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 2024 Award Recipients
Randal J. Barnes
Civil, Environmental & Geo- Engineering, College of Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Randal Barnes’ devotion to undergraduate education has nurtured generations of engineers. He balances fundamentals with application to equip students with critical knowledge while stimulating interest in societal impact. He is an active student advocate and has played a critical role in curriculum improvement and development both inside and outside the department.
Michael A. Boland
Applied Economics, College of Food, Agricultural & Natural Resource Sciences
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Michael Boland has created unique and meaningful learning opportunities for students. His courses on supply chain and economic organizations such as cooperatives, and his undergraduate research program, are consistently popular. He has successfully taught nine different undergraduate courses at the University of Minnesota. The blend of topics and discussion coupled with outside speakers provides a unique learning experience.
Jered Bright
Mathematics, Center for Learning Innovation
University of Minnesota Rochester
Jered Bright is an award-winning senior teaching specialist in mathematics at UM Rochester’s Center for Learning Innovation. With a focus on developing each student, he implements a pedagogy of care that is intentionally designed with challenges to empower each student. Jered has led the development of multiple programs, including three redesigns of UMR’s introductory math sequence and a Summer Bridge program. As an interdisciplinary research team member, he investigates the mental health of youth.
Laura Carr
Mathematics & Statistics, SwensonCollege of Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota Duluth
Laura Carr brings compassion, energy, and expertise into mathematics and statistics classrooms and helps the most at-risk students succeed. She created and ran the Securian Mathematics Laboratory at the University of Minnesota Duluth, which serves almost a thousand students each year by providing support for developmental mathematics courses. Her work extends outside the classroom where she develops curriculum and mentors students and faculty with an overall goal of creating positive math experiences for all students.
Siobhan S. Craig
English, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Siobhan Craig is a comparative scholar working with film and cultural/literary theory. She focuses on international fascism and colonialism and its afterlives, working in English, Italian, French and German. She won two departmental teaching awards, pursuing an engaged, dynamic and inclusive pedagogy in many undergraduate courses in different formats, and is a caring and generative advisor. She is strongly committed to diversity and equity, evident in her contributions to curricular and program development.
Jerry Luckhardt
Music, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Jerry Luckhardt has mentored thousands of students from every college during his tenure at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Numerous former students have aspired to extraordinary careers thanks to the opportunities afforded them under his tutelage. Luckhardt continues to demonstrate exceptional leadership and dedication toward his students. A highly respected musician and conductor nationally and internationally, he has been instrumental in transforming the University of Minnesota Bands program.
William C. K. Pomerantz
Chemistry, College of Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
William Pomerantz is an exceptional teacher, educator, mentor, and scholar within his field of chemical biology. His passion for undergraduate education is reflected in student feedback, student outcomes, peer assessments, course development, and mentoring that engages students in new and remarkably effective ways. His contributions have improved engagement in organic chemistry, enhanced scientific communication skills through new courses and writing initiatives, and produced successful chemists and medical professionals fostered through mentorship in his research laboratory.
Elliott H. Powell
American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Elliott Powell is an award-winning scholar of race, sexuality, and popular music. His interdisciplinary approach to teaching seeks to illustrate how multiple and heterogenous lenses can produce new ways of grappling with the complexity of American culture and, as a result, help students better understand their everyday lives. His hope is that interdisciplinarity will help students reach the transformative intellectual breakthroughs that Black civil rights activist and educator Septima Clark famously called “wonderful thinking.”
David Syring
Studies in Justice, Culture & Social Change, College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Minnesota Duluth
David Syring has taught, advised, and mentored thousands of students from a variety of majors at all levels of undergraduate education at UMD. His efforts both in and out of the classroom have afforded students educational and practical experiences epitomizing the prestige of a University of Minnesota degree and guided many of them to meaningful careers. His impact as a teacher, mentor, and collaborative researcher/creator reverberates through his students, and the world is better because of it.
Cassidy R. Terrell
Biochemistry, Center for Learning Innovation
University of Minnesota Rochester
Cassidy Terrell is an extraordinary educator with a vision to transform undergraduate STEM education. She is nationally known for her contributions to and innovations in biochemistry education, which focuses on developing visual literacy curricula and disseminating research on learning. She is an educator committed to integrity, inclusivity, and creativity both in the classroom and through collaborations with advisees. Ultimately, she strives to inspire and support undergraduate students in being agents of discovery and learning.
Congratulations to the 2023 Award Recipients
Ryan Bergstrom
Geography, College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Minnesota Duluth
Ryan Bergstrom has inspired students in the Environment, Geography, and Sustainability and Geographic Information Science Programs with his dedication, empathy, and clear explanations. He has designed his courses to guide students from abstract concepts to real world applications of geography. His efforts as the departmental internship coordinator have led over 100 students to transition from degree to the workplace.
Brian Goldberg
English, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Brian Goldberg is an internationally recognized scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and winner of the English Department’s Ruth Christie Distinguished Teaching Award. He has taught thousands of undergraduates at the University of Minnesota. His contributions to undergraduate education include classroom teaching, where he pursues his dynamic and inclusive pedagogy in large lectures, small seminars, and independent studies; a commitment to mentoring students during their undergraduate careers and afterwards; and administration and program development.
Danielle Johannesen
Writing, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences & Education
University of Minnesota Crookston
Danielle Johannesen has transformed undergraduate education at the University of Minnesota Crookston. An award-winning faculty member in Writing, she founded the campus Honors Program. Johannesen exhibits exceptional dedication to tutoring students in writing, including international and neurodiverse students. Her students have represented UM Crookston at prestigious national research conferences. She teaches courses on sports and social justice and promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion through her years of work with the first-year experience curriculum.
Kelsey Jean Metzger
Center for Learning Innovation
University of Minnesota Rochester
Kelsey Metzger is an exceptional teacher and a nationally recognized leader in learning research and evidence-based curriculum design. Using equity-focused inclusive teaching techniques firmly rooted in her own research, Dr. Metzger is a maestro of active learning environments and structures learning experiences to support significant learning and growth for all students. Since UM Rochester’s first students arrived, she has lent her skills to developing, assessing, and revising innovative curricula at this new campus.
Windy González Roberts
Spanish, Division of Humanities
University of Minnesota Morris
Windy González Roberts has taught Spanish for more than twenty-two years at the University of Minnesota Morris. She is an exemplary, inspiring and socially-engaged educator and mentor with an enviable expertise in teaching methodology and advanced technologies in the field of second language acquisition. Her myriad outreach activities include the Community English as a Second Language program, the Jane Addams School for Democracy program, and the Spanish Conversation Table (La Mesa de Conversación).
Burke Scarbrough
English, Linguistics, & Writing Studies, College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
University of Minnesota Duluth
Burke Scarbrough teaches with an infectious passion for language arts and literacy pedagogy. Students emphasize that his clarity and organization help him to design engaging challenges and set high expectations for his students. Through his advising and teaching of pre-service educators as well as his research and service partnerships with in-service teachers, he models collaboration, community engagement, and lifelong learning. He pursues equity through his pedagogical research, teaching, and coordination of two UM Duluth programs.
Shannon L. Stevenson
Biology, Swenson College of Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota Duluth
Shannon Stevenson is dedicated to teaching and advising undergraduate students in UM Duluth’s Department of Biology from their first semester through senior year. She is an innovative educator who empowers diverse students to take ownership of their learning and reach their full potential. She engages students in evidence-based teaching practices including active learning, problem solving, and inquiry-based labs. Her commitment to undergraduate education has transformed the curriculum and enhanced writing instruction across the Duluth campus.
Shaden M. Tageldin
Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Shaden M. Tageldin, an internationally recognized scholar of cultural studies and comparative literature, brings her wide-ranging and cutting-edge expertise to undergraduate education in and outside the classroom. Caring, compassionate, and extremely thoughtful, she challenges her students intellectually, addresses their concerns, and fosters personal growth. Her advising is both generous and generative. Her dedication to equity and diversity is acknowledged by students and colleagues alike. The same commitment informs her outstanding contributions to program development.
Jake Wright
Center for Learning Innovation
University of Minnesota Rochester
Jake Wright is a senior lecturer in philosophy at UM Rochester’s Center for Learning Innovation. Utilizing feminist ethics of care and the Jesuit educational philosophy Cura Personalis, he focuses on care and community building as foundations for academic success, especially in students’ first year. Jake’s pedagogical research and commitment to advising as a curricular initiative are informed by Philosophy as a Way of Life, connecting material to students’ lives via lived and practical experiences.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field teaches students to analyze complex social systems by breaking them into parts—and then thinking critically about how the parts fit together. She makes mathematical modeling of social relationships accessible to students from all backgrounds. Attending to the maxim, “the person holding the pen learns most”, she structures learning so that that person is the student—whether in a classroom or in the research projects where she has collaborated with dozens of undergraduates.
Congratulations to the 2022 Award Recipients
Barbara Frey
Institute for Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Over the last thirty years, Professor Barbara Frey has nurtured passion for human rights advocacy in hundreds of undergraduates in IGS, other CLA departments and colleges, and internationally. Her classes have inspired students with her expertise, compassion, and individual attention. Through local, national, and international field experiences many more have been inspired to pursue human rights careers. She continues to mentor these students as they have gone on to become human rights lawyers, professors, and advocates.
David Karjanen
American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Professor David Karjanen is an exceptionally dedicated educator who has taught thousands of undergraduates at the University of Minnesota. He served for years as Director of Undergraduate Studies, transforming the curriculum, developing new courses, creating new internship and service learning opportunities, supervising student research and mentoring undergraduates from across the university, and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout courses and student research. He works constantly to improve undergraduate education in American Studies and across the university.
Harouna A. Maiga
Agricultural & Natural Resources
University of Minnesota Crookston
Professor Harouna Maiga is a Distinguished Global Professor at the Crookston campus, teaching primarily Animal and Equine Sciences, Pre-Veterinary, and Agricultural Education courses. Dr. Maiga is highly committed to undergraduate teaching using multiple innovative learning pedagogies. His research is tailored to provide experiential learning to his students. He leads internationalization of campus and curriculum and empowers his students to think critically to solve real world problems in agriculture and to become global citizens.
Benjamin Munson
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Professor Benjamin Munson of the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences is an internationally renowned scholar who makes enduring and significant contributions to undergraduate education, and who builds life-long relationships with students. These contributions are broad: mentoring students in research, providing students with support and guidance, and outstanding classroom teaching. Dr. Munson has made both intellectual and administrative contributions to efforts promoting Universal Design for Learning, accessibility for all, social justice, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Ruby H.N. Nguyen
Public Health
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Professor Ruby Nguyen is a skilled teacher and accomplished researcher who brings these two elements together to give undergraduates a deeper understanding of public health challenges. Dr. Nguyen’s students readily see her passion for the subject, dedication to student learning, and genuine interest in their success. Underrepresented students also see some of themselves in her. For these reasons, and others, Dr. Nguyen successfully leads the University’s popular —and growing — undergraduate public health programs.
David J. Orser
Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Professor David Orser is a teacher, lab coordinator, and mentor with over a decade of industry experience. His leadership brings together faculty, TAs, staff, and students, empowering them to continuously improve a system of “Living Labs” and course materials covering nine core undergraduate classes and countless more experiential extracurriculars. The resulting materials inform and draw inspiration from Dr. Orser’s outreach efforts such as the University on the Prairie and Farmington FIRST Robotics Team’s wheelchairs for children with disabilities.
Jennifer Rothchild
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, Division of the Social Sciences
University of Minnesota Morris
Professor Jennifer Rothchild redesigned UMN-Morris’s Women’s Studies Program to the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program and chairs its Equity and Diversity Committee. She has led directed studies, which have produced co-authored publications with students, and has conducted domestic and international field research in children’s homes, nonprofit organizations, and schools. Dr. Rothchild trains students in community-based research in areas such as social inequalities and health with a focus on policy changes at the community and national level.
David Saftner
Civil Engineering, Swenson College of Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota Duluth
Professor David Saftner has not only inspired UMD Civil Engineering students with a passion for the field but has also impacted engineering education across the nation. His teaching is student-centered with an emphasis on increasing student engagement, connections to industry, and peer engagement through active learning, group projects, and including industrial leaders in classroom education. Dr. Saftner’s efforts have also been transformational in increasing student retention through his first-year Civil Engineering course.
Jessie Barnett Schimek
Center for Learning Innovation
University of Minnesota Rochester
Dr. Jessie Barnett is a Student-Based Faculty member in Public Health specializing in dynamic curriculum development, collaborative teaching, and experiential learning. Her background in LGBTQ+ health research and disparities informs her student-centered course design, in which learners nurture an enduring personal connection with highly challenging concepts. An Institute on the Environment Educator, she is committed to cultivating the next generation of public health leaders through student-driven learning and research, mentorship, advising, and community engagement.
Kathleen L. Seifert
Educational Psychology, College of Education & Human Development
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Kathy Seifert is an outstanding teacher and contributor to undergraduate education in the Department of Educational Psychology. She collaborates with others across CEHD to create real-world experiences and professional networks that support her students’ growth. She creates pathways to a variety of postbaccalaureate educational and career opportunities, and she promotes global experiences and research opportunities to enrich students’ learning--all with intentional efforts to advance equity and diversity in ways that impact undergraduates’ future work in special education and related fields.
Talvin Wilks
Theatre Arts & Dance, College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Professor Talvin Wilks, an accomplished playwright, theatre director, and a dramaturg, brings these nationally-recognized professional credentials into his teaching and mentorship in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota. His strength in these multi-faceted areas of creativity and performance is what makes him an inspiring and compassionate team builder, thoughtful, and highly skilled master-teacher, a generous mentor, and an intrepid advocate for undergraduate students’ intellectual and artistic endeavors.
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 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).
2015 and Prior Recipients
2010 - Present
|
Awardee |
Department |
Year |
|
French, UMM |
2015 |
|
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Psychology |
2015 |
|
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Construction & Facility Management |
2015 |
|
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Postsecondary Teaching and Learning |
2015 |
|
|
Mechanical Engineering |
2015 |
|
|
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |