Faculty and Staff Awards

2021-22 Awards

Employee Recognition Award

• Shirley Chessman - Recognized for her contribution to student success.

2020-21 Awards

Outstanding Service Award

• Daven Henze - Leadership efforts in the undergrad program through the pandemic.
• Janet Tsai - Leadership with the DEI movement.
• Yifu Ding - Leadership on the personnel committee, which tackled the most cases ever last year.  

Outstanding Undergraduate Educators

• Daria Kotys-Schwartz and Shalom Ruben - Recognized for their work in the class room and for their efforts to keep project-based learning in the curriculum, during a mostly remote year.  

Outstanding Graduate Educator

• Peter Hamlington - Leadership and for doing a great job with his first time teaching 5020 and Intro to Research.  

Outstanding Staff Award

• All staff members
  • Each staff member provided excellent work that even went beyond the 'normal' pandemic.  
  • Two of the ME staff leaders went on parental leave partway through the year. They developed and implemented a plan that continued the ME research programs as an education mission. 
  • When five staff members left the department, the entire staff, as a team, took on the numerous roles needed to keep the department moving forward with high quality work.
  • Hired five new staff members.

Outstanding Research Award

• Mark Borden and Massimo Ruzzene - Recognized for leading extremely productive research groups and producing 10+ papers last year.

Woodward Outstanding Faculty Award 

• Shelly Miller - Miller's indoor air quality, COVID transmission research and the amazing service to the campus and society was certainly award worthy.