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from the issue of March 4, 2004
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3 UNL professors win NU honors
Three UNL professors have won the highest academic honors for teaching and research granted by the University of Nebraska central administration.
Susan J. Rosowski, Adele Hall Distinguished Professor of English, and Alan Kamil, George Holmes University Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology and director of UNL’s Cedar Point Biological Station, received the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Awards.
Joy S. Ritchie, professor of English and Women’s Studies, received an Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award.
The awards were announced Feb. 24 by Jay Noren, University of Nebraska executive vice president and provost.
The other honorees were Lisa Kelly-Vance, associate professor of psychology and director of the school psychology program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who also received an OTICA; and the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which received the Universitywide Departmental Teaching Award.
The ORCA recognizes individual faculty members for research and creative activity of national or international significance. The OTICA recognizes individual faculty members for sustained records of excellence in teaching. Each of the individual awards is accompanied by a $3,500 award. The departmental teaching award recognizes a university department that has made a unique and significant contribution to teaching and carries with it a $25,000 award to the department.
Rosowski is internationally known for her studies of Nebraskan author Willa Cather and continues ongoing projects in Cather studies, American women writers and scholarly editing. She teaches graduate seminars on Cather and Literature of Ecology, and has published several books including Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the Significance of the West in American Literature in 1999. She is general editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition and editor-in-chief of Cather Studies. She was founding director of the Plains Humanities Alliance, headquartered at UNL.
Kamil has a double appointment in the School of Biological Sciences and the Department of Psychology. His research focuses on animal behavior and specifically, the study of how animals use their cognitive abilities to solve foraging problems and detect prey. He has been funded virtually continuously for 30 years by the National Science Foundation and is considered an expert in the study of learning and memory of animals.
He is director of the Cedar Point Biological Station, operated by the School of Biological Sciences and located on the south shore of Lake Ogallala in western Nebraska. The site allows for the study of aquatic and land-based ecosystems for biology classes and research.
Ritchie’s work as a professor and director of the Women’s Studies program focuses on rhetorical theory, composition theory and pedagogy, feminist theory and pedagogy, teacher education and literary studies. She teaches several courses on women’s literature and rhetoric of women writers and has published several essays on feminism and composition studies. She is a member of the UNL Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
Profiles
The three UNL professors who won teaching and research honors from central administration will be profiled in articles this spring in the Scarlet.
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