Award Recipients

Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Kirat Baath, Teaching Assistant Professor of Biology

Excellence in Scholarship

Dr. Cody Strom, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Sport

Excellence in Service

Dr. Rick Hudson, Chair and Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Excellence in Advising

Dr. Darrin Sorrells, Teaching Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Sport

Staff Excellence

Mr. Justin Amos, Lab Manager of Applied Engineering Center

The faculty members chosen to receive these awards have gone above and beyond the call of educator and have succeeded in excelling expectations. These selected have been gone through a selection process by their respected committees and were sought to be the best of the best and deserve to be represented as such.

SEERGA Award

• Dr. Scott Grady - Design and Synthesis of Selenium-Reactive Chemical Tags for Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics

Innovation Award

• Mrs. Erin Holinger - Teacher Education Professional Development Program

Barnett Award

• Hanno de Coning and Dr. Milad Rezvani Rad (Faculty Mentor) - Design of a 2 Stage Plastic Shredder for Plastic Waste Recycling
• Alexandria Humphrey and Dr. Brian Kiessling (Faculty Mentor) - Do different modifications (grip type and hand placement) affect the results of the flexed arm hang test when compared to the common protocol of the test?
• Leo Osborne and Dr. Milad Rezvani Rad (Faculty Mentor) - Determining components and programming a PlC for use in a thermoplastic recycling system.