2025 Faculty Awards
President’s Fritz B. Burns Distinguished Teaching Award:
Vandana Thadani, Psychological Science, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Rains Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Works:
Kevin Wetmore, Theatre Arts, College of Communication and Fine Arts
Rains Award for Excellence in Service:
Leon Wiebers, Theatre Arts, College of Communication and Fine Arts
LMU Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award:
Juan Mah y Busch, English and Chicana/o, Latina/o Studies, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
LMU Award for Excellence in Extramural Funding:
Deepa Dabir, Biology, Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering
Term Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award:
Vivian Lezak, Mathematics, Statistics, and Data Science, Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering
Michael Noltemeyer, Rhetorical Arts/CORE, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Part-Time Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award:
Kevin Baldwin, Healthcare Systems Engineering, Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering
Jessica Martinez-Tebbel, Women’s and Gender Studies, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
LMU Ascending Scholar Awards:
Emily Hawkins, Physics, Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering
Romy RW, Communication Studies, College of Communication and Fine Arts
Sarah Emanuel, Theological Studies, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Nathan Chan, Political Science & International Relations, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Retirees
Jennifer Abe
Jeffrey Davis
Nancy Coster
Veronique Flambard-Weisbart
Cheryl Grills
Edmundo Litton
Rafiqul Noorani
Rhonda Rhosen
Virginia Saya
Mark Schwartz
Years of Service
Ten Years of Service:
Shane Acker
Sheri Atwater
Arnab Banerji
Jason D’Mello
Sean Dempsey
Kerstin Fisk
Jason Jarvis
Meng Li
Carla Marcantonio
Katherine Pickert
James Plecnik
Melody Rodari
Hai Tran
Shan Wang
Fifteen Years of Service:
Emily Jarvis
Stephanie Limoncelli
Evelyn McDonnell
Bernadette Musetti
Judy Park
Eliza Rodriguez
Erin Stackle
Eric Strauss
Stephen Ujlaki
Mona Seymour
Sijun Wang
Twenty Years of Service:
Hawley Almstedt
Monica Cabrera
Kam Dahlquist
Franca DellOlio
Emily Fisher
Dorothea Herreiner
Ignacio Higareda
Amir Hussain
Lawrence Kalbers
Jeremy McCallum
Diane Meyer
David Moffet
Martin Nemoianu
Jennifer Pate
Nigel Raab
Jonathan Rothchild
Beth Serlin
Kevin Wetmore
Damon Willick
Twenty-Five Years of Service:
Stacy Burns
Robbie Nakatsu
Rodger Pardee
Kevin Peters
Antonia Petro
Luis Proenca
Patrick Rago
Susan Scheibler
Mark Schwartz
Gabriele Varieschi
Lawrence Wenner
Kennedy Wheatley
Thirty Years of Service:
Phillippa Drennan
Glenn Gebhard
Paul Harris
Mary McCullough
Jeffrey Wilson
Thirty-Five Years of Service:
Kala Seal
Fr. Michael Tang
Forty Years of Service:
Christopher Chapple
Omar Es-Said
Michael Mills