Honors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students

Click here to submit a nomination form.

 

The Honors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students is given annually to a faculty or staff member (including specialists and visiting faculty) who has made exceptional contributions to Honors College students through teaching, advising, or mentoring.

Such contributions might include:

  • Designing or teaching Honors classes or sections
  • Offering Honors options
  • Providing Honors advising
  • Mentoring Professorial Assistants
  • Other exceptional efforts

Awardees receive a certificate, a plaque housed in Eustace-Cole Hall, and a $1,000 honorarium.

Nomination Requirements

  • Alumni, faculty, staff, and students are eligible to send nominations for this award
  • Faculty and staff whose primary appointment is in the Honors College are not eligible to earn this award
  • Must nominate a person who currently works at MSU
  • Only one nomination per submission form (you may nominate multiple people, but each will need a separate submission form)

How to Nominate

Click here to submit a nomination form by March 31, 2025.

If you have trouble submitting the form, please email your form responses to jdesloov@msu.edu. You may also contact her with any questions.

Past Recipients

2024: Deborah Margolis, Middle East Studies Bibliographer, MSU Libraries, Amy Simon, Assistant Professor, College of Social Science, Lynn Wolff, Associate Professor, College of Arts & Letters, and Steve Weiland, Professor, College of Education

2023: Jiying Ling, Associate Professor, College of Nursing

Read more

2021: Antoinette C. Tessmer, Associate Professor of Finance, Broad College of Business

2019: Steve Safferman, Associate Professor, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

2018: Jenifer Fenton, Associate Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition

2017: Ryan Black, Associate Professor, Political Science

2016: John Waller, Associate Professor, History

2015: Jeanne Wald, Professor, Mathematics

2014: Natalie Phillips, Assistant Professor, English

2013: Cristina Schmitt, Associate Professor, Linguistics

2012: Charlie Bokemeier, Professor, Accounting

2011: Tess Tavormina, Professor of English, Asst. Dean, Lyman Briggs College and Cornelius Barry, Assistant Professor, Horticulture

2010: Joey Houston, Professor, Physics and Astronomy

2009: Stephen Esquith, Dean, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and Katherine O’Sullivan See, Professor, Social Relations

2008: David Bailey, Professor, History

2007: Charles Ostrom, Professor, Political Science and Harold Sollenberger, Professor Emeritus, Accounting and Information Systems

2006: Elizabeth Booth, Academic Specialist, Finance and Sandi Smith, Professor, Communication

2005: Richard Zinman, Professor, James Madison College

2004: Byron Brown, Professor, Economics and Kelly Klump, Professor, Psychology

2003: Paulette Stenzel, Professor, International Business Law

2002: Edward Ingraham, Director Emeritus, Lyman Briggs School

2001: Michael Schechter, Professor, James Madison College

2000: Robert Root-Bernstein, Professor, Physiology

1999: Herb Josephs, Professor Emeritus, Romance & Classical Languages and James Zacks, Professor, Psychology

Recipient of the Sustained Commitment to Honors Students Award:

Back To Top