The Excellence Awards at MSU celebrates the diversity of accomplishments by our graduate students. Graduating students are nominated by their department and awarded for one of three categories:

Land-Grant Excellence: Students who are highly effective in engaging with the community, by sharing and applying new knowledge that is locally relevant and mutually beneficial.

Scholarship Excellence: Students who have created and disseminated new knowledge that significantly advances our understanding of our world.

Teaching Excellence: Students who have made a high impact on undergraduates’ lives by helping them grow in knowledge, skill, and confidence.

Spring 2025 Award Winners

Land-Grant Excellence

Jamie Cahoon (Nursing)
Nicholas Caiazzo (Business)
Sarah De Groot (Nursing)
Sage Dodier (Business)
Mechele Fonck (Architecture)
Connor Green (Business)
Jack Hathway (Business)
Emmaline Jackson (Nursing)
Molly Yurdana (Agricultural and Technology Education)

Scholarship Excellence

Andie Madsen (Film & Photography)

Teaching Excellence

Brittany Davidson-Fisher (Nursing)
Sarah Leland (Nursing)

 

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Land-Grant Excellence

Caleb Williams (Native American Studies)
Isabelle Schneyer (Science Education)
Jackson Strand (Entomology)
Jennifer Debois (Science Education)
Julia Renee Rose (Science Education)
Krista Cunningham (Science Education)

Scholarship Excellence

Ben Goodheart (Fish and Wildlife Biology)
Lee Feist (Architecture)
Laura Fairbanks (Native American Studies)
Meryl Storb (Land Resources & Environmental Sciences)

Teaching Excellence

Reese Sjostrom (Architecture)
Stephen Hancock (Mathematics)

Land-Grant Excellence

Seamus Hoolahan
Daniel Sierra
Maddison Stephens
Chloe Woodall

Scholarship Excellence

Carter Dorsett
Olivia Gorham
Adiesha Liyana Ralalage
Gabryelle Perkins
George Schaible

Teaching Excellence

Nikolas Malick
Celie Meier
Darya Lester

Land-Grant Excellence

Gracie Cumley (Business)
Simone Durney (Ecology)
Colter Mumford (Land Resources & Environmental Sciences)

Scholarship Excellence

Matthew Strasbourg (Physics)

Teaching Excellence

Brian Kibirige (Agricultural & Technology Education)
Debby Greene (American Studies)

Land-Grant Excellence

Caleb Igo (Agricultural & Technology Education)
Gifty Osei (Mathematical Sciences)
Josey Ugrin (Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology)
Micah Chang (History & Philosophy)
Peter Sunden (Nursing)
Sasha Loewen (Land Resources & Environmental Sciences)
Zachary Maguire (Ecology)

Scholarship Excellence

Anna Schenfisch (Mathematical Sciences)
Laura Meza (Education)
Mackenzie Westphal (Nursing)

Teaching Excellence

Cole Buller (Civil Engineering)
Elizabeth Green (Education)
Katlin Tonkin (Nursing)

Land-Grant Excellence

Kristie Russette
Ryen Seib

Scholarship Excellence

William Glenny
Devon Payne
Adewale Adeolu
Seth Kane
Olivia Andrus
Madison Foster
Kyle Newman

Teaching Excellence

Bethany MacCarter
Dorukhan Doruk
Eden Manuel
Elijah Meyer
Corbin Lyman
Parker LaCasse

Land-Grant Excellence

Ian Anderson
Kaleb Baber
Caitlyn Cayer
Simon Fordyce
Jason Gleason
Faith Quinlisk

Scholarship Excellence

Kara Johnson
Casey Pallister
Zachary Schutte
Christian Stratton
Lucia Williams
Stephanie Wilson
Shahab Zaregarizi

Teaching Excellence

Madison Liechty
Christine Miller
Bryce Neal

Land-Grant Excellence

Jill Mackin
Catherine Potts

Scholarship Excellence

Gregory Chorak
Ben Goodheart
Marika McCarthy
Andrew Mullen

Land-Grant Excellence

Eric Berry
Katherine Bugni
Jacy Crowley
Gabriel Furshong
Andriana Puchany
Sander Story

Scholarship Excellence

Nicole Andersson
Alecia Besel
Gabriel Bromley
Nathaniel Rieders
Catherine Trainor
Stephen Walsh

Teaching Excellence

Jessica Bone
James Hicks
Laurel McKay
Jordan Meyer-Morey
Elise Reed
Madison Schumacher
Joshua Toft

Land-Grant Excellence

Michelle Briggs
Alixandra Elliott
Emma Gamble
Andrew Shulstad
Uta Stuhr
Haley Tupen

Scholarship Excellence

Rehab Al-Kaby
Elizabeth DeFries
David Rice

Teaching Excellence

Perla Alvarenga
Erin Hunt
Cameron McCarty
Moses Obiri
Courtney Tintzman
Brian Turnquist

Land-Grant Excellence

Brittany Carnahan
Molly DelCurto
Chelsea Dunshee
Patrick Jeffers
Kyle Paine
Teresa Rivenes
Angela Schell
Allison Theobold
Amanda Williams
Ben Yeoman

Scholarship Excellence

Mohammad AlAzawii
Edwin Allan
Morgan Chamberlin
Cory Counts
Robert Dorsey
Casey Kennedy
Nathaniel Lane
Michael MacDonald
Joshua Meyer
Samuel Micka
William "Buzz" Nanavati
Chance Noffsinger
Scott Tilton
Martha Welander

Teaching Excellence

Rebecca Ayler
Samuel Carlson
Julie Eickman
Mac Gwinner
Madison Hanson
Miranda Margetts
Brynn Okeson
Dylan Proudfoot
Trevor Vannoy