Faculty Awards and Honors Recent Award Winners

The following list of 2008-09 award winners was last updated on April 3, 2009.

Annis Chaikin Sorensen Award

Deborah Minter, English

Willa Cather and Charles Bessey Professors

Sidnie White Crawford, Willa Cather Professor of Classics and Religious Studies

Patrick Dussault, Charles Bessey Professor of Chemistry

Evgeny Tsymbal, Charles Bessey Professor of  Physics and Astronomy

Chancellor's Exemplary Service to Students Award

Charles Riedesel, Computer Science & Engineering

College Distinguished Teaching Awards

Karen Hux, Special Education & Communication Disorders, Education & Human Sciences

Michelle Rupiper, Child, Youth & Family Studies, Education & Human Sciences

Carol Easley, Textiles, Clothing & Design, Education & Human Sciences

James R. Brandle, School of Natural Resources, Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources

Martin Despang, Architecture, Architecture

Scott Anderson, School of Music, Hixson-Lied Fine & Performing Arts

Srikanth Iyengar, Mathematics, Arts & Sciences

Jason Kautz, Chemistry, Arts & Sciences

Simon Wood, Classics & Religious Studies, Arts & Sciences

Mikil Foss, Mathematics, Arts & Sciences

Jody Koening Kellas, Communications Studies, Arts & Sciences

Deborah Minter, English, Arts & Sciences

Ravepreet Sohi, Marketing, Business Administration

Mustafa Gursoy, Electrical Engineering, Engineering

Shannon Bartlelt-Hunt, Civil Engineering, Engineering

Distinguished Educational Service Award

Sharon Skipton, Extension Educator, Southeast Research & Extension Center

Doc Elliott Award

Harold & Esther Edgerton Junior Faculty Award

Marie S. Mitchell, Management

Louise Pound-George Howard Distinguished Career Award

James Lewis, Mathematics

IDEA Award (Innovation, Development and Entrepreneurship Award)

Donald Weeks, Biochemistry

Susan Rosowski Professorship

Viacheslav I. Adamchuk, Biological Systems Engineering

Melissa Homestead, English and Women's and Gender Studies

Student Foundation/Builders Award for Outstanding Advising

Karen Fulton, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice

Swanson Teaching Excellence Award

Marilyn Grady, Educational Administration

University-wide Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity (ORCA) Award

Michael James, Textiles, Clothing & Design

University-wide Award for Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA)

Calvin Garbin, Psychology

Donald Lee, Agronomy & Horticulture

University-wide Departmental Teaching Award (UDTA)

No UNL winner this year

Weaver/Douglas Professorship for Teaching Excellence

James Lewis, Aaron Douglas Professor of Mathematics

Helen Moore, Aaron Douglas Professor of Sociology

W.W. Marshall Family Professorship

Andrew Benson, Food Science & Technology