2019-20 WLP Annual Report

The Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award Program in WLP
2020 RECIPIENTS
DR. JENNIFER A. BUGOS
USF Tampa Faculty
Excellence Award
Dr. Jennifer A. Bugos received
her bachelor’s degree in music
education from the University
of Florida, her master’s degree
in music education from the
University of Central Florida, and PhD in music
education and minor gerontology from the
University of Florida. Bugos pursued post-doctoral
work in the Clinical-Cognitive Neuroscience
Laboratory under the direction of Dr. William
Perlstein. While teaching and performing research at
East Carolina University, her previous appointment,
Bugos received funding from the Retirement
Research Foundation to study, “Bimanual
Coordination on Successful Aging: Results of a
Model Music Program.” Dr. Bugos’ main research
interests include the neurological basis for music
perception and cognition with regard to human
development,lifespan learning, and cognitive
transfer. She currently serves as an Assistant
Professor of Music Education at the University of
South Florida where she teaches undergraduate
courses in General Music Methods, Internship,
and Senior Seminar.
DR. ZHENG CHEN
USF St. Petersburg Faculty
Excellence Award
Zheng “Chris” Chen is an associate
professor of management in the
School of Information Systems
and Management in St. Petersburg,
where she researches and teaches
human behavior in business. She began teaching
because she wanted to help create better
organizational environments and has worked
at USF since 2010. She has received more than
$67,000 in research and teaching grants and is a
member of both the Academy of Management
and the Work-Family Research Network.
Her research has appeared in many journals,
including the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Behavior
Research Methods, the Journal of Applied Psychology,
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
and many others. Her course on Human Resources
Management was recognized in 2020 by Quality
Matters and she received the Chancellor’s Award
for Teaching Excellence in 2017. She is certified in
Deep Integrated Yoga Study and incorporates some
of the practice’s philosophies into her coursework
to help students become more mindful. Chen
earned a PhD from the University of Connecticut,
a master’s degree from Boston College and an MBA
from Appalachian State University.
Established in 2007, the WLP Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award Program provides annual
grants to USF faculty whose research and creative efforts focus on women and issues affecting women.
This award is presented in the spring of each year through a competitive selection process, with the
recipient receiving a one-time $5,000 award to support their research. To date, WLP has awarded 41
grants totaling $205,000 to deserving faculty members whose research helps to support and advance
women throughout the world.
DR. SUKANYA ”SU”
SENAPATI
USF Sarasota-Manatee Faculty
Excellence Award
Dr. Su Senapati is Instructor
of English in the College
of Liberal Arts and Social
Sciences(CLASS), and Faculty Coordinator of
Learning Support Services (LSS). She teaches
graduate and undergraduate courses in the
Masters of English Education and Bachelors
of English degree program. Courses she has
taught include Late Shakespeare, US Latino/a
Literature, British and American Literature
surveys. In 2016, she developed the first
literature of climate change course offered at
USF. She has contributed several articles to
different literary encyclopedias such as,
Encyclopedia of the Environment in
American Literature, Themes in Literature,
and Asian-American Literature. She received
her PhD in English from the University of
South Florida and her master’s degree in
English from the University of West Florida.
DR. RENEE MARCHIONI
BEERY
Valerie D. Riddle, MD Award
in Health
Dr. Renee Marchioni Beery serves
as the Director of Inflammatory
Bowel Disease (IBD) at the
University of South Florida. She
brings to the Division her intricate knowledge and
deep understanding for this complex patient
population. Her subspecialty practice encompasses
the diagnosis and management of Crohn’s
disease, ulcerative colitis and microscopic colitis.
She is particularly passionate about the
treatment of IBD during pregnancy and the
successful pediatric-to-adult transition of IBD
care. Dr. Marchioni Beery is the co-founder and
medical director for the IBD Center of Excellence
at USF, scheduled to open in 2020. She completed
her internship and residency training in Internal
Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania Health System,
Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of
Connecticut Health Center, and an advanced
clinical research fellowship in Inflammatory
Bowel Disease (IBD) at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital of Harvard Medical School.