Excellence Awards
The Excellence Awards at MSU celebrates the diversity of accomplishments by our graduate students. Graduating students are nominated by their department and awarded for one of three categories:
Land Grant Excellence: Students who are highly effective in engaging with the community, by sharing and applying new knowledge that is locally relevant and mutually beneficial.
Scholarship Excellence: Students who have created and disseminated new knowledge that significantly advances our understanding of our world.
Teaching Excellence: Students who have made a high impact on undergraduates’ lives by helping them grow in knowledge, skill, and confidence.
Spring 2024 Award Winners
Land Grant
Seamus Hoolahan
Daniel Sierra
Maddison Stephens
Chloe Woodall
Scholarship
Carter Dorsett
Olivia Gorham
Adiesha Liyana Ralalage
Gabryelle Perkins
George Schaible
Teaching
Nikolas Malick
Celie Meier
Darya Lester
Archive
Land Grant Excellence
Gracie Cumley, Business
Simone Durney, Ecology
Colter Mumford, Land Resources & Environmental Sciences
Scholarship Excellence
Matthew Strasbourg, Physics
Teaching Excellence
Brian Kibirige, Agricultural & Technology Education
Debby Greene, American Studies
Land Grant Excellence
Caleb Igo, Agricultural & Technology Education
Gifty Osei, Mathematical Sciences
Josey Ugrin, Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology
Micah Chang, History & Philosophy
Peter Sunden, Nursing
Sasha Loewen, Land Resources & Environmental Sciences
Zachary Maguire, Ecology
Scholarship Excellence
Anna Schenfisch, Mathematical Sciences
Laura Meza, Education
Mackenzie Westphal, Nursing
Teaching Excellence
Cole Buller, Civil Engineering
Elizabeth Green, Education
Katlin Tonkin, Nursing
Land Grant Excellence
Kristie Russette
Ryen Seib
Scholarship Excellence
William Glenny
Devon Payne
Adewale Adeolu
Seth Kane
Olivia Andrus
Madison Foster
Kyle Newman
Teaching Excellence
Bethany MacCarter
Dorukhan Doruk
Eden Manuel
Elijah Meyer
Corbin Lyman
Parker LaCasse
Land Grant Excellence
Ian Anderson
Kaleb Baber
Caitlyn Cayer
Simon Fordyce
Jason Gleason
Faith Quinlisk
Scholarship Excellence
Kara Johnson
Casey Pallister
Zachary Schutte
Christian Stratton
Lucia Williams
Stephanie Wilson
Shahab Zaregarizi
Teaching Excellence
Madison Liechty
Christine Miller
Bryce Neal
Land Grant Excellence
Jill Mackin
Catherine Potts
Scholarship Excellence
Gregory Chorak
Ben Goodheart
Marika McCarthy
Andrew Mullen
Land Grant Excellence
Eric Berry
Katherine Bugni
Jacy Crowley
Gabriel Furshong
Andriana Puchany
Sander Story
Scholarship Excellence
Nicole Andersson
Alecia Besel
Gabriel Bromley
Nathaniel Rieders
Catherine Trainor
Stephen Walsh
Teaching Excellence
Jessica Bone
James Hicks
Laurel McKay
Jordan Meyer-Morey
Elise Reed
Madison Schumacher
Joshua Toft
Land Grant Excellence
Michelle Briggs
Alixandra Elliott
Emma Gamble
Andrew Shulstad
Uta Stuhr
Haley Tupen
Scholarship Excellence
Rehab Al-Kaby
Elizabeth DeFries
David Rice
Teaching Excellence
Perla Alvarenga
Erin Hunt
Cameron McCarty
Moses Obiri
Courtney Tintzman
Brian Turnquist
Land Grant Excellence
Brittany Carnahan
Molly DelCurto
Chelsea Dunshee
Patrick Jeffers
Kyle Paine
Teresa Rivenes
Angela Schell
Allison Theobold
Amanda Williams
Ben Yeoman
Scholarship Excellence
Mohammad AlAzawii
Edwin Allan
Morgan Chamberlin
Cory Counts
Robert Dorsey
Casey Kennedy
Nathaniel Lane
Michael MacDonald
Joshua Meyer
Samuel Micka
William "Buzz" Nanavati
Chance Noffsinger
Scott Tilton
Martha Welander
Teaching Excellence
Rebecca Ayler
Samuel Carlson
Julie Eickman
Mac Gwinner
Madison Hanson
Miranda Margetts
Brynn Okeson
Dylan Proudfoot
Trevor Vannoy