25th Annual Outstanding Faculty and Staff Awards

Congratulations to our 2024 winners!

Staff winners

  • Abigail King (Occupational Therapy)
  • Andy Wiegert (Office of Graduate Studies in Arts and Sciences)
  • Joel Dalton (Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at WUSM)
  • Johany Glen (Office of Graduate Studies in Arts and Sciences)
  • Rhiannon Amato (English)

Faculty winners

  • Alexander Seidel (Physics)
  • Catherine Lang (Physical Therapy)
  • Joseph O’Sullivan (Electrical & Systems Engineering)
  • Kelly Harris (Occupational Therapy)
  • Lynne Tatlock (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature)
  • Michael Strube (Psychological & Brain Sciences, Education)
  • Randall Martin (Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering)
  • Ross Brownson (Brown School)

All photos from the event can be viewed and downloaded at the following link: https://wustl.box.com/s/ybw9h8xzcu0t247u93161k4m61c6xabg


2024 Ceremony Program

Check out our past winners!

2023 Outstanding Faculty & Staff Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Gregory Magarian – Law School
  • Gwendalyn Randolph – Pathology and Immunology
  • Jeffrey Gillis-Davis – Physics
  • Lamar Pierce – Olin Business School
  • Matthew D. Lew – Electrical and Systems Engineering
  • Minyuan Zhao – Olin Business School
  • Richard Loomis – Chemistry

Outstanding Staff Awards

  • Beth Gartin – Institute for Material Science and Engineering
  • Jennifer Brown – Physical Therapy
  • Joan Wang – University Libraries, Chinese Studies and East Asian Studies
  • Meg McClelland – Psychological and Brain Sciences
  • Rachael Johnson – Law School
  • Rachel Pepe – Graduate Center
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2022 Outstanding Faculty & Staff Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Lori Watt – History
  • Chris Eng – English
  • Ron Mallon – Philosophy
  • Lingchei Letty Chen – East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • Daniel Bornstein – History/Religious Studies
  • Derek Brown – Public Health/Brown School

Outstanding Staff Awards

  • Mitsutaka Nakamura – East Asian Languages and Cultures

  • Carissa Re – Economics

  • Maribeth Clifton – Occupational Therapy

  • Marissa Hardwrict – Brown School

  • Cami Spampani – Biology and Biomedical Sciences

2021 Outstanding Faculty & Staff Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Lisa Tabor Connor (Occupational Therapy)

  • Daniel C Link M.D. (Oncology)

  • Yehuda Ben-Shahar (Biology)

  • Cindy Brantmeier (International and Area Studies)

  • Kristin Van Engen (Psychological & Brain Sciences)

  • Nancy Reynolds (JIMES)

Outstanding Staff Awards

  • Susey Seel (Biomedical Engineering)

  • Tiffany Rader (Occupational Therapy)

  • Meghann Feely (Office of Recreation)

  • Sanmathi Chavalmane Subbenaik (Nano Research Facility/EECE)

2020 Outstanding Faculty & Staff Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Michael B. Altman (Radiation Oncology)
  • Michal Grinstein-Weiss (Brown School; Social Policy)
  • Mary K. Hastings (School of Medicine; Program in Physical Therapy)
  • Nathaniel Jones (Art History & Archaeology)
  • Zoe Stamatopoulou (Classics)

Outstanding Staff Awards

  • Serena Carvajal (Performing Arts)
  • Robert Patterson & Steven Pijut (The Writing Center)
  • Cecily Stewart Hawksworth (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
  • Dan Ferris (Brown School)
  • Krystel Mowery (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
2019 Outstanding Faculty & Staff Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • William Acree (Romance Languages and Literatures)
  • Todd Braver (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
  • Brett Drake (Social Work)
  • Odis Johnson (Education)
  • Charles Kaufman (Internal Medicine)
  • Allison King (Occupational Therapy)
  • Mark McDaniel (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
  • Indira Mysorekar (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
  • Enola Proctor (Social Work)
  • William Wallace (Art History and Archaeology)

Outstanding Staff Awards

  • Jennifer Brown (Physical Therapy)
  • Doug Know (Humanities Digital Workshop)
  • Patricia Kofron (Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering)
  • Betha Whitlow (Art History and Archaeology)
  • Steve Pentecost (Humanities Digital Workshop)
2018 Outstanding Faculty & Staff Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Rowhea Elmesky (Education)
  • Charlie Kurth (Philosophy)
  • Tammy English (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
  • Nancy Morrow-Howell (Brown School)
  • Cindy Brantmeier (Education)

Outstanding Staff Awards

  • Jessica Roussin (Occupational Therapy)

  • Ellen Bailey (Sam Fox School)

  • Calin Sterling (Anthropology)

  • Marilyn Broughton (Education)

  • Kim McCabe (Liberman Graduate Center)

  • Hélène Couvy Craigg (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

  • Alison Verbeck (Physics)

2017 Outstanding Faculty & Staff Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Ramesh Agarwal (Engineering)
  • Carl Craver (Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology)
  • Jeffrey Henderson (Biology)
  • Steven Miles (History)
  • Shanta Pandey (Brown School)
  • Michelle Purdy (Education)
  • Akiko Tsuchiya (Romance Languages and Literatures)

Outstanding Staff Awards

  • Marissa Franklin (Brown School)
  • Sarah Hennessey (English)
  • Rita Kuehler (Romance Languages and Literatures)
  • Meg McClelland (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
  • Lynn Mitchell (Brown School)
  • Maria Rodriguez (Psychological & Brain Sciences)
  • Nancy Rubin (Art History and Archaeology)
2016 Outstanding Faculty & Staff Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Elizabeth Childs (Art History and Archaeology)
  • Amy Eyler (Brown School)
  • Beata Grant (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
  • Bradley Jolliff (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
  • Melissa Jonson-Reid (Brown School)
  • Andrew Knight (Olin Business School)
  • Zachary Pincus (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)
  • Mark Meacham (Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science)

Outstanding Staff Awards

  •   Amy Gassel (The Graduate School)
  • Marcia Holleran (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
  • Erin Murdock (Olin Business School)
  • Empress Sanders (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
  • Tim Smolar (Physics)
  • Sally Vogt (Biology and Biomedical Sciences)
2015 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Christine Floss (Physics)
  • James B. Skeath (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)
  • Melanie Micir (English)
  • Erin McGlothlin (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
  • Bret Gustafson (Anthropology)
  • Tristam R. Kidder (Anthropology)
  • Abraham Z. Snyder (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

Special Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring

  • Cynthia Lo (Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering)

  • William F. Tate (Education)

  • Peter Hovmand (Brown School)

  • David Ornitz (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Joshua Jackson (Psychology)

  • Bradley L. Jolliff (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

2014 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Nancy E. Berg (Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)

  • Rebecca Copeland (East Asian Languages and Cultures)

  • Robert E. Hegel (Comparative Literature)

  • Fiona Marshall (Anthropology)

  • Jason Mills (Medicine)

  • Eva-Maria Russo (Germanic Languages and Literatures)

  • Slava Solomatov (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

Special Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring

  • Raymond E. Arvidson (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

  • Cindy Brantmeier (Education)

  • Dewey Holten (Chemistry)

  • Catherine Lang (Movement Sciences)

  • Gerhild Scholz Williams (Germanic Languages and Literatures)

  • Lucia Strader (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

2013 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Wendy Auslander (Brown School)

  • David Balota (Psychology)

  • John Doris (Philosophy)

  • Gammon Earhart (Movement Science)

  • Nathan Jensen (Political Science)

  • Lynne Tatlock (Germanic Languages and Literatures)

  • Erik Trinkaus (Anthropology)

  • David Wang (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

2012 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Brian Carpenter (Psychology)

  • Brian Crisp (Political Science)

  • Roberto Civitelli (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Radhakrishnan Gopalan (Olin Business School)

  • Carolyn Lesorogol (Brown School)

  • Steven Mennerick (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Julie Singer (Romance Languages and Literatures)

2011 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Aaron DiAntonio (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Robert Gereau (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Andrew Martin (Political Science)

  • Nancy Morrow-Howell (Brown School)

  • Anca Parvulescu (English)

  • Simine Vazire (Psychology)

2010 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Fatemeh Keshavarz (Comparative Literature)
  • Daniel Link (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)
  • Curtis McMillen Brown School)
  • Randall Larsen (Psychology)
  • Paul Michael Lützeler (Germanic Languages and Literatures)
  • Timothy Parsons (History)
  • Andrew Sobel (Political Science)
2009 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Wayne Fields (English)

  • Stephanie Kirk (Romance Languages and Literatures)

  • Angela Miller (Art History and Archaeology)

  • Dewey Holten (Chemistry)

  • Mona Lena Krook (Political Science)

  • James Morley (Economics)

  • Japes Spriggs (Political Science)

2008 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Rebecca DeRoo (Art History and Archaeology)

  • Richard Loomis (Chemistry)

  • Nancy Morrow-Howell (Brown School)

  • John Nachbar (Economics)

  • Henry Roediger (Psychology)

  • Lynne Tatlock (Germanic Languages and Literatures)

2007 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • David Browman (Anthropology)

  • Erin McGlothlin (Germanic Languages and Literatures)

  • Amanda Moore McBride (Brown School)

  • Louis Muglia (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Karen L. Wooley (Chemistry)

2006 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • James Cheverud (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Lutz Koepnick (German Languages and Literatures)

  • Kathleen McDermott (Psychology)

  • Enola Proctor (Brown School)

  • Wolfram Schmidgen (English)

  • Michael Strube (Psychology)

2005 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Jonathan Chase (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Elizabeth Childs (Art History and Archaeology)

  • Sandor Kovacs (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Karen O’Malley (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Jennifer Smith (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

  • Erik Trinkaus (Anthropology)

  • Luis Zayas (Brown School)

2004 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Robert Dymek (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

  • Larry May (Philosophy)

  • Gary Miller (Political Science)

  • Barbara Schaal (Biology)

  • Arlene Stiffman (Brown School)

2003 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Robert Henke (Comparative Literature)

  • David M. Holtzman (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Chakravarthi Narasimhan (Olin Business School)

  • Robert Sussman (Anthropology)

  • Lynne Tatlock (Germanic Languages and Literatures)

2002 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Marcus Berliant (Economics)

  • David Lawton (English)

  • Paul Michael Lützeler (Germanic Languages and Literatures)

  • Patty Jo Watson (Anthropology)

2001 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • David Balota (Psychology)

  • Stanton Braude (Biology)

  • Michael Gross (Chemistry)

  • Robert Hegel (Comparative Literature)

  • Fiona Marshall (Anthropology)

2000 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

  • Deanna Barch (Psychology)

  • Marcus Berliant (Economics)

  • Jeffrey Gordon (Biology and Biomedical Sciences)

  • Larry Haskin (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

  • Naomi Lebowitz (English)

  • Victor LeVine (Political Science)

  • John Russell (Biology & Biomedical Sciences)

  • Everett Shock (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

  • Colette Winn (Romance Languages and Literatures)