Celebrate experiential, service and teaching award honorees

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On May 11, 2026

Congratulations to the winners and nominees of this year’s Experiential Learning, Service Learning and I Love Your Class awards.

Experiential Learning Award

  • Dr. Md Arifuzzaman, assistant professor of computer science.

Service Learning Award

  • Dr. Joan Schuman, teaching professor of engineering management and systems engineering.

I Love Your Class Award

  • Dr. Marco Cavaglia, professor of physics
  • Dr. Shane Epting, associate professor of philosophy
  • Dr. Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering
  • Dr. Gabriel Nicolosi, assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering
  • Dr. David Samson, associate teaching professor of music and director of bands in arts, languages and philosophy.

Experiential Learning Award nominees

Lana Alagha, Andrew Behrendt, Daryl Beetner, Cynthia Bolon, Eric Bryan, Stephen Casey, Cihan Dagli, Xiaosong Du, Mohamed ElGawady, Maj. Jesse Evans, Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, Samuel Frimpong, Matthew Goldberg, Taylor Gruenloh, Ian Heye, Mia Mohammad Imran, Aditya Kumar, Amaury Lendasse, Jeremy Maurer, Simeon Mistakidis, Mahmoud Moharam, Morgan Nissen, Dev Niyogi, Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe, Daniel Oerther, Ronald J. O’Malley, Smriti Nandan Paul, Henry Pernicka, Kyle Perry, Heath Pickerill, Paul Runnion, Jeff Schramm, Joan Schuman, Bong Chul Seo, Eric Showalter, Pablo Sobrado, Matthew Thimgan, Carol Tohlen, Agnes Vojta, Steve Watkins, Jeffrey Winiarz, Donald Wunsch, Junjie Xiong and Guang Xu.

Service Learning Award nominees

Lana Alagha, Md Arifuzzaman, Joel Burken, Stephen Casey, Cecil Eng Huang Chua, Lynne Davidson, Xiaosong Du, Mohamed ElGawady, Samuel Frimpong, Tyler Glidden, Katherine Grote, Emad Hassan, Kyle Hix, Chulsoon Hwang, Lijun Jiang, Aditya Kumar, Nishant Kumar, Amaury Lendasse, David Lipke, Vadym Mochalin, Mahmoud Moharam, Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe, Kwame Awuah Offei, Ronald J. O’Malley, Smriti Nandan Paul, Jeremiah Rittenhouse, Paul Runnion, David Samson, TSgt Matthew Sasinouski, Jody Seely, Bong Chul Seo, Pablo Sobrado, Pericles Stavropoulos, James Sterling, Theo Sumnicht, Theresa Swift, Jee Ching Wang, David Westenberg, Jeffrey Winiarz, Guang Xu, Maciej Zawodniok and Hongxian Zhang.

I Love Your Class Award nominees

Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan, David Bayless, Aleksandr Chernatynskiy, Xiaosong Du, Hany El-Azab, Jonathan Obrist-Farner, Edna M. Grover-Bisker, Emad Hassan, Amber Henslee, Chen Hou, Irina Ivliyeva, Chris Ketcherside, Nicolas Ali Libre, Suman Kalyan Maity, Warner Meeks, Simeon Mistakidis, Ronald O’Malley, Ann Schlotzhauer, Jeff Schramm, Bijaya Shrestha, John Singler, Joe Stanley, Theo Sumnicht and Agnes Vojta.

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