Faculty Spotlight - Current Grant and Award Winners

2025 President’s Award for Excellence in Innovative Instructional Delivery Winners 

Congratulations to:

The winning individual award went to Megan Bucknum, Geography, Planning, and Sustainability, whose work in City Planning and Education was immersive, collaborative, and beneficial to our local community. 

Winning the team award went to the members of a faculty team in the Department of Family Medicine and the Simulation Center at Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine: Kristin Bertsch, Margarita David, Nils Brolis, Anne Jones, Judith Easley, Schenike Massie-Lambert, Erin Lucas, Marilou Jean-Louis, and Danielle DiPietro. This team’s work in closing the gap in health disparities through standardized patient encounters was both innovative and collaborative. 

2025 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award for an Outstanding Record of Teaching

Congratulations to Yusuf A. Mehta, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

2024-2025 Frances S. Johnson Junior Faculty Innovative Teaching Award

Congratulations to Justin Major, Experiential Engineering Education Department

2025-2026 Frances R. Lax Fund for Faculty Development Winners

Congratulations to the 8 junior faculty members who will be using their $1000 grant for professional development.

2025-2026 Innovations in Teaching Using Technology Grant Winner

Congratulations to Amanda McBride, Biomedical Sciences Department at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University who is the winner of the 2024 Innovations in Teaching Using Technology Grant. Her proposal is titled “Using Interactive Videos to Assist Medical Students with Head and Neck Anatomy Dissections.”