The College of Natural and Applied Sciences at Missouri State presented its annual faculty and staff awards at a ceremony May 9. The recipients were nominated by their peers or department heads and selected by a faculty committee.

A complete listing is below:

CNAS Excellence in Teaching Award Winners

• Mario Daoust, geography, geology and planning
• Melanie Grand, hospitality and restaurant administration
• Kyoungtae Kim, biology
• Day Ligon, biology
• Brian Weaver, biology
• Michelle Bowe, biology
• Brian High, chemistry
• Linnea Iantria, geography, geology and planning
• Jeff Parmelee, biology

CNAS Excellence in Service Award Winners

• Dan Crafts, hospitality and restaurant administration
• Doug Gouzie, geography, geology and planning
• Brian Greene, biology
• Janice Greene, biology
• Stephanie Hein, hospitality and restaurant administration
• Dimitri Ioannides, geography, geology and planning
• Gigi Saunders, biology
• Abbe Ehlers, hospitality and restaurant administration
• Kathy Hughes, biology
• Kathy Shade, chemistry

CNAS Excellence in Research Award Winners

• Chris Barnhart, biology
• Paul Durham, biology
• Nick Gerasimchuk, chemistry
• Kevin Mickus, geography, geology and planning
• Xiaomin Qiu, geography, geology and planning
• Mike Reed, physics, astronomy and materials science

CNAS Excellence Award – Staff Award Winners

• Tricia Yarckow, hospitality and restaurant administration
• Joni Durden, biology

John Havel, biology, received the Atwood Research and Teaching Award, which is funded by an endowment by Jerry Atwood. Havel is an internationally known research scholar in plankton ecology, biological assessment of water quality and biological invasions of aquatic communities. He will receive a certificate and $1,000 to be spent over the next year on students, research supplies, summer salary or travel. The money will be available at the beginning of the fall semester of 2012.

In addition to these awards, students from the college were able to nominate and select a series of faculty to receive Faculty Excellence Awards.

Faculty Excellence Awards

• Damon Bassett, geography, geology and planning
• Dimitri Ioannides, geography, geology and planning
• Laszlo Kovacs, biology
• Day Ligon, biology
• Mark Richter, chemistry
• Kathy Shade, chemistry