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AWARDS, HONORS and GRANTS
 

Awards

  • Recipient of the University of Nebraska at Omaha Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006.

  • Recognized by the Midwest Consortium for Service Learning in Higher Education for efforts to integrate Service-Learning into the education of students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2005.

  • Participated in the Leadership Omaha Project Team that developed the InTheO.com  web site. She coordinated the rollout of the InTheO.com with her Leadership Omaha Team colleagues at a gala event in the PKI atrium attended by over 200 people, KETV, and executives from TheReader Newspaper. InTheO.com provides Omahans and visitors to Omaha with a single place to find cultural and entertainment events going on in Omaha.

  • Her efforts in South Omaha working with Hispanic entrepreneurs brought wonderful publicity to UNO through the Omaha World Herald feature and through radio interviews about the Service-Learning courses in which she participated. The Service-Learning Course, ISQA 4000-001 Cross-cultural Collaboration was featured as the lead story UNO Reaches out to South Omaha, on the front page on the Omaha World Herald and then again as the lead story in the Midlands Section of the Omaha World Herald, December 2005.  The Service-Learning course was also featured in a radio interview that will be broadcast to Spanish and English speaking communities as far away as Colorado.
    Please click here for short radio clip of this interview

  • Recipient of the Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award for the College of Information Science and Technology, 2002

  • Recipient the highest award given by the University of Illinois, the University Scholar Award, for “Outstanding Teaching and Research”. Faculty are nominated for consideration by other faculty and selected for the award by a committee of distinguished external reviewers from Universities such as Yale. The award included a cash component of $18,000 (1998-2000).

  • Featured on the WebCenter for Learning Networks Effectiveness Research (www.ALNresearch.org) funded by the Sloan Foundation in the video gallery of prominent researchers prepared by Drs. S. R. Hiltz and M. Turoff (invited) 2001.

  • Distinguished Research Award, Allied Academies, 2001.

  • Recipient of the Edna True Award for Meritorious Service as a docent at a national historical landmark in Illinois (the Bahai House of Worship).

  • Beta Gamma Sigma honor society for high scholastic achievement (1995).

  • Senior Referee: Special mention in IEEE Computer as a referee whose "dedication, quality of work, and expertise" in reviewing articles submitted for publication exceeds the standards of IEEE (1998-current).

  • Recognition for Nebraska Community Project Success: T. Martin and J. Else from the Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED) reported in their “Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant: Phase III Evaluation Report” for November 2002:
    “It is important to emphasize the enormity and relative success of the JAIBIG MIS, development and implementation process. Large-scale MIS development involving multiple agencies and differing data formats has frequently resulted in failure if not outright catastrophe in terms of time, cost, and usefulness of the end product. Our overall evaluation of the JAIBG MIS development effort is that it has been quite successful, both in terms of providing a repository for data collection and sharing, and as a vehicle for promoting inter-agency coordination and cooperation.”
 

Grants

  • Dufner, D. Douglas County Omaha Technology Commission (Summer 2003) Fall 2003 and Spring 2004, $16,442

  • Dufner, D. Nebraska EPSCoR Research Grant, "Information Technology and Government Performance at the State and County Levels", Sept. 2003, $2,000.

  • Dufner, D. Douglas County Omaha Technology Commission (Summer 2003) Internship $1,296

  • Dufner, D. Douglas County Omaha Technology Commission (Summer 2003) Internship $11,161

  • Dufner, D. Omaha Police Department (Grant WBS 46-0807-003-100) Internship Semester Fall 2002 Internship and summer funding. (January-August 2002), $9,300.

  • Dufner, D. COPS 2002 Technology Grant, Fund 12153 for $90,771.00 from the City of Omaha and Douglas County. The funds paid through the Fiscal Year 2002 . Performed project management services for the development of the integrated City of Omaha and Douglas County Information Management System that is expected to increase officer safety, productivity and provide near real time information to law enforcement and first responders.

  • Dufner, D. and Kwon, O. Instructional Lab Grant from QDM for a server license for BB Project, $17,700, January, 2000

  • Hadidi, R.; Dufner, D.; O'Gorman; Kwon, O.; and Vuppuluri, S. University of Illinois, Advanced Learning Technologies in Higher Education, UI-Online Grant to Provide the MA in MIS Online via the Web, 1998-2000, $200,000.

  • Dufner, D. K.; Kwon, O.; Thompson, J. (1996) UI-ALTHE'96 Grant, University of Illinois, Advanced Learning Technologies in Higher Education, "Using Lotus Notes via the Internet as a CyberCollaboratory for Electronic Cooperatives: Asynchronous Collaborative Learning for Student Team Projects." $21,000.

 

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