Dan Hammett, professor of art, was named the 2010 King Fellow and Amy Fisher Smith, associate professor of psychology, was named the 2010 Haggar Fellow at the University of Dallas King/Haggar Awards event on Feb. 22, 2010. The awards are considered the highest academic honors that faculty can receive from the University and the recipients are nominated each year by their fellow faculty members.

Dan Hammett, professor of art

The King Fellow honor has been awarded annually since 1985 to a senior member of the faculty who holds the rank of associate or full professor and who has served the University full-time for more than eight years. King Fellows are chosen by how their life and work have made a significant contribution to the excellence of education at the University of Dallas and how they exemplify the best qualities of a teacher, colleague and scholar.

Amy Fisher Smith, associate professor of psychology

The Michael A. Haggar Fellow has been awarded annually since 1985 to a member of the regular faculty who holds the rank of assistant or associate professor and has served the University full-time for eight or fewer years. Haggar Fellows are recognized as an accomplished teacher and promising scholar, whose teaching manifests a continuing reflection on the place of his or her own discipline within the mission of the University.

King/Haggar Scholar Awards are presented to faculty members whose proposals for study projects have been selected to help offset expenses.

·        Debra Baldwin, associate professor of English, for completion of a paper and travel to a conference

·        Marcy Brown Marsden, associate professor of biology, for her work with the Pulich Scientific Committee and for research

·        Bill Frank, professor of philosophy, for research and travel to a conference

·        Mark Goodwin, associate professor of theology, for archaeological work in Israel

·        Eileen Gregory, professor of English, for work on essays

·        Tom Jodziewicz, professor of history, for completion a book

·        Andrew Moran, assistant professor of English, for work on an article

·        Richard Peregoy, associate professor of management, for a conference presentation on leadership

·        Juergen Strunck, professor of art, for new projects in print making

·        Steven Stryer, assistant professor of English, for work on a publication from his dissertation

·        J. Lee Whittington, professor of management, for research for the PEP program

The University announced the sabbatical recipients, which are based on applications from regular, tenure-track faculty members. Sabbatical recipients are:

·        Sri Beldona, associate professor of management, to revise, rewrite and finish the paper "Item Deletion or Addition in Categories by Retailers: A Re-examination and New Insights"

·        David Davies, assistant professor of English, to do research and complete a book-length project on "Talking in the Garden: The Rational Endowment of Adam and Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost"

·        Susan Hanssen, associate professor of history, to complete a book-length study of "The Education of Henry Adams"

·        Theresa Kenney, associate professor of English, to complete a book on Jane Austen and her ideas about conscience

·        Joshua Parens, professor of philosophy, to complete a book "Maimonides and Spinoza: Recovering the Differences Between Medieval and Modern" and two articles or another book draft on Alfarabi

·        Phil Shore, associate professor of art, to complete a sculpture project incorporating auditory components

·        Juergen Strunck, Professor of Art, to produce a consistent body of prints for a special exhibition