EMU's best and brightest honored during "Salute to Excellence" Week

It wasn't the Oscars or the Golden Globes but, for Eastern Michigan University, Salute to Excellence Week was a time to celebrate and shine the annual spotlight on its best and brightest faculty, staff and students.

DISTINGUISHED COMPANY: Disintinguished Faculty Awards were handed out during the Faculty Awards Ceremony March 26. Winners are (above, from left) Deanna Mihaly, Teaching I; Kyung Hee Kim, Research I; Megan Endres, Teaching II; Melanie Martin, accepting on behalf of her husband, John Texter, ResearchII; Richard Stahler-Stolk, Service to the University; Kathleen Stacey, Service to the University; and Beili Lui, Creative Activity.

The awards ceremonies included the Graduate Research Fair Awards; the Human Resources Employee Recognition Awards (for years of service to EMU); Student Gold Medallion Awards; the Celebration of Faculty Excellence Awards, which included the Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Awards; the College of Education Salute to Excellence and the Undergraduate Symposium.

"Although we will be honoring a few faculty today, this event is really about all of the faculty in this room," said Don Loppnow, EMU's provost and executive vice president, at the 31st Annual Celebration of Faculty Excellence Award March 26.

Seven Distinguished Faculty Awards — the University's most prestigious for faculty, which were renamed seven years ago to honor the late, former provost Ron Collins — were handed out at the afternoon event. Typically, four awards are given, but Research I and II awards were added to the mix. And, this year, there were two winners in the category of Service to the University.

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