Faculty Award Recipients

2025 Cohort
Lloyd Berg, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Jackie Cuevas, Associate Professor, Department of English
Stephanie Holmsten, Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Government
Beth Maloch, Senior Associate Dean, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Nina Telang, Professor of Instruction, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2024 Cohort
Charlotte Canning, Professor, Theatre & Dance Department
Michael Cullinan, Associate Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
Su Yeong Kim, Professor, Human Development & Family Sciences Department
Laurie Scott, Associate Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music
Sarah Sloan, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work

2022 Cohort
Diane Ginsburg, Clinical Professor, College of Pharmacy
Lori Holleran-Steiker, Professor, School of Social Work
Peniel Joseph, Professor, School of Public AffairsBrad Love, Associate Professor, College of Communication
Pauline Strong, Professor, Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

2019 Cohort
Carolyn Brown, Professor, College of PharmacyJen Moon, Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Biology, Natural Sciences
Lisa Moore, Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
Rich Reddick, Professor, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy, Education
Loriene Roy, Professor, School of Information

2025 – 2026
Christin Davis, Associate Professor of Practice, College of Fine Arts, Department of Theatre & Dance
Elizabeth Ilardi, Associate Professor of Practice, College of Natural Sciences, Freshman Research Initiative
Marialena Rivera, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Moody College of Communication, Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations
Robert Carroll, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Moody College of Communication, Department of Communication Studies

2025-26
Robert Josephs, Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Psychology
Brad Love, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
2024-25
Tom Yankeelov, Ph.D., Professor & Director of Center for Computational Oncology, Cockrell School of Engineering
2023-24
Christen Smith, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and AADS, College of Liberal Arts
2022-23
Edmund T. Gordon, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Contextualization and Commemoration Initiative and Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, College of Liberal Arts.
2021-22
Ashante Reese, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies and Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

2025
Allan Cole, Ph.D., Dean and Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor in Social Work, School of Social Work
2022
Jonathan Pierce, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
2019
Pamela Paxton, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
2016
Megan Alrutz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
2013
Richard R. Neptune, Ph.D., Professor, J. Mike Walker, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering

2025
Kerry Kinney, Ph.D, L.P. , Gilvin Centennial Professor in Engineering, Professor, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
2023
Calvin Lin, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor, Department of Computer Science
2021
Shelley Marshall Payne, Ph.D., Marie Betzner Morrow Centennial Chair, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Molecular Biosciences, Department of Medical Education
2020
No Recipient
2019
Peter Stone, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Computer Sciences, Department of Computer Science

2025 – 2026
Mary Bock, Professor, Moody College of Communication School of Journalism and Media
Mary Beer, Clinical Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Practicum Education, School of Social Work
2024-25
Filippo Mangolini, Associate Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
Rene Dailey, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
2023-24
Dawna Ballard, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
Elizabeth McCracken, Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
2022-23
Jessica Toste, Associate Professor, Special Education, College of Education
Scott Wallace, Associate Professor and Managing Director of the Value Institute for Health and Care Medical Education (DMS) and Accounting (McCombs School of Business), Dell Medical School
2021-22
Terrance Green, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
Sarah Sloan, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work

2025 – 2026
Ann Thijs, Assistant Professor of Instruction, College of Natural Sciences, Biology Instruction Office
Charles Carson, Associate Professor, College of Fine Arts, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music
John Chisholm, Assistant Professor, College of Natural Sciences, Astronomy
Jonathan Perry, Associate Professor of Instruction, College of Natural Sciences, Physics
Cindy Meston, Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Psychology
Natalie Czimskey, Associate Professor of Instruction, Moody College of Communication, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Terrence Chapman, Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Government
Wayne Geerling, Professor of Instruction, College of Liberal Arts, Economics

Recipients

Members

2025 – 2026
Ben Bays, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Moody College of Communication, Department of Radio-Television-Film
Devangi Parikh, Associate Professor of Instruction, College of Natural Sciences, Department of Computer Science
David Junker, Professor of Instruction, Moody College of Communication, Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations
Ann Johns, Distinguished Senior Lecturer, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art and Art History
Janice Hernandez, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Kirsten Bradbury, Assistant Professor of Instruction, College of Liberal Arts, Psychology
Natalie Czimskey, Associate Professor of Instruction, Moody College of Communication Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Rachel Ozanne, Associate Professor of Instruction, College of Liberal Arts, Department of History
Shannon O’Brien, Associate Professor of Instruction, College of Liberal Arts, Government

2025 – 2026
Julia Campbell, Clinical Associate Professor, Moody College of Communication, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Morgan Stewart, Clinical Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy
Veronica Walker, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing

2025 – 2026
John (Eli) Durst, Associate Professor of Practice, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art and Art History
Jules Elkins, Assistant Professor of Instruction, College of Liberal Arts, Geography and the Environment
Gwendolyn Stovall, Associate Professor of Practice, College of Natural Sciences, Freshman Research Initiative and Molecular Biosciences
Tolga Ozyurtcu, Assistant Professor of Instruction, College of Education, Kinesiology and Health Education

2025 – 2026
Jacqueline Woolley, Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Psychology
Adam Clulow, Professor, College of Liberal Arts, History
Matthew Hall, Professor, Cockrell School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Ashanté Reese, Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, African and African Diaspora Studies
W. Reneé Acosta, Clinical Professor / Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Pharmacy, Pharmancy Practice/Dean’s Office

2025 – 2026
David Quintanilla, Associate Professor of Instruction, McCombs School of Business, Business, Government, and Society