Read about the 2025 faculty and staff recipients of the Arts and Sciences College Awards and University awards:
Arts and Sciences College Awards
Jeanette G. Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award
Criteria & Nomination Process — Jeanette G. Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award
- James Dyer, Professor, Geography
- Fred Drogula, Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities and Professor of Classics
- Anne Perez, Associate Professor of Instruction, Biological Sciences
Outstanding Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award
- Brad Jokisch, Professor, Geography
- Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor, History
- Saw-Wai Hla, Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Advising Award
Criteria & Nomination Process — Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Advising Award
- Yeong-Hyun Kim, Associate Professor, Geography
Outstanding Faculty Leadership and Service Award
Criteria & Nomination Process — Outstanding Faculty Leadership and Service Award
- Sarah Wyatt, Distinguished Professor, Environmental and Plant Biology
Outstanding Advisor Award
This award is provided to a staff member who shows excellence in student advising. Their efforts show innovative thinking to meet student needs and exemplary job performance in ensuring student success.
- Jeremiah Triplett, Director, Pre-Health Advising, Undergraduate Student Affairs
Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Advising Award
Criteria & Nomination Process — Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Advising Award
- Yeong-Hyun Kim, Associate Professor, Geography
Outstanding Staff Award
This award is provided to staff members who show excellence in service leadership. Their works show innovative problem solving, exemplary job performance and outstanding service to the students, faculty and colleagues in the college of arts and sciences.
- Michelle Raines, Administrative Specialist, CAS Academics Unit
- Candi Spaulding, Accounting Support Senior Specialist, CAS Finance Unit
University Awards
Emerging Presidential Research Scholar
- Victoria Lee, Associate Professor, History
- Brett Peters, Associate Professor, Psychology
Presidential Research Scholar
Criteria & Past Winners — Presidential Research Scholars
- Loren Lybarger, Chair and Professor, Classics and Religious Studies
- Ingo Trauschweizer, Professor, History
University Professor Award
Criteria & Past Winners — University Professor Award
- María Postigo, Associate Professor of Instruction, Modern Languages
- Linda Rice, James S. Reid/Standard Products Company Professor of Humanities, English
- Kathleen Sullivan, Professor, Political Science
Presidential Teacher Award Winner
Criteria & Past Winners — Presidential Teacher Award
- Sabrina Curran, Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Presidential Teacher Award Finalist
- Muriel Gallego, Associate Professor, Modern Languages
Rising Star Teaching Award
- Paul Shovlin, Assistant Professor, English
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Finalist
- Holly Ningard, Associate Professor of Instruction, Sociology and Anthropology
- Uzoma Miller, Assistant Professor of Instruction, African American Studies
Ohio University's Institutional Winner for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success
- Uzoma Miller, Assistant Professor of Instruction, African American Studies
University Recognitions
The OHIO Writing Challenge Community of Practice
- Mary Kate Hurley, Associate Professor, English
Mid-American Conference Academic Leadership Development Program
- Bärbel Such, Chair and Associate Professor, Modern Languages
Provost Faculty Fellow
- Uzoma Miller, Assistant Professor of Instruction, African American Studies
Advancing Teaching Excellence Fellows
- Corey Beck, Associate Professor of Instruction, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Jared DeForest, Chair and Professor, Environmental and Plant Biology
- Paul Shovlin, Assistant Professor, English
Bruning Academy Fellow
- Linda Rice, James S. Reid/Standard Products Company Professor of Humanities English
Faculty Learning Community Leaders
- Rebecca Challenger, Professor of Instruction, OPIE
- Muriel Gallego, Associate Professor, Modern Languages
- Uzoma Miller, Assistant Professor of Instruction, African American Studies
- Yogesh Sinha, Assistant Professor of Instruction, English