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Faculty Honors & Awards

This list represents awards won while recipients were members of the UT Dallas BBS faculty.

Aage Møller Teaching Award (BBS)

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Faculty MemberAcademic Year
Lucinda Dean2023-2024
Rukhsana Sultana2022-2023
Meridith Grant2021-2022
Mandy Maguire2021-2022
Salena Brody2020-2021
No Award Given2019-2020
Kristen Kennedy2018-2019
Emily Touchstone2017-2018
Noah Sasson2016-2017
Jackie Nelson2015-2016
Shayla Holub2014-2015
Tres Thompson2013-2014
Christa McIntyre2012-2013
Jan Lougeay2011-2012

Advancing Academic-Research Careers Award, American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASHA)

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Faculty MemberYear
Kelly Jahn2023
Pumpki Lei Su2023

Distinguished Lecturer (BBS)

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Faculty MemberTitleYear
Lisa GoffmanDevelopment of Sequential Dependencies in Typical and Atypical Language Learners2023
No Award Given2022
No Award Given2021
Denise ParkThe Aging Mind: Fragile But Resilient2020
Alice O’TooleFace Representations in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks2019
Hanna UlatowskaFrom Stories to Wisdom: Communicative Competence in Testimonial Language of WWII Pilot Veterans2018
Margaret OwenChild Care, Families, and Cultural Contexts of Children’s Development2017
James BartlettMemory for Faces and Other Things2016
Ross RoeserScientific Truth (In Audiology): The Process2015
Susan JergerPerceiving Things Not as They Are, But as We Are2014
Jay DowlingHow We Remember Melodies2013
Aage MøllerThe Brain is Plastic: For Good and For Bad2012

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Faculty Member
Denise Park
Steven Small
Michael Rugg

Fellow, American Psychological Association

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Faculty Member
James Bartlett
Bert Moore
Alice O’Toole
Denise Park

Fellow, American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association

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Faculty Member
Julia Evans
Judith Rich
Emily Tobey

Fellow, Association for Psychological Science

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Faculty Member
James Bartlett
Bert Moore
Margaret Owen
Alice O’Toole
Denise Park
Michael Rugg
Melanie Spence
Marion Underwood

Honors of the Association Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

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Faculty MemberAward Year
Lisa Goffman2022
Julia Evans2017
Thomas Campbell2014
Anne van Kleeck2013

President’s Teaching Excellence Awards (UT Dallas)

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Faculty MemberAward YearAward Area
Salena Brody2022Award in Undergraduate Instruction (non-tenure-track)
Salena Brody2020Award in Undergraduate Instruction (non-tenure track)
Joanna Gentsch2019Award in Undergraduate Instruction (non-tenure-track)
Robert Ackerman2018Award in Graduate/Professional Instruction
Van Miller2012Award in Undergraduate Instruction (non-tenure-track)
Aage Møller2011Award for Tenure-Track Faculty

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Provost’s Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring (UT Dallas)

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Faculty MemberAward Year
Benedict Kolber2024
Jonathan Ploski2017
Sven Kroener2013

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Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards (UT System)

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Faculty MemberAward Year
Salena Brody2022
Joanna Gentsch2020
Noah Sasson2019
Karen Huxtable-Jester2013
Candice Mills2011

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Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science

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Faculty Member
Kristen Kennedy
Denise Park
Karen Rodrigue

UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers (UT System)

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Faculty MemberAward Year
Salena Brody2023
Joanna Gentsch2021
Karen Huxtable-Jester2017

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Women Leading in Diversity Award

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Faculty MemberAward Year
Mandy Maguire2023
Salena Brody2017

Additional Faculty Honors & Awards

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Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh

Faculty Member
Michael Rugg

Inclusive Teaching Diversity Award (UT Dallas)

Faculty MemberAcademic Year
Robert Ackerman2014

Maltz Prize for Innovative and Promising Schizophrenia Research

Faculty MemberAcademic Year
Amy Pinkham2023

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Mayday Fellows

Faculty MemberAcademic Year
Michael Burton2024

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Mitchell Max Award for Research Excellence (NIH)

Faculty MemberAcademic Year
Michael Burton2019

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Rita Allen Foundation Scholars

Faculty MemberAcademic Year
Katelyn Sadler2024

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Texas Piper Professors (UT Dallas)

Faculty MemberAcademic Year
Karen Huxtable-Jester2019

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