Margaret C. Stevenson and Mary C. Mohn have been named the winners of the 2012 Sydney and Sadelle Berger Awards, presented each year to members of the University of Evansville faculty who demonstrate exceptional scholarly activity and service.

Stevenson, an assistant professor of psychology, received the award for scholarship, and Mohn, an associate professor of Spanish, earned the award for service. Charlie Berger, a 1969 UE graduate and local attorney with the law firm Berger Berger, presented both awards at the university's annual Fall Faculty and Administrators Conference.

Stevenson serves as director of UE's Psychology and Law laboratory, and is an academic adviser and senior thesis mentor for psychology majors. She holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and she joined the UE faculty in 2008.

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Stevenson also received the Sydney and Sadelle Berger Award.

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Mohn is a winner of the 2012 Sydney and Sadelle Berger Award.

Mohn has served on the university's admissions and standards committee since 2007, chaired the curriculum committee for several years and has participated in numerous search committees for tenure-track faculty positions in the Department of Foreign Languages. She also serves as a member of UE's assessment committee and chairs the popular Andiron Lecture Series in the liberal arts and sciences.

She received the Dean's Teaching Award for UE's College of Arts and Sciences in 2010. This past year, she was appointed director of the new general education program. She earned her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Kansas and has been with the University of Evansville since 2005.n n nAmie McKibban is the 2012-13 H. Lee Cooper Core Curriculum Teaching Award winner. The award honors a University of Southern Indiana faculty member whose work in University Core courses has been especially creative and successful in furthering UCC goals.

McKibban, assistant professor of psychology, joined the College of Liberal Arts in fall 2009. She has a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in experimental psychology from Emporia State University. She earned a Ph.D. in community psychology from Wichita State University.n n nRachel Puckett of Evansville is the recipient of the Atlas Van Lines President's Scholarship. She is the daughter of Kyle Puckett, who works in transportation services at Atlas' Evansville headquarters.

She is majoring in English at Trinity University in Texas.n n nBrent Mullen, a 2010 USI graduate with a bachelor's degree in biology, has received an America's Unofficial Ambassadors Mosaic Fellowship to Jordan.

Mullen is pursuing a master's degree in biology through the University of Nebraska. His goals are to attend dental school at New York University and earn a master's degree in international health.