A. Rufus Tonelson Faculty Award

Named for Alan Rufus Tonelson, one of the first students to enroll at Old Dominion when it was founded in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary, this award recognizes members of the faculty for outstanding achievement in teaching, research or service. All Old Dominion University faculty currently under full-time teaching and research contracts are eligible. No faculty may receive the award in consecutive years.

Alumni, faculty, staff and students may nominate faculty for the Tonelson Award. Recipients are selected from a committee composted of two faculty members appointed by the Faculty Senate, two administrators appointed by the University President, two students appointed by the Student Body President and two alumni selected by the Alumni Association Past President.

The Tonelson Award recipient is recognized each year at the Faculty Awards dinner by a member of the Alumni Association and receives $2,000 from the Alumni Association, as well as a framed certificate and one-year campus parking pass.

To download the nomination form, click here.

Nomination packets should be submitted to Ashley Privott '97, Senior Director of Alumni Relations, in the Office of Alumni Relations. For more information, contact Ashley at (757) 683-3097 or e-mail her at aprivott@odu.edu

A. Rufus Tonelson Faculty Award Recipients

2005: Dr. Robert Gable, Early Childhood Education, Speech Pathology & Special Education
2004: Dr. Ravindra P. Joshi, Electrical & Computer Engineering
2003: Dr. Lindsay Rettie, Dental Hygiene
2002: Dr. Taj O. Mohieldin, Engineering
2001: Dr. Duc T. Nguyen, Engineering
2000: Dr. Charles E. Wilson, Jr., English
1999: Dr. Sushil K. Chaturvedi, Mechanical Engineering
1998: Dr. Daniel M. Dauer '70, Sciences
1998: Dr. Janis V. Sanchez-Hucles, Psychology
1997: Dr. Nina W. Brown (M.S.Ed. '68)
1996: Dr. Surendra N. Tiwari, Mechanical Engineering
1995: Dr. Maurice R. Berube, Educational Leadership and Counseling
1994: Dr. Chuh Mei, Aerospace Engineering
1993: Dr. Allen K. Clark, Chemistry
1992: Dr. Paul A. Dicklin, Speech Communication
1991: Ms. Michele Darby, Dental Hygiene
1990: Dr. Thomas Cash, Psychology
1989: Dr. Robert Lee Kernell, Physics
1988: Dr. Helen Yura, Nursing
1987: Dr. John C. Ludwick, Oceanography
1986: Dr. Harold G. Marshall, Biological Sciences
1985: Dr. Raymond H. Kirby, Psychology
1984: Dr. Katharine Clark Kersey, Early Childhood Education
1983: Dr. Gennaro L. Goglia, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
1983: Dr. Daniel E. Sonenshine, Biological Sciences
1982: Dr. John Fahey, Foreign Languages
1981: Mr. Kenneth G. Daley, Art
1980: Dr. S. Eliot Breneiser, Music
1979: Dr. Charles H. Haws, History and Scottish Studies
1978: Dr. Richard Tersine, Management
1978: Dr. Louis H. Henry, Economics
1978: Ms. Patricia S. Moschel, Nursing