Honors & Awards
Faculty Distinction Awards
2023-2024 Award Recipients
TBD - Awardees will be added following Faculty Distinction on June 14, 2024.
PAU Tenure and Promotion
Retirement Honors
Provost Above and Beyond Award
Provost Award of Excellence in External Grants and Contracts
Pillar Pioneers Award
Excellence in Teaching Awards
Excellence in Research Award
Excellence in Service Award
Outstanding Contingent Faculty Awards
1 Year of Service
3 Years of Service
5 Years of Service
7 Years of Service
10 Years of Service
15 Years of Service
20 Years of Service
2022-2023 Award Recipients
PAU Tenure and Promotion
Retirement Honors
Provost Above and Beyond Award
Provost Award of Excellence in External Grants and Contracts
Pillar Pioneers Award
Excellence in Teaching Awards
Excellence in Research Award
Excellence in Service Award
Outstanding Contingent Faculty Awards
1 Year of Service
3 Years of Service
5 Years of Service
7 Years of Service
10 Years of Service
15 Years of Service
20 Years of Service
2021-2022 Award Recipients
PAU Tenure and Promotion
Retirement Honors
Provost Above and Beyond Award
Provost Award of Excellence in External Grants and Contracts
Pillar Pioneers Award
Excellence in Teaching Awards
Excellence in Research Award
Excellence in Service Award
Outstanding Contingent Faculty Awards
1 Year of Service
3 Years of Service
5 Years of Service
7 Years of Service
10 Years of Service
15 Years of Service
20 Years of Service
 | Dr. Darlene Chen was awarded a Professional Development Travel Grant for attending the annual International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors conference and presenting Supporting Low-Resource Migrant Families with Online Child-Parent Relational Therapy Training. |  | Dr. Mikael Rubin was awarded an Early Career Investigator Grant for his work on a Multimodal Large Language Models for Mental Health Assessment. |
 | Dr. Eduardo Bunge was awarded a PAU Research Grant for his work on a Software Development-A-Based Chatbot. |  | Dr. Shreya Vaishnav was awarded an International Travel Grant for attending the European Branch of the American Counseling Association. |
 | Dr. Donna Sheperis was awarded a Professional Development Travel Grant for attending the American Counseling Association Conference and collaborating on their accepted program proposal on the ethics of the Counseling Compact. |  | Dr. Rayna Hirst was awarded a Professional Development Travel Grant for traveling to the International Neuropsychological Society conference to present two abstracts. |
 | Dr. Megan Speciale was awarded a Professional Development Travel Grant for attending the American Counseling Association annual conference to co-present their research on LGBTQIA parenting. |  | Dr. Shreya Vaishnav was awarded a Professional Development Travel Grant for attending the National Board of Certified Counselors Symposium and presenting Turning Talk into Action: A Counseling Program’s Commitment to DEIB. |
 | Dr. Amanda Fanniff was awarded a Professional Development Travel Grant for attending the American-Psychology Law Society conference to chair a symposium. |  | Dr. Darlene Chen was awarded a Professional Development Travel Grant for attending the American Counseling Association annual conference. |
 | Dr. Sita Patel was awarded a PAU Research Grant for her work on Creating Safe Spaces for Girls in Nicaragua: Examining the Impact of Fútbol Sin Fronteras. |  | Dr. Amie Haas was awarded a PAU Research Grant for her work on Project FIT: Fentanyl Intervention Tailoring for Residential Drug Treatment. |
 | Dr. Rayna Hirst was awarded a PAU Research Grant for her work on the Sport Concussion Clinical Research Study. |  | Dr. Amanda Fanniff was awarded a PAU Research Grant for her work on Parenting in America: Preparing Children for Interactions with the Police. |