Anisa Zvonkovic, 2010 Texas Tech Integrated Scholar

Anisa Zvonkovic - Human Development and Family Studies

If you study the challenges modern professionals face balancing work and family life, especially where the work-related efforts involve considerable travel, you will come across the name of Anisa Zvonkovic. She has been a leader in related research and funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH)—over $1.4 million in the past five years—which has involved managing a large group of graduate students and research staff in studies that are illuminating the work-family life dynamic, including such notable challenges as job termination. The research and findings are vital to the courses and mentoring that Professor Zvonkovic is known for among human development and family studies master's and doctoral students (she advises nine graduate students). For example, in 2010 a number of her students won university-wide awards for research/graduate study (e.g., TTU Graduate School Outstanding Social Sciences Master's Thesis Award, AT&T Chancellor's Doctoral Fellowship Award) and instruction (TTU Teaching, Learning and Technology Center TEACH Fellowships, Graduate Part-Time Instructor of the Year). Professor Zvonkovic herself was acknowledged through an Outstanding Faculty Mentor award from the TTU Center for Undergraduate Research. Her efforts at outreach and service, which have informed the teaching and research, have involved service on a major NIH scientific review committee (2009-2011) and presentations at numerous national forums. Additionally, she serves on the Berado Mentoring Award committee of the National Council on Family Relations. In the past, she has also chaired the national program for this organization, along with giving service in other organizational areas. On top of all of the above, is the service that Professor Zvonkovic has given in recent years to editorial boards (of three major journals) as well as the College of Human Sciences as chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. Thus, she has had to manage her own work-family life dynamic, which has been aided by her integrated approach to scholarship across the teaching-research-service triad.

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