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Awards presented at annual faculty retreat
Three awards were presented during Baylor College of Dentistry's annual faculty retreat in January. Honors went to: Leeanna Bartlett,
director of the Office of Social Services in public health sciences, Service Excellence Award; Dr. Steve Karbowski, assistant professor of restorative sciences, Teacher Excellence Award; and Dr. Lynne
Opperman, associate professor of biomedical sciences, Basic Science Faculty Research Award.
The Basic Science Faculty Research Award and the Clinical Faculty Research Award (not presented this year) honor faculty members for their research activities. Open to full-time faculty members who have
been at BCD for a minimum of three years, the awards provide travel funds up to a maximum of $1,500 to each recipient to support a trip to the research conference of their choosing.
The Service Excellence Award recognizes excellence in at least one of three areas of service: community outreach and public service, institutional service, or patient care/clinical activity. Open to any
full-time faculty member, the award provides recipients a one-time $1,000 grant.
The Teacher Excellence Award provides a $1,000 merit payment to the recipient's base salary and a one-time $1,000 grant that can be used to support the development of new teaching techniques and
methods at BCD. The award is open to all full-time faculty members who have been employed at the college for at least three years. Recipients are charged with the task of mentoring a junior faculty
member in at least one of the areas of teaching, research or service.
The awards were the highlight of the faculty retreat, which was presented by BCD's Faculty Development Committee. The theme was "Peer Review: An Integral Component of Teaching Evaluation."
After opening remarks by Dr. Lavern Holyfield (BCD '77), assistant professor of public health sciences and chair of the committee, 75 BCD faculty members listened to guest speakers and participated in
two breakout sessions. Speakers included Dr. Charles Berry (BCD '73), associate dean for academic affairs and committee advisor; Dr. Nancy Chism, associate dean of the faculties and associate vice
chancellor for academic affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis; and Ann McCann, director of planning and assessment in academic services.
"A faculty retreat is an invaluable mechanism that brings the faculty together for a discussion of important academic initiatives at the college," Berry said. "The specific goal of faculty development in the
retreat format is to focus on a theme that facilitates communication and understanding of the key issues affecting faculty performance and continuous improvement."
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In addition to Berry and Holyfield, committee members include: Dr. Martha Alvarez, assistant professor of pediatric dentistry; Dr. Charles Arcoria (BCD '80), associate professor of restorative
sciences and director of continuing education; Dr. Miles Beach, assistant professor of periodontics; Dr. Peter Buschang, professor of orthodontics; Dr. Pedro Franco,
assistant professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery/pharmacology; Dr. Thomas Hasegawa, associate dean for clinical affairs; Dr. Leif Stromberg, assistant professor of general dentistry;
Dr. Kathy Svoboda, professor of biomedical sciences; and Tabitha Tavoc, assistant professor of dental hygiene.
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