews (associate dean)

Hooders:           Prof. John Beckerman (associate dean), The Hon. Dennis Braithwaite (visiting professor), Prof. Jay Feinman (professor II), and Prof. Dennis Patterson (Board of Governors Professor)

Reader of Names:         Prof. Roger Clark (Board of Governors Professor)

Staff Person of the Year:           Doreen Clayton-Schomber (secretarial assistant)

Administrator of the Year:         Gwendolyn Jones (administrative assistant)

Lawyering Professor of the Year:          Prof. Linda Shashoua (adjunct legal research and writing)

New Professor of the Year:      Prof. Meredith L. Schalick (visiting clinical assistant professor)

Adjunct Professor of the Year:              Joseph R. Condo

FACULTY  OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
The JoAnn Mower Endowed Prize in Teaching Excellence, in honor of Marie Cornelia, Christine Dougherty and Robert Ryan:    Dr. Robert Evans (professor, biology)

The Sibyl Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching:      Shaheen Ayubi (part-time lecturer, political science) and Ed Young (part-time lecturer, philosophy/religion)

Additionally, I am pleased to report that Dr. Holly Blackford (associate professor, CFAS—English) has been awarded a Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, which is presented annually to the university’s most distinguished young faculty members.

These awards, combined with the awards that I communicated in an earlier email, are indicative of the extraordinary quality and commitment of the faculty and staff at Rutgers-Camden.  Please join me in congratulating our colleagues on a job well done.

Margaret Marsh

Interim Chancellor