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UHCL honors nominee, finalists for Piper Foundation award
May 2, 2018 | Jim Townsend
University of Houston-Clear Lake faculty and administrators hosted a luncheon April 23 to honor the 2017-18 finalists and nominee for the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation’s Piper Professor Award, a prestigious honor bestowed annually to 10 outstanding educators from Texas universities and colleges. Assistant Professor of Art History Sarah Costello is this year’s nominee.
Since 1958, the Piper Foundation has recognized professors throughout Texas for their work in and outside the classroom. UHCL finalists for nomination are chosen by students. From the finalists, a panel of students and faculty, equally divided between the UHCL’s four colleges, chooses the university’s nominee. The Piper Foundation, through a statewide selection committee, chooses 10 nominees for the award. Costello was chosen as UHCL’s nominee from a field that includes nine other finalists.
Pictured, from left, are Robert Phalen, associate professor of industrial hygiene and safety; Dilan Perera-Diltz, associate professor of counselor education; Hisham Al-Mubaid, associate professor of computer science and computer information systems; Randy Seevers, associate professor of special education; Costello; Renee Lastrapes, assistant professor of education research and assessment; Khondker Shajadul Hasan, assistant professor of computer science; Keith Parsons, professor of philosophy and the 2010 nominee and Mary Short, professor of clinical psychology. Absent is finalist Gary Boetticher, associate professor of computer science, computer information systems and software engineering.