- JULY 2004
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- PEOPLE
- Staff
Recognition Program Held for First Time in ULM History
- The first ever Staff
Rewards and Recognition Program in
ULM
’s history was held on April 12 in Brown Auditorium. The program honored
more than 290 classified employees who have given five or more years of
service to the university. This event marked the first time the classified
employees have been honored in such a way... [Read More]
- Assistant
Professor Receives International Award for Dissertation
- Dr.
Rebecca Watts, director of
educational research and a recent Ed.D. graduate of
ULM
, was recently honored at the annual meeting of the American Educational
Research Association (AERA) in
San Diego
. Her dissertation, The Education
Production Function: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Fiscal
Resource Variables and Student Achievement Across Louisiana School
Districts, won the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year award in an
international competition... [Read More]
- Dean
of Health Sciences Announced
- Dr. F. Lamar Pritchard
has been named Dean of the
College
of
Health Sciences
and the
School
of
Pharmacy
. Dr. Pritchard, currently Medical Science Manager at Bristol-Myers
Squibb, is set to begin at
ULM
in August. Dr. Pritchard is a fourth
generation pharmacist with broad experience including retail and hospital
pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry, and as a faculty member at the
University of Georgia College of Pharmacy... [Read More]
- Athletic
Director Announced
- Bobby Staub, the former
senior associate athletic director at the
University
of
Alabama Birmingham
, was announced as the
ULM
’s new athletic director on June 30. Staub replaces Bruce Hanks, who
announced his resignation in March after 3 years at the post. Staub will
begin in early August... [Read More]
- Dr. Mark Arant was
recently appointed Associate Dean of the
College
of
Arts
and Sciences at the
University
of
Louisiana
at
Monroe
. His appointment begins July 8. Dr. Arant currently serves as a faculty
member in the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Arant received a
bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from
Louisiana
Tech
University
. He earned a Ph.D. from the
University
of
Alabama
at
Tuscaloosa
in Organic chemistry, specializing in natural product synthesis...
[Read More]
- New
Coordinator of Alcohol and Drug Programs on Campus
- First
class treatment for students suffering from addiction is now available
at the
ULM
Counseling
Center
.
Denean Benard was recently hired as the Coordinator of Drug and
Alcohol Programs within the
ULM
Counseling
Center
.
Originally from
Monroe
,
Denean received her undergraduate degree from
ULM
in 1991 and her master’s degree in substance abuse counseling also
from
ULM
in 1995... [Read More]
- This
year again, Dr. Harihara Mehendale’s students won many national and
international awards and recognitions for their research papers and
presentations. Dr. Satheesh S. Anand,
a post-doctoral fellow in Dr.
Mehendale's Laboratory from March 2001 to August 2003, received a Travel
Grant Award at the 24th Annual Conference of The American
College of Toxicology in
Washington
,
D.C.... [Read More]
- Dr.
Chris Johnson’s, gerontology,
daughter Jessica will soon get married in
Hutchinson
,
Kansas
. Pearl
Thigpen, office of the president,
announces the birth of her grandson, Isaiah Allen Thigpen, on
June 1, 2004
. Isaiah is the son of
Pearl
’s son Brian and Sonya Thigpen... [Read More]
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