Dean's Awards

Dean’s Awards for Distinction

Nominations for 2024 are closed

 

Greetings College of Life Sciences and Agriculture community!

All faculty, staff and students are invited to nominate an individual or team from among COLSA's faculty and staff for the Dean’s Awards for Distinction. 

Nominees will have made notable contributions to the college and/or the broader community that advanced the standing of COLSA’s teaching, research, and service mission. This  intentionally broad approach is designed to be inclusive of all of the amazing activity that is conducted across the college by people with varied employment status and responsibilities. Individual or team nominations are accepted. Examples of how candidates may have brought distinction include (but are not limited to):

  • leading in ground-breaking research;
  • innovation in teaching;
  • success in technology transfer;
  • leading in helping COLSA become a more inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible place of work and study;
  • exceptional service or support to the college, university, or community;
  • mentoring of graduate or undergraduate students;
  • building international partnerships;
  • or any other way that advances the standing of COLSA’s teaching, research, and service mission.

In addition to being recognized at the ceremony, Dean's Awards recipients will receive a (pre-tax) monetary award. All COLSA employees are eligible, and all COLSA employees and students may submit nominations. The number of recipients can vary each year.

NOMINATION FORM 

Award Winners

Lisa Buchalski, academic program manager, Department of Biological Sciences

Vanessa Grunkemeyer, clinical associate professor, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems

Melissa Knorr, supervisor - lab research, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment

Palash Mandal, agricultural science PhD candidate

Melissa Mellor, pre-professional health programs advisor

Katie Cousens, Advising and Academic Success Director

Maria Carlota Dao, Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, Nutrition and Food Systems

Robert Gibson, Managing Director, New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

Amy Michaud, Skills Application Teacher, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences

Wil Wollheim, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment

 

Dean Elder, director of the Animal Resources Office

Curtis Johnson, finish carpenter

David Plachetzki, associate professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences

Michael Simmons, lecturer in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and the Thompson School of Applied Science

Laurie Westover, instructional laboratory specialist in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences

 

Luke Hydock, manager of the Macfarlane Research Greenhouses

Jesse Stabile Morrell, principal lecturer in the nutrition program in the Department of Agriculture, Nutrition and Food Systems

Wendy Rose, program manager for the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment

Paul Tsang, professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences