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. 

2024 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award for an Outstanding Record of Teaching

Congratulations to William Carrigan, History

2023-2024 Frances S. Johnson Junior Faculty Innovative Teaching Award

Congratulations to Sara Wright, Biological & Biomedical Sciences

2024-2025 Frances R. Lax Fund for Faculty Development Winners

Congratulations to the 13 junior faculty members who will be using their $1000 grant for professional development.

2024-2025 Innovations in Teaching Using Technology Grant Winner

Congratulations to the team of Shari Willis, Associate Professor in the Rowan-Virtua Salva School of Nursing and Health Professions; Maria Lepore-Stevens, Assistant Professor in the College of Education; and Tom Fusco, Associate Professor in the College of Performing Arts are the winners of the 2024 Innovations in Teaching Using Technology Grant. Their grant will be used for "Beep Baseball".