Bruce Gibb, Department of Chemistry; Robert Montjoy, Department of Political Sciences; Barbara Herlihy, Department of English; and Diana Hulse-Killacky, Department of English, were named Research Professors for the period of Fall 2007 – Spring 2010.No appointments were made for the period of Fall 2006-Spring 2009, due to Hurricane Katrina.
UNO Alumni Association Awards for Excellence in Research
The UNO Alumni Association offers two awards annually for Excellence in Research.One award is for Early Career Achievement and the other is for Career Achievement.
Previous recipients of the Career Achievement Award are listed in alphabetical order:Drs. Ida Altman; Gunter Bischof; Joseph Boyer; Paul Chirlian; R.L. Engstrom; Paul Frick; Carol Gelderman; G.G. Guilbault; Charles D. Hadley; Andrew Horton; Susan Howell; David Hui; R.S. Jordan; Joseph Logsdon; James May; Jerry Nash; Steve Nolan; Charles O’Connor; Michael Paulsen; Steve Shull; Alan Soble; and William Stiebing.
The 2007 Career Achievement Award went to: Dr. David Hoover.
Mr. Hoover is the Director of the PerformanceProgram at the University of New Orleans.For the Tennessee William’s Literary Festival he has directed Alec Baldwin, Elizabeth Ashley, John Goodman, Stephanie Zimbalist, Eli Wallach, and Anne Jackson.In New Orleans his work has been seen at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, Tulane Summer Shakespeare Festival, Rivertown Rep, Le Chat Noir, Southern Rep, and Tulane Summer Lyric.He has worked at several other prestigious theatres that include The Guthrie, the Dallas Theatre Center, American Southwest Theatre Company, Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, and The Lyceum.David is the recipient of the Big Easy, Marquee, and Storer Boone Awards recently having been recognized for his direction of Our Country’s Good.David has directed four original scripts for KCACTF, two of which received National recognition.Productions he has directed have been invited five times to the Regional Festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and his directing MFA students have been invited three times.Internationally he has been an adjudicator in London, lectured at the Universite de Sorbonne in Paris and has taught extensively in Italy and Mexico.David received an Artist Fellowship award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts; the first award of its kind made to a director.
Previous recipients of the Early Career Achievement Award are listed in alphabetical order:Drs. Mahdi Abdelguerfi; Charles Barrileaux; Victor Birman; Guenter Bischof; Patrice Boily; Christine Day; Dennis Gleiber; Carsie Hall; Cynthia Hogue; T.R. Johnson; Sudha Krishnaswami; Bhaskar Kura; X. Rong Li; Amanda Morris; A.C. Nelson; Mark Packard; Brandon Prins; Marc Rosenblum; J.D. Sexton; E.D. Stevens; Mark Trudell; and Carl Weems.
The 2007 Early Career Achievement Award went to: Dr. Nicola Anthony.Anthony is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.She is interested in the interactions between ecology, history and demography. These interactions are crucial to our understanding of the patterns and processes that shape biological diversity, yet are generally poorly understood. Her current research can be divided into three major programmatic areas: (a) evolutionary diversification of African rainforest mammals (b) comparative molecular evolutionary dynamics of nuclear integrations of mitochondrial DNA in African great apes (c) impact of fragmentation on genetic diversity and disease resistance in island reptiles.
UNO Alumni Association Awards for Excellence in Teaching
The 2007 Excellence in Teaching Award went to: Debra C. Daniel, Undergraduate Coordinator, Director of Publicity and Teacher in the Film, Theatre, and Communication Arts Department.She presently teaches Oral Communications.
