2010 Honorees

Dr. Charles Abramson is a Regents Professor of psychology at Oklahoma State University. His teaching interests include Learning and Memory, Comparative Animal Behavior, Biological Psychology and History of Psychology...

Originally from Gallipolis, Ohio, Brant Adams holds a bachelor of music degree in piano performance from Capital University, a master of music degree in music theory from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a Ph.D. in theory from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied composition with Donald Grantham...

Originating from Atlanta, GA, Dr. Carver studied at the University of Georgia in Athens, where his contact with several influential agronomists, such as Dr. Weaver (cotton geneticist and breeder) and Dr. R.H. Brown (crop physiologist), shaped and directed his career in crop science...

Dr. Stephen Damron is a Professor of Animal Science at Oklahoma State University. He received his B.S. in Agriculture and Animal Science from the University of Tennessee at Martin...

Kyle Eastham is a professional speaker who helps government, corporate and association audiences build a culture of excellence and accountability. Eastham worked in state and federal government for 23 years as a buyer, game warden, trainer and HR manager before launching his own business...

This work examines how writers in the San Francisco Bay Area developed a multiculturalist American literature. This study counteracts popular narratives of multiculturalism's boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s by showing that a large group of culturally eclectic writers in the Bay Area were re-envisioning American identity many years earlier...

Dr. Good is a Professor and the Noble Foundation Chair of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University, where he has served since 1980. His bachelors, masters and doctor of philosophy degrees were obtained at OSU with experience gained at Rockwell International and Cessna Aircraft Company between degrees...

Lane Greer's experience with woody cuts originates from her own cut flower farm, where she raised an acre of annuals, perennials, and woody shrubs...

Dr. Harimkar is an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville...

Thomas Lanners, professor of piano at OSU, has appeared as a solo and collaborative pianist throughout the U.S. and abroad, presenting his New York solo debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2004...

Bin Liang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa. He received his Ph.D. and J.D. from Arizona State University...

Carol Mason is director of Gender and Women's Studies and associate professor of English at Oklahoma State University. Mason's interdisciplinary scholarship on race, gender, sexuality and the rise of the right since the 1960s complements teaching interests in feminist pedagogy, critical theory and American culture...

Dr. Gary Meek is the Oscar S. Gellein/Deloitte and Touche Professor of Accounting at Oklahoma State University...

Lance Millis has more than 20 years of service to OSU, including 7 in high school and college relations and more than 13 in Student Services in the College of Education. He has been involved in new student enrollment, taught Freshmen Orientation courses, and has won campus awards for his academic advising...

Roger Moore is a Persian Gulf veteran, serving in the United States Army from 1990-95. A Stillwater native, Roger is a freelance journalist who has also been a part of the Oklahoma State wrestling broadcast since 1998...

Michael H. Morris is the N. Malone Mitchell Chair in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. He earned his B.A. and M.S. in economics and an M.B.A. from Wright State University...

Jeretta Horn Nord is the founder and CEO of Entrepreneur Enterprises, LLC, founder of A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur's Spirit book series and a professor in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University...

David D. Oberhelman is an associate professor in the humanities social sciences division of the OSU Library, and prior to that was on the faculty in the department of English at Texas Tech University...

Dennis R. Preston is Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Hawaii, Arizona, Michigan, Copenhagen, and Berkeley and a Fulbright Researcher in Poland and Brazil...

James M. Scott, Professor and Head of Political Science at Oklahoma State University, is co-author (with Ralph G. Carter) of Choosing to Lead: Understanding Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs (Duke University Press, 2009), and the author, co-author or editor of four other books and more than 40 articles, chapters, and other publications...

Marcella Sirhandi is a specialist in 20th century and contemporary art of South Asia, with 3 books on Indian and Pakistani artists, a book on the history of modern and contemporary Pakistani art and 4 catalogs on Indian and Pakistani art and artists...

Jill Talbot earned her Ph.D. in Contemporary American Literature and Film from Texas Tech University. She received her MA in creative writing from the University of Colorado, where she was twice the recipient of the Jovanovich Award for best manuscript...

Perhaps uniquely among mathematical topics, complex analysis presents the student with the opportunity to learn a thoroughly developed subject that is rich in both theory and applications. Even in an introductory course, the theorems and techniques can have elegant formulations...

John Weir is a Research Associate in the Natural Resource Ecology Management Department at OSU where he teaches courses on conducting prescribed burns and holds workshops on this subject for the government, private landowners and other agencies...

Dr. Yarlagadda taught for more than 40 years at Oklahoma State University and is retired. He co-authored the following three textbooks: Hadamard Matrix Analysis and Synthesis with Applications to Communications and Signal/Image Processing, Klewer Academic Publishers, 1997; The Elements of System Design, Academic Press, 1994; and Data Transportation and Protection, Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1986. Dr. Yarlagadda is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers...