Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education

Each year since 1965-66, the University of Minnesota has recognized a select group of faculty members for their outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. This honor is awarded to exceptional candidates nominated by colleges in their quest to identify excellence in undergraduate education. In addition to honoring individual faculty members, the award contributes to the improvement of undergraduate education at the University by publicizing their work to serve as a resource for the whole faculty.

The award, named for a former dean of General College, is made possible through generous support of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association and the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

Learn more about about the Morse-Alumni Award.

Congratulations to the 2021 Award Recipients

Timothy J. Dudley
Chemistry, Department of Math, Science and Technology
University of Minnesota Crookston

Timothy Dudley is an Associate Professor at the Crookston campus, teaching primarily General Chemistry lecture and lab courses. He is highly committed to providing a quality educational experience in chemistry for his students. He is also a dedicated adviser to students in the Health Science and Medical Lab Science programs. His research focus is in computational organometallic chemistry, but engages undergraduate students in both computational and experimental research projects.

Patricia Frazier
Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Patricia Frazier is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Psychology. A counseling psychologist with expertise in stress and trauma, she brings a broad perspective to undergraduate education that emphasizes the importance of students doing well academically and psychologically. In teaching, research, and service, she is committed to improving the undergraduate experience by creating courses that help students manage stress, developing evidence-based stress management interventions, and creating systemic change in institutional practices to decrease student stress.

Michael Lackey
English, Division of the Humanities
University of Minnesota Morris

An inspiring and respected teacher of English on the Morris campus, Michael Lackey has become a champion of undergraduate research. Empowering students to participate in his field defining research in biographical fiction, Lackey has created numerous innovative opportunities for them to contribute significantly to this exciting work through their own publications and presentations. His pedagogical leadership has been recognized by editors and academics around the world who respect the commitment and methods he models.

Clarence Lehman
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Clarence Lehman has inspired thousands of students in his ecology courses. He teaches at the boundaries of knowledge, and ideas crystallized in his classes have led to insights for ecological theory. He immerses students in quantitative approaches, and empowers them to solve real-world problems such as the spread of disease and climate change. Lehman treats his students as collaborators, and they leave the classroom ready to change the world.

Saje Mathieu
History, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Saje Mathieu is an Associate Professor of History who specializes in twentieth century American and African American history with an emphasis on immigration, war, race, sports, and political resistance. She is a former fellow at Harvard’s Warren Center, the University of Heidelberg’s Center for American Studies, the NEH, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She also earned the ‘Red’ Motley Exemplary Teaching Award and the Award for Global Engagement.

Nicholas Freitag McPhee
Computer Science, Division of Science and Mathematics,
University of Minnesota Morris

In a world defined by constant, even aggressive change, Nic McPhee has spent decades helping Morris students understand the impact of technological change on their lives, and preparing Computer Science majors for futures none of us can yet imagine. His extensive campus program development, emphasizing first year seminars and interdisciplinary general education, positively shapes all Morris students. McPhee has helped students develop as self-educators and problem solvers, leveraging teams and community to meet challenges.

Casim A. Sarkar
Biomedical Engineering, College of Science and Engineering,
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Casim Sarkar is an outstanding undergraduate educator and advocate for students at all levels. His passion for teaching is reflected in his phenomenal course evaluations, which demonstrate the ways he has adapted delivery to maximize student engagement. He made significant contributions to a textbook that is already becoming the new standard at institutions across the country. And he is leading crucial conversations in BME regarding mental health, diversity and inclusion, and transparency in faculty-student expectations.

Lana Yarosh
Computer Science & Engineering, College of Science and Engineering,
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Professor Lana Yarosh engages students in authentic project-based learning. She mentors over a dozen undergraduate researchers yearly, advises a weekly “IoT Collaborative” student club, and staunchly advocates for diversity and inclusion initiatives. Lana’s curriculum development has touched more than a million learners through four massive online courses and a PBS-funded YouTube series. She leverages this content to create compelling classroom experiences for University of Minnesota undergraduates through innovative use of flipped classroom and project-based learning.

2020 Award Recipients

Julia K. Dabbs
Art History, Division of Humanities
University of Minnesota Morris

Julia K. Dabbs has taught students from a great variety of majors how to actively and critically read visual images. Dabbs is an exceptional example of a teacher/scholar who connects easily with students because she is always attentive to the individual student’s abilities, interests, and aspirations. Specializing in Renaissance Art and the History of Early Modern women artists, Professor Dabbs published a collection of life stories of women artists from 1550 to 1800 most of which were not available in English.

Shaul Hanany
Physics & Astronomy
College of Science & Engineering

Shaul Hanany is making transformative changes in the undergraduate student experience in his department. He implemented a unique educational program renovation, and launched a new initiative that impacts students’ professional lives through more informed career choices. He is an innovator in the classroom and an education role-model among colleagues. He research-mentored tens of undergraduate students, works to increase underrepresented populations in the sciences, and imparts the fun of physics to tens of thousands of spectators every year through outreach leadership.

Barry Kudrowitz
Design, Housing, & Apparel
College of Design

Barry Kudrowitz is the director and founder of the Product Design program, developing over 20 new undergraduate courses and building a culture of creativity grounded in design, technology, and entrepreneurship. Students and industry recognize him for creating unique and highly immersive educational experiences involving real-world projects and partners. He leads and orchestrates an extensive, dedicated community of practice made up of alumni and industry professionals who are actively involved in the classroom.

Richard M. Lee
Psychology
College of Liberal Arts

Richard M. Lee is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He is deeply committed to educating, inspiring, and providing opportunities for undergraduate students from ethnic and racial minority backgrounds. A counseling psychologist with expertise in race, culture, and mental health, he seeks to broaden all students’ perspectives on how diversity is central to psychological science, while providing a space for under-represented students to be recognized, to grow, and to thrive.

Chris Leighton
Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
College of Science & Engineering

Over the course of a 19-year career at the University of Minnesota, Distinguished McKnight University Professor Chris Leighton has matched world-renowned research with extraordinary commitment to teaching and education-related service. His accomplishments encompass outstanding classroom instruction, extensive curriculum development, exceptional program development during an eight-year tenure as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Materials Science and Engineering, unwavering commitment to excellence in advising and mentoring, and an outstanding record of involvement of undergraduate students in research.

Malinda Alaine Lindquist
History
College of Liberal Arts

Malinda Alaine Lindquist is an associate professor of History, affiliated with Afro-American Studies. She is an outstanding and innovative teacher who takes active learning to the next level by helping students collaborate; as Director of Undergraduate Studies, she transformed the history major. She reaches out to historically black colleges and universities, and has actively contributed to the University of Minnesota through the Liberal Education redesign endeavor.

Thomas Michaels
Horticultural Science
College of Food, Agricultural & Natural Resource Sciences

Thomas Michaels pioneers integration of innovative pedagogies in large applied science courses through the use of emerging computer technologies, active learning strategies and approaches that address multiple learning styles. He brings a sense of excitement and curiosity to his classes. Tom led the development of a new major addressing contemporary food production issues and contributes to successful curriculum development by others. He effectively mentors many undergraduate students and provides guidance to aspiring teachers.

Justin Revenaugh
Earth & Environmental Sciences
College of Science & Engineering

Justin Revenaugh has exceptional skills in teaching large-enrollment courses that inspire science-averse students to be curious about the planet and how it works. He gives an extraordinary level of attention to each student in his courses and he has developed innovative ways to unleash student creativity in the context of learning scientific concepts. His upper-level geophysics courses are rigorous and accessible and his mentoring of non-traditional students has launched their careers as scientists.

Deena Wassenberg
Biology Teaching & Learning
College of Biological Sciences

Deena Wassenberg is a biology educator whose goal is to increase biology literacy and the diversity of individuals who participate in biology. Deena’s instruction aims to empower students to have informed conversations about biology with their colleagues and loved ones. To do this she incorporates student-centered learning in all her classes. She believes the real test of a biology education is the successful incorporation of biology knowledge into students’ lives outside the classroom.

2019 Award Recipients

Sauman Chu
Design, Housing & Apparel
College of Design

Professor Chu is the director of the graphic design program where she teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research focuses on examining user experience of web and interactive design for diverse users. Over the past twenty years, her students completed more than 70 projects for over 50 different organizations through a service learning approach. Her goal is to focus on identifying and solving public needs through design and to foster community partnerships.

Eric Daigre
English
College of Liberal Arts

Professor Daigre has spent decades developing the most thorough and impressive system of community-based learning at the University of Minnesota. He has broken down the walls between the classroom and the world outside the university in ways that have had life-changing effects for student after student. In addition, he has worked tirelessly to improve undergraduate teaching both in his own classroom and throughout the English Department.

Catherine E. Wolfgram French
Civil, Environmental & Geo- Engineering
College of Science & Engineering

Professor French enthusiastically has taught civil engineering courses that have influenced countless undergraduate students and she has received several teaching awards. She has created a sense of community among the undergraduates through her caring and thoughtful approach. She has served as adviser and mentor and provided research opportunities. She strives to shape students to be outstanding engineers who serve society while showing compassion and understanding to students of all backgrounds and abilities.

Daniel F. Keefe
Computer Science & Engineering
College of Science & Engineering

Professor Daniel Keefe’s innovations in computing education invite students into provocative and authentic learning experiences that tackle real-world problems while simultaneously broadening participation and diversity in computer science. Whether designing writing and programming intensive required courses or visually stunning computer graphics and virtual reality projects, Dan’s integrative teaching, mentoring, and advocacy responds to genuine needs in society and challenges students to mindfully design and build new technologies that fundamentally make people better.

Michael Lower
History
College of Liberal Arts

Professor Lower is an exceptionally talented teacher. His scholarly brilliance in Mediterranean Studies echoes in the inclusivity and diversity that he emphasizes in every class he teaches. By developing courses that have transformed the traditional lecture into a site of collaborative learning and constructive engagement with difference, he has inspired a wave of curricular innovation within his department that is bringing the best that history has to offer to undergraduates from across the University.

Lisa A. Miller
Industrial & Systems Engineering
College of Science & Engineering

As inaugural Director of Undergraduate Studies in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Professor Miller has been instrumental in fleshing out its curriculum and creating a successful senior design course with strong industrial collaboration and support. Dr. Miller is highly praised by students for including active learning principles into her teachings. Her caring approach to advising has contributed in meaningful ways to the creation of a dynamic and inclusive environment in this new department.

Cheryl A. Olman
Psychology
College of Liberal Arts

Cheryl A. Olman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. Her primary goal as an undergraduate educator is to empower students. A vision scientist with expertise in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), she seeks to provide opportunities for students to get hands-on experience with methodological tools that can have broad applicability. She is a strong advocate of community engagement and is passionate about supporting the next generation of diverse scientists.

Rebecca Dean Swenson
Agricultural Education, Communication & Marketing
College of Food, Agricultural & Natural Resource Sciences

Professor Rebecca Swenson has a reputation for innovative curriculum design, strong dedication to students, and engaging teaching. She is a pivotal leader who conceptualized and developed a new major for students – Agricultural Education, Communication & Marketing – and an expanded role for communication within the College. Rebecca Swenson is passionate about linking theory, research, and practice, and she is an advocate for real-world experiential learning experiences. She is a leader and teacher who elevates others and inspires growth.

2018 Award Recipients

Geoffrey G. Bell
Management Studies, Labovitz School of Business and Economics
University of Minnesota Duluth

Dr. Bell is a passionate, caring, and dedicated faculty who is committed to helping students discover and nurture their passions. He consistently scores among the top teaching evaluations in the school, while maintaining rigorous academic standards. Alumni say he fostered their career success. He engages in high-level advising, assisting students through academic and personal difficulties. Influencing program development, he spearheaded LSBE's Sustainable Organization Minor; he chairs or co-chairs both LSBE's and UMD's Sustainable Education Committees.

Sheryl Breen

Political Science, Division of the Social Sciences
University of Minnesota Morris

Dr. Sheri Breen is a highly regarded, passionate and innovative instructor. Students laud her courses for their role-playing simulations and critical engagement of course writers and concepts. They praise her advising for emphasizing personal growth and career development. She has made major contributions to the political science and environmental studies curriculums, and is a campus leader in internationalizing UMM’s curriculum through guiding international programming, developing study abroad courses, and coordinating the study abroad programs.

Mitra Emad

Anthropology, Sociology and Criminology, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Duluth

Mitra C. Emad is a cultural anthropologist, interdisciplinary scholar, and passionate advocate for active, civically engaged learning. In recognition of her excellence as an instructional leader, she earned an Office of Information Technology research fellowship and two Faculty Fellow positions supporting midcareer instructional development and technology-enhanced learning. She was the 2016 winner of UMD’s Jean Blehart Distinguished Teaching Award. Her leadership led to the founding of UMD’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

David Fox
Earth Sciences
College of Science & Engineering

David Fox strives to challenge how students view the world around them so that they learn to see the Earth with the eyes of an Earth scientist. He teaches in large and small lectures, the lab, and the field, and has mentored numerous student research projects. As Director of Undergraduate Studies, he guided students to their degrees through a curriculum he helped revise and he promoted the essential role of writing in student learning.

Jonathan Gewirtz
Psychology
College of Liberal Arts

With an acute sense of the evolving needs and interests of undergraduate students in Psychology, Jonathan Gewirtz’s pedagogical philosophy dovetails with his research on empathy. His course on “Brain and Emotion” has a long waitlist, as does his summer program in Madrid that combines the study of Biological Psychology with a research laboratory internship. The numerous innovations he has introduced through his teaching and through his department’s curriculum are shaping the future of instruction in the field of Psychology.

David Matthes

Biology Teaching and Learning
College of Biological Sciences

Professor Matthes brings a passion for biology and teaching into each of his courses. His integration of active learning and team-based learning instructional strategies into his genetics and cell biology courses has helped his students to achieve unusually high learning gains and develop professional skills needed in their careers. Professor Matthes is a national leader in the development of project-based bioinformatic and personal genome analysis courses.

Keith A. Mayes

African American & African Studies
College of Liberal Arts

Keith A. Mayes has been an effective teacher at the University of Minnesota. Known for his passion and level of energy in the classroom, Professor Mayes has received some of the highest student ratings in the College of Liberal Arts. He was also awarded the Arthur “Red” Motley Exemplary Teaching Award in 2010, only eight years into his career. Professor Mayes is a well sought-after instructional leader inside and outside the University of Minnesota.

Tracy Otten

Studio Art, Division of the Humanities
University of Minnesota Morris

Tracy Otten has taught Art and Printmaking for seventeen years at the University of Minnesota Morris. She is a vastly knowledgeable, caring, and inspiring teacher, mentor and role model; she is a highly organized and helpful adviser who keeps on helping, even many years after students have left UMM; she is a brilliant, socially engaged, and humble professional artist; and she is an inclusive and perceptive human being.

2017 Award Recipients

Hangtae Cho

Asian Languages & Literatures
College of Liberal Arts

The Department of Asian Languages and Literatures’ beloved teacher and colleague, Dr. Hangtae Cho, is a program-builder whose teaching appeals to students from all backgrounds. His motivational teaching encourages students to pursue cultural learning at the highest level inside and outside the classroom.

Michelle D. Driessen

Chemistry
College of Science & Engineering

As the director of General Chemistry, Michelle Driessen has implemented broad evidence-based innovation that has significantly improved the experience and impact of both laboratory and classroom instruction in a course sequence serving thousands of undergraduates every semester. As an exceptional classroom instructor, curriculum designer, and student advisor at the earliest points in the undergraduate experience, her compassionate and calculated approach to chemical education has broadened participation and retention in the sciences.

Robert L. Dunbar

Center for Learning Innovation
University of Minnesota Rochester

Robert Dunbar’s leadership is a teaching model for colleagues. He is known for his extensive contributions to the establishment of an interdisciplinary health sciences curricula; his dedication to each UMR student; his intensive work to construct and fortify the structure of the interdisciplinary Center for Learning Innovation; and the establishment of a research agenda that significantly contributes to the vision of the Rochester campus.

Becca Gercken

English and American Indian Studies, Division of the Humanities
University of Minnesota Morris

Inclusivity, respect, high standards, and encouragement of all students characterize the extensive contributions to undergraduate education made by Becca Gercken. Whether in the American Indian Studies major she cofounded or in a program for traditionally under-represented college students, whether helping students navigate the academic professional world or helping the campus improve its interactions with its students, she is an invaluable member of the UMM community.

Gayle Golden

School of Journalism & Mass Communications
College of Liberal Arts

Gayle Golden has consistently been an outstanding instructor and a force for undergraduate curriculum innovation at a time when journalism has changed significantly. Through her dynamic work in the classroom as well as her transformative role in guiding our undergraduates academically and professionally, Gayle has demonstrated a distinguished performance over nearly two decades to achieve the highest standard of undergraduate teaching.

Kurt F. Kipfmueller

Geography, Environment & Society
College of Liberal Arts

Kurt Kipfmueller is a dedicated teacher who has helped thousands of students to understand and appreciate the natural world. As an expert in physical geography, he teaches foundational courses in environmental science and introduces students first-hand to research projects in spectacular wilderness areas. The care and respect Kipfmueller shows to students provides them with a foundation for success early in their academic experience and makes him an outstanding example to his peers.

Tade O. Okediji

Applied Economics
College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences

Tade Okediji is fiercely committed to imparting to his students a passion for fundamental concepts of micro-economic theory. A “life-long mentor” and astute communicator across cultural divides, Tade’s interdisciplinary approach to development in less-developed countries transforms his classrooms into laboratories for critical thinking and innovative policy prescriptions. His dynamic teaching inspires students to challenge the status quo prescribed by traditional economic analyses, encouraging them to re-write the odds for their generation.

Daniel J. Philippon

English
College of Liberal Arts

Daniel J. Philippon has made numerous outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. His engaging, research-based teaching, whether in large lectures or small seminars, is widely praised by students, TAs and colleagues alike. His advising, particularly of summa thesis candidates, has enriched the lives of students across the University. And his work as Director of Undergraduate Studies in English has transformed the curriculum, producing innovative new courses and expanding opportunities for student achievement through scholarships, study abroad, and career readiness.

Michael Sommers

Theatre Arts & Dance
College of Liberal Arts

In his 34-year career to date, Professor Sommers has generated over fifty internationally recognized theatrical productions, probing the dark conflicts and the joys of being human. At the University, he has translated his unique vision into the curricular arts where he serves as mapmaker, provocateur, and mentor. He structures collaborative environments of serious and focused play that celebrate the act of making, inspiring students to work with their hands, imaginations, and intellects to realize their own creative process.

2016 Award Recipients

Douglas W. Ernie

Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Science and Engineering

Douglas Ernie’s commitment to undergraduate education is evident in his teaching, advising, mentoring, curriculum enhancement, and involvement in his students’ learning experiences. A leader beyond the classroom, Ernie has redirected the college’s distance learning program to support all learners through educational technology. He is an advocate for equity and service-learning, having founded undergraduate research programs for diverse students and a learning abroad program in Kenya. See a full profile (pdf).

Mary Franklin-Brown

French and Italian
College of Liberal Arts

Mary Franklin-Brown combines an enviable scholarly record with acute administrative instincts. As a teacher in the field of medieval studies, she has shown a unique ability to impart her passion and erudition to students. As Director of Undergraduate Studies, she has refigured the department’s study abroad program in Montpellier, France; designed a new internship course that helps students develop careers; and proposed the creation of three new gateway courses to help recruit French majors. See a full profile (pdf).

Tabitha Grier-Reed

Postsecondary Teaching and Learning
College of Education and Human Development

Tabitha Grier-Reed’s courses combine intellectual rigor with engaging experiences that support students’ success and personal growth. As the founder, in 2005, of the African American Student Network, Grier-Reed created a safe and constructive space for black University students to connect with and find support from peers, faculty, staff, and graduate students as they make meaning of their experiences on campus. Her work inside and outside the classroom embodies common themes: a commitment to inclusive pedagogy, intellectual rigor, supportive peer advising, and research. See a full profile (pdf).

Russell J. D. Holmes

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
College of Science and Engineering

Russell Holmes is a gifted educator who is routinely identified by graduating seniors as the best instructor in the materials science and engineering (MSE) curriculum. He teaches difficult required courses, helping students master challenging concepts. His impact as a teacher and mentor has helped the program grow; the number of students majoring in MSE has more than doubled in the last five years. Holmes is also very committed to involving undergraduates and even local high school students in his internationally recognized research program. See a full profile (pdf).

Brian D. McInnes

Education
University of Minnesota, Duluth

Before joining the University, Brian McInnes was the lead teacher at an Ojibwe language immersion school, with an ambition to help others become outstanding teachers for Native American students and schools. At UMD, McInnes has developed and taught core methods courses to a cohort of Native American elementary education students; these educators are now prepared to teach Ojibwe to upcoming generations of Anishinaabe children. McInnes also founded a groundbreaking program, the Enweyang Ojibwe Language Nest, as a comprehensive preschool on campus offering literacy, science, math, structured play, music and art - all taught through the Ojibwe language. See a full profile (pdf).

Heather J. Peters

Psychology, Division of Social Sciences
University of Minnesota, Morris

Heather Peters uses a wide variety of pedagogical tools to expose her students to a scholarly exploration of psychological and cultural evaluations of human behavior. Students report that they leave her classes feeling they have acquired a new way of thinking about the world and their own personal place in it, as well as their duty to be informed citizens about cultural and social issues related to diversity. Peters redesigned UMM’s Human Services major, and created an innovative upper division research class. She is also a potent force in student academic life through her many collaborative projects with student support offices. See a full profile (pdf).

J. B. Shank

History
College of Liberal Arts

J. B. Shank is an historian of European intellectual history, in particular the era known as the Scientific Revolution. He is known for his multidisciplinary approach to the study and teaching of the humanities and is a creative force for curricular innovation. He received National Endowment for the Humanities funding for his innovative course, “The Nature of the Cosmos,” a global comparative study of six cosmologies from cultures around the world. The course is featured on the National Endowment for Humanities website. See a full profile (pdf).

Michael J. Silverman

Music
College of Liberal Arts

Michael Silverman is the director of music therapy program at the School of Music, where he teaches several core undergraduate and graduate music therapy classes. Specializing in acute psychiatric music therapy for adults, he also pursues research at the University’s Medical Center. Silverman has provided professional learning opportunities for students by personally overseeing the internships of all music therapy students and by forming partnerships with therapists, clinics, and other health care facilities. See a full profile (pdf).

Past Recipients

2010 - Present

Awardee	Department	Year
Sarah Buchanan	French, UMM	2015
Charles Randall Fletcher	Psychology	2015
A. Peter Hilger	Construction & Facility Management	2015
Rashné Jehangir	Postsecondary Teaching and Learning	2015
Frank M. Kelso	Mechanical Engineering	2015
Oliver Nicholson	Classical and Near East Studies	2015
Ted M. Pappenfus	Chemistry, UMM	2015
R. Lee Penn	Chemistry	2015
Giancarlo Casale	History	2014
Sehoya Cotner	Biology Program	2014
Bradley Deane	Division of Humanities, UMM	2014
Lorraine F. Francis	Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	2014
Paul Imbertson	Electrical and Computer Engineering	2014
Ruth A. Lindquist	Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative	2014
Robert K. Poch	Postsecondary Teaching and Learning	2014
Jane E. Wissinger	Chemistry	2014
Jennifer Deane	Social Sciences, UMM	2013
Christopher Dovolis	Computer Science & Engineering	2013
Carrie Earthman	Food, Science & Nutrition	2013
Karen LaBat	Design, Housing & Apparel	2013
Rachel McCoppin	Liberal Arts & Education, UMC	2013
Susan Staats	Postsecondary Teaching & Learning	2013
Susan Wick	Plant Biology	2013
Dennis R. Becker	Forest Resources	2012
Kathryn Pearson	Political Science	2012
Serge Rudaz	Physics and Astronomy	2012
Steven P. K. Sternberg	Chemical Engineering, UMD	2012
Ulrike Tschirner	Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering	2012
Christopher J. Cramer	Chemistry	2011
Kirsten Fischer	History	2011
Jeanne L. Higbee	Postsecondary Teaching and Learning	2011
Gary R. Jahn	Slavic Languages and Literatures	2011
Soo-Yin Lim-Thompson	Early Childhood Education, UMC	2011
Susan C. Mantell	Mechanical Engineering	2011
Michelle L. Page	Secondary Education, UMM	2011
Scott Abernathy	Political Science	2010
David Blank	Chemistry	2010
Kent C. Kirkby	Geology & Geophysics	2010
Gwen Rudney	Education, UMM	2010
Julie Schumacher	English	2010
Paul G. Siliciano	Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics	2010

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2000 - 2009

Awardee	Department	Date
Don Alstad	Ecology, Evolution & Behavior	2009
Stephen B. Castleberry, Sr.	Marketing, UMD	2009
Carmen M. Latterell	Mathematics & Statistics, UMD	2009
Doreen Geller Leopold	Chemistry	2009
John P. Loegering	Natural Resources, UMC	2009
Albert (Bud) H. Markhart, III	Horticultural Science	2009
Justin Henry Rubin	Music, UMD	2009
James H. Stout	Geology & Geophysics	2009
Todd Arnold	Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology	2008
Janet Schrunk Ericksen	English, UMM	2008
Leon Hsu	Postsecondary Teaching & Learning	2008
Timothy Johnson	Political Science	2008
Terry J. Jones	Astronomy	2008
Kristopher McNeill	Chemistry	2008
Barry McQuarrie	Mathematics, UMM	2008
Kristen C. Nelson	Forest Resources	2008
Praveen Aggarwal	Marketing, UMD	2007
Jay C. Bell	Soil, Water, & Climate	2007
Thomas R. Hoye	Chemistry	2007
Patricia James	Postsecondary Teaching & Learning	2007
Ned Mohan	Electrical & Computer Engineering	2007
Paula L. O'Loughlin	Political Science, UMM	2007
Joel B. Samaha	Sociology	2007
Frederick Asher	Art History	2006
Mark D. Distefano	Chemistry	2006
Pareena Lawrence	Social Studies, UMM	2006
James R. Leger	Electrical & Computer Engineering	2006
Donald Liu	Applied Economics	2006
Randall Charles Moore	Biological Sciences	2006
Marshall D. Stern	Animal Science	2006
Barbara Welke	History	2006
Michael Dennis Browne	English	2005
Amy Lee	Postsecondary Teaching & Learning	2005
Kenneth R. Leopold	Chemistry	2005
Gail Peterson	Psychology	2005
Jon L. Pierce	Management Studies, UMD	2005
Michael E. White	Animal Science	2005
Philip R. Baird	Natural Resources, UMC	2004
Pieranna Garavaso	Humanities, UMM	2004
Howard D. Mooers	Geological Sciences, UMD	2004
Claudia Neuhauser	Ecology, Evolution & Behavior	2004
John Watkins	English	2004
Jon E. Anderson	Science & Mathematics, UMM	2003
Robert J. Brooker	Genetics, Cell Biology & Development	2003
Tom Chase	Mechanical Engineering	2003
Lisa Disch	Political Science	2003
Andrew Elfenbein	English	2003
Josephine Lee	English Language & Literature	2003
Kent R. Mann	Chemistry	2003
Leslie Meek	Psychology, UMM	2003
Patricia J. Bauer	Child Development	2002
Andrea Berlin	Classical & Near Eastern Studies	2002
Nancy E. Carpenter	Science & Mathematics, UMM	2002
Tom Isbell	Theater, UMD	2002
Lary May	American Studies	2002
August H. Nimtz, Jr.	Political Science	2002
Leslie A. Schiff	Microbiology	2002
Cathrine Wambach	Postsecondary Teaching & Learning	2002
Donna Z. Bliss	Nursing	2001
William K. Durfee	Mechanical Engineering	2001
Murray Stowe Jensen	Postsecondary Teaching & Learning	2001
Joan M. Karp	Education, UMD	2001
Daniel Kelliher	Political Science	2001
Paul T. Magee	Genetics, Cell Biology & Development	2001
Dwight Purdy	Humanities, UMM	2001
Gary C. Thomas	Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	2001
Stephen Adams	English, UMD	2000
Dorothy H. Anderson	Forest Resources	2000
Gordon Hirsch	English	2000
John W. Newstrom	Management Studies, UMD	2000
Peh H. Ng	Science & Mathematics, UMM	2000
Robert O. Pepin	Physics	2000
Theofanis G. Stavrou	History	2000
Paul J. Strykowski	Mechanical Engineering	2000

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1990 - 1999

Awardee	Department	Date
Jill Barnum	General College	1999
Bart D. Finzel	Economics, UMM	1999
Ann S. Masten	Child Development	1999
Jim Perry	Forest Resources	1999
Jeffrey Ratliff-Crain	Psychology, UMM	1999
Karl A. Smith	Civil Engineering	1999
Joel Weinsheimer	English	1999
John S. Wright	English	1999
John Beatty	Ecology, Evolution & Behavior	1998
Denise A. Guerin	Design, Housing & Apparel	1998
Jay Hatch	Postsecondary Teaching & Learning	1998
Linda Miller-Cleary	English, UMD	1998
Lawrence Rudnick	Astronomy	1998
E. Calvin Alexander, Jr.	Geology & Geophysics	1997
John S. Anderson	Biochemistry	1997
Russell F. Bey	Veterinary Pathobiology	1997
Kenneth J. Heller	Physics	1997
Engin Sungur	Science & Mathematics, UMM	1997
W. Daniel Svedarsky	Natural Resources, UMC	1997
Eileen M. Zeitz	Foreign Languages & Literatures, UMD	1997
Jacquelyn N. Zita	Women's Studies	1997
Terence H. Cooper	Soil, Water, & Climate	1996
Gary R. Gray	Chemistry	1996
Alan G. Hunter	Animal Science	1996
Virginia T. Katz	Communication, UMD	1996
Willard Koukkari	Plant Biology	1996
Judith A. Martin	Geography	1996
Jennifred G. Nellis	Studio Art, UMM	1996
Angelita D. Reyes	Women's Studies	1996
Steve S. Smith	Political Science	1996
Patrick J. Starr	Mechanical Engineering	1996
Christopher M. Anson	English Language & Literature	1995
David D. Biesboer	Plant Biology	1995
Joan Garfield	Educational Psychology	1995
Emily E. Hoover	Horticultural Science	1995
Roger S. Jones	Physics	1995
Helen Mongan Rallis	Education, UMD	1995
Geoffrey Sirc	General College	1995
Charles E. Speaks	Communication Disorders	1995
Charles Sugnet	English Language & Literature	1995
John L. Sullivan	Political Science	1995
William I. Brustein	Sociology	1994
James Farr	Political Science	1994
Leslie B. Hansen	Animal Science	1994
Linda Rae Hilsen	Instructional Development Service, UMD	1994
Laura Coffin Koch	Postsecondary Teaching & Learning	1994
Alex J. Lubet	Music	1994
Marvin Marshak	Physics	1994
Roger Pierce Miller	Geography	1994
Chris Paola	Geology	1994
Thomas M. Scanlan	Rhetoric	1994
John D. Allison	Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation	1993
Rose M. Brewer	Afro-American & African Studies	1993
James A. Carlson	Humanities, UMM	1993
William P. Cunningham	Genetics & Cell Biology	1993
Donald M. Gillmor	Journalism & Mass Communication	1993
Marti Hope Gonzales	Psychology	1993
Joann M. Johnson	Health, Physical Education & Recreation, UMD	1993
Larry L. Miller	Chemistry	1993
Ephraim M. Sparrow	Mechanical Engineering	1993
Clare K. Woodward	Biochemistry	1993
Ann Aiko Bergeron	Theater/Fine Arts, UMD	1992
John R. Freeman	Political Science	1992
William H. Hanson	Philosophy	1992
Klaus P. Jankofsky	English, UMD	1992
Karen Lofsness	Laboratory Medicine & Pathology	1992
Robert G. McKinnell	Genetics & Cell Biology	1992
Willis Peterson	Agricultural & Applied Economics	1992
Leonard A. Polakiewicz	Slavic Languages & Literatures	1992
James H. Rothenberger	Epidemiology	1992
Raj G. Suryanarayanan	Pharmaceutics	1992
Frederick A. Cooper	Classical & Near Eastern Studies/Art	1991
Van D. Gooch	Science & Mathematics, UMM	1991
Nina M. Graves	Pharmacy Practice	1991
Warren E. Ibele	Mechanical Engineering	1991
Richard W. Lichty	Business & Economics, UMD	1991
Carol A. Miller	American Studies	1991
Joan Iverson Nassauer	Landscape Architecture	1991
Thomas K. Soulen	Plant Biology	1991
Bert T. Swanson	Horticultural Science	1991
Mary Susan Ubbelohde	Architecture	1991
Lisa D. Albrecht	Social Work	1990
William R. Charlesworth	Institute of Child Development	1990
Terence Collins	General College	1990
James F. P. Cotter	Science & Mathematics, UMM	1990
Laurie Schultz Hayes	Rhetoric	1990
Alan B. Hooper	Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, & Biophysics	1990
Suhas V. Patankar	Mechanical Engineering	1990
Louis H. Pignolet	Chemistry	1990
Douglas F. Robertson	General College	1990
Muriel B. Ryden	Nursing	1990

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1980 - 1989

Awardee	Department	Date
Franklin H. Barnwell	Ecology, Evolution & Behavior	1989
Eugene Borgida	Psychology	1989
Lillian Bridwell-Bowles	English	1989
Edward L. Farmer	History	1989
Maureen A. O'Brien	Business & Economics, UMD	1989
Donald E. Otterby	Animal Science	1989
W. Phillips Shively	Political Science	1989
Steve R. Simmons	Agronomy & Plant Genetics	1989
Cheryl L. Zimmerman	Pharmaceutics	1989
Laura J. Duckett	Nursing	1988
Raymond D. Duvall	Political Science	1988
Phyllis Freier	Institute of Technology	1988
Calvin Kendall	English	1988
Barbara M. Killen	General College	1988
Theodore P. Labuza	Food Science & Nutrition	1988
Thomas M. Skovholt	Educational Psychology	1988
Charles E. Walcott	Political Science	1988
Jean Ward	Journalism	1988
Fred M. Amram	General College	1987
Iris D. Charvat	Plant Biology	1987
Maria L. Gini	Computer Science	1987
Brian L. Job	Political Science	1987
Walter H. Johnson	Institute of Technology	1987
Gail A. Koch	General College	1987
Susan K. McClary	Music	1987
Martin W. Sampson, III	Political Science	1987
Mark E. Wilson	Waseca	1987
Curt L. Anderson	Business & Economics, UMD	1986
Bert Fristedt	Mathematics	1986
David Lyle Giese	General College	1986
George Green	History	1986
Gary N. McLean	Work, Community & Family Education	1986
Ronald John Sawchuk	Pharmaceutics	1986
Michael J. Simmons	Genetics & Cell Biology	1986
Janet D. Spector	Anthropology	1986
Connie Weil	Geography	1986
Mahmoud M. Abdel-Monem	Pharmacy	1985
William A. Anderson	Waseca	1985
Paul P. D'Andrea	Liberal Arts	1985
Mariam Darce Frenier	History, UMM	1985
Allen B. Johnson	General College	1985
Richard W. Ojakangas	Geology, UMD	1985
Roland L. Peterson	Work, Community & Family Education	1985
John E. Turner	Political Science	1985
Candido P. Zanoni	General College	1985
Wilbert H. Ahern	History, UMM	1984
C. Eugene Allen	Agricultural, Food & Environmental Sciences	1984
Thomas F. Brothen	General College	1984
Clarke A. Chambers	History	1984
Gerald M. Erickson	Liberal Arts	1984
Harlan S. Hansen	Education & Human Development	1984
Patrick A. Kroll	General College	1984
Verna L. Rausch	Medical School	1984
D. Peter Snustad	Genetics & Cell Biology	1984
Russell S. Adams, Jr.	Agricultural, Food & Environmental Sciences	1983
James L. Bowyer	Wood & Paper Science	1983
John M. Dolan	Philosophy	1983
Dennis R. Hower	General College	1983
Mark A. Luker	Letters & Science, UMD	1983
Paul C. Rosenblatt	Family Social Science	1983
James B. Van Alstine	Geology, UMM	1983
Kathleen M. Accola	Nursing	1982
Thomas C. Buckley	General College	1982
Tom Clayton	English	1982
Clough W. Cullen	Waseca	1982
Shirley N. Garner	English	1982
Roland L. Guyotte	History, UMM	1982
Archibald I. Leyasmeyer	English	1982
Vernon B. Cardwell	Agronomy & Plant Genetics	1981
James C. Cloyd	Pharmacy	1981
Daniel F. Detzner	General College	1981
Charles L. Matsch	Geology, UMD	1981
Peter Rosko	Finance	1981
Everett Lavern Sutton	Music	1981
Gerhard H. Weiss	German, Scandinavian & Dutch	1981
Richard D. Ashmun	Education & Human Development	1980
Robert L. Brown, Jr.	English	1980
Jerome E. Gates	General College	1980
Eugene E. Grossman	Psychology, UMD	1980
Joseph J. Latterell	Chemistry, UMM	1980
Lura M. Morse	Human Ecology	1980
Frederick W. Peterson	Art History, UMM	1980

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1965 -1979

Awardee	Department	Date
Harold F. Arneman	Agricultural, Food & Environmental Sciences	1979
Abraham S. Berman	Institute of Technology	1979
Peter A. French	Philosophy, UMM	1979
Richard D. Goodrich	Agricultural, Food & Environmental Sciences	1979
Patrick E. Hanna	Medicinal Chemistry	1979
Stuart B. Schwartz	History	1979
Dwaine R. Tallent	Business & Economics, UMD	1979
W. Andrew Collins	Child Development	1978
Vincent P. Hegarty	Agriculture/Human Ecology	1978
Samuel Kirkwood	Biological Sciences	1978
Richard Leppert	Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	1978
Roger G. Schroeder	Carlson School of Management	1978
George L. Shapiro	Liberal Arts	1978
Fredric R. Steinhauser	General College	1978
Philip P. Allen	Waseca	1977
Evelyn Hansen	General College	1977
James G. Henkel	Pharmacy	1977
Ernest D. Kemble	Psychology, UMM	1977
Kenneth J. Nafziger	Music, UMM	1977
Mischa Penn	Anthropology	1977
Betty W. Robinett	Liberal Arts	1977
Karen R. Viskochil	Medical School	1977
Julie A. Carson	Liberal Arts	1976
Hollie L. Collins	Biology, UMD	1976
Patricia M. Fergus	Liberal Arts	1976
Joseph A. Gallian	Mathematics & Statistics, UMD	1976
Magnus Olson	Biological Sciences	1976
Michael Q. Patton	Liberal Arts	1976
Vera M. Schletzer	Continuing Education & Extension	1976
James B. Togeas	Science & Mathematics, UMM	1976
Arthur Erdman	Mechanical Engineering	1975
Thomas Kraabel	Liberal Arts	1975
Jane Maddy	Education, UMD	1975
Norman Moen	General College	1975
Jack Moran	Institute of Technology	1975
Howard Morris	Agricultural, Food & Environmental Sciences	1975
Katherine Nash	Liberal Arts	1975
Ted Underwood	History, UMM	1975
James H. Brutger	Fine Arts, UMD	1974
Ronald Chastain	Liberal Arts	1974
Roger Clemence	Institute of Technology	1974
Forrest Harris	General College	1974
Donald B. Lawrence	Biological Sciences	1974
Bernice Lund	Mathematics, UMM	1974
Arnett C. Mace	Natural Resources	1974
Gerhard Neubeck	Human Ecology	1974
Jooinn Lee	Social Sciences, UMM	1973
Donald G. McTavish	Sociology	1973
Sharon Wilford	Nursing	1973
Thomas D. Bacig	Sociology/Anthropology, UMD	1972
Eric Klinger	Psychology, UMM	1972
Fred E. Koller	Agricultural, Food & Environmental Sciences	1972
Warren G. Meyer	Education & Human Development	1972
Lewis G. Palmer	Mechanical Engineering	1972
Leon Reisman	General College	1972
Ronald Caple	Chemistry, UMD	1971
Harold Deutsch	Liberal Arts	1971
Laddie Elling	Agricultural, Food & Environmental Sciences	1971
John D. Helmberger	Agricultural, Food & Environmental Sciences	1971
George J. McCutcheon	General College	1971
William O. Peterfi	Political Science, UMM	1971
Robert C. Brasted	Institute of Technology	1970
Robert J. Falk	Psychology, UMD	1970
Clifton Gray	Psychology, UMM	1970
David O. Kieft	History	1970
Thomas Walz	University College	1970
Val Woodward	Genetics & Cell Biology	1970
Stanley Dagley	Biological Sciences	1969
Raymond Lammers	Speech & Theatre, UMM	1969
Toni A. McNaron	English	1969
John D. McRae	Pharmacy	1969
Merle P. Meyer	Forestry	1969
Theodore Uehling	Philosophy, UMM	1969
Glen R. Berryman	Administration, Carlson School of Management	1968
Paul A. Cartwright	Institute of Technology	1968
James C. Gremmels	English, UMM	1968
David W. Noble	American Studies	1968
Robert Randleman	Education & Human Development	1968
Lawrence H. Smith	Agricultural, Food & Environmental Sciences	1968
Abe B. Baker	Medical School	1967
O. Truman Driggs, Jr.	History, UMM	1967
Roxana R. Ford	Human Ecology	1967
George McCune	General College	1967
William McDonald	Liberal Arts	1967
John S. Meyers	Institute of Technology	1967
David Cooperman	Sociology	1966
William Rosenthal	English, UMD	1966
Kenneth E. Winsness	Forestry	1966

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