UNT's Salute to Faculty Excellence event is hosted each spring by Faculty Success and the UNT Foundation. It is just one of the many ways UNT honors the dedicated faculty members whose innovative research, pedagogy, and service continue our university's tradition of prestige.

The 2022 Salute to Faculty Excellence Awards Celebration was held Tuesday, April 19, 2022 in the Murchison Performing Arts Center. 

Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, Ph.D., Regents Professor, Department of Information Science, is a leading authority in the field of knowledge management. He founded several academic programs including the Master of Science in Knowledge Management at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the Master of Science in Knowledge Management at the University of Oklahoma, and the Master of Science in Data Science at the University of North Texas. He served as a department chair at the University of North Texas from 2010-2017 and directed the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Information Science, one of the largest programs of its kind in the nation. He expanded the online offering of the  Information Science master's program outside Texas to include cohorts in more than 20 states. He served as CO-PI on a $1.3M NSF grant awarded to UNT to educate Ph.D. students in cybersecurity and information assurance.

Dr. Hawamdeh is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM) and the editor of the book series Innovation of Knowledge Management published by World Scientific. He has extensive industrial experience and worked as the managing director of ITC Information Technology Consultant from 1992 to 1998. Dr. Hawamdeh served in the capacity of chair and founding chair of several national and international conferences. He is the founding chair of the International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM). In 2020, he received the highest ALISE Award for Professional Contribution to the field of Library and Information Science Education. 

Learn more about the ceremony, watch a live recording, view photos from the event, download the program, and read about this year's winners!