Faculty Awards

• Guofang Li wins 2006 National Reading Conference book award
• William Joyce, Canadian Studies Centre, received Award from the Newspaper Association of America Foundation
• Barbara Schneider named Fulbright New Century Scholar
• Christopher Wheeler receives Award of Merit from Vietnam’s Cantho University
• Robbie J. Steward receives 2006 Michigan Counseling Association Diversity Award
• Barbara Markle receives 2006 MEMSPA Educational Leadership Award
• Dorothea Anagnostopoulos won the MSU Teacher-Scholar Award
• Professor Dan Gould won 2005 Citizenship Through Sports Alliance Award.
• Faculty members Marilyn Amey, Crystal Branta, Punya Mishra and Jay Featherstone received the college’s Excellence in Teaching Award
• Jack Schwille won the award for Best Practice for Global and International Teacher Education from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education’s (AACTE)
• Bob Floden received the Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Education from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education’s (AACTE)
• Mary Juzwik received the Promising Researcher Award from the National Council of Teachers of English.
• Joe Codde was named in June to the Inter-national Society for Technology in Education’s international education committee for 2006–08.
• Sandra Crespo won the National Science Foundation’s Early Career Award.
• David Arsen and David Plank earned the Association of Education Service Agency’s E. Robert Stephens Award for outstanding research related to education service agencies.
• Gail Dummer received the Rick Knas Lifetime Achievement Award from the Athletes with Disabilities Hall of Fame.
• University Distinguished Professor William Schmidt was one of only three scholars granted membership this year to the National Academy of Education.
• The book Children's Thinking About Cultural Universals (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2005), co-authored by Jere Brophy and Janet Alleman, is the 2006 recipient of the National Council for the Social Studies' Annual Award for best research contribution of the year.
• The college’s Education Policy Center, headed by Professors Sharif Shakrani and William Schmidt, received the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators Education Fellows Award.
• Anne-Lise Halvorsen received honorable mention (second place) for the University of Michigan School of Education's Stanley Dimond Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2006.
• Crystal Branta recipient of College of Education Excellence in Teaching Award
• Dorinda Carter received 2006 Lilly Teaching Fellow award
• Bob Floden received American Educational Research Association (AERA) Distinguished Service to the Educational Research Community award, for his work as Editor of Review of Research in Education, Vols. 27-28
• Susan Florio-Ruane was elected as President of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy
• Dr. Matthew Diemer, recipient of the 2006 American Counseling Association's Ohana Human Rights Award. This award is in honor of Dr. Diemer's consistent AND exemplary attention to issues of diversity and equity in teaching, scholarship, and service in the profession of Counseling.
• Mary Juzwik recipient of 2006 MSU IRGP Award and Ghoddousi Mentor Award
• Mary Juzwik recipient of 2006 Kussy Scholarship for Study of the Holocaust, James Madison College
• Mary Lundeberg recipient of University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development Distinguished 100 Alumni Award
• Michael Pressley recipient of University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development Distinguished 100 Alumni Award
• Peter Youngs recipient of Outstanding Reviewer Award for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (AERA)
• A book for which Bob Floden, Suzanne Wilson and Peter Youngs, and doctoral student Marco Meniketti wrote two chapters was honored with AACTE’s Outstanding Publication Award.

Staff

• Academic specialist Gertrude (“Trudy”) R. Sykes was honored with the MSU Academic Staff Award.
• Anne Schneller received the MSU Award for Outstanding Service to Study Abroad.
• Sharon Anderson, received the 6th annual Supervisor Recognition Award from the Family Resource Center at MSU’s human resources office

Students

• Steve Backman , Aliah Carolan-Silva and Nils Kauffman, were awarded prestigious Fulbright-Hays scholarships.
• Detta Wilson received MACTE Scholarship.
• Sakeena Ayoub Rasheed Elayad and Annah Molosiwa received Margaret McNamara Fellowships at the World Bank.
• Allison Longton and Lucas VanEtten received the Board of Trustees awards.
• The Children’s Literature Team led by Laura Apol in the department of teacher education received an MSU Emerging Progress Award.
• Two doctoral students, Nancy Lubeski and Rui Niu, received the university’s Homer Higbee International Education Award.
• Doctoral student Emily Bouck was honored with an Excellence-in-Teaching Citation during MSU’s Awards Convocation in February.
• Maria Isabel Dorado received American Counseling Association 's Ross Trust Graduate Scholarship
• Anna Cajiga and Nicholoas Gebauer were selected as one of the nation’s first Ernest F. Hollings Scholars.
• Five MSU students - Mitch Fowler, Benjamin Lorson, Katherine Taylor, Nancy Veltema, and Carnella Hughey - were honored by the Network of Michigan Educators as outstanding teaching interns.

Alumni

• Dan Schab, recipient of the Outstanding Alumni K-12 Teacher Award
• William C. Schewe, recipient of the Outstanding K-12 Alumni Administrator
• John A. Fallon, recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award
• Kellie Dean, a 1982 master’s graduate of the college and an award-winning special education teacher and principal, received the MSU Alumni Association’s Alumni Service Award
• Rene Shingles, a 2001 doctoral graduate and currently an associate professor and program director of the athletic training and education program at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, received the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association Dedicated Service Award.
• Boyce Williams, a 1982 doctoral graduate, and currently the vice president of institutional relations for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, received the association’s Teacher Educators President’s Service Award.
• Diane Spence, a seventh-grade math teacher at Lansing’s Gardner Middle School, received in September a $10,000 award as Wal-Mart’s Michigan Teacher of the Year. Spence received her master’s in education from MSU in 1974 and her bachelor’s degree in education in 1973.
• Georges Bordage, a 1982 doctoral graduate and currently a professor in the department of medical education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, received the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education.
• Karen Myers, a May 2006 graduate with a double major in art education and fine arts, received the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts.
• Harold Bernhardt (BA 48) and his wife Marcia (BA 47, English) received the 2005 Agri-Business Award from the Iron County ( Mich.) Fair Association.
• Amanda L. Baden (PhD 99) was honored as a Congressional Angel in Adoption at a ceremony held by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute in Washington, D.C.
• Kristen Gratten (MA 92) has received National Board Certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
• Barbara Mieras (PhD 90) was one of five people honored by the Michigan Women’s Foundation with its annual Women of Achievement and Courage Award.
• Loukia Sarroub (PhD 00) received National Reading Conference’s Frye Distinguished Book Award for 2005 for her book, All-American Yemeni Girls (University of Pennsylvania Press).
• James Banks (MA 67/PhD 69) received the MSU Alumni Association’s highest honor at its Grand Awards ceremony in October.
• Brian Hawkins (BS 70/MA 72) was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award.