Since 2017, Michigan State University has hosted an annual Outreach and Engagement Awards Ceremony. Organized by the Office of University Outreach and Engagement, the ceremony honors and shines a light on exemplary high-quality community-engaged scholarship and university outreach activities through a number of recognitions programs. The awards are a statement that Michigan State University deeply values, encourages, and celebrates the accomplishments of its faculty, staff, students, and partners in community engagement.
2025 MSU Outreach and Engagement Awards Ceremony
March 20, 2025 | 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, Big Ten C
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2025 Award Recipients
Spartan Volunteer Service Awards
- Representative Recipients: Elijah Cole, Lyman Briggs College; Sumaiya Imad, College of Social Science; Amanda Croft-deHagen, College of Human Medicine
2025 Graduate Student Award for Community Engagement Scholarship
- Recipients: Jia Bin, College of Communication Arts and Sciences; Kara Haas, College of Education; Patricia Guillante, College of Engineering
2025 Graduate Student Award for Science Communication and Outreach
- Recipient: Alyssa Saunders, College of Natural Science
2025 Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Service
- Recipient: Empowering Local Communities in Natural Resource Conservation Efforts Through the Michigan Conservation Stewards Program
Bindu Bhakta, Julie Crick, and Georgia Peterson, MSU Extension, with City of Ann Arbor; Natural Area Preservation; Huron-Clinton Metropark Authority; Huron River Watershed Council; Legacy Land Conservancy; Michigan Nature Association; River Raisin Watershed Council; Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy; The Stewardship Network Huron Arbor Cluster; Washtenaw Conservation District; Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission; Washtenaw County Water Resources; University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Garden; University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability
2025 Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Teaching
- Recipient: The Youth Voices Project
Joanne E. Marciano and Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, College of Education, with Edgewood Village Housing Nonprofit
2025 Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Research
- Recipient: An Academia-Industry-Government Partnership That Monitors and Predicts Outbreaks in the Tri-County Detroit Area
Irene Xagoraraki, College of Engineering, with CDM Smith; Detroit Health Department; Detroit Water and Sewerage Department; Great Lakes Water Authority; Macomb County Health Division; Oakland County Health Division
2025 Institutional Champion Award for Community Engagement Scholarship
- Recipient: Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health, College of Human Medicine, with the Flint community
2025 Community Engagement Scholarship Lifetime Achievement Award
- Recipient: Lorraine B. Robbins, College of Nursing
