JMU Faculty Semi-Finalists for Outstanding Faculty SCHEV Award
Office of the Provost
James Madison University cultivates stellar talent through a variety of initiatives, including the Outstanding Faculty Awards (OFA) for the Commonwealth of Virginia. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) administers these awards and describes them as follows:
The Outstanding Faculty Awards are the Commonwealth's highest honor for faculty at Virginia's public and private colleges and universities. These awards recognize superior accomplishments in teaching, research, and public service.
Approximately 90 faculty members across the state were nominated this year and only a third went on to be semi-finalists. JMU is proud to announce two of its esteemed faculty members were chosen as semi-finalists: Dr. Steven Whitmeyer and Dr. Frances Flannery.
Dr. Whitmeyer’s research on developing and implementing geospatial tools for classroom and field educational settings links directly and powerfully to his teaching practices. He and his research students seek out and test new devices and geospatial platforms to evaluate their effectiveness for enhanced visualization and inquiry-based learning, often using Google Earth and other virtual tools.
Dr. Flannery is an internationally recognized expert in apocalypticism and terrorism, and her work is frequently used by scholars and governmental agencies. She is the author of internationally circulated publications on apocalyptic terrorism for the intelligence community in the U.S. and Canada, and she is the founding director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Terrorism and Peace (CISTP).
Several other JMU faculty members were also nominated this year. Nominees include:
- David Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science, CISE
- Theresa Clarke, Professor of Marketing, COB
- Trevor Stokes, Professor of Graduate Psychology
- Fariss Terry Mousa, Assistant Professor of Management, COB
- Gina MacDonald, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CSM
To learn more about the SCHEV faculty award, please visit: https://www.jmu.edu/academic-affairs/awards/schev.shtml
