Faculty Awards, Page 2

Portrait: Dong Xu

Xu named Curators’ Distinguished Professor

Mizzou Engineering’s Dong Xu has been named a Curators’ Distinguished Professor, the highest recognition bestowed by the University of Missouri System.

KateFeature

Trauth receives Watershed Management Achievement Award

Mizzou Engineering’s Kate Trauth has received a prestigious award for significant contributions to the field of watershed management.

Portrait: Tojan Rahhal

Rahhal Recipient of 2020 MU Study Abroad Teaching Excellence Award

Tojan Rahhal, assistant dean for inclusive excellence and strategic initiatives and an adjunct professor of Biomedical, Biological and Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering, is among two recipients of the inaugural MU Study Abroad Teaching Excellence Award.

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College Bestows Awards for Faculty, Staff and Students

Although the MU College of Engineering was unable to hold its annual awards banquet in the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the College nevertheless honored faculty, staff and students for their dedication and service to the College.

Shubhra Gangopadhyay and Dong Xu

Two faculty members inducted into AIMBE

Two Mizzou Engineering faculty members have been inducted into an elite organization comprised of 2% of all medical and biological engineers.

Heather Hunt

Hunt Wins National Continuing Educator Award

Mizzou Engineering Associate Prof. and E-Learning Strategic Initiatives Fellow Heather Hunt in the Department of Biomedical, Biological & Chemical Engineering has won the 2020 Adelle F. Robertson Emerging Professional Continuing Educator Award from the University Professional & Continuing Educator Association (UPCEA).

Portrait of Zhiqiang Hu

Hu among MU faculty members named 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Zhiqiang Hu, a professor and former chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering, is one of three MU faculty members named 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Chi-Ren Shyu

Shyu Named AMIA Fellow

Chi-Ren Shyu, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the University of Missouri's Institute for Data Science & Informatics, has been named a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

Nelson Baker and Heather Hunt

Hunt Receives Emerging Professional Continuing Educator Award

Heather Hunt, an associate professor in Biomedical, Biological & Chemical Engineering Department in the the College of Engineering, took home the Adelle F. Robertson Emerging Professional Continuing Educator Award from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA).

Karl Hammond writes on a blackboard.

BBCE’s Hammond lands distinguished Department of Energy award

Only 73 scientists nationwide — 46 at universities and 27 at national laboratories — received awards in September from the Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program, which is “designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years, when many scientists do their most formative work.”