Roland and Beth Dille
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award
The
Dille Fund for Excellence is
a
permanent endowment established in 1994 by the MSUM Alumni
Foundation, through the generosity of MSUM Alumni and Friends, to
honor the University’s former president, Roland Dille and his wife,
Beth Dille.
The endowment raised nearly $3.2 million in
gifts and pledges in 1994 and supports annual grants and the Dille
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award.
Each year, the
Dille Fund for Excellence
Committee and the President select one MSUM faculty member to
receive the Dille Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award. The Dille
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award is one of the highest honors
Minnesota State University Moorhead bestows to its faculty. Honorees
receive a $1,200 honorarium and commemorative desk clock in a brief
ceremony before they present the annual Dille
Distinguished Faculty Lecture to an audience of campus and community
members.
Dille
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award
Recipients:
2006-2007: Dr. Rinita Dalen, Associate Professor
of Anthropology and Earth Science, "Native American Landscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Perspective"
2005-2006: Dr. Andrew Conteh, Professor of
Political Science, "International Humanitarian Law in the Modern
Era"
2004-2005: Dr. Richard Pemble, Professor of
Biology,
“The Natural
History of the Red River Valley Region Before European Settlement”
2003-2004: Dr. Susan C. Imbarrato, Associate
Professor of English
"Writing into the Ohio Frontier: Women’s Travel Narratives,
1783-1830"
2002-2003: Lin J. Enger, Associate Professor of
English
"What I'm Learning as I Read" an exploration of the
importance of literature
2001-2002: Dr. Kathleen Enz Finken, Associate
Professor of Art History
"The Art Historian's Eye: Or, 'Seeing is Believing' "
2000-2001: Dr. Thomas Tammaro, Professor of
Multidisciplinary Studies
“Drinking from the Well by the Lake of Memory”
1999-2000: Dr. Shawn Dunkirk, Professor of Chemistry
“Bringing Chemistry to the Campus and Community: Reflections,
Opinion, and Commentary”
1998-1999: Dr. Theodore Gracyk, Professor of Philosophy
“Autonomy, High Culture and Higher Education”
1997-1998: Dr. Michael Michlovic, Professor of Anthropology and Earth
Science
“Archaeology, Myth-History and the Quest for the Ethnic Past”
1996-1997: Dr. Mark Mostert, Professor, Special Education and
Counseling
Call for Nominations, 2006-2007 Award
The Dille Fund for Excellence Committee invites nominations for
the 2006-2007 Dille Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award. Award
nominees must be:
- tenured faculty members (in any discipline) at
Minnesota State University Moorhead;
- respected by students and their peers for their roles as
teachers and scholars;
- respected by their peers for
developing stimulating ideas; and
- dynamic
communicators, able to effectively present their ideas to an
audience with wide-ranging backgrounds.
Faculty, staff, students and administrators may submit
nominations. To nominate a MSUM faculty member for this prestigious honor,
send a letter by December 13, 2006 detailing how the individual embodies the criteria of
the Dille Fund for Excellence Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award
to: Dr. Judy Strong, Office of Academic Affairs, Owens 205. The
honoree will be announced in January..
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