Faculty Award Winners 2024-25

Dr. Arthur Maxwell Taylor Excellence in Diversity Award — Faculty
Dylan Hedden-Nicely, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor, Law
College of Law

Advising Excellence Award — Faculty
Erik Larson, Associate Professor, Department of Business
College of Business and Economics

Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award
Lilian Alessa, Co-director of the Center for Resilient Communities and Professor, Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture
College of Art and Architecture

Excellence in Teaching Award
Ashley Kerr, Associate Professor, School of Global Studies
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Hoffman Award in Teaching Excellence
Markie McBrayer, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Philosophy
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Outreach and Engagement Excellence Award
George Tanner, Senior Instructor, Department of Business
College of Business and Economics

General Education Teaching Award
Theresa Allen, Senior Instructor, Department of Math and Statistical Sciences
College of Science

General Education Service Award
Dean Panttaja, Professor Emeritus, Department of Theatre Arts
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Excellence in Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Efforts Award
Berna Devezer, Associate Professor, Department of Business
College of Business and Economics

Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar/Fellow Award
Temitayo Olagunju, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Outstanding Postdoctoral Mentoring Award
Christopher Marx, Professor, Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences
College of Science

Donald Crawford Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award
Emad Kassem, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
Nick Koenig, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences
College of Science

Outstanding Graduate Student Research and Creative Activity Award
Hossam Hassan, PhD Candidate, Department of Nuclear Engineering
College of Engineering

University Distinguished Professor

Adam Jones, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science

Scott Minnich, Distinguished Professor, Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

University Mid-Career

Erkan Buzbas, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
College of Science

Christopher Caudill, Professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences
College of Natural Resources

Benjamin Cover, Associate Professor, Law
College of Law

Matthew Fox-Amato, Associate Professor, Department of History
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Paul Rowley, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science

Andrew Scheef, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education, Health and Human Sciences

Nathan Schiele, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
College of Engineering

Rebecca Scofield, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of History
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Damon Woods, Associate Professor, Art and Architecture Design Lab
College of Art and Architecture