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Lyman Briggs College Faculty/Staff Honors
Bellon, Richard
    2012 -Award for Outstanding Service to MSU Study Abroad. 2012 International Awards Ceremony, Michigan State University.
    2012 -Recipient of Honorary Faculty Certificate from the Lyman Briggs College Graduating Class of 2012 for dedication to the enrichment of the Briggs experience
    2001 -Fellow, Linnean Society of London

Benenson, Walter
    2011 -Faculty Emeriti Association Outstanding Contributions by an Individual Award

Cheruvelil, Kendra
    2010 -Michigan State University Environmental Faculty Fellow
    2010 -Michigan State University Curricular Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Award
    2009 -Michigan State University Lilly Teaching Fellowship

DeCoster, Barry
    2010 -Dutton Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, Lyman Briggs College

Fata-Hartley, Cori
    2011 -Honorary Faculty Certificate form the Lyman Briggs College Graduating for Dedication to the Enrichment of the Briggs Experience
    2010 -MSU Curricular Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Award
    2010 -American Society for Microbiology Biology Scholars Program Research Residency Program: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Research Focus: Student Metacognition in Introductory Biology
    2008 -Honorary Faculty Certificate form the Lyman Briggs College Graduating Class of 2008 for Dedication to the Enrichment of the Briggs Experience
    2006 -Michigan State University Lilly Teaching Fellowship

Koch, Daniel
    2011 -MSU Green Certification for science labs

Kortemeyer, Gerd
    2012 -American Physical Society, Outstanding Referee Award
    2010 -Lyman Briggs College Graduating Class Honorary Faculty Certificate
    2009 -LON-CAPA/ELAN III/eÜbungen: European eLearning Award, Finalist
    2008 -Teacher Scholar Award, Michigan State University
    2004 -LON-CAPA: Sloan-C, Most Outstanding Effective Practice Award
    2003 -LON-CAPA: ComputerWorld 21st Century Achievement Award, Winner, Education & Academia Category

LaDuca, Rob
    2012 -American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Research Award
    2012 -2012 American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Research Award
    2011 -State of Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year
    2011 -Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year, awarded by President’s Council, State Universities of Michigan.
    2010 -Mid-Michigan Alumni Club of MSU Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award. “In recognition of outstanding undergraduate teaching”. Two prizes awarded annually at MSU.
    2010 -National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Distinguished Member
    2010 -MSU Mid-Michigan Alumni Club Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award

Luckie, Doug
    2011 -MSU Curricular Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Award
    2005 -LBS Honorary Member of the Graduating Class, Teaching Award. Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University
    2002 -Mimi M.A. Sayed Faculty Mentoring Award,” Briggs Students of Color (BSC), Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University.
    2002 -LBS Honorary Member of the Graduating Class, Teaching Award. Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University
    2001 -LBS Honorary Member of the Graduating Class, Teaching Award. Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University
    2001 -Golden Key Honorary Faculty Award,” Golden Key Honour Society, MSU
    2001 -MSU Teacher-Scholar Award” Michigan State University
    2001 -Outstanding Faculty Member Award”, Department of Athletics, MSU
    2000 -CNS Teacher-Scholar Award, College of Natural Science, MSU
    2000 -LBS Honorary Member of the Graduating Class, Teaching Award. Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University
    1999 -Lilly Teaching Fellowship

McCright, Aaron M.
    2012 -Recipient of the Midwest Sociological Society’s The Sociological Quarterly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
    2010 -Recipient of Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award from the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University
    2009 -Recipient of Curricular Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Award from Michigan State University
    2009 -Recipient of Honorary Faculty Certificate from the Lyman Briggs College Graduating Class of 2009 for dedication to the enrichment of the Briggs experience
    2008 -Recipient of Honorary Faculty Certificate from the Lyman Briggs College Graduating Class of 2008 for dedication to the enrichment of the Briggs experience,
    2008 -Lilly Teaching Fellow at Michigan State University
    2007 -Selected as a Kavli Frontiers Fellow in the National Academy of Sciences
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Montgomery, Georgina
    2012 -Lilly Teaching Fellow, Michigan State University, 2012-­-2013
    2007 -Animals and Society Course Award, The Humane Society of the United States (annual award for academic excellence in course design and instruction)
    2003 -Edwin T. Layton Award for Outstanding Teaching (graduate student teaching award, Program for the History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota)

Nichols, Hanni
    2012 -MSU Distinguished Academic Staff Award
    2012 -MSU Distinguished Academic Staff Award

O'Shea, Brian
    2011 -Lilly Teaching Fellowship

Pennock, Robert
    2012 -MSU Phi Kappa Phi Excellence Award in Interdisciplinary Scholarship. For Avida-ED Project.
    2011 -MSU Distinguished Faculty Award
    2009 -Outstanding Service Award, American Institute of Biological Sciences
    2008 -National Associate, National Academies of Science (since 2008)
    2006 -Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (since 2006)
    2003 -Friend of Darwin Award, National Center for Science Education
    2002 -Judith Weller Harvey Quaker Scholar, Guilford College
    2000 -Sigma Xi National Distinguished Lecturer (2000-2002)

Potchen, E. James
    2011 -American Roentgen Ray Society's Gold Medal

Shelton, Robert
    2007 -MSU Alumni Club of Mid-Michigan Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award

Simmons, Elizabeth
    2012 -American Physical Society CSWP Woman Physicist of the Month (February 2012)
    2012 -Women's Center of Greater Lansing Tribute to Women Award
    2011 -U.S. Delegate to the 4th International Conference on Women in Physics, South Africa
    2011 -Member, Phi Kappa Phi (elected 2011)
    2011 -Columnist for Inside Higher Ed ("Mend the Gap", since fall 2011)
    2011 -Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected November 2011).
    2009 -Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
    2008 -U.S. Delegate to the 3rd International Conference on Women in Physics, South Korea
    2008 -Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society
    2006 -Advanced Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    2005 -ACE Michigan Distinguished Women in Higher Education Leadership Award
    2004 -CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellow
    2002 -Fellow, American Physical Society
    1994 -Advisory Board Member and Officer, Aspen Center for Physics (continuing role till present)

Smith, Jim
    2008 -Research Fellow in the American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) Biology Scholars Program
    2006 -Sigma Xi
    2005 -MSU College of Natural Science Outstanding Academic Advisor Award

Sweeder, Ryan
    2012 -MSU Curricular Service-Learning & Civic Engagement Award

Urquhart, Jerry
    2005 -Outstanding Service to Study Abroad Award, International Studies and Programs, Michigan State University
    2004 -Outstanding Faculty Award, MSU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Michigan State University

Valles, Sean
    2010 -Victor E. Thoren Fellowship, Indiana University History and Philosophy of Science Department
    2005 -National Science Foundation AGEP (Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) Fellowship

Veit, Helen
    2009 -Edwin Small Prize, Yale University (awarded each year to an outstanding dissertation in American history
    2007 -Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University (Yale’s highest honor for graduate student teaching)

Waddell, Mark
    2006 -Dutton Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, Lyman Briggs College
    2005 -Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University
    2005 -Charles S. Singleton Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University
    2004 -Roy G. Neville Fellowship, The Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Wake, Naoko
    2012 -MOSAIC Award, LGBT Resource Center & Alliance of Queer and Ally Students, MSU
    2012 -John K. Hudzik Emerging Leader in Advancing International Studies and Program Award, ISP, Michigan State University
    2010 -CASID/WIDP Title VI Course Development Award, Center for Gender in Global Context
    2005 -Dutton Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, Lyman Briggs College

Waller, John
    2010 -Teacher-Scholar Award, Michigan State University
    2006 -Dean's Teaching Commendation, Melbourne University
    2005 -Dean's Teaching Commendation, Melbourne University
    2001 -Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship (two-year award)

Westfall, Catherine
    2012 -Grant-in-Aid, American Institute of Physics
    2009 -Fellow, American Physical Society

Workman, Kent
    2008 -Curricular Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Award