Awarded in 2025
Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Faculty Fund Award Recipients!
We are thrilled to recognize the faculty who have received the 2024-2025 Faculty Fund Awards. These awards provide vital support for professional development opportunities and innovative research and projects. Congratulations to all recipients for their dedication and impactful contributions. This year’s recipients for project proposal awards are:
- Asha Yadav: Data-Based Decision Making in Preschools: Structures and Strategies
- Illana Umansky: Education Policy and Leadership Master of Science Program Outreach
- Jayme Sloan: Development of a Robust Training for CDS Externship Supervisors
- Kyle Reardon: Project THRIVE: Training for Hiring, Retaining, and Inclusively Valuing Employees with Disabilities
- Mavis Gallo: Institutional Betrayal and Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior Among LGBTQ Youth
- Samantha Shune: An exploration of end-of-life dysphagia practices in Thailand
- Sara Schmitt: Developing the Inclusive Skill-building Learning Approach for Preschoolers (ISLA-P)
- Sean Grant: Innovations in Living Systematic Review Methodology
- Sofia Benson-Goldberg, Jeanine Brush, and Miyoko Patricelli: AAC Storytime: Modeling Storybook Reading with Young AAC Users
Awarded in 2024
2024 College of Education Annual Faculty and Staff Awards
Excellence in Teaching, Distinguished Teaching Award
Elisa Jamgochian
Excellence in Teaching, Early Career
Rachel Rochester
Excellence in Research/Outreach, Early Career, CTF
Chris Knowles
Excellence in Research/Outreach, Early Career, TTF
David Liebowitz
Excellence in Research/Outreach, Mid Career
Elizabeth Budd
Excellence in Teaching, Graduate Employee
Esmerelda Castro
Staff Excellence, OA
Emma Bjorngard Basayne
Staff Excellence, Classified
Joe Golfen
Dean’s Distinguished Service Award
Tiffany Yep
Tyler Snyder
Awarded in 2023
2023 Faculty Research Award Recipients
Distributed annually by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, Faculty Research Awards support scholarship, creative projects and quantitative or qualitative research from all disciplinary backgrounds.
Lauren Cycyk, associate professor, Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, “Maternal Input to Spanish-Exposed Toddlers With and Without Early Language Delay”
Jean Kjellstrand, assistant professor, Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, “Parental Incarceration: Disseminating Information about Current Research and Potential Solutions to Support Incarcerated Parents and their Children”
2023 Graduate Education Excellence Award for Outstanding Mentorship in Graduate Studies
Nicole Giuliani, Evergreen Associate Professor Center for Translational Neuroscience, Prevention Science, School Psychology, selected as the 2023 Graduate Education Excellence Award for Outstanding Mentorship in Graduate Studies by the University of Oregon Graduate Division.
2023 Society of Prevention Research (SPR) Fellow
Philip H. Knight Chair Beth Stormshak was selected as a 2023 Society of Prevention Research (SPR) Fellow. The SPR Fellowship is an honor that the Society for Prevention Research bestows upon a small and select group of members who have a particularly distinguished record of contributions in the field of prevention research.
2023 College of Education Annual Faculty and Staff Awards
Student Staff Excellence, Undergraduate
Aislinn Williams
Student Staff Excellence, Graduate, Non-Teaching
Lue Williams
Staff Excellence, Classified or OA
Kristen King and Stephanie Tabibian
Excellence in Supervision, NTTF
Anne Marie Mauricio
Excellence in Teaching, Graduate Employee
Ryan Nowak
Excellence in Teaching, Distinguished
Karrie Walters
Equity and Inclusion Award
Jess Beltran
Dean’s Distinguished Service Award
Amanda Boehringer
Awarded in 2022
Leilani Sabzalian, Assistant Professor
Named one of 35 Influential American Indian Scholars by Academic Influence, a website that provides rankings by academics and data scientists.
Ilana Umansky, Associate Professor
2022 Faculty Research Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI).
Sapsik’ʷałá Tribal Advisory Council
2022 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Outstanding Community Partner Award from the UO Division of Equity and Inclusion.
Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann
2022 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice "Drum Major" Award from the UO Division of Equity and Inclusion.
Samantha Shune, Associate Professor
Innovative Research on Aging Silver Award from the Mather Institute for her recent article.
2022 College of Education Annual Faculty and Staff Awards
Equity and Inclusion Award
Michelle Jacob, Professor
Excellence in Research/Outreach, Early Career
Rhonda Nese, Assistant Professor
Excellence in Research/Outreach, Mid-Career
Danielle Triplett, Research Assistant
Excellence in Supervision, NTTF
Jessica Fanning, Clinical Associate Professor
CDS supervision team
Excellence in Teaching, Early Career
Jenny Ruef, Assistant Professor
Excellence in Teaching, Distinguished
Julie Alonzo, Research Associate Professor
Staff Excellence, Classified or OA
Tiffany Yep, Business Manager
Carmen Cybula, Academic Program Coordinator
Student Staff Excellence, Undergraduate
Cece Locati
Student Staff Excellence, Undergraduate, Non-Teaching
Taylor Lesner
Dean's Distinguished Service Award
Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann, Assistant Dean for Administration
Brady Nittman, Director of Financial Operations