1. Faculty and Staff

Faculty and Staff Awards

Faculty and staff awards will be presented at the annual College of Agricultural Sciences' Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony. These awards include many cash prizes and are only made possible through the generosity of friends of the College. Please consider carefully your staff and colleagues, including those in the county offices and the extension and research centers, as well as state leaders, who deserve recognition through these awards. This is our opportunity to recognize those who are truly deserving!

 

Faculty & Staff Awards Luncheon

The award recipients will be officially announced at the College of Agricultural Sciences Faculty and Staff Awards Luncheon, which will take place on May 28 at 12:00 PM in the Memorial Union Ballroom. Any commemorative and monetary awards will occur at the same time. For questions, please contact Amber Zambrano ([email protected]) in the CAS Dean's Office.

 

Nominations

The base requirements listed below (numbered 1-3) must be submitted for each award nomination. Any additional required materials and award-specific guidance (number 4) can be found on the award's specific web page linked in the table below. 

Nominations should be coordinated through the respective administrative unit, and the nomination letters should be issued by the appropriate unit leaders. Units may submit one nominee for the award categories with one (1) winner and may submit multiple nominees for award categories where there is more than one winner (i.e. CAS Classified Employee and Professional Faculty Award and ARF Research Assistant/Associate Award). 

**Unless otherwise noted on the award website, a nomination packet may be resubmitted for up to two years with the previously submitted letters of support. Other nomination materials (i.e. letter of nomination) should be updated as needed.**

Complete nomination packets (combined into one PDF document) should be emailed to [email protected] no later than 5:00 pm on April 9, 2026. Corrections or updates to nomination packets will not be accepted after the nomination deadline. This packet should include:

  1. A one-paragraph summary of the awardee’s biography, specific to the award they are being nominated for (250 words maximum). This paragraph will be used as a script to be read by the presenter during the awards ceremony.
  2. A nomination letter from the respective unit head, highlighting the nominee’s key contributions relating to the award criteria (maximum of two (2) pages, double-spaced).
    • Inclusive excellence is foundational to our mission as a College, and as a land grant University. The submitted nomination materials, as applicable, should document the nominee's commitment to promoting and enhancing inclusive excellence.
  3. Three supporting letters (no more than two (2) pages, double-spaced).Unless otherwise noted on the individual award web page, supporting letters may come from anyone, inside or outside of OSU, who has intimate knowledge of the work being done by the nominee. 
  4. Award-specific nomination materials, including any additional requirements for the above.

 

Eligibility

The Dean, Associate Deans, Chief Operating Officer, and all other Agricultural Sciences administration personnel are not eligible to receive or contribute to the nomination for an award. Programs may be nominated for applicable awards independent of any participating Agricultural Sciences administration personnel. FSS and RSS team members whose positions primarily support a CAS unit(s) are eligible for nomination.

 

Selection

The award winners will be selected by the College of Agricultural Sciences' Awards Committee, whose members consist of faculty, professional faculty, and classified staff.

 

Award Registry
Agricultural Research Foundation Distinguished Faculty Award Recipients
Agricultural Research Foundation Faculty Research Assistant/Associate Award Recipients
Briskey Award for Faculty Excellence Recipients
College of Agricultural Sciences Award for Excellence in Extension Education Recipients
College of Agricultural Sciences Classified Employee and Professional Faculty Award Recipients
College of Agricultural Sciences Inclusive Excellence Award Recipients
F.E. Price/Agricultural Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research Recipients
F.E. Price/Agricultural Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Student Advising and Counseling Recipients
The James and Mildred Oldfield/E.R. Jackman Team Award Recipients
R. M. Wade Award for Excellence in Teaching/Registry of Distinguished Teachers Recipients: R. M. Wade  Distinguished Teachers 
Roy G. Arnold/Agricultural Research Foundation Leadership Award Recipients
Savery Outstanding Young Faculty Award Recipients
College of Agricultural Sciences Distinguished Career Award Recipients
OSU Advantage/College of Agricultural Sciences Faculty Innovator Award Recipients

College of Agricultural Sciences Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award

 Recipients

 

Registry of Award Winners

 

Information about additional University-wide Faculty Awards can be found on this site.