PULLMAN, Wash. Michael D. Griswold, Regents Professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences and dean of the College of Sciences at Washington State University, will receive the 2009 Eminent Faculty Award. Griswold will be honored during the WSU Showcase on March 27 along with other award-winning faculty members.
This prestigious award was created in 2000 to honor career-long excellence within WSU’s academic community. Griswold is the 9th recipient of the highest honor the university bestows on a faculty member. Ralph Yount, Don Dillman, Rod Croteau, Fran McSweeney, Yogi Gupta, Jack Rogers, Tom Dickinson and Anjan Bose are former Eminent Faculty Award winners.
Griswold joined the WSU faculty in 1976. He has enhanced the College of Sciences’ strength and success in research and graduate education, while extending and deepening the undergraduate educational experience in the college’s classrooms and laboratories.
He has maintained an active, funded research program while serving in administrative roles that include associate chair, chair, acting dean, director, interim dean and dean. He has published more than 185 papers and trained more than 50 doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.
A distinguished administrator, teacher, researcher, advisor and mentor, Griswold held the Edward R. Meyer Professorship from 1995-98, received the WSU Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Research, Scholarship and Arts in 1998-99 and was named a Regents Professor in 2008.
A recognized leading authority in the study of male reproductive biology, specifically the role of the Sertoli cell in sperm cell development, he has received a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health and has served as president of the Society for the Study of Reproduction.
Griswold delivered the keynote address at a 1999 Gordon Research Conference and received the Research Award from the Society for the Study of Reproduction in 2006 for his significant scientific contributions to the understanding of male reproduction. He received the Frontiers in Reproduction Beacon Award and Lectureship in 2008. He has been a member of several NIH review panels and continues to serve in an ad hoc capacity. He has also served and continues to serve on a number of Editorial Boards of well respected journals.
To be considered for the Eminent Faculty Award, nominees must be a full-time WSU faculty member and have been employed for a minimum of 10 years at the university. The nominees must have changed the thinking in their respective fields by making lasting contributions through teaching, research, creative scholarship and service. They must also make notable contributions to the vitality and strength of the WSU community.
For more information about Showcase, visit: https://www.showcase.wsu.edu/.
