Annual faculty awards are celebrated each year during the Showcase Celebrating Excellence Banquet. During the banquet, each award winner is recognized with a video that highlights their respective contributions to Washington State University.
Distinguished Faculty Address
- Yong Wang (2025)
- Hans Van Dongen (2024)
- Cheryl Schultz (2023)
- Keri McCarthy (2022)
- Amit Bandyopadhyay (2021)
- Patricia Hunt (2020)
- Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe (2019)
- Susmita Bose (2018)
- Douglas Call (2017)
Emerita/Emeritus Society Legacy of Excellence Award
Eminent Faculty Award
- Maria (Masha) Gartstein (2025)
- Laura Hill (2024)
- Keri McCarthy (2023)
- John Roll (2022)
- Douglas Call (2021)
- John Browse (2020)
- K.W. Hipps (2019)
- Mark G. Kuzyk (2018)
- Kelvin Lynn (2017)
- Joe Poovaiah (2016)
- John Reganold (2015)
Faculty Diversity Award
- Tarah Sullivan (2025)
- Alexis Tan (2024)
- Katherine Rodela (2023)
- Zoe Higheagle Strong (2022)
- Melissa Parkhurst (2021)
- Gisela Ernst-Slavit (2020)
- Shira Broschat (2019)
- Raymond Herrera (2018)
- Paul Kwon (2017)
- Paula Groves-Price (2016)
- Pamela J. Bettis (2015)
Faculty Mid-Career Award
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
- Xiao Zhang (2025)
- Brandon Hopkins (2024)
- Danh Pham (2023)
- Shulin Chen (2022)
- Joseph Harding (2021)
- Kim Christen (2020)
- Katrina Mealey (2019)
- Juming Tang (2018)
President’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Career-Track Faculty
- Blythe Duell (2025)
- Gunjan Gakhar (2025)
- Caitlin Bletscher (2024)
- T. Francene Watson (2024)
- Vanessa Cozza (2023)
- Sophia Tegart (2023)
- Kenneth Faunce (2022)
- Phillip Morgan (2022)
- Rebecca Cooney (2021)
- David Torick (2021)
- Chris Dickey (2020)
- Janet Peters (2020)
- Renee Petersen (2019)
- Clif Stratton (2019)
- Leeann Hunter (2018)
- Jason B. Peschel (2018)
- Xiaopeng Bi (2017)
- Debra Brinker (2017)
- Lisa Carloye (2016)
- Karl Olsen (2016)
- Nicholas Cerruti (2015)
- Kate McAteer (2015)
President’s Employee Excellence Award
- Jennifer Anderson (2025)
- Neal Burke (2025)
- Min Kuang (2025)
- Robert Lentz (2025)
- Jeremy Watson (2025)
- Angela Hawkins (2024)
- Claudia Mickas (2024)
- Eric Scott (2024)
- Shaun Sorensen (2024)
- Elise Zeigler (2024)
- Bonny Boyan (2023)
- Colette Casavant (2023)
- Richard Finch (2023)
- Laura Kinslow (2023)
- Robin Stanco (2023)
- J Manuel Acevedo (2022)
- Rob Baker (2022)
- Erin Carroll (2022)
- Norman Fung (2022)
- Zach Holden (2022)
- Robert Ames (2021)
- Meg Autrey (2021)
- Maria Clara De Souza (2021)
- Kathryn Dahmen (2021)
- Shawn Ringo (2021)
- Jason Sampson (2021)
- April Seehafer (2021)
- Karen Fischer (2020)
- Denise Keeton (2020)
- Kenneth Innami Porter (2020)
- Sue Sheppard (2020)
- Nina Woodford (2020)
- Chris Benson (2019)
- Deb Howe (2019)
- Kathie Jahn (2019)
- Beverly Makhani (2019)
- Terresa Watson (2019)
- Paula Adams (2018)
- Cheryl Hagelganz (2018)
- Julie M. King (2018)
- Vicky Murray (2018)
- Andy Percifield (2018)
- Raul Garza (2017)
- Don Hulst (2017)
- Darrel Nelson (2017)
- Tom Parrish (2017)
- Josue Rodriguez (2017)
Sahlin Faculty Excellence Awards
- Amit Bandyopadhyay (2025 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Bernie Van Wie (2025 Instruction)
- Christine Portfors (2025 Leadership)
- Danh Pham (2025 Outreach and Engagement)
- Jon Oatley (2024 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Chris Dickey (2024 Instruction)
- Mike Trevisan (2024 Leadership)
- Kevin Murphy (2024 Outreach and Engagement)
- Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe (2023 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Corey Johnson (2023 Instruction)
- M. Grant Norton (2023 Leadership)
- Girish Ganjyal (2023 Outreach and Engagement)
- Olusola Adesope (2022 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Jesse Spohnholz (2022 Instruction)
- Jill McCluskey (2022 Leadership)
- Eric Johnson (2022 Outreach and Engagement)
- Hans Van Dongen (2021 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Ka’imi Sinclair (2021 Outreach and Engagement)
- Carolyn Ross (2021 Instruction)
- Gregory Crouch (2021 Leadership)
- Gregory W. Yasinitsky (2020 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Cheryl B. Schultz (2020 Outreach and Engagement)
- Erika Gudrun Offerdahl (2020 Instruction)
- Stephen Bollens (2020 Leadership)
- Susmita Bose (2019 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Dale Moore (2019 Outreach and Engagement)
- Anita Vasavada (2019 Instruction)
- Lori Wiest (2019 Leadership)
- William Hamlin (2018 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Joe Harrison (2018 Outreach and Engagement)
- Marvin Pitts (2018 Leadership)
- Ray Sun (2018 Instruction)
- Douglas Call (2017 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Julie Kmec (2017 Instruction)
- Craig Parks (2017 Leadership)
- Douglas Walsh (2017 Outreach and Engagement)
- Carol Black (2016 Outreach and Engagement)
- Diane Cook (2016 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Charles Munson (2016 Instruction)
- John Roll (2016 Leadership)
- Kris Johnson (2015 Instruction)
- Vicki McCracken (2015 Leadership)
- Kenneth Nash (2015 Research, Scholarship and Arts)
- Kim Patten (2015 Outreach and Engagement)
Samuel H. Smith Leadership Award
- Samantha Swindell (2025)
- Karen Weathermon (2023)
- Celestina Barbosa-Leiker (2022)
- Mary Wack (2021)
- Catherine “Katie” Marguerite Cooper (2020)
- Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi (2019)
- Jill McCluskey (2018)
- Julia Pomerenk (2017)
- Laura Lavine (2016)
- Sheila Converse (2015)
V. Lane Rawlins Award for Distinguished Lifetime Service
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