2020 Founders' Day Honors Convocation

2020

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

FOUNDERS’ DAY HONORS CONVOCATION 2020

WELCOME The Founders’ Day Honors Convocation celebrates outstanding academic achievements of our faculty members and students. As we recognize these achievements, we remember the efforts of those women and men who made this university a reality, and we prepare for the accomplishments of the future.

Thank you for helping us honor the outstanding work being highlighted.

Table of Contents Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

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Excellence in Graduate Teaching

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Excellence in Research

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Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students

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Excellence in Faculty Academic Advising

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Excellence in Librarianship

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Excellence in English Language Institute Instruction

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Excellence in Instructional Design

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Excellence in Professional Service

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Recognition of Service to the University

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Emeritus and Emerita

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Emeritus and Emerita Members of the Faculty and Administration

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Reach for the Stars

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Pegasus Professor

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Past Recipients of the Pegasus Professor Award

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Retired and Retiring Faculty

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Student Awards

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Acknowledgments

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E XCEL L ENC E IN UNDER GR ADUATE TE ACHING

C OL L EGE AWAR DS College of Arts and Humanities Matthew Bryan Nick Shrubsole Sandra Sousa Laurie Uttich

College of Business Administration Christopher Leo

College of Community Innovation and Education Gregg Buckingham Abby Milon Amanda Walden

College of Engineering and Computer Science Issa Batarseh Sudeshna Pal

College of Health Professions and Sciences Suha Saleh Adam Wells 1

College of Medicine Dorilyn Hitchcock

College of Nursing Laura Gonzalez

College of Optics and Photonics Christopher Kyle Renshaw

College of Sciences Karin Chumbimuni Torres Lori Dunlop-Pyle Brittany Durrani Matthew Rex Sandra Wheeler

Rosen College of Hospitality Management Wei Wei

UNIV ER S ITY AWAR D Karin Chumbimuni Torres College of Sciences

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E XC EL L ENC E IN G R ADUATE TEAC H ING

C OL L EGE AWAR DS College of Arts and Humanities Elizabeth Horn

College of Business Administration Dana Joseph

College of Community Innovation and Education Stacy Van Horn

College of Engineering and Computer Science YeonWoong Jung

College of Health Professions and Sciences Carey Rothschild

College of Medicine Claudia Andl

College of Nursing Ladda Thiamwong

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College of Optics and Photonics Pieter Kik

College of Sciences Michael Mousseau

Rosen College of Hospitality Management Jeeyeon Hahm

UNIV ER S ITY AWAR D Carey Rothschild College of Health Professions and Science

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EXC EL L ENC E IN R ES EAR C H

C OL L EGE AWAR DS College of Arts and Humanities Vladimir Solonari

College of Business Administration Lisa Baudot

College of Community Innovation and Education William Russell

College of Engineering and Computer Science Kareem Ahmed

College of Health Professions and Sciences Michael Rovito

College of Medicine Dinender Singla

College of Nursing Mindi Anderson

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College of Optics and Photonics Demetrios Christodoulides

College of Sciences Zenghu Chang

Rosen College of Hospitality Management Edwin Torres Areizaga

UNIV ER S ITY AWAR D Demetrios Christodoulides College of Optics and Photonics

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E XCE L L ENC E IN MENTOR ING DOC TOR AL ST UDE NTS Engineering, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences

UNIV ER S ITY AWAR D Ronald DeMara College of Engineering and Computer Science

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E XCE L L ENC E IN MENTOR ING DOC TOR AL ST UDE NTS Social Science, Humanities, Education, Business, Art and Health

UNIV ER S ITY AWAR D Stephanie Vie College of Arts and Humanities

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E XCE L L ENC E IN FAC U LTY ACADEMIC ADVISING

UNIV ER S ITY AWAR D Patricia Farless College of Arts and Humanities

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EXC EL L ENC E IN L IB R AR IANS HIP

UNIV ER S ITY AWAR D Tina Buck UCF Libraries

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E XCE L L E N CE IN ENG L IS H L ANG UAG E INSTITUT E INST RUCT ION

UNIV ER S ITY AWAR D Mark Kerlin UCF Global

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E XCEL L ENC E IN INSTR U C TIONAL DESIGN

UNIV ER S ITY AWAR D Baiyun Chen Division of Digital Learning

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E XCEL L ENC E IN P R OF ES S IONAL S ERVICE

UNIV ER S ITY AWAR D Beatriz Reyes-Foster College of Sciences

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R ECO GNITION OF S ER V IC E TO THE UNIVE RSIT Y 20 Y EAR S Burnett Honors College

Juli Dixon

Ronnie Korosec

Suzanne Martin Abby Milon

College of Arts and Humanities

Stephen Sivo

James Brown

Lynn Unruh

Stephen Ethridge

Mark Winton

Marcella Farina College of Engineering and Computer Science

Patricia Farless Mark Gerstein

Linan An

Scott Hall

Suryanarayana Challapalli

Lori Ingle

Quanfang Chen

Carla Poindexter

Luis Rabelo

Terry Thaxton

Kirk Scammon

Kristina Tollefson

Yongho Sohn Rajan Vaidyanathan

College of Business Administration Joseph Milon

College of Graduate Studies

David Scrogin

Shawn Burke Rae Hanson

College of Community Innovation and Education

Dean Reed

David Boote

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R ECO GNITION OF S ER V IC E TO THE UNIVE RSIT Y 20 Y EAR S College of Health Professions and Sciences

Division of Digital Learning Sue Bauer

Robin Kohn

Nancy Swenson

College of Sciences

Office of Research

Aniket Bhattacharya

Jaydeep Mukherjee

Costas Efthimiou Deguang Han Peter Hancock

Rosen College of Hospitality Management

Christine Hanlon

Deborah Breiter Terry

Patrick Higgins Mark Rapport

UCF Libraries

Kimberly Renk

Richard Harrison

Pamela Thomas

Terrie Sypolt

30 Y EAR S College of Community Innovation and Education

College of Arts and Humanities Lyman Brodie

Robert Everett

Madelyn Flammia Keith Koons Shelley Park

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R ECO GNITION OF S ER V IC E TO THE UNIVE RSIT Y 30 Y EAR S College of Engineering and Computer Science

College of Sciences Clint Bowers

Kien Hua

Sudipto Choudhury

Kuo-Chi Lin

Michael Johnson

Zhihua Qu

David Nickerson Alfons Schulte

College of Optics and Photonics

Janan Smither

James Ross

Office of Research Jeffrey Sonne

40 Y EAR S College of Engineering and Computer Science Charles Hughes

50 Y EAR S College of Arts and Humanities

Division of Digital Learning

Walter Gaudnek

Charles Dziuban

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EMERITUS AND EMERITA Diane Andrews Associate Professor Emerita, Nursing Systems

Deborah Breiter Terry Professor Emerita, Tourism, Events and Attractions

Paul Desmarais Associate Lecturer Emeritus, Nursing Practice

Mary Ann Feldheim Associate Professor Emerita, Public Administration

Daniel Holsenbeck Senior Vice President Emeritus

Mujtaba Husain Professor Emeritus, Clinical Sciences

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Kuo-Chi Lin Associate Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Ali Orooji Associate Professor Emeritus, Computer Science

Haripada Saha Professor Emeritus, Physics

Rosemarye Taylor Professor Emerita, Educational Leadership and Higher Education

Thomas Wan Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Informatics

Denise Young Associate Vice President Emerita

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EMER I TU S A ND E M E RITA MEMB ER S OF THE FAC U LTY AND ADMINIST RAT ION Louis J. Acierno Richard Adicks Betty Anderson Henry R. Anderson Larry C. Andrews Robert L. Armacost Lee H. Armstrong Vicky Arnold Karen Aroian Graeme L. Baker Dale Bandy Beth Barnes Virginia Barr-Henderson Karl-Heinrich Barsch Donna Baumbach John F. Bergner, Jr. John E. Biegel Patricia J. Bishop Timothy Blair Robert Bledsoe David L. Block Robert Bohm John R. Bolte Glenn D. Boreman Subir K. Bose William Bozeman Jack Brennan Thomas Brewer Robert C. Brigham William R. Brown Ronald A. Browne Doug Brumbaugh Wayne A. Burroughs William G. Callarman Penelope Canan John Cannon William F. Carroll Christian Clausen Trevor Colbourn

Newel W. Comish Kristin G. Congdon Ida Cook David Cooper Richard A. Cornell Elaine B. Cox Albert T. Craig Richard Crepeau Glenn N. Cunningham Duane L. Davis Marcela Del Rio Richard G. Denning Narsingh Deo Robert Dipboye Paul Dombrowski Helen Donegan Ronald D. Dutton Arthur M. Dutton Charles D. Dziuban Llewellyn M. Ehrhart Leslie L. Ellis Burton E. Eno Ernest E. Erickson William K. Esler Thomas G. Evans Fred Fedler Lloyd W. Fernand, Jr. José Fernández Robert G. Flick Robert C. Ford Myron Fottler Earl C. Fowler Ke Francis Terry J. Frederick Robert Nash Gennaro Richard D. Gilson Paul Giordano Avelino Gonzalez Stephen Goodman

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Harold E. Green Harold L. Griffith Ratan Kumar Guha Harry O. Hall Richard C. Harden J. Paul Hartman Dona Lea Hedrick David E. Hernandez Terry L. Hickey Charles (Ross) Hinkle Djehane Hosni Yasser Ali Hosni Susan Hubbard John W. Hubler Thomas Huddleston, Jr. Phyllis J. Hudson Cynthia Hutchinson Michael C. Hynes David B. Ingram Mourad E. H. Ismail Diane M. Jacobs David R. Jenkins Rosie Webb Joels Mark Johnson William H. Johnson Daniel Jones Halsey R. Jones Frank E. Juge, Jr. Jeffery Kaplan Husain Kassim James Katt Robert D. Kersten Jean Kijek James L. Koevenig David T. Kuhn Shiou-San Kuo Marcella L. Kysilka Wendell Lawther Shirley A. Leckie

Aaron Liberman Leslie Sue Lieberman Jane Lieberman Ralph A. Llewellyn Steve Lotz Ernest J. Lytle Brooks C. Madsen Donald Malocha Linda Malone Patricia Cripe Manning Bruce E. Mathews Guy Mattson James D. McBrayer William McGee Nancy R. McGee Jack McGuire Waldron M. McLellon Milan D. Meeske Charles N. Micarelli D. Howard Miles Calvin C. Miller Ernest E. Miller Charles N. Millican Waltraud Q. Morales Ben B. Morgan Lucy Crymble Morse Michael Moshell Faissal Moslehy Amar Mukherjee Thomas A. Mullin Patrick Murphy David W. Nicholson Chad Nye M. Timothy O’Keefe Stuart E. Omans John A. Osborne Bernard Ostle Mary Palmer Peter T. Panousis Sampath Parthasarathy Gordon W. Paul Bruce Pauley

George E. Pawlas Andrew Payer Robert Leroy Pennington Julia Pet-Armacost Johnny L. Pherigo Ronald L. Phillips Roy Pickering Jennifer C. Platt Robert D. Pritchard Burt Pryor Ransford C. Pyle A. Essam Radwan Richard C. Reidenbach Wallace W. Reiff Samuel Richie Frank D. Rohtler Jack B. Rollins Ronald S. Rubin John H. Salter Carol Saunders Gerald J. Schiffhorst James Schott George F. Schraeder Jamie Schwartz David F. Scott, Jr. Donald Seay Kathryn Seidel Howard Sherwood Jerrell H. Shofner William T. Silfvast Frances Blackwell Smith Stanley Smith Harry W. Smith Franklin F. Snelson Paul N. Somerville Steven E. Sorg Donald Stap Allyn Mac Lean Stearman Consuelo E. Stebbins George I. Stegeman June S. Stillman Valerie Storey

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I. Jack Stout Steven Sutton Michael J. Sweeny Haven C. Sweet Michael Taylor Walter K. Taylor Phillip K. Taylor James S. Taylor Anthony P. Tesori Margaret Thomas William Thompson Herbert C. Towle LeVester Tubbs Richard D. Tucker Nicolaos S. Tzannes Charles M. Unkovic Mary P. Van Hook Eric Van Stryland Lynn W. Walker Ron Wallace Marty Wanielista Bruce Whisler Roseann S. White Gary E. Whitehouse Wilfred Wienke Diane Wink Rudy J. Wodzinksi J. Gary Wolf James Wright Burton Wright Edgar B. Wycoff Marvin M. Yarosh Gour-Tsyh (George) Yeh Mark Young Yousef A. Yousef Boris Zeldovich

REACH FOR THE STARS

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REACH FOR THE STARS

Kareem Ahmed College of Engineering and Computer Science

Luca Argenti College of Sciences & College of Optics and Photonics

Jacquelyn Chini College of Sciences

Kelly Kibler College of Engineering and Computer Science

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PEGASUS PROFESSOR

PEGASUS PROFESSOR ‘20

“Knowledge provides the opportunity to contribute.”

DR. RONALD DEMARA joined UCF in 1992, fresh from his doctoral program after previously working at IBM as an electrical engineer.

At the time, UCF was one of the smaller universities in the United States with a graduate degree program in his field of microprocessor hardware design. His research since then has centered on making computer chips more compact, reliable and greener.

Microprocessors are ubiquitous today, fulfilling vital roles ranging from thermostats to robotic vacuums.

While DeMara has had international success with his research, he is innovating ways to help students learn.

“I created an infrastructure called the Evaluation Proficiency Center so students can take their exams online, giving graduate teaching assistants and faculty more time to help tutor,” DeMara says.

WATCH VIDEO

PEGASUS PROFESSOR ‘20

“Reach for the planets.”

DR. JOSEPH HARRINGTON is an internationally renowned planetary scientist and a key member of UCF’s Planetary Science group. His research centers on exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars other than the sun. He also has an asteroid named after him: Joeharrington.

“Once I got here, the research group I founded made the first separate detection of day and night on an exoplanet and the first detection of disequilibrium chemistry on an exoplanet, which is a potential sign of life,” Harrington says. “We developed the methods we will use to detect life, once we have telescopes powerful enough to make the right measurements of planets that are hospitable to life.”

His work has been featured on the cover of the journal Science and has had several publications in Nature, bringing worldwide publicity for UCF.

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WATCH VIDEO

PEGASUS PROFESSOR ‘20

“The arts foster creativity and inspire change.”

DR. JULIA LISTENGARTEN is a theatre professor in a league of her own. Not only does she create and direct theater performances, she also writes about contemporary playwriting and theatre making – she’s published four books and over 20 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals.

Dean Jeffrey Moore describes her as dynamic.

“Julia is very diverse in her commitments. She has published with major journals but still has time to ‘run things’ at Theatre UCF,” he says. “She’s never satisfied with the status quo and cares deeply about the program and our students. She always goes the extra mile.”

While Listengarten says seeing her students up on stage is her biggest joy as a professor, she’s also been involved in two large, collaborative projects.

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WATCH VIDEO

PEGASUS PROFESSOR ‘20

“Virtual reality has long been a dream. Finally, it is a reality.”

DR. GREGORY WELCH is not a nurse, he is a computer scientist and engineer. So why is he in the College of Nursing?

Dean Mary Lou Sole has called his appointment an “experiment.”

“He was our first faculty to be a non-nurse,” Sole says.

“What would a computer scientist bring to us? He brought us his computer science knowledge to help us address clinical questions related to healthcare.”

One of those needs was how students practice on patients. It’s important for students, whether they are studying to become nurses or physicians, to learn how to interact with patients, and to diagnose things such as a stroke. Welch and his team developed the very first physical-virtual patient.

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“It looks a little bit like a department-store mannequin.”

WATCH VIDEO

PA ST R ECI PIENTS OF THE P EGAS US P R OF ESSOR AWARD Mohamed Abdel-Aty Maureen Ambrose Deborah Beidel Kevin Belfield Clint Bowers Daniel Britt Humberto Campins Zenghu Chang Arlen F. Chase Diane Z. Chase Demetrios Christodoulides Joshua Colwell Humberto Cruz Henry Daniell Peter J. Delfyett, Jr. Lisa Dieker Aristide Dogariu Karen Dow Charles D. Dziuban Llewellyn M. Ehrhart Jose B. Fernandez Robert Folger Michael Georgiopoulos Avelino Gonzalez David Hagan Kerstin Hamann Peter Hancock Kien A. Hua Charles E. Hughes Michael C. Hynes Jana Jasinski Jayanta Kapat

Naim Kapucu Waldemar Karwowski Alain Kassab Ranganathan Kumar Donald Malocha Reed Noss Jennifer Platt Tison Pugh Zhihua Qu Talat Rahman Debra R. Reinhart Kathleen Richardson Martin Richardson Robin Roberts Jeff Rupert Eduardo Salas Sudipta Seal Mubarak Shah Yongho Sohn Mary Lou Sole Eric Van Stryland Stella Sung Martine Vanryckeghem Linda Walters Marty Wanielista Graham Worthy James Wright Shin-Tson Wu Cherie Yestrebsky Cynthia Young Jiann-Shiun Yuan

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R ETIR ED AND R ETIR ING FAC ULTY College of Arts and Humanities

College of Health Professions and Sciences

Patrick Rushin

Cecyle Carson

College of Business Administration

Mary Dillon

Bradley Braun

Tom Ehren Michael Frumkin

College of Community Innovation and Education

Kenyatta Rivers John Ryalls

Walter Doherty

Gerald Smith

Dave Edyburn

Bonnie Yegidis

Michael Flint Donna Frazee

College of Nursing

Michael Hynes

Patricia Lafferty

Bobby Jeanpierre

Susan Ricci

Kathleen King Rosemarye Taylor

College of Sciences

Thomas Wan

David Kaup John Malala

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Philip Pollock David Rollins

Mostafa Bassiouni

Haripada Saha

Kuo-Chi Lin Fidelia Nnadi

Office of Research

Ali Orooji

Daniel Hull UCF Libraries Margaret Scharf

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STUDENT AWAR DS F OU NDER S ’ AWAR DS College of Arts and Humanities

College of Nursing

Taylor Pryor

David Frederick

College of Business Administration

College of Optics and Photonics

Marisa McCarty

Hannah West

College of Community Innovation and Education

College of Sciences Jenna Dovydaitis

Kyler Gray

College of Undergraduate Studies

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Jady Chen

Irene Tanner

Rosen College of Hospitality Management

College of Health Professions and Sciences

Sean McGrinty

Danielle Scognamiglio College of Medicine Cody Autrey

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STUDENT AWAR DS HONOR S IN THE MAJOR College of Arts and Humanities

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Anna Kester

Daniel Rosato

College of Sciences

College of Sciences

Julia Carlin

Alyson Johnson

OUTSTANDING MASTER ’S THESIS College of Sciences Lea Harvey

O U TSTANDING DOC TOR AL DIS S ER TAT ION College of Community Innovation and Education

College of Sciences Alireza Safaei

Saundra Tabet

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Our sincere appreciation to the following university groups and department personnel for their assistance: Commencements, Convocations, and Recognitions Committee Faculty Excellence Faculty Excellence Awards Committees Founders’ Day Committee Office of Instructional Resources Office of Presidential Events

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The University of Central Florida adopted the Pegasus as the university’s official symbol to reflect the institution’s purpose. The Pegasus represents the harmony between the humanities and the sciences and also the efforts of UCF, its students, staff, faculty, and alumni to Reach for the Stars.