Faculty Excellence Awards

The recipients of the 2020-2021 Chancellor's and Provost's Awards for Faculty Excellence represent faculty members at all stages of their careers whose outstanding work has been recognized by their peers. Awardees exemplify the best that our faculty have to offer in innovative teaching, cross-disciplinary research, public engagement, and diversity impacts. Please extend your congratulations to the awardees who were honored on May 24, 2021.

Ross Baker

Distinguished Professor, Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

The award honors a faculty member (Professor or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching contributions resulted in an extraordinary impact on the institution, students’ experiences, and public engagement.

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Charles Dismukes

Distinguished Professor, Waksman Institute, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS, and Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS

Chancellor's Award for Pioneering Research

The award honors a faculty member (Professor or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track) whose research contributions have transformed the field, including highly cited scholarship or practiced patents.

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Mona Lena Krook

Professor, Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences

Chancellor's Award for Global Impact

The award honors a faculty member (all ranks) whose research, teaching, or service has catalyzed global partnerships or generated global impacts and exceptional public engagement.

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Brooke Maslo

Assistant Professor, Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Chancellor's Award for Global Impact

The award honors a faculty member (all ranks) whose research, teaching, or service has catalyzed global partnerships or generated global impacts and exceptional public engagement.

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Jinchuan Xing

Associate Professor, Genetics, School of Arts and Sciences

Provost's Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Research

The award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose research area disrupts or transforms the interface of two disparate fields of scholarship or inquiry.

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Mason Ameri

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Management & Global Business, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations

An award extended to a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching practices involve innovative approaches to enhance learning outcomes, new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, or innovative multimedia.

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Laurent Burlion

Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations

An award extended to a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching practices involve innovative approaches to enhance learning outcomes, new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, or innovative multimedia.

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Jenevieve DeLosSantos

Assistant Teaching Professor, Art History and Director of Special Pedagogical Projects, Office of Undergraduate Education, School of Arts and Sciences

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations

An award extended to a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching practices involve innovative approaches to enhance learning outcomes, new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, or innovative multimedia.

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Christopher Ellison

Assistant Professor, Genetics, School of Arts and Sciences

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations

An award extended to a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching practices involve innovative approaches to enhance learning outcomes, new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, or innovative multimedia.

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Kristen Labazzo

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations

An award extended to a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching practices involve innovative approaches to enhance learning outcomes, new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, or innovative multimedia.

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Brandon Williams

Assistant Professor, Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations

An award extended to a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching practices involve innovative approaches to enhance learning outcomes, new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, or innovative multimedia.

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Ana Paula Centeno

Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences

Provost's Award for Excellence in STEM Diversity

The award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose work aims to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM fields through innovative approaches in pedagogy and teaching practices, research, and community engagement.

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Carlos Decena

Associate Professor, Latino and Caribbean Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

Provost’s Award for Excellence in Service

The award honors a faculty member (all ranks) whose outstanding service to the school or campus advances the university’s mission to perform public service to support the needs of the greater Rutgers–New Brunswick community or residents of the state.

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Previous Award Recipients

The recipients of the 2019-2020 Chancellor's and Provost's Awards for Faculty Excellence were honored on March 24, 2020, and represent faculty members at all stages of their careers whose outstanding work has been recognized by their peers.

Chancellor's Award for Impacts in Teaching

This award honors individual faculty whose teaching contributions have resulted in exceptional impacts on the institutional student experience and public engagement.

Julien Musolino, Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences

Chancellor's Award for Pioneering Research

This award honors individual faculty whose research contributions have transformed the field of research, including highly cited scholarship or practiced patents that have reshaped the impacts of the academe.

Eddy Arnold, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, School of Arts and Sciences

Chancellor's Award for Global Impacts

This award honors individual faculty whose research or teaching or service has catalyzed global partnerships or generated international impacts and exceptional public engagement.

Alan Robock, Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Provost's Award for Excellence in Innovative Teaching

This award honors individual faculty whose teaching practices involve non-traditional approaches to enhance learning outcomes, including new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, and multimedia.

Nirav Patel, Honors College, Rutgers–New Brunswick

Jonathan Singer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering

Provost's Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Research

This award honors individual faculty whose research area aims to achieve disruptive or transformative impacts at the interface of two disparate fields of scholarship or inquiry.

Rebecca Cypess, Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts

Laleh Najafizadeh, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering

Provost's Award for Excellence in STEM Diversity

This award honors individual faculty whose work aims to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM fields through innovative approaches in pedagogy and teaching practices, research, and community building.

Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering
Excellence in Teaching Awards

Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Latino and Caribbean Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

Can Uslay, Marketing, Rutgers Business School

Excellence in Research Awards

Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences

Richard Ebright, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, School of Arts and Sciences

Erin Vogel, Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences

Excellence in Service Awards

Lea Stewart, Communication, School of Communication and Information

International Impact Award

James Simon, Plant Biology and Pathology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Excellence in Teaching Awards

Siobain Duffy, Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Camilla Stevens, Latino and Caribbean Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

Excellence in Research Awards

Henryk Iwaniec, Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences

Shantenu Jha, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering

Excellence in Service Awards

Emily Allen-Hornblower, Classics, School of Arts and Sciences

Kathleen Scott, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, School of Arts and Sciences

International Impact Award

Mark Gregory Robson, Plant Biology and Pathology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences