The BGSU Board of Trustees honored donors who have provided long-standing financial support for the university and bestowed academic honors on three faculty members “for their contributions to BGSU, research excellence and commitment to students.”
Faculty members honored were:
- Dr. Janet Hartley was named distinguished university professor. Hartley is the associate dean of graduate programs, faculty affairs, budgeting and research in the Schmidthorst College of Business. Since joining the BGSU faculty in1994, she has served as chair of the Department of Management and director of the Supply Chain Management and is the Chan K. Hahn Professor of Supply Chain.
- Dr. Edgar Landgraf was named a distinguished research professor. Landgraf joined the BGSU Department of German, Russian and East Asian Languages in 1998, and now serves as the director of the Master of Arts in European Studies program. He has an international reputation as one of the leading scholars for the study of Nietzsche and posthumanism.
- Dr. Philip Peek was named a distinguished teaching professor. Peek, who has taught at BGSU for 29 years, chairs the World Languages and Cultures Department in the College of Arts and Sciences. His wrote the textbook, “Ancient Greek I: A 21st-Century Approach,” which has been published as an open-access text by Open Book Publishers. Written for an international audience, the textbook has seen more than 10,000 downloads on six continents in over thirty-five different countries.
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(Photo by Rachel De La Cruz)
The trustees also approved namings.
- A Simulation Lab and Control Room in Central Hall will be named after Albert G. and Olive H. Schlink, whose private foundation in Sandusky, Ohio, supports education and charitable endeavors. Their foundation made its first gift to BGSU in 1986 and has funded multiple scholarship programs that touched the lives of hundreds of BGSU students.
- An Alumni Gateway trellis seating area after Dr. Hiroko Nakamoto ’54, ’92 (Hon.), a previous recipient of the BGSU Distinguished Alumni Award. Nakamoto, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University, established Hiroko Nakamoto Interior Design Studio, becoming owner and president, and maintained a lifelong connection to BGSU, designing the Japanese Ceremonial Tea Room in the Fine Arts Center, gifting many pieces of traditional Japanese artwork to the Fine Arts Gallery collection and serving as director of the BGSU Foundation board, among other roles.
