Teacher-Scholar Award

Daina Ramey Berry
Department of History

Daina Ramey Berry brings style, rigor, and uncommon energy to classes that range from an innovative, team-taught course about the history of African American music through a series of lecture courses on the history of slavery to graduate research seminars. An honors student calls Berry “easily one of the best professors I have had at Michigan State.”

Kathleen A. Hoag
Medical Technology Program and Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Kathleen A. Hoag delivers class material with passion and leads students to develop confidence in their abilities and themselves. Her knowledge of her science is current and broad, and she conveys it in ways easy for students to assimilate while holding high standards for them.

Punya Mishra
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education

Punya Mishra brings a unique blend of intellectual resources and passion for learning to his teaching and research. He develops a strong sense of community among learners in his courses with unparalleled creativity, openness, and sharp intellect, incorporating creative tools.

Judith M. Whipple
Department of Agricultural Economics

Judith M. Whipple is an enthusiastic and devoted teacher whose comprehensive approach to learning prepares students for success. She ably merges theory and practice to bring real-world experiences and applications into the classroom. These include exposure to cutting-edge theories from her award-winning research.

Rodney T. Whitaker
School of Music

Rodney T. Whitaker is recognized as one of the world’s premiere jazz bass performers and pedagogues. A former member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and member of the Wynton Marsalis Jazz Septet, he has performed throughout the world. At MSU, he has developed a jazz studies program that has made a profound and positive difference.

Antoinette WinklerPrins
Department of Geography

Antoinette WinklerPrins’s engaging teaching style and global vision open up the world for her students in all its complexity and interdependence. Whether at the introductory or graduate level, she challenges students to think critically, using the power of geographic thinking to organize and evaluate complex global, social, economic, and cultural issues.