Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award
Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award
Established in 1972, the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award recognizes an OHIO professor who has demonstrated exemplary performance as an instructor, researcher, and faculty member. The award is bestowed annually with the recipient formally announced at the Graduate Commencement ceremony held each spring.
Members of Graduate Student Senate's Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award Committee review all nominations and determine the winner. The faculty member who is selected for the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award will receive a certificate and will have the honor of speaking at the Graduate Commencement ceremony at the conclusion of the following academic year.
2019 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award Recipient and 2020 Graduate Commencement Speaker: Dr. David Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Counseling & Higher Education.
2020 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award Recipient and 2021 Graduate Commencement Speaker: Dr. Susan Williams, Professor of Anatomy, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
2021 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award Recipient and 2022 Graduate Commencement Speaker:
2022 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award Recipient and 2023 Graduate Commencement Speaker:
Recipients
Interim Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Anatomy, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Assistant Professor, Counseling & Higher Education
Associate Director for Graduate Studies, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
Professor, School of Communication Studies
Associate Professor and Curriculum Chair, Geography
Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology & Anthropology
Associate Professor E.W School of Journalism and Director for Graduate Studies
Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Political Science
Professor of Sculpture + Expanded Practice and Area Chair
Director of the Language Resource Center and Associate Professor of Computer Assisted Language Learning, Linguistics
2010 - Lynn Harter, School of Communication Studies
2009 – Patricia Ann Weitsman, Political Science
2008 - Julie Owens, Psychology
2007 – Valerie Martin Conley, Counseling and Higher Education
2006 - Chester J. Pach, Jr. , History
2005 - Dan Modaff, Communication Studies
2004 - Morgan Vis-Chiasson, Environmental and Plant Biology
2003 – Douglas Bolon, Social and Public Health
2002 – Mary Beth Krouse, Sociology
2001 - Claudia Hale, Communication Studies
2000 - SK Jain, Mathematics
1999 - Martin Schwartz, Sociology and Anthropology
1998 - No Award
1997 – Martin Schwartz, Sociology and Anthropology
1996 – Gary Small, Chemistry
1995 – Joseph Rota, Telecommunications
1994 – Irwin Ungar, Environment and Plant Biology
1993 – Jenny L. Nelson, Telecommunications
1992 – Algis Mickunas, Philosophy
1991 – Gar W. Rothwell, Environment and Plant Biology
1990 – Patrick Washburn, Journalism
1989 – Drew McDaniel, Telecommunications
1988 – Dwight A. Pugh, Finance
1987 – Janis Holm, English
1986 - Sue DeWine, Organizational Communication
1985 - Eric A Wagner, Visual Communication
1984 – David Heaton, English
1983 - Mark L. Weinberg, Political Science
1982 - Drew McDaniel, R-TV director and professor
1981 – Shirley Slater, Home Economics
1980 – Rajinder Koshal, Economics
1979 – Felix Gagliano, Political Science, International Studies
1978 – Moid U Ahmad, Geology
1977 – Alan Booth, Political Science
1976 – Hugh Culbertson, Journalism
1975 – Robert De Mott, English
1974 – Richard F. Whitman, Interpersonal Communication
1973 – Warren Wistendahl, Botany