Outstanding Performers
Our annual Featured Faculty awards honor faculty members for their outstanding performance in research, scholarly activity, creative endeavors, teaching, or engagement. As a quality measure that distinguishes us from other institutions of higher education, the accomplishments of the Featured Faculty illustrate the comprehensive and significant contributions of our faculty in the creation of new knowledge, provoking student curiosity, and scholarship of engagement at Purdue Fort Wayne and beyond.
2024–25 Award Recipients
Featured Faculty: Suining Ding
Featured Faculty: Naomi Gurevich
Featured Faculty: Sarah LeBlanc
Featured Faculty: Michael Kirchner
Featured Faculty: Richard Weiner
2022–23 Award Recipients
Featured Faculty for Teaching/ Librarianship Excellence: John LaMaster
Featured Faculty for Engagement Excellence: Julia Smith
Featured Faculty for Research Excellence: William Sauerland
2021–22 Award Recipients
Featured Faculty for Research Excellence: Steven Cody
Featured Faculty for Service Excellence: Jeannie DiClementi
Featured Faculty for Teaching Excellence: Jeff Casazza
Featured Faculty for Teaching Excellence: Jeong il Cho
Jeff Casaszza
Department of Theatre
Jeong il Cho
Department of Professional Studies
Steven Cody
Department of Fine Arts/Visual Communication
Jeannie DiClementi
Department of Psychology
2019–20 Award Recipients
Andrew Downs
Department of Political Science
Sherrie Stiner
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
2018–19 Award Recipients
Mark Masters
Department of Physics
Irwin Mallin
Department of Communication
Laura Link
School of Education
Jeff Casazza
Department of Theatre2017–18 Award Recipients
Ahmed Mustafa
Department of Biology
Dong Chen
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering