LSU Recognizes Outstanding Faculty at
2012 Distinguished Faculty Awards Ceremony

Chancellor Michael Martin; Susan Smolinsky, wife of "Hub" Cotton Award recipient Lawrence Smolinsky; Nathan Crick, Carruth McGehee Award; Kristin Sosnowsky, Brij Mohan Award; Stephanie Kurtz, George Deer Award; Provost Jack Hamilton and LSU Foundation President and CEO Lee Griffin

LSU recognized many of its outstanding faculty members at the 2012 Distinguished Faculty Awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 1, at 4 p.m. in the Lod Cook Alumni Center.

Chancellor Michael Martin was on hand to welcome the award winners, while Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost Jack Hamilton presented the awards and introduced LSU's Boyd Professors, LSU Foundation Professors and LSU Alumni Professors

The LSU Foundation presented Jonathan P. Dowling, College of Science, with the LSU Foundation Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. Several individual awards were presented, including the George H. Deer Distinguished Teaching Award to Stephanie Kurtz, College of Science; the H. M. "Hub" Cotton Award for Faculty Excellence to Lawrence Smolinsky; College of Science; the Brij Mohan Distinguished Professor Award to Kristin Sosnowsky, College of Music & Dramatic Arts; the Carruth McGehee Award for Excellent Research to Nathan Crick, College of Humanities & Social Sciences; and the Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award to Carl Motsenbocker, College of Agriculture.