2009 Honorees

Laura Belmonte is Associate Professor of History at Oklahoma State University...

Terry Bidwell has been at Oklahoma State University since 1982 and is Professor and State Extension Specialist in Rangeland Ecology and Management. His undergraduate degrees are in Forestry and Wildlife Ecology, M.S. in Wildlife Ecology, and Ph.D. in Rangeland Ecology with an emphasis in fire...

Moh'd Bilbeisi is an award winning educator, illustrator, and architect. He lectures internationally and he is considered an authority in the fields of Graphic Communication and Journaling...

David D'Andrea is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the History department at Oklahoma State University...

Dr. Dursun Delen is an Associate Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU)...

Dwayne Elmore grew up in Tennessee where he attended the University of Tennessee to obtain his B.S. in Natural Resource Management...

Fred S. Guthery is Professor and Bollenbach Chair of Wildife Ecology in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. He holds degrees from Oregon State University and Texas A&M University...

Deb Jordan has been at OSU for the past 12 years. This text is the third edition; she is currently revising the third edition of her text, Programming in Leisure Services: A Servant Leadership Approach...

Subhash Kak is professor and head of computer science at OSU. He is the author of 19 books – 11 books of essays and 6 books of verse, four in English and two in Hindi – some of which have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Serbian and Telugu...

Photographer Kelly Kerr was born and raised in Ada, Oklahoma. He graduated from OSU in 1989 with a degree in Management...

Jayson Lusk is Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University. He has previously served on the faculties of Purdue University and Mississippi State University...

J. S. Maloy is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University, where he teaches courses in political theory and American constitutional law and writes on a wide range of topics in the history of political thought...

Robert Mayer is Professor of English and Director of the Screen Studies Program at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (Cambridge 1997) and the editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen (Cambridge 2002)...

Larry L. Mullins, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at OSU. His area of research specialization is the understanding psychosocial aspects of pediatric chronic illness...

Dr. Debra L. Nelson is The CBA Associates Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management at Oklahoma State University...

Norwood was raised in the the swamps of South Carolina's low country. His interest in agriculture began in his youth when Bailey began raising horses, breaking horses, and roping steers...

Susana Perea-Fox is an OSU professor who has given voice to an author who has been silent for more than three decades...

David was born in Manhattan, Kan., raised in Ames, Iowa and moved to Stillwater in 1971. He graduated from OSU and served as a Peace Corps/agricultural extension agent from 1978 to 1980 in Sierra Leone, West Africa...

Brenda D. Phillips, Ph.D. is a Senior Researcher with the Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events and is a Full Professor in the Fire and Emergency Management Program, Department of Political Science, at Oklahoma State University where she teaches courses in emergency management, social vulnerability and community relations...

Daqing Piao is Assistant Professor of Bioengineering in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University. He received a B.S. degree with honors in 1990 from Tsinghua University in Beijing...

James Price has been writing and performing music since 1998. Growing up in Houston, Price played guitar and sang with several bands and finally found his calling as a singer/songwriter...

Eric Reitan, an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at OSU, specializes in ethics (especially nonviolence theory) and the philosophy of religion...

Liz Roth is an artist who depicts social concerns in a humorous way – whether it's about coworkers functioning as a reluctant substitute family in the United States (Cheeseburger Soup, a series about Madison Department of Transportation workers), or how Americans perceive the relationship between beauty and weight (she completed a nude self-portrait-a-day project for six months, see www.lizroth.com)...

James M. Scott is Professor and Head of the Department of Political at Oklahoma State University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 5 books, 45 articles, book chapters, and review essays, and more than 60 papers...

Ramesh Sharda is a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at Oklahoma State University. He is the ConocoPhillips Chair of Management Technology...

Ravi Sheorey is Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, where he teaches courses in applied linguistics and teaching English as a second language...

Lindsey Claire Smith is Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. She teaches classes on Native American literature, African American literature, and literature and the environment...

In addition to her position as organist of First Presbyterian Church, Stillwater (since 1991), Ms. te Velde has taught Introduction to Music at OSU since 1999. She is an active recitalist and clinician for workshops pertaining to service playing, performance, and composition...

Ronald Tyrl is a Professor of Botany at Oklahoma State University. His research includes work on the classification of vascular plants, especially the Poaceae and studies of the flora of Oklahoma...

David Ullrich is a Professor of Mathematics at Oklahoma State University...

Stephan M. Wilson is Dean of the College of Human Environmental Sciences and Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Oklahoma State University...

Co-author David Yellin has taught Literacy Education in the College of Education at OSU for the past 30 years. His research interests include whole language, writing development, children's literature and oral language development...