The BFA Excellence Awards specifically recognize outstanding work and a concerted effort to make advances in the academy. The Chancellor provides financial support for these prestigious awards and a ceremony in the spring recognizes the winners and features a keynote by the Hazel Barnes Awardee for that year. This year's ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 18 from 4:30-7pm in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the UMC. Please mark your calendars!

The Â鶹ӰԺ Faculty Assembly is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Excellence Awards Winners

Excellence in Leadership & Service

Valerie McKenzie, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Alastair Norcross, Philosophy

Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work

Rebecca Safran, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Excellence in Teaching

.Cosetta Seno French & Italian

Bethany Wilcox, Physics

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The Â鶹ӰԺ Faculty Assembly is pleased to announce the winners for the 2023 Excellence Awards!

♦Excellence in Leadership & Serivce♦

• Cassandra Brooks, Environmental Studies
• Janet Donavan, Political Science

♦Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work♦

• Meredith Betterton, Physics
• Benjamin Teitelbaum, Music & International Affairs

♦Excellence in Teaching♦

• Nicole V. Jobin, Stories and Societies RAP and History
• Charles Nuttelman, Chemical and Biological Engineering
• Michele Simpson, Philosophy Arts and Culture RAP

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Please join us in congratulating them and see the BFA Excellence Awards page for further details, and information on the 2023 ceremony which will be on April 19, 2023 from 4:30 to 6pm in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the UMC. 

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Excellence Awardees from 2020-2022 with Provost Moore and BFA Chair Beechy

The BFA will grant three awards in each of the following areas:

• Excellence in Leadership and Service
• Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work
• Excellence in Teaching

Nominations

Nominations are open from Tuesday, November 1, 2023, through Tuesday, February 21, 2023. Please see the specific award page for nomination packet requirements and recommendations for letters of support. Nominators/nominating committees are encouraged submit packets several days prior to the deadline for office review.

All members of the Â鶹ӰԺ Faculty Senate are eligible to be nominated however, the selection process gives preference to nominees who have been with the University of Colorado for at least five years. Additionally, nominated faculty must be in good standing with the University to be considered. Although faculty may receive the award for a given category only once, they are eligible to receive awards in either of the other two categories in different years. Nomination packets that are not selected the year of submission, are automatically submitted for one additional year with approval of the nominator/nominating committee.

Excellence Awards Ceremony

Colleagues, family, and friends will honor the recipients at the April 19, 2023, presentation ceremony beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the Glen Miller Ballroom in the UMC. The keynote address given by the 2022 Hazel Barnes Awardee, Mark Ablowitz.

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The BFA is pleased to announce the 2022 Excellence Awardees!

♦Excellence in Leadership & Serivce♦

• Janet Casagrand, Integrative Physiology
• Susan Thomas, Musicology
• Wendy Young, Chemical and Biological Engineering

♦Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work♦

• Marcia Douglas, English
• Michael Hermele, Physics
• Laura Michaelis, Linguistics

♦Excellence in Teaching & Pedagogy♦

• Caroline Conzelman, Global Studies Residential Academic Program
• Rachael Deagman Simonetta, English
• June Gruber, Psychology and Neuroscience

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Please join us in congratulating them and see the BFA Excellence Awards page for further details, and information on the 2022 ceremony which will be on April 11, 2022 from 4:30 to 6pm in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the UMC. 

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2022 BFA Excellence Awards - Deadline Extended to Monday, February 7, 2022

The BFA is pleased to announce that nominations are being accepted for this years’ BFA Excellence Awards. The BFA Excellence Awards specifically recognize outstanding work and a concerted effort to make advances in the academy. Awards are granted in the following areas: Excellence in Leadership and Service; Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy; and Excellence in Research Scholarly, and Creative Work. The deadline for nomination packets has been extended to February 7, 2022. Please see the BFA Excellence Awards webpage for more information.

 BFA Chair Tiffany Beechy sent an update to BFA Assembly Representatives and Liaisons on January 12, 2022. See below:

Dear BFA Reps, 

Best wishes to you all for the beginning of the semester during a hard time.  I wanted to let you know that in response to faculty request, the deadline for submission of nominations for the BFA excellence awards has been extended by a week, to Feb. 7.  I hope this provides a bit of a cushion.  Please see the BFA Excellence Awards page for details, and the links below for nomination packet submission information. 

• Excellence in Leadership and Service
• Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work
• Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy

Thank you for disseminating this extension announcement to your units.  

As always, please let me know if there is anything I or the BFA more generally can do to support you.  

With best regards, 

Tiffany Beechy, BFA Chair

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