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2011 Honorees

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Gregory Bell

author of Turfgrass Physiology and Ecology: Advanced Management Principles

Dr. Greg Bell is the Wayne and Jean Huffine Endowed Professor of Turfgrass Science at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK...


Moh'd Bilbeisi

author of Graphic Journaling


Shonda Brisco

co-author of No Shelf Required: e-Books in the 21st Century Library

Shonda Brisco is the director of the Mary L. Williams Curriculum Materials Library at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. She received her MLIS from the University of Oklahoma in 1999 and her BA in English and journalism from Northeastern State University in 1984...


Brett Carver

editor of Wheat: Science and Trade

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...


Dursun Delen

co-author of Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems (9th Edition) and Business Intelligence (2nd Edition)

Dr. Dursun Delen is an Associate Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU). He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management from OSU in 1997...


Victor Dmitriev

author of Philosophical and Poetic Thought of Russian Symbolism

Victor Dmitriev, author and professor, has taught Russian Language and Literature at Oklahoma State University since 1989. Born in the Soviet Union in 1946, Dmitriev has lived and worked in the United States since 1981...


Michael C. Edwards

co-author of Educational Leadership: Global Contexts and International Comparisons (Volume 11: International Perspectives on Education and Society) and Preparing and Advancing Teachers in Agricultural Education

Edwards serves as professor and director of student teaching in the Department of Agricultural Education, Communications, and Leadership at Oklahoma State University...


John D. Foubert

author of The Men's and Women's Programs: Ending Rape Through Peer Education and The Men's Program: Peer Educator's Manual and The Women's Program: Peer Educator's Manual

John D. Foubert, Ph.D. serves as Associate Professor and Anderson, Farris & Halligan Professor of College Student Development at Oklahoma State University...


Brian Frehner

editor of Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest

Brian Frehner is starting his sixth year in the history department at OSU. He teaches classes on U.S. history that emphasize the environment, technology, and the American Southwest...


Richard Frohock

co-author and editor of Academic Universe: Research and Writing at Oklahoma State University

Academic Universe: Research and Writing at Oklahoma State University has been designed specifically for use in Composition II at OSU...


Afshin Ghajar

co-author and editor of Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications and series editor of Engineering Heat Transfer and Conguate Problems in Convective Heat Transfer

Dr. Afshin J. Ghajar is a Regents Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA and a Honorary Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China...


Britton Gildersleeve

author of Trading with Devils

A native of Tulsa, Britton Gildersleeve spent most of her childhood and adolescence in Southeast Asia. Following her marriage, she lived for 10 years in the Middle East...


Alyson Greiner

author of Visualizing Human Geography: At Home in a Diverse World

Alyson L. Greiner is Associate Professor of Geography at Oklahoma State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin...


Jeanne Homer

author of Firmitas Utilitas Venustas: Architecture and Society

Professor Homer received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and her Master of Architecture at Arizona State University in Tempe...


Todd Hubbard

author of Resource Management for High Risk Users: Professional Airplane Pilot

Lecturer for the Federal Aviation Administration on the subject of Crew Resource Management, Dr. Hubbard, Associate Professor in the Aviation and Space program at OSU, is expert in the area of aviation human factors and resource management for commercial airline pilots...


Henry Jann

co-author and editor of Rehabilitating the Athletic Horse

This is a book about the restitution of soundness in horses which have been trained under seemingly ideal conditions, and nonetheless suffered injury. Most of the book's authors have had direct experience in performing medical and surgical interventions designed to correct athletic injuries...


Sanjay Kapil

guest editor of Veterinary Clinics of North America


David Knottnerus

co-editor of Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination and co-author of American Golf and the Development of Civility: Rituals of Etiquette in the World of Golf

J. David Knottnerus is Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. He earned an undergraduate degree in sociology from Beloit College and a M.A. and PhD in sociology from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale...


Julie Koch

editor of Voices from the Field: Defining Moments in Counselor and Therapist Development

Julie M. Koch, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at OSU in the School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology...


Mary Larson

editor of We Were All Athletes: Women's Athletics and Title IX at the University of Nevada

Mary Larson is the Doris Neustadt Professor of Library Service and the Head of the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at OSU, and she has been conducting oral histories for more than twenty years, having previously worked with programs at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Nevada...


Michael Lorenz

co-author of Handbook of Veterinary Neurology and co-author and co-editor of Small Animal Medical Diagnosis: 3rd Edition

The editors are faculty members at CVHS. Lorenz is dean of veterinary medicine, Neer is director of the teaching hospital, and DeMars is a faculty member...


Jo Lynch

illustrator of Lil Hay

Jo Lynch has been drawing or doing some sort of creating since childhood. By the time she reached high school she was producing amusing animal characters and small portraits...


Sundararajan V. Madihally

author of Principles of Biomedical Engineering

Sundararajan Madihally is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. He received his B.E. in Chemical Engineering from Bangalore University and worked as a consultant to pharmaceutical companies...


Khaled Mansy

author of Design Guidelines for Sustainable Biological Field Stations

Khaled Mansy is an associate professor in the school of architecture. He teaches and conducts research in the area of high performance and sustainable buildings...


Stephen W.S. McKeever

co-author of Optically Stimulated Luminescence: Fundamentals and Applications

Stephen McKeever is currently the Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer at Oklahoma State University and a Regents Professor in the department of physics. He joined the OSU physics faculty in 1983 and attained the rank of associate professor in 1986 and Full professor in 1990...


Samba Moriba

co-author of Educational Leadership: Global Contexts and International Comparisons

Samba Moriba is a Sierra Leonean studying for a Ph.D. in agricultural education in the Department of Agricultural Education, Communication and Leadership in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Oklahoma State University...


Michael H. Morris

author and co-author of Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Michael Morris holds the N. Malone Mitchell Chair and is head of the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. In addition to starting three ventures, he has built top-ranked entrepreneurship programs at three major universities. A pioneer in curricular innovation and experiential learning, his entrepreneurial outreach efforts have facilitated the start up and growth of hundreds of ventures...


JL Myers

fiction anthology contributor of Ain't Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing

JL Myers is an Oklahoma independent film writer/actor/producer and literary fiction author whose rough south style of fiction has been read and appreciated by so few, for so long, that it's about damn time a wider audience got down and dirty with him...


Jeretta Nord

author of A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur's Spirit: Women Entrepreneurs' Edition

Jeretta Horn Nord is a professor, an author and an entrepreneur. Dr. 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 department of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University...


Dennis R. Preston

editor of A Reader is Soiciophonetics

Dennis R. Preston (Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) has been visiting professor at the Universities of Indiana Southeast, SUNY Oswego, Hawaii, Arizona, Michigan, Copenhagen, and Berkeley and Fulbright Senior Researcher in Poland and Brazil and is currently a Co-Director of the recently established Center for Oklahoma Studies at Oklahoma State University...


Peter C. Rollins

author of America Reflected: Language, Satire, Film, and the National Mind

Peter C. Rollins, until his retirement in 2007, was Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University and Editor of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies. He is the author and editor of 15 books and over 100 published articles...


Karin Schestokat

author and co-author of Denk Mal! Deutsch ohne Grenzen

Karin U. Schestokat is a Professor of German at OSU, where she has been teaching German language and literature courses since 1996. She was awarded the title of German Teacher of the Year by the Oklahoma Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German in 2002...


James Scott

co-author of Choosing to Lead: Understanding Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs and The Politics of United States Foreign Policy, 5th Edition and editor of US Foreign Policy Today: American Renewal?

James M. Scott joined OSU as Professor and Department Head in August 2006...


Randy Seitsinger

author of One Hundred Years of Architectural Education at OAMC/OSU: 1909-2009

Professor Seitsinger started his professional career in the office of I. M. Pei & Partners in New York City. His four years at this internationally acclaimed firm formed the foundation to his design philosophy and approach...


Ramesh Sharda

co-author of Decision Support Systems and Business Intelligence and Business Intelligence: A Managerial Approach and editor of Decision Support: An Examination of the DSS Discipline

Ramesh Sharda is Director of the Institute for Research in Information Systems (IRIS), ConocoPhillips Chair of Management of Technology, and a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University...


Andrine Shufran

co-author of Insect Coloring Book

Dr. Andrine Shufran has been employed with the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology since 2003. She is currently Coordinator of the OSU Insect Adventure and an Associate Extension Specialist...


Betty J. Simkins

editor of Enterprise Risk Management: Today's Leading Research and Best Practices for Tomorrow's Executives

Betty J. Simkins, Ph.D., is the Williams Companies Professor of Business and a Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance at Oklahoma State University's Spears School of Business. She received her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University...


Celia Stall-Meadows

author of Fashion NOW: A Global Perspective

Celia Stall-Meadows is a visiting assistant professor in the Design, Housing and Merchandising Department in the College of Human Environmental Sciences. Fashion Now: A Global Perspective (2010, Prentice-Hall) is her second textbook...


Robert J. Sternberg

author of College Admissions for the 21st Century, co-author of The Psychologist's Companion, Explorations in Giftedness and Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success and co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity

Robert Jeffrey Sternberg, is an American psychologist and psychometrician and Provost at Oklahoma State University. He was formerly the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University and the President of the American Psychological Association...


Ramanjulu Sunkar

editor of "Plant Stress Tolerance" Methods in Molecular Biology and Plant Stress Tolerance: Methods and Protocols

Dr. Ramanjulu Sunkar received his Masters in Science and Ph.D. from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, India. He obtained his post-doctoral training at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, University of Bonn, Germany and University of California, Riverside...


Justin Talley

co-author of Ch. 15: Livestock Entomology (Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations)

Justin Talley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Oklahoma State University...


Robert Terry Jr.

co-author of Preparing and Advancing Teachers in Agricultural Education

Robert Terry, Jr. is the Roger Howell Professor of Agricultural Education and head of the Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Leadership at Oklahoma State University...


Theodore M. Vestal

author of The Lion of Judah in the New World: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the Shaping of Americans' Attitudes Toward Africa

Theodore M. (Ted) Vestal, PhD, is professor emeritus of political science at OSU, where for twenty years he taught courses on world politics and constitutional law emphasizing civil liberties and civil rights...


Barbara Walker

author of Literacy Coaching: A Collaborative Approach

Dr. Barbara Walker is professor of reading education at Oklahoma State University and teaches courses in reading difficulties and literacy coaching. She received the Regents Distinguished Professor for Research at Oklahoma State University (2007)...


Mark A. Wolfgram

author of Getting History Right: East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War

Dr.Mark A. Wolfgram is Associate Professor of Political Science (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2001)...


David Yellin

co-author of Integrating the Language Arts (4th edition) and Sharing the Journey: Literature for Young Children

David Yellin is a professor at Oklahoma State University, in the College of Education, Curriculum Department, where he has taught for 32 years...


Eduardo G. Yukihara

co-author of Optically Stimulated Luminescence: Fundamentals and Applications

Eduardo G. Yukihara is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University...