Tami Sivy

Saginaw Valley State University professor Tami Sivy (PhDChem’06) was honored with the 2021 Distinguished Professor of the Year Award. This award recognizes outstanding efforts in undergraduate education by faculty at Michigan public universities. Tami began working at SVSU in 2008 and has served as department chair since 2015. Tami teaches classes at every level, is responsible for the entire upper-level biochemistry curriculum and has mentored more than 50 SVSU students in laboratory research. She was involved in the development of the SVSU Sustainability Center’s curriculum, and has mentored many local high school teachers and students in environmental research projects. Additionally, her research on water quality has been used to help determine beach closings in Bay County and to detect COVID-19 levels in wastewater.