Distinguished Faculty and Staff Awards

CSU’s faculty and staff are second to none! Each year, Distinguished Faculty and Staff Awards honor individuals who bring distinction to the University and support student success through their day-to-day efforts.

Distinguished Faculty Awards are presented in three categories — research, service and teaching. The distinguished research award honors those whose research or creative work has been recognized in the scholarly or creative community as exceptional; the distinguished service award honors those whose service within and/or outside the University has been exceptional; and the distinguished teaching award honors those whose teaching is recognized as exceptionally strong. In addition, a Provost’s Lecturer Teaching Award is presented. 

The highest faculty honor, the Dr. Jennie S. Hwang Award, recognizes faculty members who bring regional, national and international recognition to the University through exceptional achievements in teaching, research and service. Recipients are chosen from each year’s Distinguished Faculty Award honorees.

Dr. Hwang is a former member of the CSU Foundation Board of Directors and an entrepreneur and corporate executive. She established the award in 2002.

Congratulations to the 2018 and 2019 Distinguished Staff Award winners:

Toni Jones 
University Law Enforcement Officer, Police Department

Sandra Justin
Office Coordinator, College of Sciences and Health Professions

Rosalyn Adams
Administrative Coordinator, Curriculum and Foundations, College of Education and Human Services

Sarah Henley
Secretary, CASAL, College of Education and Human Services

Congratulations to the 2018 and 2019 Distinguished Faculty Award winners:

Research
Hanz Richter
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Washkewicz College of Engineering 

Milena Sterio
Charles R. Emerick Jr. — Calfee Halter and Griswold Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Moo-Yeal Lee
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Washkewicz College of Engineering 

Patricia Stoddard Dare
Professor of Social Work, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences 

Service
Tachelle Banks
Associate Dean and Professor of Teacher Education, College of Education and Human Services 

Adam Sonstegard
Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Crystal Weyman
Chair and Professor of Biology, Geology and Environmental Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions

Jonathan Witmer-Rich
Associate Dean and Joseph C. Hostetler — Baker Hostetler Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Teaching
Lili Dong
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washkewicz College of Engineering 

Ann Reinthal
Associate Professor of Health Sciences, College of Sciences and Health Professions  

David Anderson
Professor of Chemistry, College of Sciences and Health Professions 

Nolan Holland
Professor and Interim Chair, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Washkewicz College of Engineering 

Dr. Jennie S. Hwang Award
Ann Reinthal and Crystal Weyman

Provost’s Lecturer Teaching Award
Carolyn Broering-Jacobs
Associate Dean for Administration and Clinical Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Marnie Rodriguez
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Anthropology and Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Linda Quinn
Professor of Practice in Mathematics, College of Sciences and Health Professions