External Faculty Honors and Awards
The College of Education is home to Award Winning faculty. In addition to numerous internal college and university-level awards, the following faculty members are recipients of prestigious regional, national, and international honors and awards, as listed below.
2023-2024
Paul Asunda
- Fulbright US Scholar Award to Kenya
- U.S. Department of State
- See press release
Jasmine Begeske
- VSA Peter J. Geisser Special Needs Art Educator of the Year Award
- National Art Education Association (NAEA), The Council for Exceptional Children
Virak Chan
- 2023 Best of the Best in Higher Education Award
- Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL)
Victoria Lowell
- 2023 Emerging Learning Technologies Award (2nd place)
- Association of Educational Communications and Technologies (AECT), Division of Emerging Learning Technologies
Anne Traynor
- Fulbright Specialist Award to Colombia
- U.S. Department of State
2022-2023
View 2022-2023 Awards
Jasmine Begeske
- 2022 President’s Award for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Service to the Organization
- Art Education Association of Indiana (AEAI)
- 2023 Community Partner Award
- Wabash Center, Lafayette, Indiana
- 2023 Outstanding Dissertation Award
- United States Society for Education Through Art (USSEA)
Luke Bennett
- 2023 Trendsetter – Bronze International Distance Learning Award
- United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
Virak Chan
- 2023 James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning.
- The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF)
- See press release
Janine Duncan
- 2023 Distinguished Service Award
- American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS)
- See press release
Adrie Koehler
- 2023 Best Paper Award (2nd place) Award
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
- 2023 Trendsetter – Bronze International Distance Learning Award
- United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
- 2023 Best Paper Award
- American Education Research Association (AERA), Online Teaching and Learning SIG
- 2022 Reimagine Education Award – Gold Winner for North America Region
- Reimagine Education & the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Victoria Lowell
- 2023 Best Practice Award
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
- See press release
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
- 2023 Outstanding Design Case Award
- American Educational Research Association (AERA), Design & Technology SIG
Sarah LaRose
- 2022 Postsecondary Professional of the Year
- National Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)
- See press release
- National Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)
- 2022 Educator Award
- North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA)
Yukiko Maeda
- 2021 Paper of the Year
- Journal for the Education of the Gifted
Muhsin Menekse
- 2022 Research Worth Reading Award
- National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST)
- 2022 Honorable Mention – William Elgin Wickenden Award
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Nathan Mentzer
- 2022 Reimagine Education Award – Gold Winner for North America Region
- Reimagine Education & the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- 2023 Best Paper Award (2nd place) Award
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Tim Newby
- 2023 Trendsetter – Bronze International Distance Learning Award
- United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
Nielsen Pereira
- 2022 Marcia L. Gentry Special Populations Early Career Award
- National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
- 2021 Paper of the Year
- Journal for the Education of the Gifted
Jennifer Richardson
- 2022 Best Paper Award
- American Education Research Association (AERA), Online Teaching and Learning SIG
- 2022 Mildred B. and Charles A. Wedemeyer Award for Outstanding Scholar in Distance Education
- University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)
Jennifer Smith
- 2022-2023 Outstanding Professor of the Year
- Indiana Council for Exceptional Children (INCEC)
- See press release
Wayne E. Wright
- 2023 James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning
- The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF)
- See press release
2021-2022
View 2021-2022 Awards
Brenda Capobianco
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award – Ireland
- U.S. Department of State
- See press release
Adrie Koehler
- 2021 Accepted Student Proposal Award
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Outstanding Research & Theory Division
- 2021 Technology Team Honorable Mention
- Northwest Managers of Educational Technology, Northwest eLearn, and eLearning Consortium of Colorado
Rebekah Hammack
- 2021 Outstanding Early Career Scholar Award
- School Science and Mathematics Association (SSMA)
- 2022 Best Paper Award V: Implications of Research for Educational Practice
- The Association for Science Teacher Educators (ASTE)
Wanju Huang
- 2022 Excellence in Teaching Award
- University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)
- See press release
- University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)
- 2021 Central Region Excellence in Teaching Award
- University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)
- 2021 Central Region Excellence in Instructional Design Award
- University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)
Victoria Lowell
- 2021 Presidential Special Service Award
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
- 2022 Journal Article (Application-Based) Award (2nd place)
- Association of Educational Communications and Technologies (AECT), Division of Distance Learning
Jennifer Richardson
- 2021 Central Region Excellence in Instructional Design Award
- University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)
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