Rollins College Awards Faculty & Staff

At the end of the 2003-04 academic year, Rollins College faculty and staff received the following awards:

Bornstein Award for Faculty Scholarship
The Bornstein Award for Faculty Scholarship was awarded to Bush Professor of Science Donald C. Griffin. Established by the Board of Trustees of Rollins College in 2003, the Bornstein Award recognizes a faculty member whose outstanding scholarly achievement or creative accomplishment has helped bring national prominence to the College. Named in honor of Rollins’ thirteenth president, the award honors President Bornstein’s leadership and contribution to the academic vitality of the College. Griffin will hold the title “Bornstein Faculty Scholar” for the 2004-05 academic year and will receive a $10,000 cash stipend.

Three new awards were established by the Board of Trustees of Rollins College this year in honor of Rollins' beloved alumnus and longtime trustee George Cornell, whose generous recent bequest made the awards possible. Each recipient will receive a $10,000 stipend. The awards recognize faculty members for outstanding teaching, research and/or service.

Cornell Distinguished Faculty Award
Professor J. Clay Singleton received the Cornell Distinguished Faculty Award. (This award was presented by the Crummer Graduate School of Business.)

Cornell Distinguished Service Award
Assistant Professor of Sociology Rhonda Singer received the Cornell Distinguished Service Award.
Cornell Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor of Biology Eileen Gregory received the Cornell Distinguished Teaching Award.

McKean Grant
Associate Professor of Physics Thomas Moore received the Hugh and Jeannette McKean Grant for 2004-05 for his proposal entitled "International Collaboration in Musical Acoustics." The Hugh and Jeannette McKean Grant was inaugurated in the 1982-1983 academic year, as a gift of Hugh McKean, former President of the College. With this grant, a $10,000 cash stipend is awarded to a faculty member who will undertake a research project, an artistic work, or a teaching-related project that contributes to the mission of the College. Recipients of the award are selected by an external jury of Rollins alumni who are prominent in the academic world and in the arts. The McKeans hoped this grant would provide a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a single faculty member to do something that would otherwise be impossible in one's professional career." As stated in Moore's proposal, the McKean Grant will allow him to gain additional knowledge through collaboration with experts in musical acoustics in France, Austria, and England. According to Moore, these collaborative experiences will help Rollins College “become recognized world-wide as a place of outstanding research in musical acoustics."

Arthur Vining Davis Awards
Rollins annually recognizes three faculty members as Arthur Vining Davis Fellows. This year’s recipients were Assistant Professor of Communication Lisa Tillmann-Healy, Associate Professor of Graduate Counseling Kathryn Norsworthy, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Ryan Musgrave. Students and faculty nominate candidates who demonstrate outstanding teaching and advising; scholarly work and publication; completion of significant research projects; accomplishments in the fine arts; or important contributions to the cultural, economic, and social community of Central Florida.

Decoration of Honor
This surprise award, given for distinguished and eminent service to the College, was bestowed upon George Herbst, Rollins vice president and treasurer.

The Rollins Decoration of Honor was established by the Board of Trustees to be given in recognition of distinguished and eminent service to the College and to be awarded only to [those] whose services have been of real and significant contribution to the progress of Rollins.

Founded in 1885, Rollins College is Florida’s oldest recognized college, and is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of “America’s best colleges.” Its Crummer Graduate School of Business was recently ranked by Forbes magazine among the nation’s top 25 regional business schools. For more information about Rollins, visit our Web site at www.rollins.edu.