2022 University Excellence Awards Recipients

2022 University Excellence Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, April 26, 2022  |  4-5 p.m.
Click here to view all of the 2022 nominees

President’s Distinguished Faculty Awards

Advancing Globalization

• Nicolas Large, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Community Engagement

• Neda Norouzi, Assistant Professor, Architecture

Core Curriculum Teaching

• Rebecca Schroeder, Associate Professor of Instruction, University College

Faculty Mentoring

• Johnelle Sparks, Professor, Demography

Innovation and Impact (I-Squared)

• Explore STEM @ UTSA Team
  • Wei Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science (team lead)
  • Kathy Ewoldt, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
  • Mimi Xie, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
  • Alberto Mestas-Nunez, Associate Professor of Instruction, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Performance, Creative Production or Other Scholarly Achievement

• Tracy Cowden, K. Blumberg Endowed Professor and Department Chair, Music

Research

• Thomas G. Forsthuber, Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Endowed Chair in Biotechnology and Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
• Sandra B. Morissette, Professor and Department Chair, Psychology
• Miltos Alamaniotis, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Willie J. Hale, Assistant Professor, Psychology

Teaching Excellence

• Isabel Muzzio, Professor, Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
• Jelena Todic, Assistant Professor, Social Work
• Eddie Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Integrative Biology and Honors College

University Service

• Sara Oswalt, Professor and Department Chair, Public Health

Richard S. Howe Awards

Richard S. Howe Outstanding Undergraduate Award

• M. Kathryn Brown, Lutcher Brown Endowed Professor, Anthropology

Richard S. Howe Excellence in Service to Undergraduate Students Award

• Gail Taylor, Lecturer, Honors College and Associate Program Director, RISE and MARC programs

President’s Distinguished Diversity Award

• Neda Norouzi, Assistant Professor, Architecture (faculty/staff individual)

• Alpha Martinez-Suarez, Doctoral Candidate & Teaching Assistant II (student individual)

• National Society of Black Engineers (student organization)

• La Raza Faculty, Staff and Administrators Association (faculty/staff team)

  • Belinda Harmon, Senior Director of Communications, P-20 Outreach

  • Sonya Aleman, Associate Professor, Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies

  • Rachel Cruz, Assistant Professor, Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies

  • Mario Flores, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Syvia Mendoza, Assistant Professor, Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies

  • Omar Valerio-Jimenez, Associate Professor, History

University Excellence Staff Awards

Team Spirit Award

• Pandemic Response Team

  • Lauren Beaver, Sr. Director of Strategic Communications

  • Andre Fernandez, Project Manager

  • Kareem Salama, Program Coordinator

  • Jolyn Demarest, Occupational Health Coordinator

  • Elyse Brown, Sr. Communications Specialist

Order of the Roadrunner Award

• Tina Garza, AVP Enrollment, Marketing, Communications and Systems

Leadership Award

• Molly Ralph, Sergeant, UTSA Police Department

Rising Star Award

• Daniel Ramirez-Escobedo, Director of Student Success Center for the College of Science

Extra Mile Award

• Allyn Rede, Senior Administrative Associate