2012 Honorees

Originally from Gallipolis, Ohio, Brant Adams (b. 1955) holds a bachelor of music degree in piano performance from Capital University (Columbus, Ohio), 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...

Dr. Greg Bell is the Wayne and Jean Huffine Endowed Professor of Turfgrass Science at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. After many years as an industrial supervisor and business owner, Dr. Bell returned to school at the Ohio State University to finish a B.S. in Turfgrass Management followed by a Masters and Ph.D. in Agronomy with specialty in turfgrass science...

A former public school Spanish teacher, Denise F. Blum is an Assistant Professor in Social Foundations at Oklahoma State University, teaching Qualitative Methods, Comparative Education, Pop Culture and Education and Educational Sociology...

Cindy is a Senior Editor at Fire Protection Publications and has worked there for 30 years. She is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and lives in Stillwater...

Robert Burnap developed an interest in photosynthesis during a summer field course in marine biology at Woods Hole (Massachusetts, USA), while an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan from where he graduated in 1977...

Dr. Kathryn Castle, Professor and Chuck & Kim Watson Endowed Chair in Education, is a faculty member and Graduate Coordinator in the School of Teaching & Curriculum Leadership in the College of Education. Dr. Castle has been at OSU since 1975...

Clint Clausing currently serves as Editorial and Curriculum Project's Coordinator with Fire Protection Publications. He joined FPP as a Senior Editor five years ago. Clint has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature with an option in education from Oklahoma State University...

Bruce Crauder graduated from Haverford College in 1976, receiving a B.A. with honors in mathematics, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1981, writing a dissertation on algebraic geometry...

Lawrence Crosby, globally recognized expert on the measurement and management of customer relationships, became Dean and Professor of Marketing for the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, effective May, 2010...

W. Stephen Damron received B.S. M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. He joined the Animal Science Department Oklahoma State University in 1988...

Dr. Dursun Delen is the William S. Spears Chair in Business Administration and Associate Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU)...

Benny Evans received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1971. After a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he went to Oklahoma State University where he is currently Professor of Mathematics...

Evelyn Ferchau has been in the habit of composing (mostly) rhyming poetry since she was six. As with her favorite artist, Norman Rockwell, she attempts to write about things in such a way that it will trigger a general cord of recognition in others...

Jeff Fortney is a senior editor at Fire Protection Publications (FPP). He has served as project manager on International Fire Service Training Association's (IFSTA) Plans Examiner (1st edition), Industrial Exterior and Structural Fire Brigades (1st edition), Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (5th edition), Vehicle Extrication (3rd edition), Orientation and Terminology (5th edition), and Company Officer (5th edition) manuals...

Brian Frehner is an associate professor of history at Oklahoma State University. He received a Bill and Rita Clements Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America in 2004-05 and is the coeditor of Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest...

Perry Gethner is a scholar of early modern French literature, especially drama and opera...

Reuel Hanks is Professor of Geography at Oklahoma State University, and serves as the editor of the Journal of Central Asian Studies...

Rebekah Herrick is a professor of political science. Her areas of interest include gender and politics and legislatures...

Dr. Derina Holtzhausen (Ph.D. University of Johannesburg) is professor and director of the School of Media and Strategic Communications at Oklahoma State University...

Po Siu Hsu was born in Taiwan and immigrated to USA in 1979. He enjoys mountain hiking, camping, sketching, wood sculpture and cooking...

Robert Hunger was raised in Colorado on a dairy farm and obtained his degrees from Colorado State University (BS and MS) and Oregon State University (Ph.D.)...

Dr. Sheila M. Kennison is President of the Southwestern Psychological Association and an Associate Professor of Psychology at Oklahoma State University...

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...

Michael Larrañaga is Simplex Professor and Department Head of the School of Fire Protection and Safety Engineering Technology at Oklahoma State University...

David Leslie is the co-author of the most comprehensive chapter on the family Bovidae, the horned ruminants, and wrote 40 species accounts...

Jayson L. Lusk is Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University. He has previously served on faculty at Purdue University and Mississippi State University...

Leslie A. Miller is a senior editor with Fire Protection Publications. Born and raised in Stillwater, Okla., she graduated with a BA in English with honors from Oklahoma State University...

Shabana Mir is Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University where she teaches graduate courses in Qualitative Research Methods and the Social Foundations of Education...

Dr. Seungho Moon is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies at the School of Teaching and Curriculum Leadership (STCL), College of Education. During his doctoral study at Teachers College, Columbia University, he theorized curriculum as sociopolitical, cultural, gendered, and classed discourses...

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...

Lynne Murnane is a Stillwater resident and has worked at Fire Protection Publications for the past 25 years as a Senior Editor. She also is a graduate of George Washington University...

Few texts in emergency management engage readers in real life, real world case examples like this text...

Bradley L. Njaa is a veterinary pathologist and Associate Professor of Pathology in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology at the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences at Oklahoma State University...

Alan Noell received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1983...

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

Bailey Norwood is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University, where he researches farm animal welfare issues, survey methods, and teaching effectiveness...

David D. Oberhelman is a professor in the Humanities-Social Science Division of the OSU Library, and prior to that was on the faculty in the Department of English at Texas Tech University...

Dr. Passmore is an Associate Professor in the School of Applied Health & Educational Psychology, Leisure Studies, (Recreational Therapy)...

Carlos Quilaqueo, the story teller of these stories, lives in Laguna Blanca National Park, an area protected by the Argentinean National Parks Administration, in western Neuquén province...

Brenda Phillips is a Professor in the Fire and Emergency Management Program and a Senior Researcher with the Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events at Oklahoma State University...

Dr. Lionel M. Raff is a Regents Professor at Oklahoma State University, a rank he has held for 33 years...

Gerardo Diaz is a Dual Degree Master's on International Studies for Business and Economics, and in Marketing and Management; awarded by OSU and UPAEP, respectively...

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

Eric Reitan, a Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, specializes in ethics, nonviolence theory, and the philosophy of religion...

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...

Currently Assistant Professor of American, Modern and Contemporary Art History in the Art Department at Oklahoma State University, Louise Siddons received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2005...

The students of the Daily O'Collegian, led by sports and Ride to Victory editor Anthony Slater and designer Gerardo Diaz Ramos, compiled their work from the 2011 football season into this 168-page full-color softback book...

Lindsey Claire Smith is Assistant Professor of English, American Indian Studies, Oklahoma Studies, and American Studies at Oklahoma State University...

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...

Jessica Stewart began her career with Oklahoma 4-H in 2008 as the coordinator of special programs and promotions...

Fred Stowell is a retired Tulsa Fire Department Chief Officer and has worked for Fire Protection Publications/IFSTA since 2001...

Mike Sturzenbecker is a Senior Editor for IFSTA/FPP. He has over 12 years of emergency services experience as a firefigher and paramedic and currently serves with the Ingalls, Okla. Fire Department...

Michael A. Wieder currently serves as Associate Director of Fire Protection Publications (FPP) at Oklahoma State University. FPP is the world's largest publisher of fire service training and educational materials...

Professor Wilson has been a faculty member in OSU's Spears School of Business for 22 years, presently serving as Chair of the Management Science and Information Systems Department...