School of Science and Engineering
Awards
Faculty Awards
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize an untenured, tenure-track faculty member who has both significant research accomplishments at Tulane and demonstrated excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility.
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize an Associate Professor who has both significant research accomplishments and demonstrated excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility.
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize a tenured professor who has both significant research accomplishments and demonstrated excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility.
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize a significant achievement by a team of SSE faculty. This achievement can be in research, teaching, or service.
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize exemplary teaching contributions and innovation, and excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility. Successful nominees will also have demonstrable records of student mentoring. Limited to Assistant Professors and Professors of Practice (Senior Professors of Practice are not eligible).
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize sustained, exemplary teaching contributions and innovation, and excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility. Successful nominees will also have demonstrable records of student mentoring. Limited to Associate Professors and first-term Senior Professors of Practice.
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize sustained, exemplary teaching contributions and innovation and excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility. Successful nominees will also have demonstrable records of student mentoring.
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize faculty who have contributed exceptionally to the mentoring of students, postdocs, or other faculty, outside of didactic teaching. This award is open to both tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty.
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize faculty who display a deep and sustained commitment to outreach and opportunity as an important part of Tulane’s educational mission as demonstrated by academic and outreach programs that show intellectual excellence and inclusion in service, teaching, and scholarship. Open to all faculty.
Staff Awards
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize an early-career staff member who has made exemplary contributions to the mission of SSE. The contribution can be directed towards administration, research, student engagement/teaching, or service/outreach. Limited to staff members with one to five years of service at Tulane and a minimum of one year in their current SSE role.
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize a mid-career staff member who has made exemplary contributions to the mission of SSE. The contribution can be directed towards administration, research, student engagement/teaching, or service/outreach. Limited to staff members with five to ten years of service at Tulane and a minimum of one year in their current SSE role.
Criteria: This award seeks to recognize a staff member who has made outstanding contributions to the mission of SSE over the course of a career. The contribution can be directed towards administration, research, student engagement/teaching, or service/outreach. Limited to staff members with more than ten years of service at Tulane and a minimum of one year in their current SSE role.
Student Awards
2025
Collette Barnor - BME
Toby Mendels - CBE
Kiowa Wells - ENGP
2024
Alyssa Bockman - BME
Hailey Hayes - CBE
Bennett Hermanoff - ENGP
2023
Ajay Raman - BME
Andy Gontko - CBE
Tess Kleanthous - ENGP
2022
Tyler Sweeney - BME
Piper Stevens - CBE
Austin Wolf - ENGP
2021
Carly Harad - BME
Franziska Trautmann - CBE
Robert Johnson - ENGP
2020
Mostafe Meselhe - BME
Arjun Sree Manoj - BME
Hannah Glazier - BME
Dom Casanuovo - CBE
2025
Thomas Morris - BME
Brenda Ellis - CBE
2024
Gabe Kobza - BME
Sophie Slaughter - CBE
Bethwel Tum - ENGP
2023
Meagan Kelly - BME
Eva Gutt - BME
Keefer Boone - BME
Josh Coltrin - CBE
Vanessa Dike - ENGP
2022
Preston Cremer - BME
Iza Pelka - ENGP
2021
Gabriella Becerra - BME
2020
Stephan Hahn - BME
2025
Jude Blouin - BME
Anna Catherine Nussbaum - CBE
Ying Stock-Bordnick - ENGP
2024
Shayne Shelton - BME
Julia Baratta - CBE
Axel Nielsen - ENGP
2023
Sarah Littell - BME
Matthew Geis - CBE
Ben Vasquez - ENGP
2022
Caroline Culp - BME
Ila Keshishian - CBE
Elena Lompado - ENGP
2021
Charles Dranoff - BME
Erick Burgess - CBE
Matt Catalano - ENGP
2020
Chinwe Orie - BME
Emma Rogers - BME
Dyllan Muller - CBE
Claire Davis - ENGP
2025
Noah Phillips - BME
2024
Jane O'Donnell - BME
2023
Anna Lejeune - BME
2022
Nathaniel Ethan Kim - BME
2021
Teagan Cronin - ENGP
2020
Stephanie Zhao - BME
Peyton Gibler - BME
Additional Information
All nominations are to be submitted via the nomination form. Nominations for 2027 will reopen in February 2027. Nomination requirements include:
- Nomination letter with description of the awardee’s key contributions (~500 words)
- Nominee’s CV
Nominations that fail to comply with all relevant submission requirements are subject to rejection without review by the SSE Honors & Awards Committee. Nominations may be initiated by any individual or group of students, staff, or faculty members. However, it is recommended that department/program chairs or appropriate unit committees coordinate the preparation of nominations and supporting materials. It is further recommended that each department/program nominate at most one individual for each award. Members of the SSE Honors & Awards Committee may nominate but will be recused from the discussions and evaluations where there is a conflict of interest.
The Dean, Associate Deans, and Department/Program Chairs of SSE, and members of the SSE Honors & Awards Committee are ineligible for the individual awards. Service in any one of these capacities for part of the academic year during which nominations are made is sufficient to preclude eligibility.
The Dean of SSE and members of the Honors & Awards Committee are ineligible for the Collaborative Team Award. A team will not be excluded from consideration for the Collaborative Team Award if administrators are a part of that team but have not played a leadership role on it. As such, Associate Deans of SSE and Department/Program Chairs are eligible for the Collaborative Team Award if: (a) there are at least two additional members of the team who are not part of the administration; and (b) the administrators who are on the team have not played a leadership role.
Eligibility for any award requires at least a 50% appointment in SSE.
Previous award winners are eligible for the same award. However, nominations of faculty/staff members for an award they have won previously must show evidence of substantial new activity that merits a repeat award.
