KALAMAZOO, Mich.—On Friday, April 19, the College of Health and Human Services will celebrate the accomplishments of staff and faculty with a new set of annual awards. Awards will be presented at the college’s annual All-College Meeting, which will be held at 10 a.m.
The college-level awards are intended to mirror some University-level awards available at Western Michigan University.
The college collected nominations through December and January. In February, nominations were delivered to committees in the college that have responsibilities in these areas. Recipients were chosen by the committees and notified in late-March.
2024 recipients of the CHHS Annual Awards
Distinguished Faculty Scholar
Robert Bensley, Public Health
Distinguished Service
Leesa Jaquays, Social Work and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Jaime Neary, Nursing
Distinguished Teaching
Ashley Brennan, Occupational Therapy
Emerging Scholar
Hyejoon Park, Social Work
DEI Distinction
Individual: Pamela Wadsworth, Nursing
Group: CHHS Information Technology
CHHS Student Awards
Graduate assistant of the year: Jennifer Purrenhage, School of Social Work
Student employee of the year: Mia Kerouac, CHHS student ambassador