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Department Awards and Honors
Dr. Amit Saini
Students nominate faculty who have made an impact on their educational experience. The Scholarships, Honors, and Awards Committee reviews the nominees teaching philosophy and syllabi and selects the college winner.
Recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Teaching award was Dr. Amit Saini, Assistant Professor of Marketing.
Dr. Amit Saini received the Harold and Esther Edgerton Junior Faculty Award. This award is presented each year to honor an outstanding Junior Faculty Member who has demonstrated creative research, extraordinary teaching abilities, and academic promise. This award provides a strong incentive for pre-tenure faculty to expand their expertise and enhance learning at UNL. Dr. Saini will be known as the Harold and Esther Edgerton Assistant Professor for the two years of the award.
Dr. A. Dwayne Ball was selected as the 2006 James A. Lake Academic Freedom Award recipient. This award is presented by the UNL Academic Senate and the Academic Freedom Award Committee. The Academic Senate established this award in 1980 to honor someone who has "supported, defended, explained, and applied the principles of academic freedom at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln."
Click here to read Dr. Ball’s presentation upon receiving his award.http://www.unl.edu/asenate/ballspeech.htm
The UNL Teaching Council and the UNL Parents Association have recognized faculty or staff members who have "made a difference" in the lives of students. Each November the Parents Association asked parents of UNL students to consult their sons and daughters and to nominate a teacher who "has made a significant contribution to their lives while at UNL."
Dr. Robert A. Mittelstaedt, the Nathan Gold Distinguished Professor of Marketing, joined the CBA faculty in 1973. Dr. Mittelstaedt taught at the Univrsity of Missouri, Columbia and the University of South Dakota before coming to the University of Nebraska. He has also been a visiting faculty member at the University of Minnesota, Oregon State University, and Ecole Superiore de Commerce et de Management (France).
Dr. Mittelstaedt has directed 22 Ph.D. dissertations and published over 80 research papers, including 25 articles in scholarly journals. He serves on the editorial boards of those scholarly journals and the governing boards of four professional societies.
His most recent research has focused on the adoption of innovations, the protection of intellectual property and the spread of franchising.
