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Past Recipients of the Penn State Award for Faculty Outreach

2012— Dr. Samuel W. Monismith, Associate Professor of Health Education, School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, Penn State Harrisburg

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

2012 — CHANCE, Connecting Humans and Nature Through Conservation Experiences led by Dr. Jacqueline McLaughlin, Associate Professor of Biology,  Founding Director, CHANCE, Penn State Lehigh Valley. View website.

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.