Teaching Award Winners

University Professors

Cynthia Furse, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael Scarpulla, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Community Engaged Teaching and Scholarship Award

Aaron Fischer, Educational Psychology

University Early Career Teaching Award

Claudia de Grandi, Physics & Astronomy
Ashley Guajardo, Entertainment Arts and Engineering
Jacob Hochhalter, Mechanical Engineering
Lauren Barth-Cohen, Educational Psychology
Sean Howe, Math
Talia Dajes, World Languages & Cultures

Park Teaching Fellowship

Udita Gupta, Urban Institute for Teacher Education
Christopher Mead, Honors College

University Distinguished Teaching Award

Brian Codding, Anthropology
Kevin Hanson, Film & Media Arts
Claudio Holzner, Political Science
Kirk Nichols, Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
Alf Seegert, English

Hatch Prize in Teaching

Kenneth Golden, Math

Bennion Center Distinguished Faculty Service Award

Amos Guiora, Law
Shannon Jones, Nutrition and Integrative Physiology

Bennion Center Public Service Professor Award

Hallie Jay Pope, Law

Francis Prize in Mentoring

Akiko Kamimura, Sociology

University Distinguished Mentoring Award

Katie Ullman, Oncology
Kent Ono, Communication
Dennis Parker, Radiology & Imaging

General Education Innovation in Teaching Award

Joshua Rivkin, LEAP

General Education Excellence in Teaching Award

Sydney Abbott, Nutrition and Integrative Physiology

Nominees for Robert Foster Cherry Award

Matt Basso, History/Ethnic Studies
Beth Krensky, Fine Arts
Don Wardell, Operations and Information Systems
Tabitha Buehler, Physics and Astronomy
Tabitha Benney, Political Science

OUR Distinguished Mentor Awards

Sarah Hinners, Architecture & Planning
Vandana Ramachandran, School of Business
Sara Grineski, Social and Behavioral Science
Melodie Weller, Dentistry
Cynthia Furse, Engineering
Alexandra Harbold, Fine Arts
J. David Symons, Health
Michael Gills, Honors 
Rachel Hayes-Harb, Humanities
Yan-Ting Shiu, Medicine
Gannet Hallar, Mines & Earth Sciences
Lauri Linder, Nursing
Amy Barrios, Pharmacy
Ofer Rog, Science
Annie Isabel Fukushima, Transform

Stockham Medal in Conspicuously Effective Teaching

Kevin Mendoza, Geophysics
David Jiang, Biomedical Engineering

Early Career Educator Award

Casey Gradick

Outstanding Educator Award of Health Sciences Graduate Students

William Holland

Outstanding Educator Award of Health Sciences Professional Students

Mary Steinmann

Interprofessional Education Team Award - Utah Geriatrics Education Consortium

Linda Edelman
Timothy Farrell
Kara Dassel

Interprofessional Education Team Award - Transgender Health Team

Bernadette Kiraly
Brett Myers
Cori Agarwal
Erica Johnstone
Erika Sullivan
Isak Goodwin
Jeremy Myers
Jim Hotaling
Joanne Rolls
Katie Woolf
Ariel Malan
Marisa Adelman
Nicole Mihalopoulos
Norelle Walzer

2023 Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities

Danielle Olden, History

2023 Ramona W. Cannon Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence in the Humanities

Jeffrey J. Turner, History

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award -- Multi-disciplinary Design Devision

Angela Rauf
Morgan Doane
Ashton Reeder

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award -- Department of City & Metropolitan Planning

Corey Bishop
Luis Garcia
Rachel Stein

Dr. Rodney H. Brady Faculty Superior Teaching Award

Atif Ellahie, School of Accounting
Tim Fullmer, Finance
Bill Oakley, Marketing
Georgi Rausch, Management
Kylie Rochford, Management

Kenneth J. Hanni Teaching Award

Shannon Charles, School of Accounting

Marvin J. Ashton Teaching Excellence Award

Sachin Banker, Marketing

Masters Teaching Excellence Award

Larry Hancock, Operations and Information Systems

Executive MBA Distinguished Teaching Award

Scott Schaefer, Finance

Full-time MBA Distinguished Teaching Award

Brian Johnson, Finance

Professional MBA Distinguished Teaching Award

Davidson Heath, Finance

MBA Online Distinguished Teaching Award

Brian Cadman, School of Accounting

Doctoral Faculty Teaching Excellence Award

Yihui Pan, Finance

Student Mentoring Faculty Award

Rebekah Shrader, Finance

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Brooke Walters, Nutrition and Integrative Physiology

Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty

Andy Rich, Health & Kinesiology
Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham, Nutrition and Integrative Physiology
Traci Thompson, Health and Kinesiology

Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award

Udita Gupta, Urban Institute for Teacher Education

Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award

Wei Wei, Educational Psychology

Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award

Pratt Rogers, Mining Engineering

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

John Otero, Metallurgical Engineering

Faculty Teaching Award

Jeff Schwartz, Law

Adjunct Teaching Award

John Pearce, Associate Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court

Robert Kessler Award for Teaching Excellence

Brian Salisbury, Entertainment Arts & Engineering

College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Assistant 2022

Shaun McKellar, Electrical and Computer Engineering

College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher 2022

Jacob Hochhalter, Mechanical Engineering

2022 Outstanding Teaching Award, Dept Mech. Eng -

Alagar K. Balaji, Mechanical Engineering

2022 Student Choice Teacher of the Year, Dept Mech. Eng

Debbie Mascaro, Mechanical Engineering

2022 Student Choice Teacher of the Year

M Metzger, Mechanical Engineering

Top Undergraduate Teachers Fall 2021

Douglas Christensen, Biomedical Engineering
Alan Dorval, Biomedical Engineering
Tomasz Petelenz, Biomedical Engineering
Tony Butterfield, Chemical Engineering
Kody Powell, Chemical Engineering
Steven Bartlett, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carlos Oroza, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Jerod Johnson, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Brian McPherson, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Matt Anderson, Entertainment Arts & Engineering
Ryan Bown, Entertainment Arts & Engineering
Ashley Guajardo, Entertainment Arts & Engineering
Cynthia Furse, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mingyue Ji, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ryan Brown, Engineering
Dmitry Bedrov, Materials Science & Engineering
Brittany Coats, Mechanical Engineering
Jacob Hochhalter, Mechanical Engineering
Sarneer Rao, Mechanical Engineering
Matthew Flatt, School of Computing
Tsung-Wei Huang, School of Computing
Daniel Kopta, School of Computing
Cem Yuksei, School of Computing

Top Graduate Teachers Fall 2021

Robert Bowles, Biomedical Engineering
Jake George, Biomedical Engineering
Raymond Cutler, Materials Science & Engineering
Ken d'Entremont, Mechanical Engineering
Mark Fehlberg, Mechanical Engineering
Mathieu Francoeur, Mechanical Engineering
Pedro Huebner, Mechanical Engineering
Andrew Merryweather, Mechanical Engineering
Ashley Spear, Mechanical Engineering
Rajeev Balasubramonian, School of Computing
Tamara Denning, School of Computing
John Regehr, School of Computing
Ellen Riloff, School of Computing
Eric Lang, School of Computing
Saday Sadayappan, School of Computing
Varun Shankar, School of Computing
Ross Whitaker, School of Computing
Shandian Zhe, School of Computing

Top Undergraduate Teachers Spring 2022

Lucas Timmins, Biomedical Engineering
Tony Butterfield, Chemical Engineering
Milind Deo, Chemical Engineering
Michael Nigra, Chemical Engineering
James Sutherland, Chemical Engineering
Luis Ibarra, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Nikola Markovic, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Luther McDonald, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carlos Oroza, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Scott Shea, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Matt Anderson, Entertainment Arts & Engineering
Kolton Eichers, Entertainment Arts & Engineering
Ashley Guajardo, Entertainment Arts & Engineering
Fernando Rodriguez, Entertainment Arts & Engineering
Jose Zagal, Entertainment Arts & Engineering
John Coburn, Engineering
Ryan Brown, Engineering
Evan Benoit, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mathieu Francour, Mechanical Engineering
Jacob Hochhalter, Mechanical Engineering
M. Metzger, Mechanical Engineering
Eric Pardyjak, Mechanical Engineering
Ashley Spear, Mechanical Engineering
Roseanne Warren, Mechanical Engineering
Christopher Brown, Computer Science
Alan Kuntz, Computer Science
David Johnson, Computer Science
Daniel Kopta, Computer Science
Ryan Stutsman, Computer Science

Top Graduate Teachers Spring 2022

Jeffrey Weiss, Biomedical Engineering
Carlos Oroza, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Cem Yuksei, Computer Science
Neda Nategh, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ashley Guajardo, Entertainment Arts & Engineering
Ling Zang, Materials Science & Engineering
Pedro Huebner, Mechanical Engineering
Owen Kingstedt, Mechanical Engineering
Stephen Mascaro, Mechanical Engineering

Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring

Sophie Caron, Biology

Distinguished Educator

Kevin Davenport, Physics & Astronomy

Outstanding Teaching Assistant

Jose Otero, Materials Science & Engineering

Excellence in Mentoring

Yana Suchy, Psychology
Jesus N. Valero, Political Science

Daniels Fund Leadership in Ethics Education 

Brent Steele, Political Science

Superior Teaching

Claudio Holzner, Political Science
Michael Dichio, Political Science
Trisha Weeks, Psychology