Each year the Tippie College of Business recognizes its faculty and staff with collegiate awards for excellence in teaching, research, and service. The 2023 award winners were announced at a ceremony on May 3, 2023 at the Iowa Memorial Union. The awards, criteria, and recipients are listed below.
Faculty and Staff Awards
Tippie Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards
This award recognizes faculty and staff as well as programs, departments, and centers within the college engaged in diversity initiatives during the previous calendar year that have promoted the development of an inclusive, diverse community at Tippie.
2023 Recipients: Kris Arens and Alexandra Nica
Colleen Downie Award
The Colleen Downie Graduate Management Programs Award is given once every two years to a faculty or staff member that makes a recognized, substantial contribution toward enhancing the excellence of the Tippie Graduate Management Programs.
2023 Recipient: Nick Westergaard
Faculty Awards
Early Career Faculty Research Award
This award recognizes a faculty member’s research contributions early in their academic career.
2023 Recipient: Chelsea Galoni
David and Lois Gardner Award for Mid-Career Research Excellence
This award recognizes associate professors who have had two years of outstanding research productivity.
2023 Recipient: Rong Su
Research Impact Award
This award is open to all faculty levels and recognizes a researcher with a paper or stream of papers that have had an exceptional impact on their field.
2023 Recipient: Erik Lie
Career Achievement Award
Recognizes full professors or emeritus full professors and based on exceptional level of productivity and impact across a research career.
2023 Recipients: Gary Gaeth and Johannes Ledolter
Charles A. Taff Research Excellence Award
Recognizes a distinguished research record in one or more of the following areas: economics, logistics, transportation and distribution, computer science, and information systems.
2023 Recipient: Kang Zhao
Collegiate Teaching Award
This award recognizes excellence in teaching.
2023 Recipient (Instructional Track): Alexandra Nica
2023 Recipient (Tenure Track): Jaron Wilde
Graduate Assistant Teaching Award
Award given for the best overall master’s student.
2023 Recipient: Christian Parry
Henry A. Johnson Entrepreneurship Teaching Award
This teaching award recognizes excellence in teaching entrepreneurship and innovation through the Tippie College of Business.
2023 Recipient: Kimm Harris
Innovation in Teaching Award
This award is open to anyone who teaches Tippie students and focuses on an instructor’s use of a particular teaching practice, activity, or technique that advances Tippie’s strategic priorities.
2023 Recipient: Mike Colbert
Distinguished Mentor Award
This award recognizes a faculty member who has provided excellent research guidance, general assistance to graduate students, had an impact on students individually and as a group, and/or assisted students in preparation for career decision making and advancement.
2023 Recipient: Greg Stewart
Outstanding Service Contribution by a Faculty Member Award
This award recognizes outstanding service contribution by a tenure- or non-tenure-track faculty member.
2023 Recipient: Lisa Dutchik
Tippie Public Scholarship Award
This award recognizes excellence in communication about research and scholarship to a general audience directly or via print and electronic media.
2023 Recipient: Anne Villamil
Elected Staff Council Awards
Edith Ennis Award
The Edith Ennis Award is based on the following criteria: a selfless commitment to the college, its constituents, and its mission; accessibility; optimism and cheerfulness; and teaching/service effectiveness.
2023 Recipient: Matsalyn Brown
New Staff Impact Award
This award recognizes new staff members who have made significant contributions to the Tippie College of Business during his or her service and gone above and beyond during his or her limited time in the college. The individuals should also show potential for further contributions to the college.
2023 Recipients: Nathan Davis and Patricia Pothour
Outstanding Staff Contribution Award
This award recognizes someone who demonstrates one or all of the following areas related to the college’s goals, mission, and values. Namely, integrity: demonstrates strong ethics with an air of humility; innovation: develops fresh initiatives, new approaches, or process/task improvements that lead to efficiency or effectiveness; and impact: leaves a lasting influence on the students, faculty, and staff of the Tippie community, going above and beyond the call of duty.
2023 Recipients: Mackenzie DeRoo and Dani Dion
Outstanding Team Contribution Award
This award mirrors the Outstanding Staff Contribution Award but is intended to recognize a team or group of Tippie staff who worked together to impact the college in a positive way, to further its mission, vision, goals, and/or strategic plan.
2023 Recipients: The GMP Off-Campus Student Experience Team (Beth Bewley-Randall, Francine Bryce, Nathan Davis, Chelsea Hillman, Ashley Meincke, Nick Mulholland, Angela Ross, Lisa Smith, and Nicole Vogt).