BY UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/b><\/p>\n
Fall winners of Fort Hays State University\u2019s faculty awards for service, scholarly activity and research, and teaching were announced this month at surprise visits in their classrooms and recognized at the recent Holiday Party and Awards Ceremony in the university\u2019s Memorial Union.<\/p>\n
Dr. C.D. Clark, associate professor of physics, received the teaching award. The award for research and scholarly activity was presented to Dr. Laura Wilson, associate professor of geosciences, and Dr. Kim Chappell, assistant professor of advanced education programs, received the award for service. BY UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Fall winners of Fort Hays State University\u2019s faculty awards for service, scholarly activity and research, and teaching were announced this month at… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42845,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42844\/revisions\/42845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAll three recipients received a $500 check for their accomplishments, an increase from last year thanks to Commerce Bank, which contributed $500 each. The deans of FHSU\u2019s academic colleges contributed an additional $250 to the winners\u2019 academic departments. Shane Smith, senior vice president of Commerce Bank, was at the party to help present the awards.
\nThree other faculty members will be recognized for teaching, research and scholarly activity, and service in the spring 2019 semester. Together with this semester’s winners, these six faculty members will constitute the pool from which the Faculty Member of the Year will be chosen.
\nEach of the five colleges of the university nominates outstanding faculty members to receive the awards. Recipients are selected by a committee appointed by the respective college deans.
\nTwo employees, one University Support Staff member, Christine Hunziker, and an Unclassified Professional Staff member, Douglas Storer, were recognized with Distinguished Service Awards. Hunziker is the administrative assistant in the Office of Academic Advising and Career Exploration. Storer is a senior applications developer in the Office of Technology Services.
\nFour Griffin Family Outstanding Service Awards were announced.
\nKenneth Kippes, custodian in Hammond Hall was the Operations-Regular Staff recipient. Tish Mickelson, in Chartwell\u2019s catering division, was named the Food Service-Regular Staff recipient.
\nTwo student employees were also given Griffin Outstanding Service Awards, Ryli Soukup, Holcomb junior, a student custodian in McMindes Hall, was named the Operations-Student Employee recipient, and Luxin Zhao, a Xinxiang, China, graduate student, was the Food Service-Student Employee recipient.
\nAnother 66 employees of the university \u2013 faculty and staff \u2013 were recognized for time in service to the state or university, representing a total of 1,180 years. Included in the total were four employees recognized by the FHSU Alumni Association for 25 years of service.
\nThe honorees:
\n40-Year Employees <\/strong>
\nLeo Herrman, Department of Psychology
\nKathleen Meier, Department of Communication Studies
\nEileen Roberts, Human Resource Office
\n30-Year Employees
\n<\/strong>Cynthia Cline, Office of the Provost
\nMark Griffin, Office of Technology Services
\nLee Gross, Office of Technology Services
\nDiane Henderson, Department of Physics
\nJoseph Linn, Division of Student Affairs
\nSteven Meier, Gross Memorial Coliseum\/Cunningham Hall Complex Operations
\nAllen Rohr, Grounds and Building Operations
\nDouglas Storer, Office of Technology Services
\n25-Year Employees
\n<\/strong>Paul Adams, College of Education
\nMichael Bartell, Building Services
\nTheodore Basgall, Building Services
\nSimone Werth, Office of Financial Aid
\n20-Year Employees
\n<\/strong>Rhonda Baker, Department of Modern Languages
\nKurt Beyers, Office of University Relations and Marketing
\nJoseph Chretien, Department of Applied Technology
\nMargaret Denning, Kelly Center
\nRachel Depenbusch, Office of the Controller
\nMichael Drees, Office of the Controller
\nCynthia Elliott, Office of Strategic Partnerships
\nPatricia Griffin, Office of Academic Advising and Career Exploration
\nBrittany Howell, Department of Agriculture
\nEldon Jerauld, Building Maintenance
\nDaniel Kulmala, Department of English
\nNancy Lynn Maska, Department of Health and Human Performance
\nShane Parr, Printing Services
\nKevin Shaffer, Department of Informatics
\nKaren Pfeifer, Forsyth Library
\nWilliam Stark, Department of Biological Sciences
\nThomas Schafer, Department of Geosciences
\nKarrie Simpson Voth, Department of Art and Design
\nHoward Schmidt, Building Services
\nJennifer Wagner, Department of Allied Health
\nBrett Zollinger, Department of Sociology
\n10-Year Employees
\n<\/strong>Krisztina Bencze, Department of Chemistry
\nDavid Bollig, Residential Life
\nGary Brinker, Department of Sociology
\nNikki Brown, Office of Academic Advising and Career Exploration
\nJames Cech, Office of Technology Services
\nTeresa Clounch, Division of Student Affairs
\nBetsy Crawford, Department of Advanced Education Programs
\nAngela Delzeit, Office of Financial Aid
\nJohn Doerschlag, Building Services
\nDawn Dreher, Department of Sociology
\nConnie Eigenmann, Department of Communication Studies
\nNanette Fitzhugh, Department of Management
\nBradley Haynes, Office of Athletics
\nAnthony Hobson, Office of Athletics
\nChristine Hunziker, Office of Academic Advising and Career Exploration
\nStephanie Johnson, Department of Psychology
\nJennifer Kuner, Kansas Small Business Development Center
\nNathaniel Lang, University Police Department
\nLuke LeCount, Office of Technology Services
\nDane Lonnon, Office of Student Fiscal Services
\nTamara Lynn, Department of Criminal Justice
\nLinda McHenry, Department of English
\nAnn Noble, Office of Early College Programs
\nIrena Ravitskaya, Department of Music and Theatre
\nTimothy Rolls, Department of Music and Theatre
\nCharles Rumford, Department of Agriculture and the University Farm
\nRoss Russell, Department of Agriculture and the University Farm
\nStacey Smith, Department of Applied Business Studies
\nCharles Thompson, Office of Athletics
\nBrett Whitaker, Department of Leadership Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"