BMI Excellence Award
The BMI Excellence Award was created to recognize the excellence of faculty and staff in all areas and disciplines in terms of research, mentoring, teaching, leadership, and service. This gives colleagues and supervisors a chance to thank their fellow peers by nominating them for the award in whatever category they best fit. The categories typically consist of: Administrative and professional, faculty collaborative research through grant or MOU, staff collaborative research through grant or MOU, faculty teaching, faculty mentoring, faculty research, student research, postdoc research, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for faculty or staff.
BMI Award Committee
The BMI Excellence Award Committee was founded by Department Chair, Dr. Lang Li, and Vice Chair, Dr. Soledad Fernandez, in 2020. Members from faculty, staff, and students are recruited with the suggestions by the department Chair and CFB leadership. Every year, the award committee works together on drafting award guidance for different award types, calling for nominations, reviewing the nominations, and then voting to get awardees.
BMI Award Committee Co-Chairs: Xiaoli Zhang & Dongjun Chung
Diversity Chair: Xia Ning
2023 nominations are now closed!
BMI Excellence Award Recipients
2022
Shanessa Rees, Laura Sullivan - Administrative and Professional service
Courtney Hebert - Faculty Teaching
Qin Ma - Faculty Research
Lai Wei, Soledad Fernandez - Faculty Mentoring
Guy Brock - Faculty Team Science
Cankun Wang - Staff Team Science
Shan Tang, Bo Peng - Graduate Student Research
Neena Thomas - Staff Mentorship and Leadership
Naleef Fareed - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Enhancement (Faculty)
2021
Gabrielle Kokanos - Administrative and Professional
Xiaokui (Molly) Mo - Faculty collaborative research-grant
Jing Zhao - Staff collaborative research-grant
Songzhu (Sonia) Zhao - Staff collaborative research-MOU
King Fai Au - Faculty teaching
Ping Zhang - Faculty mentoring
Xia Ning - Faculty research
Yuzhou Chang - Student research
Aditi Shendre - Postdoc research
Mahmoud Abdel-Rasoul - DEI-staff
Courtney Hebert - DEI-faculty
2020
Neena Thomas - Administrative and Professional Service
Xiaoli Zhang - Faculty team science research-grant
Lai Wei - Faculty team science research-MOU
Greg Young - Staff team science research-grant
Joseph McElroy - Staff team science research-MOU
David Kline - Faculty teaching
Xia Ning - Faculty mentoring
Kin Fai Au - Faculty research
2023 nominations are now closed and pending