Awards

• Amy Davis won a 2005-06 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program.  By awarding these sixteen dissertatiion fellowship grants of $15,000 each to current Ph.D. students, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is supporting dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship by young scholars from a variety of academic disciplines.  Their initiative is designed to help launch a cohort of word-class scholars into the stude of entrepreneurship, thus encouraging future scientific advancement.  Amy's dissertation is titles "More than the Sums of their Parts:  Status, Teams, and Entrepreueurial Outcomes" and her advisor is Howard Aldrich.
• Bob Faris has won the Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) Impact Award.  This award, sponsored by The Graduate School's external advancement board of private citizens, recognizes outstanding graduate student research of particular benefit to North Carolina.  Bob's dissertation project on bullying and many of his other published papers have had a focus on North Carolina. 
• Gerald Lackey's Master Thesis  has won one of the Graduate School Education Advancement Board's (GEAB) Recognition Awards.  The award is given for outstanding gratuate student research that impacts North Carolina.  
• Dementrius Semien and Matt Ezzell won the Tanner Teaching award, the award was created in 1952 with a bequest by Kenneth Spencer Tanner, class of 1911, and his sister, Sara Tanner Crqwford (and by them on behalf of their deceased brothers, Simpson Bobo Tanner, Jr. and Jesse Spencer Tanner), establishing an endowment fund in memory of their parents, Lola Spencer and Simpson Bobo Tanner.  The award was establighed to recognize excellence in inspirational teaching of undergraduate student, particularly-first-and second-year students.  In 1990, the University expanded the purview of the Tanner Awards to recognize excellence in the teaching of undergraduates by graduate teaching assistants.  Only five such awards were given to graduate students from across the University, and the Department is proud to have two of the recipients among it's students.
• Kyle Longest was awarded a pre doctoral fellowship from the Center for Developmental Science for the 06-07 academic year.  As part of the fellowship, Kyle will attend a weekly seminar on "Early experience and later development: from choline to culture" that includes speakers from across the country.                         
• Matthew Ezzell is the first UNC-Chapel Hill student/post-doctoral student scholor recipient of the University Awards for the Advancement of Women, 2006.
  The award was based on the following criteria: 
   - elevated the status of women on campus;
   - helped to improve campus policies affecting women;
   - promoted and advanced the recruitment, retention, and upward 
     mobility of women;
   - participated in and assisted in the establishment of career or
     academic mentoring for women.

In addition to the honor, the award provides $2,500 to the recipient.