Faculty award winners, from left, had been G. David Gearhart, Suzanne Kucharczyk, Michael T. Miller, Jim Maddox, Gema Zamarro, Charlene Johnson Carter and Kara Lasater. Not pictured: Allison Ames Boykin.
College of Education and Health Professions Dean Brian Primack lately honored 2021-22 excellent college award winners at an end-of-year celebration occasion.
Each yr, the school College Council evaluations purposes for varied awards, concentrating on important features of professorial life and work. “Each of these recipients has made distinctive contributions to their fields,” Primack stated. “We thank them for his or her dedication to instructing, mentoring and analysis.”
Michael T. Miller, professor of increased training
Outstanding Advising and Mentoring Award
Miller suggested 21 doctoral and 15 grasp’s college students and chaired seven profitable dissertations in 2021. His college students describe him as serving to them change into the absolute best model of themselves. One stated when the worldwide pandemic led many college students to really feel overwhelmed and anxious, Miller challenged his advisees to “obtain greater than they ever thought doable whereas making room for every scholar to be human.”
Gema Zamarro, professor of economics and training reform, Endowed Chair in Teacher Quality
Significant Research Award
Nominators acknowledged that Zamarro has emerged as one of the nation’s main researchers in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic, notably its impacts on instructor labor markets, academic alternatives for households, and gender variations in work life, house life, and psychological well being. Her scholarship has been printed in first-tier tutorial journals resembling Educational Researcher and featured in outstanding media shops resembling Scientific American, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Zamarro’s analysis continues to be cited as students research the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
About the College of Education and Health Professions: The College of Education and Health Professions gives superior tutorial levels in addition to skilled growth alternatives and studying communities in service to the training and well being techniques of Arkansas and past. The school offers the training and experiences for a spread of skilled roles, starting from neighborhood psychological well being counselors to highschool lecturers and leaders. Programs in grownup and increased training, together with academic know-how and sport administration, provide a broad vary of choices. In addition to education-related alternatives, the school prepares nurses, speech-language pathologists, well being educators and directors, recreation professionals, rehabilitation counselors and human efficiency researchers.
