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About the Award

The Howard Odum Award for Excellence is the highest recognition the department presents to a graduate student. Award winners have a record of creativity, productivity, and professionalism that holds exceptional promise for a career of distinction. The winner also must have outstanding accomplishments in leadership and the program of study and research.

Recipients

2024 – Katie Furl & Micah Nelson

2023 – Tianhao Zhang

2022 – Tania Cabello-Hutt

2021 – Alexis Dennis

2020 – Iliya Gutin

2019 – George Hayward & David Braudt

2018 – Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt

2017 – Joshua Wassink

2016 – Courtney Boen & Brian Levy

2015 – Hexuan Liu & Charles Seguin

2014 – Mohammad Kadivar

2013 – Tiantian Yang

2012 – Michael Gaddis

2011 – Amy Lucas & Vanesa Ribas

2010 – Shawn Bauldry

2009 – Daniel Adkins & Michele Easter

2008 – Matthew Ezzell, Hedwig Lee & Kyle Longest

2007 – Stephen Vaisey

2006 – Kammi Schmeer

2005 – Kraig Beyerlein & John Hipp

2004 – Cheol Sung-Lee

2003 – Natalia Deeb-Sossa & Stephanie Moller Smith

2002 – Kathryn Harker & Margaret Mueller

2001 – Erin Leahey & Robert Woodberry

2000 – Jennifer Glanville &Leah VanWey

1999 – Jessica Fields & Ray Swisher

1998 – Jim Moody

1997 – Pam Paxton & Hyo-Joung Kim

1996 – Katherine W. Stovel & Arthur Alderson

1995 – Rory M. McVeigh

1994 – Monika Ardelt & Mark E. Van Buren

1993 – Cheryl Sue Elman

1992 – Sara Reynolds Curran & Kent Thomas Redding

1991 – Deanna Lynn Pagnini

1990 – Stephen John Appold & Glenn Donald Deane

1989 – Robert Lawson Boyd & Edward Michael Crenshaw

1988 – Mary Nichols Kolb

1987 – Audrey Vanden Heuval

1986 – Jeanne Stafford Hurlbert

1985 – Jo Ann Jones

1984 – John Frederick Ingersoll

1983 – Karen Eileen Campbell & Valerie Ann Haines

1982 – Roger John Nemeth & David Alden Smith

1981 – Michael David Kennedy

1980 – Trudy Lorena Mills

1979 – Robert Samuel Agnew

1978 – Paul Robert Benson & Edward Leroy Kain

1977 – Lynn Smith-Lovin & Ann Tickamyer

1976 – James Warren Begun

1975 – Timothy L. McDaniel

1974 – Pamela Elaine Oliver

1973 – Lars Bjorn

1972 – Harold George Grasmick

1971 – Karl L. Alexander & W. Parker Frisbie

1970 – John Frederick Long

1969 – Wade Clark Roof

1968 – Michael T. Hannan, Jr.

1967 – Russell L. Curtis, Jr.

1966 – Donald R. Ploch

1965 – John Stephenson

1964 – C. N. Alexander, Jr.

1963 – Nancy L. Gates

1962 – Charles M. Bonjean

1961 – E. Kimbrough, Jr.

1960 – Mark C. Thelin