Each year the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences recognizes faculty, staff, and graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding achievements or exceptional service to the college.
The awards program was established in 1970 by the Paul A. Funk Foundation of Bloomington, as a memorial to the late Paul A. Funk, who attended the college as a member of the class of 1929 and devoted his life to agriculture.
Recipients were honored at the annual Paul A. Funk Recognition Awards Banquet held Sept. 19 at Pear Tree Estate in rural Champaign.
This year's recipients include:
Paul A. Funk Recognition
- Romana Nowak, Animal Sciences
Spitze Land-Grant Professorial Career Excellence Award
- James Drackley, Animal Sciences
Runge Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award
- Mary Arends-Kuenning, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Faculty Award for Global Impact
- Robert Knox, Animal Sciences
Team Award for Excellence
- The Child Development Laboratory, Human Development and Family Studies
Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Senior - Jason Emmert, Animal Sciences
- College - Phil Cardoso, Animal Sciences
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
- Senior - Juan Loor, Animal Sciences
- College - Andrew Margenot, Crop Sciences
Faculty Award for Excellence in Extension
- Senior - Amy Fischer, Animal Sciences
- College - Melissa Prescott, Food Science and Human Nutrition
Karl E. Gardner Outstanding Undergraduate Adviser Award
- Justine Karduck, Food Science and Human Nutrition
John Clyde and Henrietta Downey Spitler Teaching Award
- Jan Brooks, Human Development and Family Studies
Specialized Faculty Teaching Award
- Andrea Faber-Taylor, Crop Sciences
Professional Staff Award for Excellence
- Sustained Excellence -- Advising, Teaching and Outreach -- Piper Hodson, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
- Sustained Excellence -- Research -- Corey Mitchell, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
- Sustained Excellence -- Administrative/Management or Technical Contributions -- Joe Bohn, ACES Admin
Marcella M. Nance Staff Award
- Amanda Hart, Human Development and Family Studies
Staff Award for Excellence
- Jean Miles, Crop Sciences
- Audra Martin, Food Science and Human Nutrition
Service Recognition Award
Graduate Student Research Award
- Ph.D. - Samantha Iwinski, Human Development and Family Studies
- M.S. - Subhiksha Chandrasekaran, Food Science and Human Nutrition
Louis V. Logeman Graduate Student Teaching Award
- Travis Johnson, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Jaclyn Theisen-Raub, Human Development and Family Studies
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