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Faculty members recognized at 2016 Awards Convocation

February 10, 2016
<p>President Lou Anna K. Simon awards Associate Dean of the College of Natural Science G. Mark Voit while Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies Stephen Hsu reads from the podium on Feb. 9, 2016, at Wharton Center. </p>

President Lou Anna K. Simon awards Associate Dean of the College of Natural Science G. Mark Voit while Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies Stephen Hsu reads from the podium on Feb. 9, 2016, at Wharton Center.

Photo by Kelly vanFrankenhuyzen | The State News

On Tuesday night, a number of faculty members were recognized at the annual All-University Awards Convocation.

The following is a list of the awarded faculty members. 

William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Awards:

Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, College of Arts and Letters, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures. DeVoss has served on 28 master's level committees and 32 doctoral committees. She has received national and international prominence in the field of rhetoric and writing.

Steve W. J. Kozlowski, College of Social Science, Psychology. His research focuses on the design of active learning systems to train adaptive skills.

Punya Mishra, College of Education, Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education. Mishra is an international scholar who studies understanding how teachers effectively integrate technology into instruction.

Brian T. Pentland, Eli Broad College of Business, Accounting and Information Systems. Pentland's research focuses on organizational routines supported by the National Science Foundation.

Hayder Radha, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Radha is an expert of signal processing and data communications used to analyze social networks and their data.

Milton R. Smith, College of Natural Science, Chemistry. His research on catalytic transformations of carbon-hydrogen bonds has garnered support from the National Science Foundation and Nationals Institutes of Health.

Sandra Snow, College of Music, Conducting and Music Education. Snow serves as a choral conductor and has been invited to conduct honor choirs in nearly every state in the U.S.

Patricia A. Soranno, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Fisheries and Wildlife. Soranno is a researcher in the fields of landscape limnology and macrosystems ecology. She studies the causes of excess nutrients in freshwater in addition to the consequences.

George W. Sundin, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences. Sundin's self-developed research program studies the development of plant diseases. He has published 93 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Mark Voit, College of Natural Science, Physics and Astronomy. Voit is a co-author of an introductory textbook in astronomy and astrophysics. His research on the thermodynamic properties of the hot gas in groups of galaxies has led to groundbreaking conclusions on said gas.

Simon also presented other awards to teachers, graduate students and other faculty.

Teacher-Scholar Awards:

  • Lars Brudvig: College of Natural Science, Plant Biology
  • Etienne Charles: College of Music, Jazz Studies
  • Richard R. Lunt: College of Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, and Natural Science, Physics and Astronomy
  • Georgina Montgomery: Lyman Briggs College, College of Social Science, College of History
  • Sean A. Valles: Lyman Briggs College, College of Arts and Letters, Philosophy
  • Joshua Yumibe: College of Arts and Letters, English

Community Engagement Scholarship:

  • Adesuwa B. Olomu

Distinguished Academic Staff Awards:

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  • Phillip T. Durst, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, MSU Extension, Agriculture and Agribusiness Institute 
  • Terry L. Gibb, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, MSU Extension, Greening Michigan Institute 
  • Marolee Neuberger, College of Human Medicine, Family Medicine 
  • Kurt H. Schindler, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, MSU Extension, Greening Michigan Institute

Excellence-in-Teaching Citations: 

  • Alison Ede: College of Education, Kinesiology 
  • Stuart Chapman Hill: College of Music, Music Education 
  • Eric M. Martin: College of Education, Kinesiology 
  • Kathryn Meyers Emery: College of Social Science, Anthropology 
  • Hannah K. Miller: College of Education, Teacher Education 
  • Jennifer Royston: College of Arts and Letters, English

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