The College of Education is blessed with many outstanding faculty, staff, and students. Towards this end, each year in the Spring we recognize those faculty and staff that have had an especially good year. In addition, we recognize our students, both graduate and undergraduate, for their overall accomplishments in terms of their academic achievement and in terms of their contributions to our graduate and undergraduate programs. We had an especially stellar class of awardees this year and I must say, I am always proud of the wonderful faculty, staff, and students we have been able to attract to the College of Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Enjoy these photos of the celebration reception for 2009. It is obvious that we had another great year!
Photos of the Event
Full Award Listing
Extraordinary Academic Achievement
- Amy Arneson
- Nicholas Brockman
- Laura Bruner
- Kristin Cooper
- Alice Fletcher
- Reyna Hamlin
- Ashley Kraeuter
- Margaret Norris
- Eryn Lebaube
- Courtney Rockamann
- Kimberly Rudd
- Melissa Schniedermeyer
- Teresa Smith
- Rachel Zerkel
Outstanding Graduate Awars-B.S. in Ed.
- Katherine Reavey – Fall 08
- Amy Arneson – Spring 09
Outstanding Graduate Award – Career Transition
- Dawn Riske-Hoy
Outstanding Student Teacher
- Jennifer Scales – Fall 08
- Patrick Luecke – Spring 09
Outstanding Student Teacher-Post Bac
- Matthew Stumpf – Fall 08
- Tiffany Parker – Spring 09
Outstanding Gradaute – Masters
- Sara Tehan
- Amy Doyle
- Ellen Dillon
- Michelle Rubin
- Sara Elizabeth Luesse
- Brenda Hollrah
- Dena Winkler
Outstanding Graduate-International Graduate
- Larisa Selimovic-Milosavljevic
Outstanding Education Specialist
- Randy Carter
- Karen Harris
- Maria Daesch
Outstanding Doctoral Student – Ph.D.
- Erika Nash
- Dongying Wei
- Jennifer McAfee
- Maria E. Paredes
Outstanding Doctoral Student – Ed.D.
- Danielle Tormala
- Cynthia Billman
Outstanding Staff
- Evon Luckey
Outstanding Faculty
- Angela Coker
- Wendy Saul

I was extremely surprised to see this. I don’t think I was even aware that there were COE awards. Sincere congratulations to all of the recipients. As a student teaching supervisor, however, I was disappointed to see that there were awards for this group. I’ve had both Patrick and Jennifer and they are stellar students. It doesn’t surprise me one bit that they were recognized. However, as a supervisor, I don’t remember even being asked if I had any nominees myself. I also have a number of peers whom I’d love to nominate for the graduate awards. Perhaps we could have a broader nomination process.
Interesting. I wonder how many others are unaware home to nominate. I can’t say that I know how it is done either. I’ll see if the Dean noticed this post.