Roos Rock! 

Congratulations to the faculty, organizations and individuals who received the following awards:

Presidential Engagement Fellows

• Hadara Bar-Nadav (barnadavh@umkc.edu), English Language and Literature
• Amanda Grimes (grimesA@umkc.edu), Nursing and Health Studies
• Yotam Haber (habery@umkc.edu), Conservatory
  
  

Chancellor’s Award for Career Contributions to the University

• Mark Johnson (johnsonmark@umkc.edu), Dentistry
• Trish Marken (markenp@umkc.edu), Pharmacy

Chancellor’s Award for Embracing Diversity

• Tyler Smith
• Student National Dental Association/Hispanic Dental Association

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement

• Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections
• Brent Never (neverb@umkc.edu), Bloch School of Management

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring

• Tanya Villapandos-Mitchell (villalpandot@umkc.edu), Dentistry
  
  

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

• Thiagarajan Ganesh (ganesht@umkc.edu), Computing and Engineering
• Mikah Thompson (thompsonmikah@umkc.edu), Law

Chancellor’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching

• Christopher Madden (cmadden@umkc.edu), Conservatory
• Tiffani Riggers-Piehl (riggers-piehlt@umkc.edu), Education
  
  

Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

• Lena Hoober-Burkhardt (hooberl@umkc.edu), Biological and Chemical Sciences
• Diana Tamer (tamerd@umkc.edu), Pharmacy

Trustees Faculty Scholar Award

• Antonio Byrd (antoniobyrd@umkc.edu), English Language and Literature

Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creativity

• Sean O'Brien (obriensd@umkc.edu), Law

Pierson Good Teaching Award

• Theodore Cole (colet@umkc.edu) School of Medicine
• Mary Kay O'Malley (omalleymk@umkc.edu), Law
• Narayanan Sreenivasan (sreenivasann@umkc.edu), Dentistry
• Larry Wigger (wiggerl@umkc.edu), Bloch School of Management
  

Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers, Scholars, and Artists

• Majid Bani-Yaghoub (baniyaghoubm@umkc.edu), Mathematics
• Virginia Blanton (blantonv@umkc.edu), English Language and Literature
• Amanda Grimes (grimesa@umkc.edu), Nursing and Health Sciences

Early Career Faculty Awards from the Emeritus College

• Antonio Byrd (antoniobyrd@umkc.edu), English Language and Literature
• Joseph R. Hartman (hartmanjr@umkc.edu), Department of Art, and Latinx and Latin American Studies
• Zahra Niroobakhsh (niroobakhshz@umkc.edu), Computing and Engineering

Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our talented faculty, researchers and staff.

 
Publications

To view a listing of Roos Rock from August 2021 through January 2022, please visit our Roos Rock permanent listing in Omeka.

To view a listing of University Awards and Fellowships, visit the Awards Calendar.

Faculty, do you have more good news to share?  Your FAN Team wants to know!  Email news of your recent (since August 2021) awards, grants, major publications, and promotions to the Faculty Affairs Newsletter at: meadmo@umkc.edu.  Please title your email “FAN Submission” and include all relevant details (dates, award/grant names, publisher information an, etc.).  Submissions will be edited for consistency and content. 

2021-2022 recipients of the Provost’s and Chancellor’s Awards will be announced soon. 2020-2021 winners can be found here.