A "Dave" of All Trades
A senior graduating in global communication with five additional minors receives two prestigious college awards.
Gonzalez, an assciate professor of English was awarded the Giraffe Award, the traditional CHaSS recognization of someone who's taken a risk to improve life for students and the college.
Many CHaSS students, faculty and staff members walked to the stage to accept awards during the 2019 CHaSS Awards Ceremony March 27. Here's a gallery, and a list of awardees:
Legacy Award Nominee |
Frankie Urrutia-Smith |
History |
Kiwanis Award |
Frankie Urrutia-Smith |
History |
Scholar of the Year |
Cassidy Gummersall |
Communication Studies |
Valedictorian |
Morgan Sanford |
English |
Undergraduate Researcher |
Rachael Gulbrandsen |
SSWA |
Graduate Student Instructor of the Year |
Alicia Ingersoll |
SSWA |
Master’s Student Researcher of the Year |
Stacie Denetsosie |
English |
Doctoral Student Researcher of the Year |
Kristen Koci
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SSWA |
True Blue Award |
Stacey Kelly |
Political Science |
Light of Old Main Award |
Barry Harris |
Dean’s Office |
Ed Glatfelter Faculty Service |
Jessica Lucero |
SSWA |
Distinguished Lifetime Service Award |
Leonard Rosenband |
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Faculty Undergraduate Mentor of the Year |
Judson Finley |
SSWA |
Undergraduate Research Mentor |
Michaelann Nelson |
English |
Lecturer of the Year |
Clair Canfield |
LPCS |
Researcher of the Year |
Tammy Proctor |
History |
Teacher of the Year |
Karin deJonge-Kannan |
LPCS |
Codie Bonnin |
General Studies & Interdisciplinary Studies |
Dreyton “DJ” Schafer |
Aerospace Studies |
Alicia Harris |
American Studies |
Madison Vaughn |
Literary Studies |
Morgan Sanford |
English Teaching |
Adrian Thomson |
Creative Writing |
Jessica Nani |
Technical Writing |
Tanner McAlister |
Religious Studies |
Daniel Bertrand |
History |
Tiffany Caruthers |
History Teaching |
Christy Achen |
Agricultural Communication & Journalism |
Zachary Aedo |
Broadcast/Multimedia Journalism |
Matilyn Mortensen |
Print Journalism |
Kellianne Gammill |
Public Relations |
Kellen Bell |
Asian Studies |
Jared Worwood |
Communication Studies |
Iain Laurence |
French |
“Étienne” Raine Owens |
French Teaching |
Judith Korbanka |
German |
Janelle Carter |
German Teaching |
Brian Warnes |
Global Communication |
Jenna Madsen |
Liberal Arts |
Chasen Robbins |
Philosophy |
Remington Lohmeyer |
Portuguese |
Nathan Child |
Spanish |
Allison Johnson |
Spanish Teaching |
Ivanna Fuentes Javier |
Intensive English Language Institute |
Lisa Bourgeois |
Military Science |
Chantelle Gossner |
Political Science |
Hannah Penner |
International Studies |
Kaden McArthur |
Law and Constitutional Studies |
Rachael Gulbrandsen |
Sociology |
Madison Elliott |
Social Work |
Ben Johnson |
Anthropology |
Taylor Dawn Passarella |
Criminal Justice |
Emily Colby |
Utah Public Radio |
Chris Gonzalez |
English |
Founded the Latinx Culture Center |
Rebecca Andersen |
History |
Created a new Public History track for our Master’s program |
Susan Cogan |
History |
Mentorship of medieval trebuchet project |
Deb Jenson |
JCOM |
Modeled independence and self respect |
Clair Canfield |
LPCS |
Improved CMST 1020 Public Speaking |
Ekaterina Arshavskaya |
LPCS |
Worked with International teaching Assistant videos |
Maria Luisa Spicer-Escalante |
LPCS |
Worked with the Dual Language Immersion programs in the state |
Doris McGonagill |
LPCS |
Worked with USU’s Anthropocene conference |
Cacilda Rego, Marcus Brasileiro, Ruby Carvalho |
LPCS |
Created new Portuguese Major |
Ko-Yin Sung, Li Guo, Jasmine Chen |
LPCS |
Annual Chinese New Year celebration and work on the proposal for a new major in Chinese |
Colin Flint |
POLS |
Developed clever initiatives (Aggies GO) and involved with Merrill Scholars initiative |
Yesola Kweon |
POLS |
Leadership in organizing department’s Milton R. Merrill Speaker Series |
Derrik Tollefson |
SSWA |
Developed the I-System Institute |