Honors and Professional Association Awards
Kent Butler, professor of counselor education, won the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development’s Samuel H. Johnson Distinguished Service Award.
Viki Kelchner, associate professor of counselor education, won the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors’ Training and Mentorship Award and the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling’s Counselor Educator Advocate Award. Additionally, she received the Samuel T. Gladding Inspiration and Motivation Award from the Association for Creativity in Counseling.
Ann Shillingford, associate professor of counselor education, was elected to be the 2024-2025 president of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development. She also received the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s Professional Leadership Award.
Dalena Dillman Taylor won the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling’s Researcher Advocate Award and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s Locke-Paisley Outstanding Mentor Award.
Amanda Walden, associate lecturer of global health management and informatics, received the American Health Information Management Association’s Triumph Educator Award.
Su-I Hou, professor of global health management and informatics, received a Fulbright Specialist Award to travel to Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
The School of Teacher Education was one of only two of its kind to receive the Shirley S. Schwartz Urban Education Impact award at the Council for the Great City Schools’ annual conference.
Staci Zavattaro, professor of public administration, was named a Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellow by the State University of New York’s Rockefeller Institute of Government for the 2022-23 term.
Donita Grissom, association lecture of world languages education, was selected by the U.S. Department of State for a three-week English Language Specialist project in Vietnam at Hai Phong University.
Journal Editorial Leadership
Dr. Seongho An, Associate Editor, Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, School of Public Administration
Dr. Andrea Borowczak, Associate editor, Journal of Science Teacher Education; & Associate Editor, The ASEE Computers in Education Journal (CoED), School of Teacher Education
Dr. Dan Eadens, Associate editor, International Journal for Educational Professionals, Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education
Dr. Jacinta Gau, Editor-in-Chief, Race and Justice, Department of Criminal Justice
Dr. Glenda Gunter, Associate Editor, Journal of Formative Design and Learning, Department of Learning Sciences & Educational Research
Dr. Shiva Jahani, Associate Methodology Editor, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights, Department of Learning Sciences & Educational Research
Dr. Varadraj Prabhu Gurupur, Associate Editor, Frontiers in Digital Health; Associate Editor, Journal of Integrative Medicine; Associate Editor, Journal of Integrated Design Process Science, School of Global Health Management & Informatics
Dr. Richard Hartshorne, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Technology & Teacher Education, Department of Learning Sciences & Educational Research
Dr. J. Richelle Joe, Editor, The Professional Counselor. Department of Counselor Education & School Psychology (new as of June 13, 2023)
Dr. Naim Kapucu, Associate editor, Public Management Review & Associate Editor, Disaster Communications, School of Public Administration
Dr. Claire Knox, Associate Editor, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management & Associate Editor, Natural Hazards Review, School of Public Administration
Dr. Sarah Larson, Associate Editor, Public Finance Journal, School of Public Administration
Dr. Young-Joo Lee, Associate Editor, Nonprofit Management and Leadership & Associate Editor, Public Administration Review, School of Public Administration
Dr. William Moreto, Associate Editor, Deviant Behavior, Department of Criminal Justice
Dr. Joyce Nutta, Co-editor, Journal of English Learner Education, School of Teacher Education
Dr. Elsie L. Olan, Co-editor, Florida Literacy Journal; & Frontier Secondary Education; Associate editor, Frontiers in Education, School of Teacher Education
Dr. Enrique Ortiz, Co-editor, NCTM Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, School of Teacher Education
Dr. Jennifer Peck, Deputy Editor, Journal of Crime and Justice, Department of Criminal Justice
Dr. Sherron Killingsworth Roberts, Associate editor, Early Childhood Education Journal, School of Teacher Education
Dr. William Russell, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Social Studies Research, School of Teacher Education
Dr. Sara Shaw, Managing Editor, Career and Technical Education Research (CTER), Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education
Dr. Dena Slanda is Editor-in-chief, Journal of the Florida Association of Teacher Educators, School of Teacher Education
Dr. Judit Szente, Associate Editor, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, School of Teacher Education
Dr. Michelle Taub, Associate Editor, Learning & Instruction; Associate Editor, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Department of Learning Sciences & Educational Research
Dr. Samuel D. Towne, Associate Editor, BMC Public Health, School of Global Health Management & Informatics
Dr. Scott Waring, Editor-in-Chief, Social Studies and the Young Learner; Editor-in-Chief, Trends and Issues in Social Studies; & Editor-in-Chief, Teaching with Primary Sources Journal, School of Teacher Education
Dr. Jungwon Yeo, Associate Editor, Informatization Policy; & Associate Editor, Natural Hazards Review, School of Public Administration
Dr. Staci Zavattaro, Editor-in-chief, Administrative Theory Praxis, School of Public Administration
College Awards
College Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Kourtney Nieves Global Health Management and Informatics
Carlton Patrick, Legal Studies
College Award for Excellence in Research
Dalena Dillman Taylor
Counselor Education and School Psychology
Research Incentive Award
- Barbara Andraka-Christou, School of Global Health Management and Informatics
- Yue Ge, School of Public Administration
- Qian Hu, School of Public Administration
- William Moreto, Department of Criminal Justice
- Abdul-Akeem Sadiq, School of Public Administration
- Dalena Dillman Taylor, Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology
- Scott Waring, School of Teacher Education
Teaching Incentive Program Award
- Norine Blanch, School of Teacher Education
- Lisa Brooks, School of Teacher Education
- Mark Bush, School of Global Health Management and Informatics
- Qian Hu, School of Public Administration
- Jacqueline Joe, Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology
- Reid Oetjen, School of Global Health Management and Informatics
- Debra Ross, Department of Criminal Justice
- Stacy Van Horn, Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award
- Haiyan Bai, Department of Learning Sciences and Educational Research
University of Central Florida Awards
Reach for the Stars Award
Bethany Backes, Criminal Justice
University Award for Excellence in Mentoring Postdoctoral Scholars
Bethany Backes, Criminal Justice
University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
Gulnora Hundley, Counselor Education and School Psychology
University Award for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students
Farshid Safi, Teacher Education