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Professor Karen Dow (right) of the School of Nursing was selected to receive a Pegasus Professor Award for 2006. The award recognizes
sustained excellence in teaching, research and service and is the most prestigious honor given to a faculty member at the University of Central Florida.
Dow received the award from UCF President John Hitt (left) at the Founders' Day Convocation, held April 5, 2006, in the Pegasus Ballroom. She is the ninth faculty member to receive the award, which was first given out in 2000. The tenth recipient,
Mubarak Shah of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was also recognized at the April 2006 event.
Each winner receives a check for $5,000; a statue of Pegasus, the UCF symbol; and a gold medallion engraved with a Pegasus logo and his or her name.
For a full report on the award recipients, see
"Karen Dow, Mubarak Shah Win Pegasus Professor Awards."
Other Founders' Day award recipients from the College of Health and Public Affairs included:
Univesity and COHPA Excellence in Graduate Teaching
- Bari Hoffman Ruddy, Communicative Disorders
University Excellence in Faculty Academic Advising
University Excellence in Professional Service
- K. Tom Liou, Public Administration
COHPA Founders' Day Student
- Andrea "Melissa" Coral, Social Work
COHPA Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
- Jennifer Kent-Walsh, Communicative Disorders
- Abby Fromang Milon, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies
COHPA Excellence in Distinguished Research
Retired or Retiring Faculty, 05-06
- Claire Massey, Social Work
- Tom Mendenhall, Health Professions
- Mary Van Hook, Social Work
Thirty Years of Service to UCF
- L. Timothy Worrell, Health Professions
Twenty Years of Service to UCF
- Jay Jurie, Public Administration
- Debbie Phillis, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies and Public Administration
- Patricia Welker, Health Professions
Photo: Thomas Alan Smilie
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