Ryan Award - Past Recipients
2024 Award Recipient
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Director-Founder of the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic (CBESA), Department of Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Mame-Fatou Niang is charting a new path in pedagogy that is pushing boundaries in higher education. Her work brings students into the process of creating, learning and educating as she prioritizes their voices and thoughts. Dr. Niang exemplifies the highest standards of student mentorship, seamlessly integrating her research and teaching, via both creative and research projects generating high-impact learning experiences that integrate multiple mediums and student perspectives as thought and learning partners. As an educator, she thoughtfully and innovatively blends technologies, mediums, pedagogical approaches, and challenging societal issues that cut across her students’ interests in the humanities, social sciences and STEM.
Past Recipients
2023
College of Fine Arts
2019
Mathematical Sciences
2016
J. Andrew Bagnell
Robotics Institute and Deparment of Modern Languages
2015
Rebecca Nugent
Deparment of Statistics & Data Science
2014
Anne Mundell
School of Drama
2013
John F. Mackey
Deparment of Mathematical Sciences
2012
Yueming Yu
Deparment of Modern Languages
2011
Bruce Armitage
Deparment of Chemistry
2010
Paul S. Fischbeck
Departments of Social and Decision Sciences and Engineering and Public Policy
2009
Cliff I. Davidson
Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy
2008
Curtis A. Meyer
Department of Physics
2007
Gordon Rule
Department of Biological Sciences
2006
Mark Mentzer
School of Design
2005
Karen Stump
Department of Chemistry
2004
Steve Rudich
Department of Computer Science
2003
Peggy Knapp
Department of English
2002
Laura Lee
School of Architecture
2001
Natalie Baker-Shirer
School of Drama
2000
Patricia Bellan-Gillen
School of Art
1999
Jim Daniels
Department of English
1998
Thomas Ferguson
Department of Physics
1997
Steve Klepper
Department of Social and Decision Sciences
1996
Michael West
Department of Modern Languages
1995
John L. Woolford
Department of Biological Sciences
1994
Lawrence Cartwright
Department of Civil Engineering
1992
Christian Hallstein
Department of Modern Languages
1991
Linda R. Kauffman
Department of Biological Sciences
1990
Margaret Clark
Department of Psychology
Jack Schaeffer
Department of Mathematical Sciences
1989
Helmut Vogel
Department of Physics
1988
Richard Schoenwald
Department of History
1987
Joel B. Greenhouse
Department of Statistics
1986
Ludwig Schaefer
Department of History
Edmond Ko
Department of Chemical Engineering
1985
Elisabeth Orion
School of Drama
William J. Hrusa
Department of Mathematical Sciences
1984
Myung S. Jhon
Department of Chemical Engineering
1983
Michael P. Weber
Departments of History and Philosophy
1982
Robert W. Kraemer
Department of Physics
1981
Barbara J.B. Anderson
School of Drama
1980
James F. Hoburg
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Granville H. Jones
Department of English
1979
Robert A. Eisenstein
Department of Physics
1978
Helen Gossard
School of Music
1977
Irving H. Bartlett
Departments of History and Philosophy
1976
David T. Tuma
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
1975
Charles H. Van Dyke
Department of Chemistry
1974
Edward L. Cussler
Department of Chemical Engineering
1973
Herbert T. Olds
School of Art
1972
Gladys Schmitt
Department of English
1971
Robert W. Dunlap
Departments of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
1970
James H. Korn
Department of Psychology
1969
Richard A. Moore
Department of Mathematical Sciences
1968
Beekman W. Cottrell
Department of English
1967
Oleta Benn
School of Music
1966
Robert R. Rothfus
Department of Chemical Engineering
1965
Hugh D. Young
Department of Physics
1964
Edwin Fenton
Departments of History and Philosophy
1963
Sam Rosenberg
School of Art
1962
Borden Hoover
Department of Mathematical Sciences
1961
A. Fred Sochatoff
Department of English