Twenty-four faculty members and hundreds of students will receive awards at Youngstown State University’s annual Honors Convocation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus.
Among the honorees are recipients of the Distinguished Professorship Awards, as well as Watson Merit Awards for outstanding department chairpersons.
The recipients:
For excellence in teaching
Lauren Cummins, Teacher Education
Francois Fowler, Dana School of Music
Patricia Hauschildt, English
Christine McCullough, Art
Matthew Paylo, Counseling, Special Education and School Psychology
Jennifer Pintar, Human Performance and Exercise Science
Salvatore Sanders, Health Professions
Thomas Smotzer, Mathematics and Statistics
Janet Williams, Teacher Education
For excellence in scholarship
Ou Hu, Economics
Karen Larwin, Educational Foundations, Research, Technology and Leadership
Kenneth Learman, Physical Therapy
Xiangjia Min, Biological Sciences
Yogesh Uppal, Economics
Thomas Wakefield, Mathematics and Statistics
Xiaolou Yang, Accounting and Finance
For excellence in service
Louise Aurilio, Nursing
Chester Cooper, Biological Sciences
Amy Crawford, Communication
Cryshanna Jackson, Political Science
Birsen Karpak, Management
Jay Kerns, Mathematics and Statistics
Tom Oder, Physics and Astronomy
Jeffrey Tyus, Communication
Watson Merit Award (for department chairs)
Janice G. Elias, Human Ecology
Ray Shaffer, Accounting and Finance