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 staff collaborative research, faculty teaching, faculty mentoring, faculty research, student research and postdoc research.

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: Stacey Culp & Dongjun Chung

Excellence Award Recipients

2024

Maciej Pietrzak - Team Science Research (Faculty)

Changchang Yin - Research (Graduate Student)

Xiaoying Wang - Research (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Mohamed Elsaid - Mentoring (Faculty)

Madison Hyer - Team Science Research (Staff)

Neena Thomas - Administrative and Professional Service

Pamela Thomas - Administrative and Professional Service

Dongjun Chung - Research (Faculty)

Ayse Odabas - Mentorship and Leadership (Staff)

2023

Ryan Norris - Administrative and Professional service

Qin Ma - Faculty Teaching

Naleef Fareed, Brian Searle - Faculty Research

Dongjun Chung - Faculty Mentoring

Neena Thomas - Staff Team Science

Mohamed Elsaid - Faculty Team Science

Jordan Krull - Postdoctoral Research

Ziqi Chen - Graduate Student Research

Ryan Norris - Staff Mentorship and Leadership

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

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

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