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Please find attached, the call for nominations for the Teaching and Resource Professional excellence awards covering the time period from July 1, 2010 to August 31, 2011. Nominations/supporting documentation are due no later than April 4.

The President has announced the following individuals as recipients of the 2011 Excellence Awards:

James Blair – Communication, Media, and Theatre
Pamela Czech – World Languages and Cultures
Gilo Kwesi Logan – Project Success
Kara Nuss – Biology

Congratulations to all.

The President has announced the following individuals as recipients of the 2011 Faculty Excellence Awards:

Teaching/Performance of Primary Duties
Nancy Matthews – Justice Studies
William Sieger – Art
Jennifer Slate – Biology

Research/Creative Activities
Sangmin Bae – Political Science
Vicki Byard – English
Richard Hallett – Linguistics
Travis Heath – Music
Laura Sanders – Earth Science
Brian Schultz – Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies
Rose Sperrazza – Music
Qiumei Jane Xu – Management and Marketing
Shencheng Xu – Art
Russell Zanca – Anthropology

Service
Gregory Neddenriep – Political Science
Nanette Potee – Communication, Media, and Theatre

Congratulations to all.

I’ve been advised that the Excellence Awards recipients will be announced by the end of the week. These awards will be retroactive to July 1, 2011 for ASP and to September 1, 2011 for the other employee groups. Congrats to all.

There is one more round of excellence awards to go and we’ll be caught up after those long years of negotiations. The call for this next round should occur before spring break so watch your email. The recipients of the next round of awards will have their salaries adjusted in July 1, 2012 or September 1, 2012.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – A man who led Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago for nearly a decade and served as an interim chancellor of the University of Missouri system and other intuitions has died.

Current University of Missouri interim President Steve Owens released a statement Thursday night announcing that Gordon Lamb died Monday. He was 77.

System spokeswoman Jennifer Hollingshead said in an email that she didn’t know where he died or his cause of death.

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