Journalism Faculty Awards

2019

• Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research, AEJMC. Esther Thorson
• Best of Festival Award, Faculty Sports Competition, Broadcast Education Association: A Meeting at Home. Mike Castellucci 
• Best of Festival Award, Student Interactive Multimedia Competition, Broadcast Education Association. Master’s Project: American Hurt: Vietnam Veteran Portraits & Perspectives. Tara Mesyn 
• Best of Competition, Feature News Reporting, Broadcast Education Association. Answer the Call. Mike Castellucci

2018

• National College Media Association Newspaper Advising Award, AEJMC. Carol Terracina Hartman

2017

• G.I.F.T. - Great Ideas for Teaching Students Award: “Grading the Audience: An Exercise to Engage Students During Oral Presentations.” Serena Carpenter
• MiCC 2017 Innovations in Community Impact Award. Jeremy Steele & Crain Michigan State University Detroit High School Journalism program.  
• Macomb Immigrant Service Center "E Pluribus Unum" Lifetime Achievement Award. Joe Grimm 
• 2017 Outstanding Woman in Journalism and Mass Communication Education, Commission on the Status of Women, AEJMC. Lucinda Davenport
• International Communication Teaching Award: Bias Busters guide on “100 Questions & Answers About Immigrants to the U.S.” Joe Grimm & Dawn Pysarchik
• Dissertation Award, Mass Communication and Society: “Revisiting the Brazilian Paradox: Journalists’ Attitudes Toward Left and Right-Leaning Protests,” (also won at ICA). Rachel Mourao
• Top Faculty Paper, Scholastic Journalism: “Students’ Experiences in an Environmental Journalism Master’s Program: An Application of Knowledge-Based Journalism Principles.” Bruno Takahashi & Perry Parks
• 2017 Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award, AEJMC. Esther Thorson 
• Research Award & Grant, Mass Communication and Society: “Modeling community information needs, perceptions of crime, and attitudes toward the police.” Brendan Watson
• Creative Competition, Visual Communication Division: “Faces of Flint” and “Hubert, His Story” both tied for first place. Geri Alumit Zeldes
• Student Awards Program Gene Burd Dissertation Award for “From Mass to Elite Protests: How Journalists Covered the 2013 and 2015 Demonstrations in Brazil,” sponsored by the ICA Journalism Studies Division- Rachel Mourao.
• Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award - Esther Thorson
• Faculty Impact Award- Joanne Gerstner
• MSU Alumni Club of Mid-Michigan Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award - Karl Gude
• MSU Civic Engagement and Service Learning Award- Dave Poulson
• Remmi award at the Worldfest Houston Independent Film Festival for Missing Moon Rocks - Troy Hale

2016

• MSU Undergrad Research Faculty Mentor of the Year – Howard Bossen
• First place URAF in Digital Oral Presentation for Flint H20 – Maria Braganini and Kelley Waterfall
• Emmy for Long form Non-Fiction 2016 College/University Student Production Awards for “Unchecking the Box” – Gabriela Saldivia

2015

• Creative Works Showcase Award from the Visual Communication Division of AEJMC – Howard Bossen
• First Place, Best Research Poster, Participatory Journalism Interest Group (AEJMC) – Serena Carpenter
• Neuroscience Fellow, Jacobs Foundation Zurich, Switzerland 2015-16 – Joanane Gerstner
• Faculty Impact Award – Steve Lacy
• Excellence in outreach and education, The International Association of Great Lakes Research – David Poulson
• Creative Works Showcase Award, “The Living History Project: Stories Told by Michigan’s Oldest Old.”, Sponsored by the Visual Communication division, AEJMC Conference – Geri Zeldes
• Teal Ribbon Award from MSU’s Counseling Center Sexual Assault Program for mentoring Every Two Minutes, a documentary film about sexual assault on university campuses – Geri Zeldes
• Creative Works Showcase Award, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, “One Community, One Week, Many Faiths” – Eric Freedman & Howard Bossen
• Creative Works Showcase Award, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, “The Living History Project”- Eric Freedman, Geri Zeldes
• Best of Festival BEA award – Collin Krizmanich
• MAB awards – First place – Max Gun, Daniel Hamburg, Aaron Jordan, Tyler Clifford
• Sportswriter of the Year award – Joe Grimm

2014

• G.I.F.T – Great Ideas for Teaching Students Award. “Teaching visual communication by having students critically analyze their presentation of self.” National Communication Association – Serena Carpenter
• Teach-A-Thon Award. “Transmedia storytelling.” The National Journalism Interactive conference held a competition on innovative teaching ideas that benefit journalism educators – Serena Carpenter
• Top Panel, Curriculum, Assessment, & Administration division. Broadcast Education Association conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2014. –Serena Carpenter
• 2014 Leadership Award. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication AEJMC, International Communication Division – Manuel Chavez
• High-Impact Scholar Award, School of Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin – Steve Lacy
• Global Innovation Fellow, Michigan State University – David Poulson
• Distinguished Poster Award. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security – Rick Wash
• U.S Government Special Award - Lead Artist, Latino Virtual Museum, Interactive Media Project, Smithsonian Latino Center – Stacey Fox
• Muslim American Community Council “Truth in Media” award – Joe Grimm
• Michigan State University Excellence in Diversity award – Joe Grimm
• 2013-14 Service Award, Michigan State University Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement – Jeremy Steele
• SPJ Excellence in Journalism award for New Special/Documentary, “U.S. v. Narciso Perez & the Press" – Geri Zeldes, Alyssa Firth
• MAB first place award for Daily Newscast/Sportscast – Daniel Hamburg, Alex Barhorst, Greg Monahan

2013

• Deakin University Thinker-in-Residence, Burwood, Australia – Steve Lacy