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2024-2025 All-University Award Recipients

2024-2025 Awards

The Office of Faculty and Academic Staff Development is proud to share the slate of 2024-2025 All-University Award Recipients. These internal awards are an integral part of recognizing the excellent work of MSU’s faculty, academic specialists, graduate students, and executive leaders.  

The 2024-2025 award recipients will be formally recognized at the annual All-University Awards Ceremony on Monday, April 7, 2025.

Awards Booklet (PDF)

William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award

Awards are based on a comprehensive and sustained record of scholarly excellence in research and/or creative activities, instruction and outreach.

  • Christoph Adami, College of Natural Science, Microbiology, Genetics and Immunology & Physics and Astronomy
  • Steven Chermak, College of Social Science, Criminal Justice
  • Michael Dease, College of Music, Jazz Studies
  • Walter Hawthorne, College of Social Science, History
  • Hui Li, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
  • Xiaoming Liu, College of Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Richard Lunt, College of Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Anna Moore, College of Human Medicine, Radiology and Physiology
  • Karin Allor Pfeiffer, College of Education, Kinesiology
  • Shin-Han Shiu, College of Natural Science, Plant Biology & Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering

Teacher-Scholar Award

These awards are presented to faculty who have earned the respect of students and colleagues early in their careers for their devotion to and skill in teaching and whose instruction is linked to and informed by their research and creative activities.

  • Shireen Al-Adeimi, College of Education, Teacher Education
  • Kristen Cetin, College of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Amanda Flaim, James Madison College
  • Jacquelyn Jacobs, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Animal Science
  • Elizabeth Perry, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Community Sustainability
  • Ryan Shaw, College of Music, Music Education

Distinguished Academic Staff Award

These awards are given to academic specialists and MSU Extension academic staff for extraordinary achievements, excellence, and exceptional contributions in advising, curriculum development, outreach, extension, research, and/or teaching.

  • Samantha Cass, Lyman Briggs College, Chemistry
  • Andrew Corner, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Advertising and Public Relations
  • Guillermo Delgado, Residential College in the Arts & Humanities
  • Philip Kaatz, MSU Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Agribusiness

Community Engagement Scholarship Award

This award is given in recognition of mutually beneficial and sustained campus-community research partnerships.

  • Irene Xagoraraki, College of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering; Community Partners in Detroit Tri-County

Excellence-in-Teaching Citations

These citations are awarded to graduate teaching assistants who have distinguished themselves by the care they have given and the skill they have shown in meeting their classroom responsibilities.

  • Vindula Alwis, College of Natural Science, Chemistry
  • Kasun Gajasinghe, College of Education, Teacher Education
  • Kathryn Genoa-Obradovich, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Communicative Sciences and Disorders
  • Mary Ellen Rutemeyer, College of Arts & Letters, Linguistics, Languages and Cultures
  • Danielle Seppala, College of Natural Science, Physics and Astronomy

President's Distinguished Teaching Award

This award is given to faculty who have created innovative teaching environments that enable student learning within and
across disciplinary, cultural, and ethnic boundaries.

  • Erica Wehrwein, College of Natural Science, Physiology

Simmons Chivukula Award for Academic Leadership

This award is given for exemplary work in academic leadership at the rank of department chair, school director, assistant dean, or associate dean. An individual is selected based on consistent and demonstrated excellence in academic leadership, including the dimensions of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

  • Dimitar Deliyski, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Robert F. Banks Award for Institutional Leadership

This award recognizes the commitment and dedication that MSU faculty, academic staff and support staff leaders demonstrate by their extraordinary and sustained efforts.

  • Sandi Smith, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Communication

Donald F. Koch Award for Quality in Undergraduate Teaching

In recognition of outstanding undergraduate teaching.

  • Raven L. Jones, College of Education, Teacher Education

Faculty Emeriti Association Award for Outstanding Contributions by an Individual or Team of Faculty

This award recognizes an individual MSU Faculty Emeritus or Emerita or a team of Emeriti faculty who, following retirement, have served the university community through contributions to a unit or program.

  • Laurie Kaguni, College of Natural Science, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • John Wang, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 

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