15th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony

The Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs is pleased to announce GW’s 15th Annual Faculty Honors Ceremony! 

Please RSVP using the link below and join us to celebrate our distinguished faculty and graduate students!

RSVP HERE

2025 Award Recipients and Honorees

Trachtenberg Prizes

Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, and Economics, CCAS
Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence

Ilana Feldman, Anthropology, History, and International Affairs, ESIA and CCAS
Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Service

Y. Tony Yang, Nursing, and Health Policy and Management, SON and GWSPH
Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Scholarship (Research)
 

Morton A. Bender Teaching Awards 

Kayla Brochu, International Affairs, ESIA

Kartik Venkat Bulusu, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SEAS

Manjari Dimri, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, SMHS

Debra Herrmann, Physician Assistant Studies, SMHS

Shaista Ehsan Khilji, Human and Organizational Learning, and International Affairs, GSEHD and ESIA
 

Philip Amsterdam Graduate Student Teaching Awards

Taisha Blanc, Psychological and Brain Sciences, CCAS

Clara Lucia Mariencheck, Anthropology, CCAS

Marissa Nicole Mowers, Sociology, CCAS

Matthew L. Riemer, American Studies, CCAS
 

Office of the Vice Provost for Research Faculty Awards 

James E. Foster, International Affairs and Economics, ESIA and CCAS
OVPR Distinguished Career Award

Valentina Harizanov, Mathematics, CCAS
OVPR Distinguished Career Award

Xitong Liu, Civil and Environmental Engineering, SEAS
OVPR Early Career Award

Axel Schmidt, Physics, CCAS
OVPR Early Career Award

Adam J. Aviv, Computer Science, SEAS
OVPR Research Mentorship Award

Danmeng Shuai, Civil and Environmental Engineering, SEAS
OVPR Research Mentorship Award
 

GW Inventor of the Year Award 

Neal Sikka, Emergency Medicine, SMHS

GW Early Career Inventor of the Year Award

Cindy Liu, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, GWSPH and SMHS

Writing in the Disciplines Distinguished Teaching Awards 

Robert G. Sutter, International Affairs, ESIA
Joseph P. Dymond WID Distinguished Teaching Award

Christina Fink, International Affairs, ESIA
WID Best Assignment Design Award

Gunan Zhang, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SEAS
WID Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award
 

Gold Anniversary Faculty Awards

These active-status faculty have completed 50 years of continuous full-time service.
 

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Barbara von Barghahn-Calvetti, Art History
 

Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Maxine Freund, Special Education and Disability Studies

School of Business

Ernest Forman, Decision Sciences

Silver Anniversary Faculty Awards

These active-status faculty have completed 25 years of continuous full-time service.

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Sarah Binder, Political Science

Mark Mullen, University Writing Program
 

Elliott School of International Affairs

Hope M. Harrison, History and International Affairs, ESIA and CCAS

Mike Mochizuki, Political Science and International Affairs, ESIA and CCAS
 

Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Richard P. Lanthier, Counseling and Human Development

Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, Counseling and Human Development

Yas A. Nakib, Educational Leadership and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, GSEHD and CCAS
 

GW Law

William Kovacic, Law

Dawn Nunziato, Law

Anne Olesen, Law

Sonia Suter, Law 
 

School of Business

James Bailey, Management

Subhasish Dasgupta, Information Systems and Technology Management

Christopher Jones, Accountancy

Young Hoon Kwak, Decision Sciences

Murat Tarimcilar, Decision Sciences
 

School of Medicine and Health Sciences

David Mendelowitz, Pharmacology and Physiology, and Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

New Emeriti Faculty

These members of the faculty were approved by the Board of Trustees and inducted into the Society of the Emeriti from May 2024 - February 2025. This society was established to maintain close ties between retired faculty members and the university.
 

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Burt Barnow, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration

Joseph Gastwirth, Statistics

Carl Gudenius, Theatre and Dance

Murli Gupta, Mathematics (Posthumous)

Loring Ingraham, Professional Psychology Program

Philip Jacks, Art History

Tom Long, History

Kip Lornell, Music

Arunpal Malik, Economics

Turker Ozdogan, Fine Arts and Art History

Edward Robinson, Mathematics

Lilien Robinson, Art History

Walter Rowe, Forensic Sciences

Nina Seavey, School of Media and Public Affairs

Jane Shore, English

Akos Vertes, Chemistry

Abby Wilkerson, University Writing Program

Maida Withers, Theatre and Dance

Maria Cecilia Zea, Psychologican and Brain Sciences

Phyllis Zhang, East Asian Languages and Literatures
 

College of Professional Studies

James Robinson, Criminal Justice
 

Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Russell Korte, Human and Organizational Learning

Sylvia Marotta-Walters, Counseling and Human Development 
 

GW Law

Donald Clarke, Law

Anne Olesen, Law
 

Milken Institute School of Public Health

Jeanne Jordan, Epidemiology

John Lachin, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Joel Teitelbaum, Health Policy and Management

Dante Verme, Epidemiology

Beverly Westerman, Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
 

School of Business

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Roger Lang, Electrical and Computer Engineering 
 

School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Anita Aggarwal, Medicine

Ira Cohen, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Pediatrics

Harold Frazier, Urology

Richard Jonas, Surgery and Pediatrics

Richard Katz, Medicine and Emergency Medicine

Marshall Summar, Pediatrics

Michael Seneff, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, and Surgery

Alan Wasserman, Medicine
 

School of Nursing

Mary Schumann, Nursing
 

Women's Leadership Program

Mary Buckley, Theatre and Dance