Odum Award for Excellence
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
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