Santa Clara University

2006 - Present

College of Arts and Sciences

Rose Marie Beebe, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Robert Senkewicz, History

Received the 2006 Award of Meritorious Performance from the California Council for the Promotion of History.

Simone Billings, English

Named the Elaine W. Hughes Outstanding Sponsor Award winner for 2007 by Sigma Tau Delta’s Student Leadership Committee. This award, named for a longtime Sigma Tau Delta past president, recognizes at the national level only one outstanding sponsor a year.

Dale Cruikshank, Physics

Received the 2006 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize in Planetary Science. Established by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, this award recognizes outstanding contributors to planetary science.

Blake de Maria, Art and Art History

Chosen as 2006–2007 recipient of the Renaissance Society of America's Younger Scholar Research Award.

Laura Ellingson, Communication

Received three awards for her book, Communicating in the Clinic: Negotiating Frontstage and Backstage Teamwork: the 2006 Book Award, the 2006 Book of the Year Award, and the 2006 Outstanding Scholarly Book Award. The awards were given by the National Communication Association divisions of Ethnography, Applied Communication and Organizational Communication.

Marilyn Fernandez, Sociology

Elected vice president of the Pacific Sociological Association in the 2006-07 AY.

Linda Garber, English and Women’s and Gender Studies

Received the Michael Lynch Service Award of the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA, for her work at SCU, particularlyfor co-founding and organizing the “Out There” conference during the 2006-07 academic year.

Alma Garcia, Sociology

Appointed to the Jessie Bernard Award Committee of the American Sociological Association during the 2006-07 academic year.

Dennis Gordon, Political Science and International Programs

Received the International Education of Students Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2006-07 academic year.

Leslie Gray, Environmental Studies

Received an African Regional Research Fulbright award to conduct research on cotton, poverty, and the environment in Burkina Faso during the 2006-07 academic year.

Francisco Jiménez '66, Modern Languages and Literatures

Received Napa County Hispanic Network's Friends of the Hispanic Network Award for his “contributions to education and for being an inspiration to youth.” Named one of the 100 Most Influential Latinos of Silicon Valley by the Mexican American Community Services Agency along with Ana María Pineda, Religious Studies in 2007.

Gerald McKevitt, S.J., History

In fall 2007 McKevitt received the 33rd annual Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association for his book Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919 (Stanford University Press 2006).

Laura Nichols, Sociology

Directed a team of SCU sociology majors who won the 2007 Problem Solving Award from the Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology. The team included Olga Vasserman, Cristina Sanidad, Rebecca Jones, Patricia McGlynn, and Zack Marisca.

Ana María Pineda, Religious Studies

Named one of the 100 Most Influential Latinos of Silicon Valley by the Mexican American Community Services Agency in 2007 along with Francisco Jiménez '93, Modern Languages and Literatures. Pineda also received an honorary doctorate of theology, honoris causa, from St. Xavier University in Chicago, and was chosen as an at-large member of the steering committee of Christian Churches Together in the USA—a broadly inclusive new ecumenical group.

William Stover, Political Science, and Michael Ballen, Media Services

Won Best Educational Film, “Information Technology and International Relations,” at the Silicon Valley Film Festival in June 2007.

Nancy Unger, History and Women’s and Gender Studies

Received an honorable mention by the 2006 Alice Hamilton Prize of the American Society for Environmental History for her essay, “The We Say What We Think Club: Rural Wisconsin Women and the Development of Environmental Ethics,” published in the Autumn 2006 Wisconsin Magazine of History.

Michael Whalen, Communication

Won the REMI award for Creative Excellence for his film FRESH women at the 40th annual WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival during the 2006-07 academic year. It also received an honorable mention award at the 2007 Berkeley Video and Film Festival in October.

Leavey School of Business

Andre Delbecq, Management

Awarded the David L. Bradford Distinguished Educator Award by the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society during the 2006-07 AY.

Thomas Russell, Economics

Received the prestigious Robert I. Mehr Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association. The award recognizes a 10-year-old     published work that has withstood the test of time. The winning article was “Catastrophe Insurance, Capital Markets, and Uninsurable Risks.”

Andy Tsay, OMIS

Appointed Associate Editor for the academic journal IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers) Transactions during the 2006-07 AY. He also received the Teaching Excellence Award from Peking University for the MBA course he taught there as a visiting professor in June 2007.

School of Engineering

Mark Ardema, Mechanical Engineering

Elected Fellow of the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) during the 2006-07 AY. The AIAA, with 35,000 members in 79 countries, elected only 30 fellows worldwide.

Nam Ling, Computer Engineering

Named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2007 "for contributions to video coding algorithms and architectures."

Samiha Mourad, Electrical Engineering

Named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2007 "for contributions to fault modeling in digital circuits and systems."

Terry Shoup, Mechanical Engineering

Awarded the Dedicated Service Award by IFToMM (International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science) during the 2006-07 AY. The Dedicated Service Award is bestowed on those who have “provided dedicated voluntary service marked by outstanding performance, demonstrated effective leadership, prolonged and committed service, devotion, enthusiasm and faithfulness.”

Sally Wood, Electrical Engineering

Elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2007. This honor is awarded by the institute’s board of directors to individuals with an extraordinary record of accomplishments.

School of Law

Vicki Huebner

Received one of 25 Fulbright awards for Americans participating in the U.S.–Germany International Education Administrators Program in Berlin last fall. During the two-week program, she toured five universities in eastern Germany and visited two large companies, discussing changes in higher education. She was also named the 2007-2008 Trans Team Chair for the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm division of the American Bar Association.

Scott Mauer

Received the Darryel Nacua Award given by the Watsonville Law Center at its annual awards reception in October 2007.

Kandis Scott

Named Freeman Foundation Professor of Law at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies during the 2006-07 academic year.

Jerry Uelmen

Selected in 2008 for the second consecutive year for the annual list of the Top 100 Lawyers in California in 2008. Also, the trustees of the Morris S. Smith Foundation recently made a gift to the law school to honor Uelmen, establishing the Professor Jerry Uelmen Prizes, which are cash prizes to be awarded annually to the students on the winning team and the runner-up team in the Galloway Criminal Moot Court Competition.

Stephanie Wildman

Received the 2007 Great Teacher Award from the Society of American Law Teachers, the largest national organization of law school faculty during the 2006-07 academic year.

School of Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries

Dale Larson, Counseling Psychology

Received the 2007 Hospice Award of Excellence by the Hospice of Northeastern Illinois. The award is given to individuals or organizations that have made a significant difference in the arena of hospice care on a regional, state, or national level.

Bob Michels, Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries

Received the first annual John Peshkoff Award at the annual Juvenile Court and Community School Administrators Association of California (JCCASAC) meeting in San Francisco duing the 2006-07 AY. This is the highest award that can be presented to an educator who has made a difference in the lives of teachers, administrators and students who work in alternative education, primarily with youth offenders. Bob was one of the founding fathers of JCCASAC thirty-eight years ago. He was instrumental in the development and implementation of Community Schools serving troubled youth throughout California. Michels is still active in JCCASAC, serving as an honorary member.

Centers of Distinction

Geoffrey C. Bowker, Center for Science, Technology, and Society

Received the Best Information Science Book award by ASIS&T for his book Memory Practices in the Sciences (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006).

Kirk Hanson, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics 

Center for Science, Technology, and Society and the Leavey School of Business

In 2006, the Center and the Leavey School together received the first Sand Hill Group Foundation Good Samaritan Award. The Global Social Benefit Incubator, a program offered jointly by the Center and the Leavey School, was recognized for its contributions to the work of social entrepreneurs around the world.