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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CSCE Faculty Awards Recipients
First Name | Last Name | Discipline | Year | Award | |
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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 | |