Student and Faculty Awards

Students

• In six of the past nine years, English doctoral students have earned the coveted Alumni Association Distinguished Dissertation Award.
• Philip Rudd, PhD, applied linguistics, 2008, traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, on a prestigious 2005 Fulbright-Hays grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) program provides grants to fund individual doctoral students conducting research in modern foreign languages and area studies in other countries. Rudd’s grant allowed him to study Sheng, an urban vernacular common in Nairobi.

Faculty

• Mark Neely, Outstanding Creative Endeavor, 2009
• Patrick Collier, Outstanding Academic Advising, 2007
• Carolyn MacKay, Researcher of the Year, 2003
• Rai Peterson, Outstanding Teaching, 2003