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Past Recipients of the Penn State Award for Faculty Outreach

2011— Dr. Collins Airhihenbuwa, Professor and Head of the Department of Biobehavioral Health, College of Health and Human Development

2010 — Dr. Karen Bierman, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, College of the Liberal Arts, and Director of the Child Study Center

2009 — Dr. Robert P. Brooks, Professor of Geography and Ecology, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and Director of the Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center.

2008 — Dr. Eugene Lengerich, Professor of Public Health Sciences, Family and Community Medicine, and Health Policy and Administration, Director of Community Outreach and Education, Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute

2007 — Dr. Barbara Sims, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, School of Public Affairs, Penn State Harrisburg

2006 — Dr.Charles Abdalla, Associate Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, College of Agricultural Sciences

2005 — Dr. James A. Pawelczyk, Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Physiology, The College of Health and Human Development

2004 — Dr. Cheryl A. Dellasega, Associate Professor of Humanities, and Chair of the Arts, Healing and Humanities Committee of The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine, College of Medicine

2003 — Dr. Mark T. Greenberg, Bennett Chair in Prevention Research and Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, The College of Health and Human Development

2002 — Dr. Audrey Maretzki, Professor of Food Science, College of Agricultural Sciences

2001 — Dr. Keith Verner, Chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics and Learning, College of Medicine

2000 — Dr. Lakshman Yapa, Associate Professor of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

1999 — Dr. James Van Horn, Professor of Rural Sociology, College of Agricultural Sciences

1998 — Dr. Jawaid Haider, Professor of Architecture, College of Arts and Architecture

Past Recipients of the Penn State Community Engagement and Scholarship Award

2011 — The Pittsburgh Studio: Regenerative Design in Stressed Communities, Led by Ken Tamminga, College of Arts and Architecture. View video.

2010 — Drug Resistance Strategies Project, which features the keepin' it REAL Curriculum, led by Dr. Michael Hecht and Dr. Michelle Miller-Day of the College of the Liberal Arts. View video.

2009 — Northern Appalachia Cancer Network: Changing Cancer Research, Changing People’s Lives — Led by Dr. Eugene Lengerich, College of Medicine. View video.

2008 — Rethinking Urban Poverty: The Philadelphia Field Project — Led by Dr. Lakshman Yapa, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. View video.