Fontbonne University

Fontbonne University has announced that Amir Karadzic, leader of the Union of Citizens of the Municipality of Prijedor, activist and humanitarian, will receive the 2010 Jason Sommer Dedicated Semester Award.

If you’ve been reading the news in St. Louis recently, you’ve probably seen Deanna Jent’s name pop up more than once. It seems that every other day, critics give her professional theatre group, Mustard Seed Theatre, thumbs up for one performance or another. Of course, this is just part of another day at the office for Jent, the director of theatre and performing arts at Fontbonne University and artistic director of Mustard Seed.

An OPTIONS instructor only for the past year, Belinda Farrington is new to the Fontbonne family. But she has made short work of impressing it. Honored with the 2010 Part-Time Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, she has exceeded the high standards of her Fontbonne OPTIONS corporate communication students.

Please don’t call her Dr. Stoelting; Suzanne is just fine.

The winner of Fontbonne University’s 2010 Joan Goostree Stevens Excellence in Teaching award prefers to be on a first-name basis with her students. And not because of any misplaced notions about being their buddy, but because, she said, she’s more like them than not.