Dickson Selected for
UF Research Foundation Professorship
(March 21, 2003) Prof. Sandra Dickson (Telecommunication) has been selected to receive a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship award for 2003-05, Dean Terry Hynes announced today. Dickson is the college's fifth faculty member to receive this honor (in addition to Debbie Treise, Linda Hon, James Babanikos, and Sylvia Chan-Olmsted ).
This three-year professorship recognizes faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to continuing distinction in their field. Recipients are awarded a $5,000 salary supplement in each of the three years they hold the title, and they receive a one-time $3,000 allocation to support their scholarly activities.
Among other creative accomplishments, Dickson wrote, co-directed and co-produced Freedom Never Dies and five other television documentaries. Four of the six documentaries have aired on PBS. Freedom Never Dies received the Erik Barnouw Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary from the Organization of American Historians in 2001. She won the Don Seigel Montage Award for Outstanding Film Direction by a Female in 2000, also for Freedom Never Dies.
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