{"id":221255,"date":"2025-04-30T14:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=221255"},"modified":"2025-04-30T14:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:04:51","slug":"psychology-professor-receives-kennesaw-states-highest-faculty-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=221255","title":{"rendered":"Psychology Professor Receives Kennesaw State&#8217;s Highest Faculty Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Roxanne Donovan, a licensed psychologist and professor at Kennesaw State University&#8217;s Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been named the University Distinguished Professor, the institution&#8217;s highest faculty honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donovan, who holds joint appointments in the Department of Psychological Science and the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, was recognized for her excellence in teaching, research, and professional service during her 17-year career at the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our honorees are not only passionate educators but also innovative and driven researchers, tireless in their commitment to service and the KSU community,&#8221; said KSU President Kathy S. Schwaig. &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award was presented during the annual Faculty Awards ceremony, where ten other faculty members were also honored for their contributions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mahmoud Asmar and Kristin Horan received the Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carlos P\u00e9rez won the Outstanding Part-Time Teaching Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tanja Link earned the Outstanding Professional Service and Community Engagement Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May Gao received the Conference USA Faculty Achievement Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Andrea Knowlton and Eric Stachura were given the Outstanding Scholarship and Creative Activity Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dabae Lee won the Outstanding Online Teaching Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephen Bartlett and Ayse Tekes received the Outstanding Teaching Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning manages the awards process, with nominees reviewed by representatives from every degree-granting college at KSU. The Kennesaw State University Foundation provides financial support for the awards ceremony and the monetary gifts that accompany each honor.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roxanne Donovan, a licensed psychologist and professor at Kennesaw State University&#8217;s Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been named the University Distinguished Professor, the institution&#8217;s highest faculty honor. Donovan, who holds joint appointments in the Department of Psychological Science and the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, was recognized for her excellence in teaching, research, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":221256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11783],"tags":[16829,17823],"class_list":["post-221255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-kennesaw-state","tag-roxanne-donovan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}