Commerce Bank and W. T. Kemper Foundation Undergraduate Outstanding Teaching Awards
The purpose of these awards is to recognize excellence in teaching performance in the undergraduate program and to provide an incentive to achieve that goal.
There are four $5,000 awards made each year for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
- One award is made each year in the College of Arts and Sciences.
- The other three awards are rotated each year among six of the other colleges (Veterinary Medicine and Technology and Aviation are excluded), with three colleges making the awards one year and the other three the following year (i.e., Even Academic Years: Architecture, Planning & Design; Arts & Sciences; Business Administration; Engineering; Odd Academic Years: Arts & Sciences; Education; Health & Human Sciences).
Nomination packets are due by February 15.
Guidelines
The final selections for these awards are made at the college level, and all teachers are eligible. It is recommended that once an individual is selected to receive this award, that person should not be considered for a second award.
The selections for the awards are solicited from students, faculty and administrators. Nominations are submitted to the dean of the college in which the teacher is appointed. In order to be considered, the nominee must provide student evaluations from at least two but not more than three undergraduate classes that he or she has taught within the last three semesters. The student evaluations should be those obtained by participating in the program conducted by the Teaching and Learning Center. It is the responsibility of the college deans to notify all nominees in their colleges of this requirement.
Recipients of the Commerce Bank and W. T. Kemper Foundation Undergraduate Outstanding Teaching Awards
| Name | Year | Department | College | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Alford | 2024 | Architecture | Architecture, Planning & Design | Associate Professor |
| Julie Keen | 2024 | Architectural Engineering and Construction Science | Engineering | Professor |
| Ryan Rafferty | 2024 | Chemistry | Arts & Sciences | Associate Professor |
| Brandon Savage | 2024 | Management | Business Administration | Instructor |
| Kristin Anders | 2023 | Applied Human Sciences | Health & Human Sciences | Assistant Professor |
| Tonnie Martinez | 2023 | Curriculum & Instruction | Education | Assistant Professor |
| Tom Sarmiento | 2023 | English | Arts & Sciences | Associate Professor |
| Jonathan Ulmer | 2023 | Communications & Agricultural Education | Agriculture | Professor |
| Ronald Brockhoff | 2022 | Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering | Engineering | Teaching Assistant Professor |
| Michael Grogan | 2022 | Architecture | Architecture, Planning & Design | Professor |
| Brianne Heidbreder | 2022 | Political Science | Arts & Sciences | Associate Professor |
| Michael (Mike) Krush | 2022 | Marketing | Business Administration | Associate Professor |
| Kevin J. Donnelly | 2021 | Agronomy | Agriculture | Professor |
| Amelia Hicks | 2021 | Philosophy | Arts & Sciences | Assistant Professor |
| Nicole Meritt | 2021 | Special Education, Counseling & Student Affairs | Education | Instructor |
| Linda Yarrow | 2021 | Food, Nutrition, Dietetics & Health | Health & Human Sciences | Assistant Professor |
| Douglas Dow | 2020 | Art | Arts & Sciences | Professor |
| Jessica Heir Stamm | 2020 | Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering | Engineering | Associate Professor |
| Katrina Lewis | 2020 | Interior Architecture & Industrial Design | Architecture, Planning & Design | Associate Professor |
| Doug Walker | 2020 | Marketing | Business Administration | Associate Professor |
| Elizabeth Yeager | 2019 | Agricultural Economics | Agriculture | Associate Professor |
| Marcella Reekie | 2019 | English | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| Jessica Nelson | 2019 | Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs | Education | Instructor |
| Steven Copp | 2019 | Kinesiology | Human Ecology | Assistant Professor |
| Bruce Babin | 2018 | Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering | Engineering | Instructor |
| Genevieve Baudoin | 2018 | Architecture | Architecture, Planning & Design | Assistant Professor |
| J.J. Brotton | 2018 | Marketing | Business Administration | Instructor |
| Daniel Kuester | 2018 | Economics | Arts & Sciences | Assistant Professor |
| Bradley Burenheide | 2017 | Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Associate Professor |
| Sabri Ciftci | 2017 | Political Science | Arts & Sciences | Associate Professor |
| Cathie Lavis | 2017 | Horticulture and Natural Resources | Agriculture | Associate Professor |
| Bryan Orthel | 2017 | Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design | Human Ecology | Assistant Professor |
| Nathaniel Birkhead | 2016 | Political Science | Arts & Sciences | Assistant Professor |
| Huston Gibson | 2016 | Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning | Architecture, Planning & Design | Assistant Professor |
| Chad Jackson | 2016 | Management | Business Administration | Director |
| Kevin Wanklyn | 2016 | Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering | Engineering | Instructor |
| Christian Larson | 2015 | Kinesiology | Human Ecology | Instructor |
| Ashley Rhodes | 2015 | Biology | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| Laura Tietjen | 2015 | Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Instructor |
| Shannon Washburn | 2015 | Communications and Agricultural Education | Agriculture | Professor |
| Todd Easton | 2014 | Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering | Engineering | Associate Professor |
| Dann Fisher | 2014 | Accounting | Business Administration | Professor |
| David Richter-O'Connell | 2014 | Interior Architecture & Product Design | Architecture, Planning & Design | Assistant Professor |
| Donald Saucier | 2014 | Psychological Sciences | Arts & Sciences | Associate Professor |
| Debra Andres | 2013 | Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Instructor |
| Laura Kanost | 2013 | Modern Languages | Arts and Sciences | Assistant Professor |
| David Nichols | 2013 | Animal Sciences and Industry | Agriculture | Professor |
| Kevin Sauer | 2013 | Hospitality Management and Dietetics | Human Ecology | Assistant Professor |
| Tim Bolton | 2012 | Physics | Arts & Sciences | Professor |
| Howard D. Hahn | 2012 | Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning | Architecture, Planning & Design | Assistant Professor |
| Swinder Janda | 2012 | Marketing | Business Administration | Professor |
| Yacoub Najjar | 2012 | Civil Engineering | Engineering | Professor |
| Laurie Curtis | 2011 | Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Assistant Professor |
| Anita Dille | 2011 | Agronomy | Agriculture | Associate Professor |
| Michael Dudek | 2011 | Apparel, Textiles and Interior Design | Human Ecology | Associate Professor |
| Yasmin Patell | 2011 | Chemistry | Arts & Sciences | Assistant Teaching Scholar |
| James DeVault | 2010 | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering | Professor |
| Hamilton Fout | 2010 | Economics | Arts & Sciences | Assistant Professor |
| Scott Hendrix | 2010 | Finance | Business Administration | Professor |
| LaBarbara James Wigfall | 2010 | LARCP | Architecture, Planning & Design | Associate Professor |
| Mary Cain | 2009 | Psychology | Arts & Sciences | Associate Professor |
| David Krishock | 2009 | Grain Science | Agriculture | Instructor |
| Kay Ann Taylor | 2009 | Secondary Education | Education | Associate Professor |
| David E. Thompson | 2009 | Family Studies and Human Services | Human Ecology | Instructor |
| David Andrus | 2008 | Marketing | Business Administration | Professor |
| Robert Condia | 2008 | Architecture | Architecture, Planning & Design | Professor |
| William Kuhn | 2008 | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering | Professor |
| Donald Kimball Smith | 2008 | English | Arts & Sciences | Assistant Professor |
| Gary Pierzynski | 2007 | Agronomy | Agriculture | Professor |
| Dave Rintoul | 2007 | Biology | Arts & Sciences | Assoc. Professor |
| David S. Allen | 2007 | Elementary Education | Education | Asst. Professor |
| Barbara Anderson | 2007 | Apparel, Textiles, & Interior Design | Human Ecology | Asst. Professor |
| Vicky Borchers | 2006 | Interior Architecture and Product Design | Architecture, Planning & Design | Assoc. Professor |
| John Exdell | 2006 | Philosophy | Arts & Sciences | Assoc. Professor |
| Eric Higgins | 2006 | Finance | Business Administration | Assoc. Professor |
| David Pacey | 2006 | Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering | Engineering | Professor |
| Gayle Doll | 2005 | Dean of Human Ecology | Human Ecology | Professor |
| Ata Karim | 2005 | Educational Administration | Education | Asst. Professor |
| Jeffrey Pickering | 2005 | Political Science | Arts & Sciences | Assoc. Professor |
| Greg Zolnerowich | 2005 | Entomology | Agriculture | Asst. Professor |
| Kevin Gwinner | 2004 | Marketing | Business Administration | Assoc. Professor |
| Carl Riblett | 2004 | Architectural Engineering and Construction Science | Engineering | Professor |
| Charles Sanders | 2004 | History | Arts & Sciences | Asst. Professor |
| Susanne Siepl-Coates | 2004 | Architecture | Architecture, Planning & Design | Professor |
| Betsy Barrett | 2003 | HRIMD | Human Ecology | Assoc. Professor |
| Jennifer Bay-Williams | 2003 | Elementary Education | Education | Asst Professor |
| Stephen Chapes | 2003 | Biology | Arts & Sciences | Professor |
| Tim Rozell | 2003 | Animal Sciences & Industry | Agriculture | Assoc. Professor |
| Dennis Day | 2002 | Landscape Architecture | Architecture, Planning & Design | Professor |
| Michael Hafling | 2002 | Architectural Engineering & Construction Science | Engineering | Asst Professor |
| David Poole | 2002 | Arts & Sciences | Kinesiology | Professor |
| Chwen Sheu | 2002 | Business Administration | Management | Assoc Professor |
| Andrew Bennett | 2001 | Mathematics | Arts & Sciences | Assoc Professor |
| Sherry Haar | 2001 | Apparel, Textiles & Interior Design | Human Ecology | Asst Professor |
| Patricia Love-Staver | 2001 | Secondary Education | Education | Asst Professor |
| Janice Swanson | 2001 | Animal Sciences & Industry | Agriculture | Assoc Professor |
| Gary Coates | 2000 | Architecture | Arch, Planning & Design | Professor |
| Kyoko Mizuno | 2000 | Modern languages | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| Medhat Morcos | 2000 | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Engineering | Professor |
| Brian Niehoff | 2000 | Management | Business Administration | Assoc Professor |
| Judy Roe | 1999 | Biology | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Paul Burden | 1999 | Elementary Education | Education | Professor |
| Kristina M. Boone | 1999 | Agricultural Communications | Agriculture | Asst Professor |
| Farrell J. Webb | 1999 | Family Studies & Human Services | Human Ecology | Asst Professor |
| Dave Donnelly | 1998 | Accounting | Business Administration | Professor |
| Paul Ciccantell | 1998 | SASW | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Donald J. Watts | 1998 | Architecture | Arch, Planning & Design | Professor |
| Robert Snell | 1998 | Civil Engineering | Engineering | Professor |
| M. Jenice French | 1997 | Elementary Education | Education | Asst Professor |
| Anne K. Phillips | 1997 | English | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Mary Ward | 1997 | Family Studies & Human Services | Human Ecology | Asst Professor |
| Linda C. Martin | 1997 | Animal Sciences & Industry | Agriculture | Assoc Professor |
| Jodi L. Thierer | 1996 | Marketing | Business Administration | Instructor |
| Christopher Sorensen | 1996 | Physics | Arts & Sciences | Professor |
| Larry A. Glasgow | 1996 | Chemical Engineering | Engineering | Professor |
| Robert E. Burns | 1996 | LA/RCP | Arch, Planning & Design | Asst Professor |
| Lawrence C. Scharmann | 1995 | Secondary Education | Education | Assoc Professor |
| Maria K. Paukstelis | 1995 | Chemistry | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| Elizabeth A. McCullough | 1995 | CTID | Human Ecology | Professor |
| William J. Lamont | 1995 | HFRR | Agriculture | Assoc Professor |
| Roseanne M. Goll | 1994 | Computer Science | Technology | Asst Professor |
| Robert L. Gorton | 1994 | Mechanical Engineering | Engineering | Professor |
| Larry Williams | 1994 | Biology | Arts & Sciences | Assoc Professor |
| Brian P. Niehoff | 1994 | Management | Business Administration | Assoc Professor |
| Wayne M. Charney | 1994 | Architecture | Arch, Planning & Design | Assoc Professor |
| Harald E. L. Prins | 1993 | SASW | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Eric Arn Maatta | 1993 | Chemistry | Arts & Sciences | Professor |
| Carol Ann Holcomb | 1993 | Foods & Nutrition | Human Ecology | Assoc Professor |
| Marjorie R. Hancock | 1993 | Elementary Education | Education | Asst Professor |
| Ted T. Cable | 1993 | HFRR | Agriculture | Assoc Professor |
| Chwen Sheu | 1992 | Management | Business Administration | Asst Professor |
| Richard Gallagher | 1992 | EECE | Engineering | Professor |
| Gene Ernst | 1992 | Architecture | Arch, Planning & Design | Professor |
| John Daly | 1992 | History | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Peggy Dettmer | 1991 | Special Education | Education | Professor |
| Keith D. Lynch | 1991 | HFRR | Agriculture | Assoc Professor |
| Stephen W. Kiefer | 1991 | Psychology | Arts & Sciences | Assoc Professor |
| L. Ann Coulson | 1991 | HDFS | Human Ecology | Asst Professor |
| Thomas B. Muenzenberger | 1990 | Mathematics | Arts & Sciences | Assoc Professor |
| Eugene T. McGraw | 1990 | Interior Architecture | Arch, Planning & Design | Professor |
| Peter B. Cooper | 1990 | Civil Engineering | Engineering | Professor |
| Michael F. Ahern | 1990 | Marketing | Business Administration | Instructor |
| Sharon Hearne | 1989 | HRIMD | Human Ecology | Instructor |
| Paul F. Parsons | 1989 | JMC | Arts & Sciences | Assoc Professor |
| Guy H. Kiracofe | 1989 | Animal Sciences & Industry | Agriculture | Professor |
| Rosemarie J. Deering | 1989 | Curriculum & Instruction | Education | Asst Professor |
| Stephen E. White | 1988 | Geography | Arts & Sciences | Professor |
| William R. Jahnke | 1988 | Architecture | Arch, Planning & Design | Professor |
| Richard E. Faw | 1988 | Nuclear Engineering | Engineering | Professor |
| Dan S. Deines | 1988 | Accounting | Business Administration | Asst Professor |
| Martha Stone | 1987 | Foods & Nutrition | Human Ecology | Assoc Professor |
| Ann Jankovich | 1987 | Adult & Occup Education | Education | Instructor |
| Jeffery R. Williams | 1987 | Agricultural Economics | Agriculture | Assoc Professor |
| Sue M. Zschoche | 1987 | History | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| James B. Townsend | 1986 | Management | Business Administration | Assoc Professor |
| Charles L. Burton | 1986 | Arch Engg & Const Science | Engineering | Professor |
| Kate Anderson | 1986 | Speech | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Clenton Owensby | 1985 | Agronomy | Agriculture | Professor |
| Marlene McComas | 1985 | CTID | Human Ecology | Instructor |
| Kathryn A. Holen | 1985 | Curriculum & Instruction | Education | Asst Professor |
| David Harmes | 1985 | Art | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| Eugene Laughlin | 1984 | Accounting | Business Administration | Professor |
| Robert Page | 1984 | Lanscape Architecture | Arch, Planning & Design | Assoc Professor |
| Muthuraj Vaithianathan | 1984 | Industrial Engineering | Engineering | Asst Professor |
| Douglas Benson | 1984 | Modern Languages | Arts & Sciences | Assoc Professor |
| Gerry L. Posler | 1983 | Agronomy | Agriculture | Professor |
| Bernard M. Frank | 1983 | Admin & Foundations | Education | Asst Professor |
| Patricia Cox Crews | 1983 | CTID | Home Economics | Instructor |
| Robert T. Corum, Jr. | 1983 | Modern Languages | Arts & Sciences | Assoc Professor |
| Roger C. Trenary | 1982 | Economics | Arts & Sciences | Instructor-Temp |
| Candyce Russell | 1982 | Family & Child Development | Home Economics | Assoc Professor |
| Fayez Husseini | 1982 | Pre-Design Professions | Architecture & Design | Asst Prog-Temp |
| Robert D. Hollinger | 1982 | Finance | Business Administration | Assoc Professor |
| Charles R. Bissey | 1982 | Architectural Engineering | Engineering | Assoc Professor |
| Donald C. Stewart | 1981 | English | Arts & Sciences | Professor |
| Bryan W. Schurle | 1981 | Agricultural Economics | Agriculture | Professor |
| Robert C. Newhouse | 1981 | Admin & Foundations | Education | Professor |
| Harold C. Shaver | 1980 | JMC | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Verlyn D. Richards | 1980 | Finance | Business Administration | Professor |
| Edwin C. Lindly | 1980 | Civil Engineering | Engineering | Assoc Professor |
| Edward DeVilbiss | 1980 | Architecture | Architecture & Design | Assoc Professor |
| William C. Nesmith | 1979 | Plant Pathology | Agriculture | Asst Professor |
| Marvin A. Kaiser | 1979 | SASW | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| Roshantha A. Chandraratna | 1978 | Chemistry | Arts & Sciences | GTA |
| Miles R. McKee | 1978 | Animal Sciences & Industry | Agriculture | Professor |
| Albert N. Hamscher III | 1978 | History | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Fred O. Bradley | 1978 | Admin & Foundations | Education | Assoc Professor |
| Faye A. Price | 1977 | Family & Child Development | Home Economics | Instructor |
| Robert J. Shoop | 1977 | Admin & Foundations | Education | Asst Professor |
| Randolph A. Pohlman | 1977 | Business Administration | Business Administration | Asst Professor |
| Thomas S. Parish | 1977 | Admin & Foundations | Education | Assoc Professor |
| Charles R. McDonald | 1976 | Pre-Design Professions | Architecture & Design | Instructor |
| Helen J. Williams | 1976 | English | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Anthony P. Jurich | 1976 | Family & Child Development | Home Economics | Asst Professor |
| Byron T. Burlingham | 1976 | Biology | Arts & Sciences | Assoc Professor |
| Ann Smith | 1975 | Biology | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| Nathan M. Gabbert | 1975 | Surgery & Medicine | Veterinary Medicine | Asst Prof-Temp |
| Paul C. Pelletier | 1975 | SASW | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Ronnie Mahler | 1975 | Health, P.E., & Recreation | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Heinz Bulmahn | 1974 | Modern Languages | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| Shelba Y. Branscum | 1974 | Family & Child Development | Home Economics | Instructor |
| John R. Graham | 1974 | Business Administration | Business Administration | Asst Professor |
| Helen L. Brockman | 1974 | CTID | Home Economics | Professor |
| Joyce Lynn Casten | 1973 | Physics | Arts & Sciences | GTA |
| Judith Love Abraham | 1973 | Art | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| William George Schrenk | 1973 | Chemistry | Arts & Sciences | Professor |
| John Leroy Noordsy | 1973 | Surgery & Medicine | Veterinary Medicine | Professor |
| Joan Newcomer Sistrunk | 1972 | Family & Child Development | Home Economics | Instructor |
| Ann Nash Drish | 1972 | Modern Languages | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| David Elwyn Kromm | 1972 | Geography | Arts & Sciences | Assoc Professor |
| Herschel Thomas Gier | 1972 | Biology | Arts & Sciences | Professor |
| Nancy Ann Riemann | 1971 | Family Economics | Home Economics | Instructor |
| Rodney Truman Nash | 1971 | Mechanical Engineering | Engineering | Instructor |
| Wayne W. Laughery | 1971 | Admin & Foundations | Education | Assoc Professor |
| Richard Glen Hause | 1971 | Curriculum & Instruction | Education | Assoc Professor |
| Jane Black Stockard | 1970 | Business Administration | Business Administration | Instructor |
| Gerald Rick Potts | 1970 | Mechanical Engineering | Engineering | Instructor |
| Karen Kay Stewart | 1970 | Clothing & Textiles | Home Economics | Asst Professor |
| Norman Dean Eckhoff | 1970 | Nuclear Engineering | Engineering | Instructor |
| David John Mugler | 1969 | Dairy & Poultry Science | Agriculture | Instructor |
| Marcelene Betsy Bergen | 1969 | Family & Child Development | Home Economics | Instructor |
| Dan William Upson | 1969 | Physiological Sciences | Veterinary Medicine | Instructor |
| Stephen Jeffrey Golin | 1969 | History | Arts & Sciences | Asst Professor |
| Walter John Butke | 1968 | Architecture | Architecture & Design | Instructor |
| Michael John McCarthy | 1968 | Speech | Arts & Sciences | Instructor |
| Richard E. Owens | 1968 | Curriculum & Instruction | Education | Assoc Professor |
| Robert Dean Linder | 1968 | History | Arts & Sciences | Assoc Professor |