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Thrive Award & Grant Recipients
The Thrive Awards Banquet is an invitation-only event that recognizes faculty excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. Awards include the Presidential Teaching Excellence Awards, the Provost's Community Builder and Mentor Award, the Ambrose Amos Shaw Endowed Chair Awards, Innovative Teaching Grants, the Course Materials Affordability Award, the WSU Online Excellence Award, and the CETL Thrive Awards.
We gratefully acknowledge the following donors for making these recognitions possible: Bob and Marcia Harris, the Robert L. Marquardt Family, Steven and Ruth Lowe, Alta and T.R. Davis, John and Nancy Lowe, and Brad and Jeni Wilson.
2026 PRESIDENTIAL TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Nicole Beatty
Teaching & Information Services
Barrett Bonella
Social Work & Gerontology
Jason Francis
Teaching & Information Services
Adam Johnston
Physics & Astronomy
Justin Knighton
Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Robert L. Marquardt Presidential Teaching Excellence Award
Jessie Nixon
Teacher Education
Tyrandra Perez
Nursing
Annie Taylor Dee Teaching Excellence Award
Mary Anne Reynolds
Nursing
Annie Taylor Dee Teaching Excellence Award
Bryant Thompson
Business Administration & Marketing
Brian T. Davis Teaching Excellence Award
Megan Van Deventer
English Language & Literature
Brent Warnock
Communication
Jordan West
Health Sciences
Provost's Campus Community Builder and Mentor Award
Valerie Herzog
Professor, Athletic Training & Occupational Therapy
Ambrose Amos Shaw Endowed Chair Awards
Vincent Bates
Professor, College of Social Sciences and Education
Therese Cavlovic
Professor, Goddard School of Business and Economics
Daniel Clark
Associate Professor, College of Science
Conrad Gabler
Associate Professor, Dumke College of Health Professions
Sara Gailey
Assistant Professor, College of Social Sciences and Education
Matthew Gnagey
Professor, Goddard School of Business and Economics
Cully Long
Assistant Professor, Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities
Alyssa Mock
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Applied Science & Technology
Mary Beth Willard
Professor, College of Social Sciences and Education
Innovative Teaching Grants
Community Engaged Learning Innovative Teaching Grant
Juan Carlos Claudio
School of Performing Arts
Teresa Martinez
Center for Community Engaged Learning
George and Beth Lowe Innovative Teaching Grant
Michael Ault
Communication
Leslie Howerton (Communication) & Nicholas Dean (Physician Assistant Medicine)
Colleen Packer
Communication
Kathryn Sperry (Psychological Sciences) & Mckenzie Wood (Criminal Justice)
Presidential Teaching Innovation Grant
Hannah Stedge & Matthew Donahue
Athletic Training and Occupational Therapy
Erin Cebreros Medina
English
Electra Fielding
World Languages and Cultures
María del Mar González-González
Department of Visual Art and Design
Joseph Mulligan
World Languages and Cultures
Stephanie Wolfe, Nick Ferre & Emily Rupp
Political Science and Philosophy
Chelsea Pike
Nursing
Sarah Herrmann
Psychological Sciences
Course Materials Affordability Awards
Andrew Keinsley
Economics
Laura K. Jones
Nursing
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, College of Science
WSU Online Excellence Award
Megan De Leon
School of Computing
CETL Thrive Awards
Student Choice: Outstanding Faculty Member
Travis Price
Professor, Health Sciences
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Teaching for All Students
Kyra Hudson
Senior Instructor, English
Outstanding Weber Service
Alee Lee
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Outstanding Adjunct
Encarnacion Gallardo Porras
Early Childhood Education
Unsung Hero
Sonya Welsh
Lab Manager, Botany
Brenda Marstellar Kowalewski Outstanding New Faculty Award
Chalice Gustaveson
Medical Laboratory Sciences