Staff Awards
Our staff represent the best of the University of Texas at Arlington. Each year, we award individual staff members (including student employees) as well as entire teams within the organization for their contributions to the Libraries mission and vision. This page documents our staff awards given by year.
Extraordinary Customer Service Award
- Lora Rosman
Maverick Spirit Award
- Sunday Phillips
Outstanding Library Staff Award
- Ralph Castro
S.T.A.R. Award (Super Talent Appreciated Recognized)
- David Hayden
Team of the Year
Summer Camp Team
- Morgan Brickey-Jones
- Paul Carlile
- Callum Knitowski
- Richard "Britt" LaRiviere
- Jeffrey McCulley
- Nicole Spoor
Outstanding Student Assistant Award
Jonathan Anderson
Mohit Shailesh Kulkarni
Extraordinary Customer Service Award
- Vanessa Pham
Maverick Spirit Award
- Morgan Brickey-Jones
Outstanding Library Staff Award
- Richard "Britt" LaRiviere
- Kathryn Slover
S.T.A.R. Award (Super Talent Appreciated Recognized)
- Mark Cook
Team of the Year
TCP Implementation Team
- Maria Baagala
- Kelly Dill
- Ligia Munoz
- Katie Musick Peery
- Kevin Schuck
Outstanding Student Assistant Award
Sophia Cannon
Hady Shaji
Extraordinary Customer Service Award
- Kathleen M. Houston
Outstanding Library Staff Award
- Alexandra Pirkle
S.T.A.R. Award (Super Talent Appreciated Recognized)
- Kristol Derry
Team of the Year
Bound Periodicals Transfer Project
- Lea Akins
- David Hayden
- Donna Kelley
- Chris Nordeman
- Sunday Phillips
- Christopher Simpson
- Rene Tamez
- Dwayne Warren
LST & ELO Tech Lending
- Walter Betts
- Paul Carlile
- Ralph Castro
- Kristol Derry
- Glenn Goodspeed
- Geoffrey Guynn
- Michael Hang
- Richard "Britt" LaRiviere
- Larry Lassiter
- Fen Lu
- Ann Serrano
Outstanding Student Employee
Haley Ivy
Maverick Spirit Award
UTA Libraries Staff
Extraordinary Customer Service Award
- Katherine Chapline
Maverick Spirit Award
- Alessia Cavazos
Outstanding Library Staff Award
- Lea Akins
- Diane Shepelwich
S.T.A.R. Award (Super Talent Appreciated Recognized)
- Michael Barera
UTA Outstanding Student Supervisor
- Morgan Chivers
Team of the Year
Experiential Learning and Outreach; User Success and Services
- Darnell Bolton
- Breanna Bonilla
- Paul Carlile
- Alessia Cavazos
- Katherine Chapline
- Kelly Dill
- Laura Haygood
- Raeanna Jeffers
- Richard "Britt" LaRiviere
- Milaun Murry
- Joel Ossom
- Jessica Patrick
- Devon Peralta
- Margaret Samson
- Diane Shepelwich
- Stenila Simon
- Gretchen Trkay
- Martin Wallace
Marketing and Communications
- Danny Grigg
- Andrew Leverenz
- Dara McCluskey
- Candy McCormic
- Alexandra Pirkle
- Krystal Schenk
Outstanding Student Employee
Prathvi Kanchan
Team of the Year (Students)
Marketing and Communications
Chris Heinlen
Siddhi Nair
Dean's Innovation Award
- Morgan Chivers
Dean's Leading from Any Position Award
- Devon Peralta
Dean's Library Values Award
- Milaun Murry
Dean's Research Award
- Brenda McClurkin
- Martin Wallace
Extraordinary Customer Service Award
- Alexander Brown
Maverick Spirit Award
- Antoinette Nelson
Outstanding Library Staff Award
- Peace Ossom Williamson
S.T.A.R. Award (Super Talent Appreciated Recognized)
- Fen Lu
Team of the Year
Alma Project
- Troy Christenson
- David Hayden
- Karen Hopkins
- Fen Lu
- Leni Matthews
- Doreen Munna
- Sunday Phillips
- Bob Samson
- Margaret Samson
- Courtney Taddonio
- Peter Zhang
Outstanding Student Employee Award
Yissel Gonzalez
Perla Vargas
Dean's Innovation Award
- Gretchen Trkay
Dean's Leading from Any Position Award
- Dwayne Warren
Dean's Library Values Award
- Katie Musick Peery
Dean's Research Award
- Michelle Reed
Extraordinary Customer Service Award
- Christopher Martinez
Maverick Spirit Award
- Kristol Derry
Outstanding Library Staff Award
- Mark Cook
S.T.A.R. Award (Super Talent Appreciated Recognized)
- Samantha Dodd
Team of the Year
Government Documents Collection Development Project
- Lea Akins
- Troy Black
- Hanh Nguyen
- Sunday Phillips
- Swati Ray
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Peter Zhang
Outstanding Student Employee Award
Mackenzie Reaves
Dean's Innovation Award
- Michael Doran
Dean's Library Values Award
- Peter Zhang
Extraordinary Customer Service Award
- Kalei Malczon
Outstanding Library Staff Award
- Bonnie Dreitner
S.T.A.R. Award (Super Talent Appreciated Recognized)
- Ben Huseman
Team of the Year
B03 Move Team
- Lea Akins
- Beverly Carver
- Samantha Dodd
- David Hayden
- Karen Hopkins
- Ben Huseman
- Brenda McClurkin
- Betty Shankle
- Cathy Spitzenberger
- Leslie Wagner
- Dwayne Warren
- Ashley Zmau
Outstanding Student Employee Award
Cindy Kwok
Deborah Thomas
Dean's Innovation Award
- Bob Samson
Dean's Library Values Award
- Antoinette Nelson
S.T.A.R. Award (Super Talent Appreciated Recognized)
- Krystal Schenk
Outstanding Student Employee Award
Tushar Saini
Friends of the UTA Libraries Faculty Award
1996: George N. Green
1996: Dennis P. Reinhartz
1997: James E. Walther
1997: Michael Moore
1998: Richard V. Francaviglia
1998: Michael D. Reimann
1999: Loren K. Ammerman
1999: Thomas J. Cogdell
2000: Thomas D. Watts
2001: Dr. Vincent P. Apilado
2001: Dr. Kenneth P. Philp
Friends of the UTA Libraries Learning Partnership Award
2002: Helen Hough, UTA Libraries
2002: Dr. Lorrie Hegstad, School of Nursing
2003: Barbara Howser, UTA Libraries
2003: Dereje Agonafer, Electronic, MEMS & Telecommunications Systems Packaging Center
UTA Libraries Outstanding Student Assistant Award
1995: Sam Lucas
1996: Sharon Campbell
1997: Kal Phim
1998: DeAnn Hernandez
1998: Michael Xuong Hang
1999: Paul Jacinto
1999: Rebecca Truong
2000: Tracy McKnight
2000: Anh Hong Tran
2001: Ivan Flores
2001: LaTanyea Flowers
2002: Michael Hatchell
2002: Faisal Siddiqui
2003: Onya Comradd
2003: Erika Seay
2004: Maureen Kelly
2004: Dennis D. Perkins
2005: Kiran Bondalakunta
2005: Charles Daniel Word
2006: Jason Kirchofer
2007: Amara Silvany
2008: Gladys Chow
2009: Mani Thangaraju
2010: Alfonso Lopez
2011: Daniel Simpson
UTA Libraries STAR Award
1993: Carol Byrne
1994: Tony W. New
1995: Teresa Wang
1996: Allan Bell
1997: John Dillard
1998: Loretta Barker
1999: Lisa Smith
2000: Anne Mitchell
2000: Marie Irwin
2001: Barbara Howser
2002: Jean Sherwin
2003: Amber Royer
2004: Joshua Been
2005: Mary Jo Lyons
2006: Bob Sampson
2007: Gretchen Trkay
2008: Ellen Baskerville
2009: Heather Scalf
2010: Cathleen Spitzenberger
2011: Evelyn Barker
2012: Doreen Munna
2013: Kevin Schuck
2014: Eli Zoller
2015: Margaret Samson