Newsmakers: May 6, 2008

The Tribune-Star

May 05, 2008 05:27 pm

— Amanda Harper recently was named stadium store manager by Maingate Inc., the exclusive merchandiser for the Indianapolis Colts. She will be responsible for the Colts’ corporate and promotional merchandise line and manage on-site sales operations at the new Lucas Oil Stadium.
Maingate and the Colts recently announced a seven-year deal making the Indianapolis-based marketing company the exclusive retail and merchandising company for the Colts franchise. In addition to the Colts. Harper comes to Maingate from Enterprise Rent-A-Car Inc. where she was the unit manager of the Anderson location. She is a 2006 graduate of Indiana University and a 2002 graduate of Terre Haute South Vigo High School.
For more information about Maingate, visit www.maingateinc.com/.
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Eight Indiana State University professors were recognized for distinguished, teaching, service, research and community-based learning April 16) during the university’s Faculty Recognition Banquet. Eight others received the President’s Medal, the university’s highest award for faculty.
Will Barratt, associate professor of student affairs and higher education, and Frances Lattanzio, professor of art, each were awarded the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award.
Named for a 19th century educator who helped shape Indiana’s public education system and served as the state’s second superintendent of public instruction, the award recognizes ISU’s most distinguished teachers.
An Indiana State faculty member since 1984, Barratt teaches courses on student affairs, higher education, diversity, consultation, campus environments, program evaluation and leadership theory and practice. His research and consulting work focus primarily on social class on campus, information technology in student affairs, and program evaluation.
During his ISU career, Barratt has served as a visiting scholar at Liaoning University in Shenyang, China and Liaoning Normal University in Dalian, China and was Holmstedt Distinguished Professor in the College of Education for 2006-07.
At ISU since 1975, Lattanzio teaches undergraduate and graduate photography classes and serves as an adviser for undergraduate students. She previously received the Educational Excellence Award from the College of Arts and Sciences in 2006 and was named Art Educator of the Year by Arts Illiana in 2003.
Darlene Hantzis, professor of communication and women’s studies, and Steve Lamb, chairman of the analytical department in the College of Business and professor of operations management and analysis, each won a Faculty Distinguished Service Award.
This award recognizes distinguished service outside the classroom. Excellence in, intensity of, long-term commitment to, and tangible evidence of the impact of service are the criteria considered in selecting recipients.
An ISU graduate, Hantzis has been an ISU faculty member since 1990. In addition to her faculty position, she is coordinator of American Democracy Project activities at the university as well as the Liberal Studies Program. Her previous service to the university included director of the women’s studies program, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, co-coordinator of the Lilly Project to Transform the First-Year Experience from 1997-2002 and as a member of the university’s Affirmative Action Committee from 1990-96. She was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow in 2002-03. She is currently a member of the Leadership Wabash Valley board of directors.
Lamb came to ISU in 1970. He has served as chairman of the Faculty Senate for a total of four years, as vice chairman a total of three times, as a Faculty Senate member 14 times since 1990 and its executive committee member 12 times since 1993. Lamb’s work on the Faculty Senate often dealt extensively with compensation issues, using his experience in salary regression studies as a research outlet. Other service to the university has included membership on a variety of search committees, the Networks Financial Institute Advisory Board from 2002 to 2007 and the University Enrollment Task Force in 2005-06. Recognizing Lamb as “an ambassador for Indiana State and the College of Business,” the college in 2007 presented him with its Faculty Recognition Award for exemplary service.
Robert Perrin, professor and chairman of the Department of English, and William Warfel, professor of insurance and risk management, each were awarded the Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research/Creativity Award.
Named for the early 20th century author who grew up in Terre Haute, this award recognizes full-time faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to their disciplines.
An ISU faculty member since 1981, Perrin was director of the university’s writing programs for 17 years. He has written six books on writing, research and style and has had numerous articles published in English and educational journals. His teaching includes courses in writing, grammar, editing and contemporary rhetorical theory. He previously received the university’s Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award in 1991 and was named Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1992.
A faculty member in the ISU College of Business since 1990, Warfel has written numerous articles that have been published in professional journals and trade publications, many of which focus on insurance law and legal issues pertaining to the liability exposure. He has been retained as a testifying and consulting expert witness by insurance agents, insurance carriers and policyholders. Warfel was recently quoted in an Arizona Court of Appeals decision that has positive, far-reaching implications with the respect to the availability of affordable builder’s risk insurance for general contractors who undertake major commercial projects. Articles discussing this decision were recently published in The John Liner Review and Risk Management magazine.
Charles Norman, associate professor of sociology, and Tom Steiger, professor of sociology, each were awarded the Community-based Learning and Scholarship Award.
This award was established in 2007 to recognize outstanding faculty who have made serving the community an integral part of their academic goals and activities through community-based learning activities and scholarship focused on community issues. Recipients are
A faculty member since 1968, Norman has performed extensive consulting work while at ISU, including a Lake County governmental services study, a community needs assessment for Step Ahead/First Steps of Hendricks County, a youth needs survey for the Indiana Youth Commission and diversity training for police officers in Vigo County.
His community service includes seven years on the Terre Haute Human Rights Day Steering Committee, six years on the board of directors of United Way of the Wabash Valley, four years on the advisory board of the Vigo County Public Aid Department and six years on the Wabash Valley Central Labor Council.
At ISU since 1987, Steiger was director of the university’s Sociology Research Lab from 1999-2007. During that period, he used student researchers in conducting dozens of surveys on topics ranging from crime victimization and jail overcrowding to alternative education in Indiana and the economic competitiveness of the greenhouse industry in Ohio. A 2006 survey of voter preferences in Indiana’s 8th Congressional District drew national attention. He also served as associate dean for student academic affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences from 1993-1995.
ISU President Lloyd W. Benjamin III presented the President’s Medal to Mary Ann Boose, John Conant, Jeff Edwards, Al Finch, William Giffin, Betsy Hine, Michael Murphy and Diana Quatroche. The President’s Medal is reserved for those whose commitment, dedication, and contribution to teaching, scholarship and service goes far beyond what educators are called to give.
Boose, professor, insurance and risk management and an ISU faculty member since 1995, was recognized for performing her duties as professor and program coordinator “with admirable enthusiasm and productivity,” for being “a tireless fundraiser” for the nationally recognized program and for going “far beyond the call” in providing students with opportunities for international study and travel.
Conant, professor of economics, has served the university since 1981. He was recognized for having mentored students at ISU and beyond in the areas of economics and social studies education; for conducting professional development workshops for teachers on economic education, internationalization and globalization; and for applied research for governmental agencies.
Edwards, professor of physical education and athletic training, has been at ISU since 1995. Edwards, acting chairman of the Department of Physical Education and interim chairman of the Department of Athletic Training, was recognized for his “great success” in teaching, advising and mentoring students preparing to serve as exercise physiologists.
During professor of exercise science Finch’s 28-year tenure at ISU, his professional activities in the biomechanics analysis laboratory have resulted in him serving as a research biomechanist at the 1982 National Sports Festival for the U.S. Olympic Committee Research Group, the International Track and Field Coaches Association at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, for the USA Track and Field Elite Hurdler Development Program and at the U.S. National Track and Field Championships since 1998, including the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials and the 2002 NCAA Cross Country National Championships. In addition to his service as a teacher and researcher, Finch was also recognized for his devotion to girls basketball, softball and soccer and for guiding the development of skill, sportsmanship and personal growth of youth in the Wabash Valley.
Giffin, professor of history, is completing his 40th year on the ISU history faculty. He was recognized for teaching generations of students, both undergraduate and graduate, “receiving enthusiastic evaluations from students year after year.”
Hine, librarian at ISU’s Cunningham Memorial Library since 1987, continues with great success to manage and administer cataloging activities and mentor new librarians, while her scholarly and professional work includes 14 local, state, national and international presentations and 12 publications and she “contributes significantly to the development of librarianship,” Benjamin said.
In 34 years at ISU, Murphy “has inspired generations of students” and “has established a record of service to ISU, the profession of clinical psychology, and the community, that is second to none,” Benjamin said.
Quatroche, professor of elementary, early and special education, and an ISU faculty member since 1998, “has devoted and continues to devote her time and expertise to serve her discipline and kindergarten-12 schools using the proficiency she has developed through research and teaching and in recognition of her leadership in the field of literacy,” Benjamin said.