The Office of the Provost has announced the names of faculty and staff to receive this year’s top honors for scholarship, teaching, service, and community engagement.
Awardees will be recognized at Showcase, an annual weeklong event that celebrates academic excellence. Showcase events are scheduled to kick off Monday, March 21 and run through the following Monday, March 28.
Keri McCarthy, professor in the School of Music, will deliver this year’s Distinguished Faculty Address on Monday, March 21, in recognition of her scholarly achievements. Her speech will be livestreamed via experience.wsu.edu.
McCarthy has built global awareness of music from Asia and the United States. She has earned international acclaim as a chamber musician, soloist, teacher, and clinician.
Along with McCarthy, more than a dozen WSU faculty and staff will be recognized as part of Showcase 2022.
“Please join me in congratulating and celebrating these outstanding members of our academic community,” said Provost and Executive Vice President Elizabeth Chilton. “All of them have contributed greatly to their disciplines and to the university. They have made key discoveries, found creative ways to solve pressing world problems, helped our students to achieve their best, and made WSU and the world a better place.”
A complete schedule of events for this year’s Showcase can be found online.
Distinguished Faculty Award
- Keri McCarthy
School of Music
College of Arts and Sciences
WSU Pullman
President’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Career-Track Faculty
- Ken Faunce
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
WSU Pullman - Phillip Morgan
Department of Kinesiology and Educational Psychology
College of Education
WSU Pullman
Emeritus Society Legacy of Excellence Award
- Nancy Magnuson
School of Molecular Biosciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
WSU Pullman
Faculty Diversity Award
- Zoe Higheagle Strong
Department of Kinesiology and Educational Psychology
College of Education
Office of the Provost
WSU Pullman
Faculty Mid-Career Award
- Jennifer Adam
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture
WSU Pullman
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
- Shulin Chen
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
WSU Pullman
Sahlin Eminent Faculty Award
- John Roll
Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
WSU Health Sciences Spokane
Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award – Leadership
- Jill McCluskey
School of Economic Sciences
College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
WSU Pullman
Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award – Instruction
- Jesse Spohnholz
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
WSU Pullman
Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award – Outreach & Engagement
- Eric Johnson
Department of Teaching and Learning
College of Education
WSU Tri-Cities
Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award – Research, Scholarship & Arts
- Olusola Adesope
Department of Kinesiology and Educational Psychology
College of Education
WSU Pullman
V. Lane Rawlins President’s Award for Distinguished Lifetime Service
- Hakan Gurocak
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture
WSU Vancouver
President’s Employee Excellence Awards
- J. Manuel Acevedo
Director, Team Mentoring Program
Division of Student Affairs
WSU Pullman - Norman Fung
Custodian 1
Facilities Services Custodial
WSU Pullman - Erin Carroll
Director of Marketing & Communications
Division of Student Affairs
WSU Pullman - Rob Baker
Information Systems Coordinator
Academic Outreach and Innovation
WSU Pullman - Zachary Holden
Research Assistant
Department of Horticulture
WSU Pullman
Promotion to the rank of Regents Professor
- Joy Egbert
Department of Teaching and Learning
College of Education
WSU Pullman - Patricia Hunt
School of Molecular Biosciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
WSU Pullman - Yong Wang
Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering.
Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture
WSU Pullman
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
