2025 C-I Teaching Award Recipients

In conjuntion with the annual University Faculty Awards hosted by the Office of Academic Affairs, CxC faciliates two awards recognizing faculty members who have contributed to and participated in C-I teaching and learning in impactful ways. Recipients of these awards represent the commitment, dedication, and excellence that define and enable the LSU CxC program to transform teaching, learning, and ultimately, student success.

2025 C-I Teaching & Service Excellence Award (formerly the Outstanding CxC Faculty Award) Recipients

The C-I Teaching & Service Excellence Award recognizes an individual who, through teaching, research, faculty teaching development, or CxC program efforts, engages and champions C-I pedagogy across campus in an exemplary manner. Any LSU faculty member—tenured, tenure-track, or non-tenure track, full or part-time—actively engaged in the CxC program and C-I teaching and learning, and who has not previously received this award, is eligible. Recipients receive a $1,500 award.

• Erin McKinley, Department of Nutrition & Food Sciences, College of Agriculture
• Sadie Wilks, Manship School of Mass Communication

2025 Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Innovative C-I Teacher Award Recipients

The Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Innovative C-I Teacher Award recognizes, inspires, and continues to support innovation in C-I course/assignment design, teaching, assessment/feedback practices, classroom management, and teaching productivity/efficiency/effectiveness. Any LSU faculty member—tenured, tenure-track, or non-tenure track, full or part-time—who has taught a certified C-I course within the past three semesters and has not previously received this award is eligible. Recipients receive a $500 award. This award is named in honor of Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, an internationally recognized scholar of communication-intensive pedagogy and the founder of LSU’s Communication across the Curriculum program. 

• Nolde Alexius, English Department, College of Humanities & Social Sciences
• Naomi Bennett, Communication Studies Department, College of Humanities & Social Sciences
• Soo Jeong Jo, School of Architecture, College of Art & Design

In addition to the recipients of the C-I Teaching & Service Excellence Award and Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Innovative C-I Teacher Award, eight C-I faculty members were honored with 2025 University Faculty Awards.

• Distinguished Faculty Award: Morgan W. Kelly, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science
• LSU Foundation Distinguished Graduate Faculty Teaching Award: Bhuvnesh Bharti, Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
• LSU Foundation Distinguished Graduate Faculty Teaching Award: Sonya Cooke, School of Theatre, College of Music & Dramatic Arts
• LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award: Allison K. Young, School of Art, College of Art & Design
• Ogden Honors College Outstanding Teaching Award: John Protevi, Department of French Studies, College of Humanities & Social Sciences
• George H. Deer Distinguished Teaching Award: Barry Aronhime, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science
• Carruth McGehee Award for Excellent Research by a Junior Faculty Member: Noémie Elgrishi, Department of Chemistry, College of Science
• Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award: Nicholas Totaro, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College of Engineering

View the full list of 2025 University Faculty Award recipients