Honors & Awards

Fumie Kato, associate professor of Japanese at UNC Charlotte, has been honored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for outstanding achievements in promoting friendship between Japan and the United States.

Mark West is a self-effacing scholar who can deftly turn attention from himself to the students, faculty and staff in UNC Charlotte’s Department of English and to colleagues in the field of children’s literature. Despite his reticence to stand in the spotlight, others are shining a beam on his service and have chosen him to receive the 2016 Anne Devereaux Jordan Award.

UNC Charlotte’s Jeanette M. Bennett has been named one of the 10 Must Take Psychology Professors in Charlotte by the online site Careers in Psychology. “Educating the next generation of leaders and scientists has always been one of my primary goals,” Bennett says. “My classroom provides an environment that is open to questions and a safe place to process new student ideas.”

UNC Charlotte researcher Beth A. Rubin’s third paper on management citizenship behavior was one of 16 articles worldwide nominated for the 2015 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. Co-authors are Charles J. Brody and David J. Maume.

A UNC Charlotte organizational science graduate and two faculty members have received a best paper award for their research on gender and leadership.

CLAS researcher Joyce Dalsheim has won the inaugural J. Murrey Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award. Dalsheim is an assistant professor in UNC Charlotte’s Department of Global, Area, and International Studies in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Two researchers who have received major national awards in their field will join the UNC Charlotte Department of Psychology as core faculty in the Community Psychology Training Program this fall.

John Reeves, Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, has received a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2015-16 to work on his project “Illuminating the Afterlife of Ancient Apocryphal Jewish Literature.”

Michèle Bissière, associate professor of French in the Department of Languages and Culture Studies at UNC Charlotte, has received two prestigious national and international awards for her teaching and commitment to raising the prestige of French culture.

On April 23, Air Force ROTC hosted its annual Parade and Awards Ceremony in front of the Self Made Man statue at UNC Charlotte. This ceremony is rich in tradition as an opportunity for individuals to see the precise marching of military members.