2021 Award Recipients

Follow the link for each award to learn more about this year’s recipients.

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Alexander Prize

• Kristina Gordon

Angie Warren Perkins Award

• Misty Anderson

Charles R. Burchett Extraordinary Contributions to Campus Life

• United Residence Halls Council (URHC)

Dr. Marva Rudolph Diversity and Interculturalism Unit Excellence Award

• Entomology and Plant Pathology Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Extraordinary Campus Leadership and Service

• Arden Gillchrest
• Carmen Danley
• Emily Medford
• Emma Kate Hall
• Farrin Mumpower
• Gustavo Morrice
• Marie Holzer
• Nicole Beautz
• Noah Dandridge
• Sarah D’Onofrio

Extraordinary Community Service (Faculty / Staff)

• Nicole Eggers

Extraordinary Community Service (Students and Student Organizations)

• Shahd Abbas
• Joseph Paschall
• Christina Cho
• Ashley Browning
• Emily Sykes
• Remote Area Medical

Extraordinary Customer Service

• Allyson Graves

Extraordinary Graduate Student Teaching

• Cameron Cook
• Huseyin Kose
• Holland Prior

Extraordinary Service to the University

• Cynthia Tinker

Excellence in Academic Outreach

• Natalie Bumgarner

Excellence in Advising

• Amanda Gandy
• Debbie Mackey
• Kerri Cline
• Megan Haselschwerdt

Excellence in Teaching

• Courtney Wright
• Lauren Whitnah
• Maged Guerguis
• Robert Richardson

Gene Mitchell Gray Pioneer Award

• Elise “Josie” Campbell

Global Catalyst Teaching and Service Award

• Erin Darby

Hardy Liston Jr. Symbol of Hope Award

• Dorian McCoy

Jefferson Prize

• Jessica Grieser

Jimmy and Ileen Cheek Graduate Student Medal of Excellence

• Amanda Hyman

L. R. Hesler Award

• David Keffer

LGBTQ Advocate Award

• Mitsunori Misawa

LGBTQ Student Leadership Award

• Will Martinez

Macebearer

• Thura Mack

Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement

• Elizabeth Derryberry
• Joshua Sangoro
• Garriy Shteynberg
• Jian Liu

Research and Creative Achievement

• Peter Liaw
• Fangxing Li
• Althea Murphy-Price
• Sara Ritchey

Rising UT Woman Award

• Kay Howell
• Mariya Zhuravleva
• Sydney Selman

Success in Multidisciplinary Research

• Healthy Environment team

Top Collegiate Scholars

• See List

Torchbearers

• Maria Urias
• Madison Woods
• Natalie Campbell
• Trey Smith
• Taylor Boyer
• Tyler Young

Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year

• Jennifer Macfie
• Kimberly Gwinn

Undergraduate Researcher of the Year

• Robert Jackson Spurling
• Zachary Orig

Volunteer Spirit 

• Brian Gard
• Dr. Spencer Gregg