Faculty Awards
Annual Awards
Distinguished Faculty Address
Each year the University recognizes the work of one faculty member whose achievements in research, scholarship, and teaching place that person in the front ranks of his or her discipline. The institution invites that individual to deliver a Distinguished Faculty Address to the University community. The nominee should be a current faculty member on appointment, and be available during the spring semester to present the address.
Criteria
Criteria for the honor of being invited to deliver this address include:
- National/international distinction for original contributions to their discipline;
- Receipt of extramural support;
- National/international service; and
- Achievements in undergraduate and/or graduate education.
Application Process
Nominators are asked to submit the nomination form, a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae, and a narrative of 1000 words or less, stating why the nominee meets the award criteria and is deserving of the award.
Please do not submit additional information during the initial phase. At a later date, for those nominees moving forward for secondary consideration, the nominator(s) will be asked to provide additional supporting information. Representative examples of additional information may include:
- A brief description of the nominee’s position at Washington State University and the approximate percentages of assignment to instruction, service, and research, scholarship or arts.
- An interpretive evaluation of the nominee’s contribution in relation to the award, including a summary of major accomplishments and evidence of impact on the nominee’s field and students. In the evaluation, please directly address the criteria for the award.
- Up to three letters of endorsement from individuals who can evaluate the nominee’s contribution relevant to the award.
- A list of honors or recognitions received.
- A list of invited addresses and other honors related to the nominee’s contribution.
- A list of graduate students for whom they served as major professor.
- A recent summary of teaching evaluations, courses taught (going back five years, and including, if available, response rates and college average) and class sizes.
Previous Award Recipients
2023 Distinguished Faculty Address, Cheryl Schultz
2022 Distinguished Faculty Address, Keri McCarthy
2021 Distinguished Faculty Address, Amit Bandyopadhyay
2020 Distinguished Faculty Address, Patricia Hunt
2019 Distinguished Faculty Address, Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe
2018 Distinguished Faculty Address, Susmita Bose
2017 Distinguished Faculty Address, Douglas Call
2016 Distinguished Faculty Address, Michael Skinner
Award Recipients
Year | Name | Department |
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2023 | Cheryl B. Schultz | School of Biological Sciences |
2022 | Keri McCarthy | School of Music |
2021 | Amit Bandyopadhyay | Mechanical and Materials Engineering |
2020 | Patricia Hunt | School of Molecular Biosciences |
2019 | Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe | Department of Psychology |
2018 | Susmita Bose | School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Herman and Brita Lindhold Endowed Chair |
2017 | Douglas Call | School of Global Animal Health |
2016 | Michael Skinner | School of Biological Sciences |
2015 | Gerald Berthiaume | School of Music |
2014 | Raymond Reeves | School of Molecular Biosciences |
2013 | Kenneth L. Nash | Department of Chemistry |
2012 | B.W. "Joe" Poovaiah | Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture |
2011 | Timothy A. Kohler | Department of Anthropology |
2010 | Nancy Magnuson | School of Molecular Biosciences |
2009 | Wendy C. Brown | Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology |
2008 | Gregory W. Yasinitsky | School of Music |
2007 | Eugene A. Rosa | Department of Sociology |
2006 | John P. Reganold | Crop and Soil Sciences |
2005 | Mark G. Kuzyk | Department of Physics |
2004 | Kenneth L. Casavant | Agricultural and Resource Economics |
2003 | Gerald E. Edwards | School of Biological Sciences |
2002 | Kerry W. Hipps | Chemistry and Materials Science |
2001 | Jerry J. Reeves | Animal Sciences |
2000 | Michael J. Smerdon | Biochemistry and Biophysics |
1999 | Gerald L. Hazelbauer | Biochemistry and Biophysics |
1998 | Douglas E. Soltis | Botany |
1997 | John N. Thompson | Botany and Zoology |
1996 | Albert J. von Frank | English and American Studies |
1995 | Frances K. McSweeney | Psychology |
1994 | Michael Griswold | Biochemistry |
1993 | Leroy Ashby | History |
1992 | Louis P. Mallavia | Microbiology and Biology |
1991 | J. Thomas Dickinson | Physics and Chemical Physics |
1990 | Linda Randall | Biochemistry/Biophysics |
1989 | Travis McGuire | Vetrinary Microbiology/Pathology |
1988 | No lecturer chosen | |
1987* | Patrick Morgan | Political Science |
1986 | James Cook | Plant Pathology/USDA |
1985 | Donald A. Dillman | Rural Sociology |
1984 | Donald S. Matteson | Chemistry |
1983 | Ralph G. Yount | Biochemistry |
1982 | Phillip D. Gollnick | Physical Education |
1981 | Glenn A. Crosby | Chemical Physics |
Edna Douglas | Economics and Business Administration | |
1980 | Theodore G. Ostrom | Mathematics |
Pappachan E. Kolattukudy | Agric. Chem./IBC | |
1979 | James R. King | Zoology |
Richard L. Ott | Vetrinary Medicine | |
1978 | Donald C. Orlich | Education |
George E. Duvall | Physics | |
1977 | Robert E. Ackerman | Anthropology |
Igor L. Kosin | Foreign Languages and Literature | |
1976 | Milton Rokeach | Social Research Center |
Burt D. Harrison | Communications | |
1975 | Noe Higinbotham | Botany |
Rexford Daubenmire | Botany | |
1974 | Bruce McFadden | Biochemistry |
John R. Gorham | Veterinary Pathology | |
1973 | Lois DeFleur | Sociology |
Leonard B. Kirschener | Zoophysiology | |
1972 | Istvan Nadas | Music |
Robert Sterling | Fine Arts | |
1971 | Richard D. Daugherty | Anthropology |
Maurice T. James | Entomology | |
1970 | Henry Grosshans | University Editor/History |
Howard C. Payne | History | |
1969 | Eldon S. Hendricksen | Business Administration |
C. S. Holton | Plant Pathology | |
1968 | Donald W. Bushaw | Mathematics |
Ruth Slonim | English | |
1967 | William Band | Physics |
James C. Nelson | Economics | |
1966 | James F. Short | Sociology |
Milton A. Maxwell | Sociology | |
1965 | James McGinnis | Animal Nutrition/Poultry Science |
Frederick L. Marcuse | Psychology | |
1964 | Robert A. Nilan | Genetics/Agronomy |
Donald S. Farner | Zoophysiology | |
1963 | George Laisner | Fine Arts |
H. Paul Castleberry | Political Science | |
1962 | Donald A. Wells | Philosophy |
Herbert L. Eastlick | Zoology | |
1961 | George G. Marra | Material Science Engineering |
Carl M. Stevens | Chemistry/Biochemistry | |
1960 | Emmett L. Avery | English |
George W. Fischer | Plant Pathology | |
1959 | John Guthrie | Economics |
Herbert J. Wood | History |
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1958 | Harold Dodgen | Chemistry/Physics |
Claudius O. Johnson | Political Science |