BFA Excellence Awards

2024 BFA Excellence Awards Winners Announced!

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:54:19 +0000

2024 BFA Excellence Awards Winners Announced! Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/22/2024 - 13:54

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 Boulder 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

Jason Boardman, Institute of Behavioral Science & Sociology

Joost de Gouw, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences & Chemistry

Rebecca Safran, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Excellence in Teaching

Colene Robinson, CU Law School

.Cosetta Seno French & Italian

Bethany Wilcox, Physics

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BFA Announces 2023 BFA Excellence Awards Winners

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:30:45 +0000

BFA Announces 2023 BFA Excellence Awards Winners Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/09/2023 - 15:30

The Boulder 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

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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Nominations Open for the 2023 BFA Excellence Awards

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Nominations Open for the 2023 BFA Excellence Awards Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 11/02/2022 - 13:29

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

The BFA is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2023 Excellence Awards. The awards specifically recognize outstanding work and a concerted effort to make advances in the academy. The Chancellor provides financial support for these prestigious awards, which will be $5000 beginning in 2023.

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

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 Boulder 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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BFA Announces 2022 BFA Excellence Awards Winners

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 21:48:03 +0000

BFA Announces 2022 BFA Excellence Awards Winners Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/24/2022 - 14:48

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

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 - Update

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:21:49 +0000

2022 BFA Excellence Awards - Update Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/13/2022 - 11:21

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.

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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