Honors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students
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 of Professorial Assistants
- Other exceptional efforts
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 3, 2025.
If you do not have an MSU NetID, please email your form responses to jdesloov@msu.edu. You may also contact her with any questions.
Past Recipients:
Awardees receive a framed certificate, a plaque housed in Eustace-Cole Hall, and $1,000.
![Four people standing together in the Broad Art Museum, smiling at the camera.](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HC-award-winners-photo-scaled.jpeg)
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
![Jiying Ling](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Ling_3-scaled.jpg)
2023: Jiying Ling, Associate Professor, College of Nursing
![green spartan head on a white background.](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/green-spartan-head-white-background.jpg)
2021: Antoinette C. Tessmer, Associate Professor of Finance, Broad College of Business
![Steve Safferman](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/steve-safferman-web.jpg)
2019: Steve Safferman, Associate Professor, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
![Jenifer Fenton](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/jenifer-fenton-web.jpg)
2018: Jenifer Fenton, Associate Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition
![Ryan Black](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ryan-black-web.jpg)
2017: Ryan Black, Associate Professor, Political Science
![John Waller](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/john-waller-webs.jpg)
2016: John Waller, Associate Professor, History
![Jeanne Wald](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/jeanne-wald-webs.jpg)
2015: Jeanne Wald, Professor, Mathematics
![Natalie Phillips](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/natalie-phillips-webs.jpg)
2014: Natalie Phillips, Assistant Professor, English
![Cristina Schmitt](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cristina-schmitt-web.jpg)
2013: Cristina Schmitt, Associate Professor, Linguistics
![green spartan head on a white background.](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/green-spartan-head-white-background.jpg)
2012: Charlie Bokemeier, Professor, Accounting
![white spartan head on a green background](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Spartan-Head.jpg)
2011: Tess Tavormina, Professor of English, Asst. Dean, Lyman Briggs College and Cornelius Barry, Assistant Professor, Horticulture
![green spartan head on a white background.](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/green-spartan-head-white-background.jpg)
2010: Joey Houston, Professor, Physics and Astronomy
![white spartan head on a green background](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Spartan-Head.jpg)
2009: Stephen Esquith, Dean, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and Katherine O’Sullivan See, Professor, Social Relations
![green spartan head on a white background.](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/green-spartan-head-white-background.jpg)
2008: David Bailey, Professor, History
![white spartan head on a green background](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Spartan-Head.jpg)
2007: Charles Ostrom, Professor, Political Science and Harold Sollenberger, Professor Emeritus, Accounting and Information Systems
![green spartan head on a white background.](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/green-spartan-head-white-background.jpg)
2006: Elizabeth Booth, Academic Specialist, Finance and Sandi Smith, Professor, Communication
![white spartan head on a green background](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Spartan-Head.jpg)
2005: Richard Zinman, Professor, James Madison College
![green spartan head on a white background.](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/green-spartan-head-white-background.jpg)
2004: Byron Brown, Professor, Economics and Kelly Klump, Professor, Psychology
![white spartan head on a green background](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Spartan-Head.jpg)
2003: Paulette Stenzel, Professor, International Business Law
![green spartan head on a white background.](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/green-spartan-head-white-background.jpg)
2002: Edward Ingraham, Director Emeritus, Lyman Briggs School
![white spartan head on a green background](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Spartan-Head.jpg)
2001: Michael Schechter, Professor, James Madison College
![green spartan head on a white background.](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/green-spartan-head-white-background.jpg)
2000: Robert Root-Bernstein, Professor, Physiology
![white spartan head on a green background](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Spartan-Head.jpg)
1999: Herb Josephs, Professor Emeritus, Romance & Classical Languages and James Zacks, Professor, Psychology
Recipient of the Sustained Commitment to Honors Students Award:
![Constance Hunt receives Award for Distinguished Contributions](https://honorscollege.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Constance-Hunt_Convocation_web.jpg)
2016: Constance Hunt, Associate Professor, James Madison College