Each year, we take time to recognize the accomplishments of faculty and graduate students in their professional development. In this academic year, CFE held a total of 80 workshops with 960 attendees.

Connection before Content Activity

  • Roundtable groups for 5 min
  • Please introduce yourself with your name, position and department and answer the following question:
  • Pick one of the questions on the table and share the answer with your neighbor.

 

TEACHING EXCELLENCE ACTION COMMITTEE

Name

Position

Department

Adams, Dean

Chair

Center for Faculty Excellence

Brazill, Shihua 

Member

Center for Faculty Excellence

Silvestri, Ken 

Member 

Center for Faculty Excellence

Dorsett, Carter

Member

UIT

Sowell, Bok

Member

Agriculture

Plymesser, Kathryn

Member

Civil Engineering

Smith, Colin

Member

UIT

Rosso, Brent

Member

Jake Jabs School of Business and Entrepreneurship

TBD

Member

Arts & Architecture

Vaterlaus, J. Mitchell

Member

Education, Health & Human Development

Carjuzaa, Jioanna

Ex Officio

Education & Multicultural Perspectives

 

RESEARCH CAPACITY TEAM

Name

Position

Department

Brown, Jennifer

Lead

Chemical & Biological Engineering, Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering

Beamish, Rollin

Member

Art, College of Arts & Architecture

Bird, Elizabeth

Member

College of Education, Health & Human Development

Clark, Jason

Member

Library

Hendrikx, Jordy

Member

Earth Sciences, College of Letters & Science

Jukkala, Angela

Member

College of Nursing

Lux, Nick

Member

Education, College of Education, Health & Human Development

Motzer, Nicole

Member

Office of Research Development

Shergill, Lovreet

Member

Southern Ag Research Center, College of Agriculture

Stoop, (Chata)Nika

Member

Center for Faculty Excellence

Yang, Lisa

Member

Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship

 

SERVICE-LEARNING ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Name

Position

Department

Rebekah VanWieren

Chair

Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology

Melody Anacker

Member

Health & Human Development

Florence Dunkel

Member

Entomology

Susan Gallagher

Member

Western Transportation Institute

Ada Giusti

Member

Modern Languages

Ralph Johnson

Member

Architecture

Molly Lammers

Member

 Office of Student Engagement

Marvin Lansverk

Member

English

Bernadette McCrory

Member

Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering

Christa Merzdorf

Member

Microbiology & Immunology

Joey Morrison

Member

 VOICE Center

Members for 2021-2022

Bridget Kevane, Modern Languages & Literature

Bruce Barnhart, Art

Tracy Dougher, Plant Sciences

Felix Grobler, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Kayann Miller, Health & Human Development

Randal Larimer, Physics

Katharine Kujawa, Psychology

Coltran Hophan-Nichols, UIT Systems Admin

Julie Ruff, Nursing Departments

Erin Taylor, Chemistry

Lauren Kerzicnik, Plant Sciences

Emma Loveday, Center for Biofilm Engineering

Qian Wang, Microbiology & Cell Biology

Andrew Santiago-Frangos, Microbiology & Cell Biology

Artem Aleksandrovich Nemudryi, Microbiology & Cell Biology

Rebecca Turk, Education

Manbir Rakkar, Land Resources & Environ Sci

Lindsay Benes, Nursing Departments

Mary Blake, Office of Planning & Analysis

Shirin Ghatrehsamani, Dean of Agriculture

Learn more about becoming a member

Early Career Success Program 2021-2022

Hans

Dierenfeldt

Jabs College of Business

Jordan

Zignego

Architecture

Aisha

Garged

Modern Languages & Literature

Julie

Ruff

Nursing

Learn more about the Early Career Success Program

Teaching Enhancement Certificate 2021-2022

Nancy Cornwell, Film & Photography 

Kari Cargill, Microbiology & Cell Biology

Susan Bilo, Gallatin College

Quincy Balius, College of Letters and Science

Muhammad Sabry, Education Graduate Student

Learn more about the Teachnig Enhancement Certificate

Diversity Development Certificate – Level 1 Awardees

Rebekah 

Hammack

Education

Kristin 

Bryant

Chemistry

Kate

Fuller

Agricultural Economics & Economics

Programs

Fall 2021 Online Teaching Square Participants

Jessica Anderson, MSSE Program

Heide Arneson, Gallatin College

Brianna Routh, Health and Human Development

Shauna Stephens, English

Spring 2022 Advanced TOP Course Participants

Heide Arneson, Gallatin College

Hans Dierenfeldt, College of Business

Shauna Stephens, English

Terra Shewmaker, Gallatin College

TOP Basic-Level Course Completions

Quincy Balius, History

Jennifer Boone, Nursing

Stacey Stellflug, Nursing

Rachel Upton, LRES

GRANT-WRITING BOOTCAMP

Bruce Barnhart , Art Department

Lindsay Benes, College of Nursing

Shirin Ghatrehsamani, Agriculture

Coltran Hophan-Nichols, University Information Technology

Lauren Kerzicnik, Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology

Bridget Kevane, Modern Languages & Literatures

Emma Loveday, ChBE

KayAnn Miller, Interdisciplinary PhD, mainly EHHD, NASX, &  PSYX

Artem Nemudryi, Microbiology & Cell Biology

Manbir Rakkar, LRES

Julie Ruff, Nursing

Andrew Santiago-Frangos, Microbiology & Cell Biology

Rebecca Turk, Education

Qian Wang, Microbiology and Cell biology

Learn more about grant-writing bootcamp

EARLY CAREER FACULTY MENTORING PROGRAM

Mentees

Julie Alexander-Ruff, Nursing - Bozeman

Lindsay Benes, Nursing - Missoula

Mary Kate Blake, Office of Planning & Analysis

Will Fassbender, English

Felix Grobler, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sam Gunningham, Mathematical Sciences

Elizabeth Johnson, Nursing - Bozeman

Laurel McKay, Art

Heather McKenney, School of Film and Photography

Elizabeth Nelson, Earth Sciences

Manbir Rakkar, Land Resources & Environmental Sciences

Moorman Taylor, Library

Rebecca Turk, Education

Racheal Upton, Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology

Mentors

Kevin Amende, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Beth Antonopulos, Music

Mike Babcock, Earth Sciences

Scott Bryant, Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship

Mary Cloninger, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Ann Ellsworth, Education

Ada Giusti, Modern Languages & Literature

Agnieszka Kwapisz, Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship

Rob Maher, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Michael Neeley, Sociology & Anthropology

Bill Schell, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Laura Stanley, School of Computer Science

Tracy Sterling, Land Resources & Environmental Sciences

Learn more about the mentoring program

Grants

FACULTY EXCELLENCE GRANTS

SELECTION COMMITTEE

Name

Department

Dean Adams

Director, Center for Faculty Excellence & Professor in Art

Michael Neeley

Professor, Sociology & Anthropology

Sarah Codd

Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jennifer Brown

Associate Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering

Kregg Aytes

Professor, Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship

Nika Stoop

Research Resources Coordinator, Center for Faculty Excellence

 Learn more about the Faculty Excellence Grants

 See the awardees

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 

Jared Beaver, Animal & Range Sciences

Mac Burgess, Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology

Matt Lavin, Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology

Amanda Bradbery & Sarah McCoski, Animal & Range Sciences

Qing Yan, Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology                        

COLLEGE OF ARTS & ARCHITECTURE 

Cat Dale, School of Film & Photography

Todd Larkin, School of Art

Jeannie Little, School of Music

Kirk Aamot, School of Music

Minjee Jeon, School of Art

JABS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP 

Eric Van Steenburg, JJCBE

Agnieszka Kwapisz, JJCBE     

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 

Gilbert Kalonde, Education

Christine Lux, Health & Human Development

Sunny Kim, Health & Human Development

NORM ASBJORNSON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Connie Chang, Chemical & Biological Engineering

Paul Gannon , Chemical & Biological Engineering

Stephanie Wettstein , Chemical & Biological Engineering

Cecily Ryan, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Ruhul Amin, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE

Jean Dixon, Earth Sciences

William Fassbender, English

Marvin Lansverk, English

James Meyer, History & Philosophy

Prasanta Bandyopadhyay, History & Philosophy

Jamie McEvoy, Earth Sciences

Ben Oosterhoff, Psychology

Allison Wynhoff-Olsen, English

COLLEGE OF NURSING 

Julie Ruff, Nursing                    

GALLATIN COLLEGE

Kyndra Campbell, Developmental Writing

INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATION GRANTS

Christine Stanton, Education ; Allison Wynhoff-Olsen, English and Nigel Waterton, Education

“I Had a Story to Tell”: Repositioning Pedagogy for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Teacher Education”

Shelley Mills, Extension

“The Beekeeping Learning Laboratory"

Victoria Burchill, Art

"Zooming In: Learning and Practicing Metalsmithing through the Lens of a Microscope"

Learn more about the Instructional Innovation Grants

SPRING CONVOCATION AWARDS

2022 President’s Excellence in Teaching Award

Rob Maher, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2022 Teaching Innovation Award

Stephanie Wettstein, an associate professor in the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

2022 President’s Award for Excellence in Service Learning

Galen Brokaw, a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

2022 Academic Advising Award

Kevin Cook, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Geraldine Govaerts, an academic adviserwho advises more than 400 undergraduate students in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

ADDITIONAL THANKS FOR SUPPORT

Waded Cruzado, Office of the President

Robert Mokwa, Office of the Provost & Academic Affairs

Durward Sobek II, Office of the Provost & Academic Affairs

Megan Lasso and Brittany Thompson, University Budget Office

Nathaniel Briggs, University Business Systems

Kim Obbink, Academic Technologies & Outreach

Colin Smith, Academic Technologies & Outreach

Carter Dorsett, Academic Technologies & Outreach

Tony Compeau, Registrar

Emily Edwards, University Studies/Academic Advising Center

Brad Haderlie, University Information Technology

Amber Vestal, Office of the President

Julie Heard, Office of the Provost & Academic Affairs

Keely Holmes, Office of the Provost & Academic Affairs

Jason Carter, Office of Research & Economic Development & Graduate Education

Steve Swinford, Office of the Provost & Academic Affairs

Chris Fastnow, Office of Planning & Analysis

Ian Godwin, Office of Planning & Analysis

Liz Shanahan and Nicole Motzer, Office of Research Development

Ariel Donohue, Diversity and Inclusion

Craig Ogilvie, Graduate School

Richard Rudnicki, Campus Planning, Design & Construction

Benjamin Polk, University Information Technology

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