Evening of Celebrations

Honoring outstanding teaching

The Evening of Celebrations honored faculty who received the Active Learning Grant, the Dr. Carol Hostetter Award, the Dr. James Mumford Award, the FACET Inductee Award, the Jesse Fine Fellowship, the Mary Burgen Distinguished Service Award, the Outstanding Junior Faculty Awards, the Provost Professor Awards, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, the Summer Institutional Development Fellowship Awards, the Summer Writing-Teaching Grants, and the Trustees Teaching Awards during the 2022 to 2023 academic year.

“A hearty congratulations to each of the recipients. I am particularly proud of the large number of awardees from the College. Consider reaching out to your colleagues to recognize their achievements.”
-Dean Rick Van Kooten

Congratulations, faculty!

Active Learning Grant

**Virginia Hojas Carbonell**
Teaching Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Dr. Carol Hostetter Award

**Brian Powell**
James H. Rude Professor, Sociology

Dr. James Mumford Award

**Allen Davis**
Teaching Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

FACET Inductee

**Laura Gurzynski-Weiss**
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Jesse Fine Fellowship

**Laura Tscherry**
Graduate Student, English

Mary Burgun Distinguished Service

**Jon Kay**
Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Outstanding Junior Faculty

**Brandon Barker**
Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Amanda Mejia
Associate Professor, Statistics

**Brielle Stark**
Assistant Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Core Faculty, Program for Neuroscience
Affiliated Faculty, Cognitive Science Program
Adjunct Professor, Linguistics

**Xindan Wang**
Associate Professor, Biology

Provost Professor

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant

**Xiaoying Liles**
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Summer Instructional Development Fellowship

**Erin Lynch**
Lecturer, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

**Juan Mora**
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Assistant Professor, Latino Studies Program

**Meghan Porter**
Senior Lecturer, Chemistry

**Rex Sprouse**
Professor, Second Language Studies
Adjunct Professor, Linguistics and Germanic Studies

Summer Writing-Teaching Grant

**Mahasweta Baxipatra**
Lecturer, English

**Lindsey Mazurek**
Assistant Professor, Classical Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art History

Trustees Teaching Award

The Trustees Teaching Awards are given each spring to honor outstanding teaching during the prior calendar year. The award honors faculty who have had a positive impact on student learning, especially undergraduates.

Department chairs and deans identify candidates for the award. Faculty selected for the Trustees Teaching Award received a monetary award and were honored at a reception on November 29.