CLAS Annual Dean's Award Winners

Dean Howard awarding one of the Spring 2012 Outstanding Bachelor of Arts Awards to Caroline Croyle.

Each year, the Dean Daniel J. Howard recognizes excellence in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the annual Dean's Award Reception. This year the awards were held on Friday, May 04, 2012, and the award winners were:

Faculty & Staff Awards

Teaching Excellence Award
Michael Ferrara, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Lisa Keränen, Communication
Doris Kimbrough, Chemistry

Teaching Excellence Award
Honorarium and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Margaret Bruehl, Chemistry
Jean Scandlyn, Anthropology
Joan T. Bihun, Psychology (UCD campus award winner)

Research/Creative Work Award
Elizabeth Allen, Psychology
Stephen J. Hartnett, Communication
Julien Langou, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences

Steven G. Medema accepting the Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award.

Faculty Service Award
Charles A. Ferguson, Integrative Biology
(UCD campus award winner)

Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award
Steven G. Medema, Economics 

Outstanding Staff Award
Catherine Rathbun, Chemistry

Faculty Retirees
Richard Lundgren, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Richard VanDeWeghe, English 

Student Awards

Fall 2011 Outstanding Bachelor of Arts
Genene Duran, B.A., Communication

Fall 2011 Outstanding Bachelor of Science
Hannah Houck, B.S., Biology 

Spring 2012 Outstanding Bachelor of Arts
Yiyi Jiang, B.A., Economics 

Caroline Croyle,
Dual Degree: B.A., Geography-Environmental Science option
and B.A., International Studies

Outstanding Graduate Student Awards 

Outstanding Ph.D. Student
Courtney Lee, Ph.D., Health and Behavioral Sciences 

Outstanding Master of Science Student
Jennifer Diemunsch, M.S., Mathematical and Statistical Sciences