2026 C-I Teaching Award Recipients
April 20, 2026
In conjunction with the annual LSU Faculty Awards hosted by the Office of Academic Affairs, CxC facilitates 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.
C-I Teaching & Service Excellence 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.
- Roxanne Dill, Journalism, Manship School of Mass Communication
- Vince Wilson, Department of Environmental Sciences, College of the Coast & Environment
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.
- Nihar Sreepada, Public Relations, Manship School of Mass Communication
- Nick Totaro, Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, College of Engineering
- Yao Wang, Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, College of Art & Design
In addition to these five honorees, the following eight C-I Faculty Members are also receiving awards this year:
- Distinguished Faculty Award: James Stoner, Jr., Department of Political Science, College of Humanities & Social Sciences
- LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award: Bhuvnesh Bharti, Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
- LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award: Ashley Mack, Department of Communication Studies, College of Humanities & Social Sciences
- LSU Foundation Distinguished Graduate Faculty Teaching Award: Michael Bibler, Department of English, College of Humanities & Social Sciences
- Brij Mohan Distinguished Professor Award: Fanny Ramirez, Manship School of Mass Communication
- George H. Deer Distinguished Teaching Award: Funda Kizilkaya, Department of Chemistry, College of Science
- Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award: Sadie Wilks, Manship School of Mass Communication
- LSU Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award: Méghan Hodges, Comparative Literature Program, College of Humanities & Social Sciences