Warren Goldstein, professor of
history and chair of the history department, College of Arts and
Sciences, will be presented with the
James E. and Frances W. Bent Award for Scholarly and/or Artistic
Creativity. Goldstein is a nationally recognized scholar
and author whose latest book, William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: A Holy
Impatience (2004), drew widespread praise from reviewers. He also is
the author of Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball (1989) and
A Brief History of American Sports (1993). Goldstein has been awarded
research grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the
Louisville Institute. His reviews, essays, and commentaries have
appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times,
The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, and The Nation.
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Laura Pence, associate professor
of chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Roy E. Larsen Award for Excellence in
Teaching. Through her lively and engaging teaching style, Pence
makes chemistry a compelling and relevant subject for science majors
and non-majors alike. Well respected for her rigorous teaching,
writing, and research standards, Pence also is known for her
exceptional dedication to mentoring students. She receives especially
high marks from her colleagues and students for her mentoring of
students who are working on their honors theses. “Dr. Pence doesn’t
just get you where you want to go,” said one former student. “She takes
you further than you ever knew was possible.”
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Walter Banzhaf, professor of
electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering,
Technology, and Architecture, will receive the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Award for
Sustain- ed Service to the University. Banzhaf has been a member
of the Faculty Senate for 19 years – 16 of them on the Senate’s
Executive Committee – and he has served both as chair and vice chair of
the organization. He has been a member of and has chaired the Faculty
Senate’s Professional Standards Committee, the Academic Standards and
Procedures Committee, and the Constitution and Bylaws Committee. He
also has made significant improvements to the Faculty Policy Manual
with particular focus on contract, ranks and titles, and on
tenure-track and grievance procedures. Banzhaf also has served on
the University’s Board of Regents.
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Charles R. Canedy III,
associate professor of marketing in the Barney School of Business, will
receive the Donald W. Davis
All-University Curriculum Award will be presented to Canedy has
designed and taught AUC courses since the program began in 1987, and
his wide-ranging knowledge of business, history, philosophy, and other
subjects embodies the multi-disciplinary nature of the program. In 1985
Canedy designed, with a grant from the Mellon Foundation, a course
called “The Dynamics and Environment of the World of Business.”
He has taught this AUC course every year since then. For the past
10 years, he has also taught, as part of the AUC program, a course
entitled “Discovering America: American Civilization, 1945 to the
Present.”
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