{"id":1435,"date":"2025-11-19T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/facsen\/?page_id=1435"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:47:25","slug":"annual-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/facsen\/annual-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \"><h1>Nominations 2026<\/h1>\n\n<p>Nominations are now open for the 2026 Service Awards! Please use the linked forms to nominate a faculty member for the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScVAm3u9yGyERgGF8nXmKk4FOIh6lCPp15Wl9VNsMOiUG6EFQ\/viewform?usp=publish-editor\">Sheila Black Grubman<\/a> Outstanding Faculty Service Award and the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdzD9SphL7Z4RdYc7Py5rzSZPX4aydPJa0664FROYwfpu4Ofw\/viewform?usp=publish-editor\">Fritz Wenisch Award<\/a> for Exceptional Contributions to the Faculty Senate.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \"><h1>Annual Awards<\/h1>\n\n<p>The 2025 Service Award Winners were announced at the May 1, 2025 Faculty Senate meeting. Congratulations to Kendall Moore, winner of the Sheila Black Grubman Award, and to Mehdi Hossain, winner of the Fritz Wenisch Award! Please join us in showing the gratitude of the URI community for their dedication, commitment, and service!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Faculty Senate\u2019s establishment in 1960 as the agent of the general faculty, elected Senators have served the Institution in matters of teaching, research, curriculum, academic standards and calendars, faculty status, and other systems as they affect the faculty as a whole. Senators value the opportunity to influence the practices and policies through shared governance with the President, University Leadership, and the Board of Trustees. They serve on standing, joint, and special committees as well as attend and participate fully in monthly Senate meetings. Faculty voices are essential to the success of an institution and necessary for academic freedom to flourish. Recognition of exemplary service to URI\u2019s Faculty Senate through active and effective participation in the work of the Senate is made through resolutions, and annual and special awards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sheila Black Grubman Award&nbsp;is an annual award established in 2011 and is awarded jointly by the Faculty Senate and the Office of the Provost to a faculty member who has made important contributions to and dedicated significant time and energy to the Senate. The award includes a $1,000 cash prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fritz Wenisch Award for Exceptional Contributions to the Faculty Senate&nbsp;established in 2019 is awarded by the Faculty Senate annually to a Senator who demonstrates outstanding service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Previous Recipients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"footable_parent_1679\"\n         class=\" footable_parent ninja_table_wrapper loading_ninja_table wp_table_data_press_parent semantic_ui \">\n                <table data-ninja_table_instance=\"ninja_table_instance_0\" data-footable_id=\"1679\" data-filter-delay=\"1000\" aria-label=\"Faculty Senate Awards Recipients\"            id=\"footable_1679\"\n           data-unique_identifier=\"ninja_table_unique_id_2887319875_1679\"\n           class=\" foo-table ninja_footable foo_table_1679 ninja_table_unique_id_2887319875_1679 ui table  ninja_search_right nt_type_legacy_table selectable striped vertical_centered  footable-paging-right ninja_table_pro\">\n                <colgroup>\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_0 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_1 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_2 \">\n                    <\/colgroup>\n        <thead>\n<tr class=\"footable-header\">\n                                                        <th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_0 ninja_clmn_nm_academicyear \">Academic Year<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_1 ninja_clmn_nm_fritzwenischaward \">Fritz Wenisch Award<\/th><th scope=\"col\"  class=\"ninja_column_2 ninja_clmn_nm_sheilablackgrubmanaward \">Sheila Black Grubman Award<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n\n        <tr data-row_id=\"0\" class=\"ninja_table_row_0 nt_row_id_0\">\n            <td>2024-2025<\/td><td>Medhi Hossain<\/td><td>Kendall Moore<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"1\" class=\"ninja_table_row_1 nt_row_id_1\">\n            <td>2023-2024<\/td><td>Lewis Rothstein<\/td><td>Amanda Izenstark<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"2\" class=\"ninja_table_row_2 nt_row_id_2\">\n            <td>2022-2023<\/td><td>William Krieger<\/td><td>Linda Welters<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"3\" class=\"ninja_table_row_3 nt_row_id_3\">\n            <td>2021-2022<\/td><td>Amanda Izenstark<\/td><td>Lynne Derbyshire<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"4\" class=\"ninja_table_row_4 nt_row_id_4\">\n            <td>2020-2021<\/td><td>Laura Meyerson<\/td><td>Michael Rice<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"5\" class=\"ninja_table_row_5 nt_row_id_5\">\n            <td>2019-2020<\/td><td>Audrey Cardany<\/td><td>Art Mead<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"6\" class=\"ninja_table_row_6 nt_row_id_6\">\n            <td>2018-2019<\/td><td>N\/A<\/td><td>Faye Boudreaux-Bartels<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"7\" class=\"ninja_table_row_7 nt_row_id_7\">\n            <td>2017-2018<\/td><td>N\/A<\/td><td>Fritz Wenisch<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"8\" class=\"ninja_table_row_8 nt_row_id_8\">\n            <td>2014-2015<\/td><td>N\/A<\/td><td>Catherine English<\/td>        <\/tr>\n            <tr data-row_id=\"9\" class=\"ninja_table_row_9 nt_row_id_9\">\n            <td>2012-2013<\/td><td>N\/A<\/td><td>Mary MacDonald<\/td>        <\/tr>\n    <\/tbody><!--ninja_tobody_rendering_done-->\n    <\/table>\n    \n    \n    \n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous Recipients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5395,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1435","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/facsen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/facsen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/facsen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/facsen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/facsen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/facsen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/facsen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1435\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/facsen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}