Faculty Award Winners 2023-24

University Distinguished Professor Award
Armando G. McDonald, Professor of Forest and Sustainable Products
College of Natural Resources

University Distinguished Professor Award
Wendy Gerwick Couture, Professor of Law
College of Law

Donald Crawford Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award
Mark Warner, Professor, Department of Culture, Society and Justice
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
Gianna Stoddard, MFA Candidate, Department of English
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Outstanding Graduate Student Research and Creative Activity Award
Hallie Walker Brown, Research Assistant, Department of Fish and Wildlife
College of Natural Resources

Postdoctoral Mentoring Award
Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering

Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar/Fellow Award
Joseph Feldman, Postdoctoral fellow, Martin Institute
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award
Michelle (Shelley) McGuire, Director and Professor, Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Excellence in Teaching Award
Kevin Chang, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering

Hoffman Award in Teaching Excellence
Sarah Alice Campbell, Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts Department
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Advising Excellence Award — Faculty
Andrew Scheef, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education, Health and Human Sciences

Advising Excellence Award — Staff
Trevor White, Academic Advisor, Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Dr. Arthur Maxwell Taylor Excellence in Diversity Award — Faculty
Erin N. Chapman, Clinical Associate Professor, Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Dr. Arthur Maxwell Taylor Excellence in Diversity Award — Staff
Julia Keleher, Director LGBTQA Office
Office of Equity and Diversity

Outreach and Engagement Excellence Award
Steven Peterson, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Business
College of Business and Economics

Excellence in Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Efforts Award
Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering

General Education Teaching Award
Katie Krahn, Instructor, Department of English
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

General Education Service Award
Ann Abbott, Intermountain Forestry Cooperative
College of Natural Resources

2023-2025 University Mid-Career

Bert Baumgaertner, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Philosophy
College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences

Elizabeth Cassel, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences
College of Science

Aliza Plener Cover, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law
College of Law

Berna Devezer, Associate Professor, Department of Business
College of Business and Economics

Jan Eitel, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Society
College of Natural Resources

Matthew Bernards, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
College of Engineering

Aleksandra Hollingshead, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education, Health and Human Sciences

Katherine Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Kasee Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Education, Leadership and Communications
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences