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Last updated: January 24, 2026 11:18 AM

2024 Faculty Excellence Awards

Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Kirat Baath

Excellence in Scholarship

Dr. Cody Strom

Excellence in Service

Dr. Rick Hudson

Excellence in Advising

Dr. Darrin Sorrells

Staff Excellence

Mr. Justin Amos

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.

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