Appointments

Alexander L. Baugh was advanced to the rank of professor and appointed RSC director of Church history and doctrine research.

Richard E. Bennett was appointed associate dean of Religious Education on July 1.

Lincoln H. Blumell received a one-year visiting faculty appointment in ancient scripture.

Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Kerry Muhlestein were appointed to teach for one year at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies beginning in August.

Rachel Cope was hired as an assistant professor of Church history and doctrine.

Tyler J. Griffin was hired as an assistant teaching professor of ancient scripture.

Kent P. Jackson was appointed associate director at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies beginning in August.

Frank F. Judd Jr. was advanced to the rank of associate professor of ancient scripture.

Robert L. Millet was appointed publications director of the RSC on June 1.

Lloyd D. Newell was appointed professor of Church history and doctrine.

Mark D. Ogletree received a one-year visiting faculty appointment in Church history and doctrine.

David R. Seely was appointed RSC director of ancient scripture research.

Andrew C. Skinner was appointed as Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding.

Gaye Strathearn was advanced to the rank of associate professor of ancient scripture.

Clyde J. Williams was appointed assistant director of the Evaluation Division of the Correlation Department.

Awards

Jeanne Burgon received the Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award on August 24.

Richard O. Cowan received the University Accessibility Center’s Faculty Recognition Award on March 3.

Kristin Gerdy received the Religious Education Transfer Professor Teaching Award on August 24.

Linda Godfrey received the Staff and Administrative Employee Recognition Award in June.

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel received the B. West Belnap Citizenship Award at the Religious Education Spring Social on March 13.

Eric D. Huntsman received the Susan Easton and Harvey Black Outstanding Publication Award in Ancient Scripture for “Livia before Octavian,” Ancient Society 39 (2009): 121–69 at the Religious Education Spring Social on March 13.

Stanley A. Johnson received the Loretta Gledhill Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship Award on August 24.

Roger P. Minert received the Richard L. Anderson Research Award and the Susan Easton and Harvey Black Outstanding Publication Award in Church History and Doctrine on March 13. In May he received the Mormon History Association’s award for best international publication in Mormon history for In Harm’s Way: The East German Latter-day Saints in World War II.

Jerome M. Perkins received the Robert J. Matthews Teaching Award at the Religious Education Spring Social on March 13.

Patty Smith received the Staff and Administrative Employee Recognition Award in May.

Emeritus/Retirements

Richard D. Draper retired from ancient scripture.

Allen Ostergar retired from Church history and doctrine.

Alan K. Parrish retired from ancient scripture.

IN MEMORIUM

LaMar E. Garrard, professor emeritus of Church history and doctrine, passed away on July 16, 2010.