2013 Honorees

Allison received an associate degree in applied science (Animal Health Technology) from the Columbus Technical Institute in Columbus, Ohio in 1976, and was employed for the next 15 years as a certified veterinary technician in private veterinary practices...

Denise Blum is an assistant professor in social foundations in the College of Education at OSU. She is an educational anthropologist. Her research interests include domestic issues on the politics and pedagogy of education; Cuban and Mexican education...

Brakhage is a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in English. She a senior editor at Fire Protection Publications where she have been employed for 30 years...

Professor Brock retired from full time teaching in 2010 after completing 35 years with the Fire Protection and Safety Technology Program at OSU. He continues to teach seminars and short courses for CEAT Continuing Education...

Clint Clausing began working for Fire Protection Publications as a senior editor in November 2007. He has edited many manuals in his 5 years with FPP and is the writer/project manager of Fire Investigator 2nd Edition and Fire and Emergency Services Instructor 8th edition...

Rebecca Damron is an associate professor of English and director of the OSU Writing Center. She also directs the OSU Writing Project. She is a member of the rhetoric and professional writing faculty in the department of English...

William Merrill Decker (Ph.D., The University of Iowa) is professor of English at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams (1990), Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America Before Telecommunications (1998), and Kodak Elegy: A Cold War Childhood (2012)...

Dmitriev was born in 1946 in Leningrad. He graduated in 1970 from the Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. He earned his Ph.D. in 1990 from UCLA...

Dr. Dunford's experience as an engineer and scientist encompasses more than 30 years including positions in Turkey, Canada and the USA...

Guoliang Fan was born in Xi'an, China. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in automation engineering from Xi'an University of Technology in 1993, the M.S. degree in computer engineering from Xidian University in 1996, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware in 2001...

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...

Richard Frohock grew up in Grand Junction, Colo. and attended Colorado College for his undergraduate degree. After completing his graduate work at The University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1996, he joined the English department at Oklahoma State University, where he teaches courses in early American literature and 18th-century transatlantic studies...

James W. Grice (B.S., Wright State University; Ph.D., University of new Mexico) is a professor of psychology at Oklahoma State University. His work appears in such journals as Multivariate Behavioral Research, Psychological Methods, and the Journal of Personality...

Amanda Harrist is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science. She received her B.A. from the University of Texas in 1984 and her Ph.D. at University of Tennessee in 1991...

Kapil is a professor of clinical virology at the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences. He works on disease investigations focusing on Viral diseases of Animals...

Robert E. Larzelere is professor of human development and family science at Oklahoma State University...

Bin Liang is an associate professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of three books, The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System with Routledge (2008), China's Drug Practices and Policies: Regulating Controlled Substances in a Global Context with Ashgate (2009, coauthored), and Jurisprudence with Renmin University of China Press...

Lance Millis has been employed at OSU since 1989, including seven years in high school and college relations and more than 15 in academic advisement in the College of Education...

Michael Morris holds the N. Malone Mitchell Chair and founded 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...

Amanda Sheffield Morris is a developmental scientist with research interests in parenting, emotion regulation and developmental psychopathology...

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...

David D. Oberhelman is a professor in the Humanities-Social Sciences Division of the Oklahoma State University Library. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine and a MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh...

Professor Steven O'Hara has been a member of the teaching faculty at the School of Architecture since 1988. His primary areas of interest include the design and analysis of masonry, steel and timber structures, with special interest in classical numerical structural analysis and the design of concrete structures...

Dr. Bill R. Path is an Arkansas native and holds degrees in Bible, counseling, and higher education. He is currently the president of Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology in Okmulgee, Oklahoma where he enjoys coalition building activities and motivational speaking...

John Phillips joined the OSU School of Architecture Faculty in 2000, after working as a professional structural engineer for nine years. He received his Bachelor and Master degree from Oklahoma State University in 1990, and 1991, respectively...

Carisa Ramming is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Oklahoma State University. She joined the faculty in 2009 with six years of structural engineering consulting experience...

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...

Allen Scott, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Music History and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Music at Oklahoma State University...

Previously a faculty member at Louisiana State University, Dr. Shipka returns to Oklahoma St. after a 10-year absence. He received his undergraduate degree in Broadcast Journalism at OSU as well as his M.S. in International Studies...

Tom Spector earned his professional degree in Architecture at Georgia Tech and his Ph.D at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been on the faculty of the school of architecture at OSU since 2001...

Dr. Leon Spicer received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in animal science from the University of Minnesota and University of Idaho, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in dairy science from Michigan State University...

co-author of Handbook of Intellectual Styles, The Creativity Conundrum, The Nature of Intellectual Styles and Assessing College Student Learning: Evaluating Alternative Models, using Multiple Methods, and he is co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence, Confronting Dogmatism in Gifted Education, How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking and Cognitive Psychology.

Fred Stowell has worked as a Senior Editor at Fire Protection Publications for 12 years and will be retiring at the end of March...

Mike held the position of Project Manager/Senior Editor for this publication. He recently was hired as Marketing Representative for Fire Protection Publications...

Dr. Ramanjulu Sunkar received his Ph.D. in Plant Stress Physiology 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, USA...

Stacy Takacs (PhD, Indiana University) is Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at Oklahoma State University. She is also a core member of the programs in Screen Studies and Gender and Women's Studies at OSU...

Rebecca Groom te Velde studied organ, composition and church music with her father, Lester H. Groom, at Seattle Pacific University (BA)...

Ronald J. Tyrl is Emeritus Professor of Toxicology and former curator of the herbarium at Oklahoma State University...

Jacqueline Vadjunec is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Oklahoma State University...

Robert Wettemann, a Fellow in the American Society of Animal Science and a Charter Diplomate in the American College of Animal Physiology, focuses on endocrine mechanisms that control reproductive processes and the application of findings to improve reproductive efficiency of beef cattle...