ACCOLADES :: ACHIEVEMENTS :: AWARDS

Jamal Rhadbane and Mansoor Bharmal

The Texas Campus Career Council has honored the Action Committee for Career Services with a 2006 Robert Murff Excellence Award for outstanding support of career services at UT Law School. Members of the Action Committee for Career Services during the 2005-06 academic year included first-year law student Jamal Rhadbane; second-year law students Mansoor Bharmal, Anna Geismer-Bowman, Jennifer Brill, Wes Cooper, Kristen Elizondo, Colette Fields, Juan Garcia, Laura Hebert, Roshan Mansinghani, Jacqueline Sorcic and Tanikqua Young; and third-year law students Melissa Devine, Anner Holder and Mitchell Zoll.

The College of Liberal Arts Student Division was named Outstanding Advising Program by the National Academic Advising Association. The Student Division is one of only four programs in the nation to receive the award. The Outstanding Advising Program Awards annually recognize programs that document innovative and/or exemplary practices resulting in improvement of academic advising services.

Patricia Somers, an associate professor in the College of Education's Department of Educational Administration, has been elected to a three-year term as vice president for research and publication for the national Council for the Study of Community Collegesy. Somers also will be joining the College of Education's Community College Leadership Program as a Fellow in September.

The Graduate School award recipients for 2005-06 are Frank L. Cole, Ph.D., nursing, 1988, outstanding graduate alumnus; Pauline T. Strong, folklore and public culture, outstanding graduate teaching award; Gary Wilcox, advertising, outstanding graduate adviser award; and Philip Guerrero, geological sciences, outstanding graduate coordinator awards.

Darlene Grant, a researcher who focuses on incarcerated women and their children, has been named 2006 Social Worker of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in Washington, D.C. Grant, an associate professor in the School of Social Work and an associate dean of graduate studies, will receive the award Aug. 5 at the annual meeting of the association in Washington, D.C. She also specializes in women with addiction problems, family systems and sexual abuse of children.

Capt. Donald Inbody of the UT Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps and a professor of naval science in the College of Liberal Arts, is retiring from the U.S. Navy on Aug. 24, stepping down from his post with the UT Navy ROTC. He will be relieved by Capt. Gabriel Salazar.

The Graduate Assembly has announced officers for2006-07: Randall Parker, speical education, is chair; Pauline Strong, anthropology, is chair-elect; and Phil Doty, information studies, is secretary.

The university’s National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) has hired nationally acclaimed author, speaker and technology strategist Mark Milliron as director. NISOD is the education outreach arm of the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) in the College of Education. Milliron joined NISOD on Aug. 1, after holding the position of vice president of education and medical practice at SAS, the largest privately held software company in the world.

Two interior design students have received scholarships in the amount of $28,433 from the Angelo Donghia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that awards multiple scholarships each year to interior design students from around the world. Dessislava Boneva, of Houston, and Garrett Seaman, of Garland, Texas, competed against 294 students from 147 programs worldwide accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation. Of the 12 universities receiving scholarships this year, UT Austin is one of only two public universities to receive two scholarships.

John Sibley Butler, director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and the IC2 Institute, was presented the Booker T. Washington Legacy Award June 4 by The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change, a nonprofit devoted to advancing conservative multiculturalism. Butler, a professor of management at the McCombs School of Business, was honored because of his research on the importance of business enterprise for wealth creation and job creation.