May 1, 2024
Contact: Courtney Perrett, cperrett@missouri.edu
Photos by Abbie Lankitus
Whether it’s through teaching, research or mentorship, faculty at the University of Missouri blaze trails for their students’ success. This week, their significant contributions in the classroom, lab, community and beyond are recognized as part of Faculty Excellence Week. University of Missouri President Mun Choi, Interim Provost Matthew Martens, Board of Curators Chair Robin Wenneker and Vice Chancellor Chad Higgins held a Faculty Recognition Awards ceremony on April 30 to honor recipients.
“Congratulations to the many incredible faculty we recognized today,” Choi said. “We are proud to honor their achievements as well as their dedication to our land-grant mission of teaching, research and meaningful engagement."
This year's honorees:
MU Campus Awards
Donald W. Fancher Provost Award for Outstanding Achievement in Extension & Continuing Education
- Jo Britt-Rankin
Maxine Christopher Shutz Award & Lecture for Distinguished Teaching
- Eric Aldrich
William H. Byler Distinguished Professor Award
- Melissa Stormont
Provost’s Award for Creative Extension Programming by New Faculty
- Alan Spell
Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education
- Scott Peck
Provost’s Award for University Citizenship in Leadership
- David Schulz
Provost’s Award for University Citizenship in Faculty Service
- Stephen Klien
Provost’s Award for University Citizenship in Mentoring
- Amy Simons
Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award
- Marta Heckel
- Jaime Mestres
- Jessica Rodrigues
Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Research & Creative Activity Award
- Ahmed Balboula
- Jordan Booker
Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Lea Ann Lowery
SEC Faculty Achievement Award
- Jay Sexton
Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Activity in the Physical and Math Sciences
- Guang Bian
Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Activity in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Mary Beth Miller
External Awards
International Communication Association Outstanding Article Award
- Yerina Ranjit
- Julius Riles
Heat Transfer Memorial Award
- Robert Tzou
American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry
- Jerry Atwood
Donald Q. Kern Award
- Bill Ma
Henry Gray Scientific Achievement Award
- Carol Ward
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Jessica Rodrigues
- Matthias Young
Fulbright Scholar
- Dae-Young Kim
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
- Carol Ward
National Humanities Center Fellow
- Devin Fergus
The American Academy in Rome Andrew Heiskell/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize
- Dennis Trout
UM System Awards
C. Brice Ratchford Memorial Fellowship
- Corinne Valdivia
2023 Curators’ Distinguished Professorships
- Elizabeth Bryda
- Jianlin (Jack) Cheng
- Zhiqiang Hu
- Erica Lembke
- Eric Sandvol
- Carsten Ullrich
- Henry Wan
- Patrick Westhoff
Curators’ Distinguished Professors Emeriti
- Jerry Atwood
- Marjorie Skubic
Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professors Emeriti
- Michelle Cecil
- Thomas Phillips
