Faculty form a vital role in promoting wellness for students at Grand Valley. The Well-Being Awards recognition program was created by the WIT Peer Educators to honor and bring attention to the impactful efforts of faculty to center their work around students and have a people-first approach, recognizing that everyone has many different aspects of their life going on besides being a student or faculty member. A big thank you to these strong leaders, both faculty and students for nominating faculty that positively impacted their wellness in one of the 8 dimensions.

Silver Apple Award Winners

The following faculty received two student nominations each:

• Austin Ferguson
• Jennifer Bourbina
• Ashley (Paige) Young
• Amanda Karsten

• Jie Du
• Ira Woodring
• Xinli Wang
• Courtney Aloul
• Dawn Brackmann
• Randi Jiang
• David Park
• Luke Peterson
• Priscilla Nyamai
• Richard Besel
• Sarah Matthews
• Brad Wallar
• Reece Elling
• Stephen Rybczynski

• Michael Huner
• Robert Kumpf
• Jennifer Gross
• Kathryn Haley
• Sara Agema
• Eaaron Henderson-King
• Ryan Hoekstra
• Alex Nesterenko
• Nathan Barrows
• Noah Meyerson
• Stacey Kukkonen
• Steve Mattox
• Melissa Villarreal
• Lihua Huang

• Deanna Cullen
• Steve Mattox
• Joshua Sheffer
• David Linden
• Salvatore Alaimo
• Tonisha Jones
• Randalynn Hajek
• Julia VanderMolen
• Martina Reinhold
• Jen Smart
• Jessica Vermeersch
• Majd Al-Mallah
• Lidia Ponce de la Vega
• Jakia Marie