Faculty Awards

Grand Valley State University and the Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence honors our excellent faculty engaged in significant scholarship that contributes to their discipline, and inspired mentorship to our students. Find more details about our awards below.

convocation 2020
Bob smart at convocation

Distinguished Contribution in a Discipline

In 1982 Grand Valley State University instituted awards to recognize distinguished contributions in a discipline. This award is given to a member of the faculty (tenured or tenure-track) whose performance in scholarly or creative activities, or whose contributions through service to professional organizations, is clearly outstanding. The basis for this award is demonstrated research, scholarly, or creative accomplishment or service through professional organizations.

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Distinguished Early Career Scholar Award

The Distinguished Early Career Scholar Award honors remarkable investigators at Grand Valley State University who began their independent scholarship within the past six years. These scholars demonstrate mastery in their field and show significant potential for continued success. The award recipients have made major contributions to theory, research and creative practice, and they have earned national recognition for their outstanding achievements.

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Distinguished Undergraduate Mentoring Award

The Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence is pleased to sponsor an award designed to honor the practice of mentoring undergraduate scholarly activity. The award is intended to recognize demonstrated excellence in mentoring undergraduate researchers, to encourage mentoring relationships with undergraduate students, and to convey the campus' high regard for such contributions made by the faculty of the academic and research community.

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Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award

The Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence’s Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award was established to recognize and encourage outstanding mentoring of graduate students by GVSU faculty members. Recipients will have direct and significant impact and involvement with graduate students, outstanding commitment and effectiveness as a mentor of graduate students, been innovative in mentoring, and have demonstrated unusual effort to provide consistent mentoring of graduate students during the course of their careers at GVSU.

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CSCE Faculty Awards Recipients

First Name Last Name Discipline Year Award
Zachary DeBruine Computing 2024 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Rachel Powers Chemistry 2024 Distinguished Contribution in a Discipline Award
Nicholas Baine Engineering 2024 Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award
Laila McCloud Educational Leadership & Counseling 2024 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Kristy Dean Psychology 2024 Distinguished Undergraduate Mentoring Award
Christina Quick Nursing 2024 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Adeline Borti English 2024 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Valerie Good Marketing 2023 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Richard Lord Chemistry 2023 Distinguished Undergraduate Mentoring Award
Leifa Mayers Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 2023 Distinguished Undergraduate Mentoring Award
Kay Losey Writing 2023 Distinguished Contribution in a Discipline Award
Danielle DeVasto Writing 2023 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Anna Hammersmith Sociology 2023 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Sok Kean Khoo Cell & Molecular Biology 2022 Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award
Sanjivan Manoharan Engineering 2022 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Martin G. Burg Biomedical Sciences 2022 Distinguished Undergraduate Mentoring Award
Laura Hawk Chemistry 2022 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Kuhelika De Economics 2022 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Daisy Fredricks Teaching & Learning 2022 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Corey Anton Communications 2022 Distinguished Contribution in a Discipline Award
Bopaiah Biddanda Microbial Biology & Carbon Biogeochemistry 2022 Distinguished Contribution in a Discipline Award
Randy Winchester Chemistry 2021 Distinguished Undergraduate Mentoring Award
Lori Houghton-Rahrig Nursing 2021 Distinguished Undergraduate Mentoring Award
Leanne Kang Education 2021 Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award
Karyn E. Rabourn Education 2021 Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award


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