Past Alumni Award Winners

• Randal A. Lutz (2023)
• Silver Francis Oonyu (2023)
• Marilyn Hoyson, PhD (2022)
• David A. Squires, PhD (2022)
• Isabel L. Beck, PhD (2021)
• Linda Rose Frank, PhD, MSN, FAAN (2021)
• Mary Ann Watson, PhD (2020)
• Chris Groark (2019)
• Julius Kitutu (2019)
• Carol O’Donnell (2018)
• Karen VanderVen, PhD (2017)
• Renée K. Goldman, EdD (2016)
• Rita M. Bean, PhD (2016)
• Carol McGrevin, PhD (2015)
• R. Rudy Filek, PhD (2014)
• Richard Goldman, PhD (2013)
• Andrew R. Hughey, PhD (2012)
• Kathleen Mary Huebner, PhD (2011)
• Gwendolyn Cartledge, PhD (2010)
• Lizanne DeStefano, PhD (2009)
• Nancy R. Bunt, EdD (2008)
• Richard L. Welsh, PhD (2008)
• Susan Albrecht, PhD (2007)
• Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD (1999)
• Jerlean E. Daniel, PhD (1997)
• George S. Morrison, EdD (1997)
• Doreen E. Boyce, PhD (1996)
• Richard L. Ferguson, PhD (1996)
• Donald M. Carroll, Jr., MEd (1995)
• Carol A. Cartwright, PhD (1994)
• Helen S. Faison, PhD (1994)
• Nick J. Staresinic, PhD (1994)
• John N. Mangieri, PhD (1992)

• Nikki Cristobal (2023)
• Aaron Thomas (2023)
• Adan J. Alvarez, PhD (2022)
• Kalani M. Palmer, PhD (2022)
• Seth A. Creasy, PhD (2021)
• Jasmine D. Williams, PhD (2021)
• Treg Campbell (2020)
• Ira Murray (2019)
• Kakenya Ntaiya, PhD (2018)
• Mandi Davis Skerbetz, EdD (2017)
• Timothy Wagner, EdD (2017)
• Susan M. Hicks, PhD (posthumous) (2016)
• Lauren A. Silverstein, PhD (2015)
• Francesca Amati, PhD (2014)
• Katie Clark Patterson, MEd (2014)
• Christine Carnevali, MAT (2013)
• Thomas E. Platt, EdD (2012)
• Michael P. Lucas, EdD (2011)
• Fabio Fontana, PhD (2010)
• Carena Sue Winters, PhD (2009)
• Veronica I. Ent, EdD (2008)
• Patricia A. Pierce, PhD (2007)

• Marlon J. Mussington, Sr. (2023)
• Kenda L. Hammer, MEd (2022)
• Virginia R. Hill, EdD (2021)
• Janet Marie Sardon, EdD (2021)
• William Hale Kerr, Jr., EdD (2020)
• Timothy Hetrich (2019)
• Bart Rocco (2018)
• Mary Catherine Reljac, EdD (2017)
• Tracy L. Vitale, EdD (2016)
• Brian White, EdD (2015)
• Brent Johnson, MEd (2014)
• Pamela Armstrong, EdD (2013)
• Jeffrey D. Derda, MAT (2011)
• Mark A. Miller, MEd (2011)
• Kathleen Harrington, EdD (2010)
• Paula Ann Calabrese, PhD (2009)
• Regina B. Holley, PhD (2008)

Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy

• Roberta L. Schomburg (2023)
• Barbara S. Stengel, PhD (2022)

Department of Health and Human Development

• Dennis Floyd Jones (2023)
• Lynn Dale Housner, PhD (2022)

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading

• Chantee L. Earl (2023)
• Davonia D. Bryant, MAT (2022)

Former Department Awards

The academic departments at the Pitt School of Education were restructured in 2021. The Departmental Distinguished Alumni Award recipients from 2007-2021 are listed below.

Department of Instruction and Learning

• Rebecca S. Pringle (2021)
• Gary R. Snyder, EdD (2020)
• Tsipy Gur (2019)
• Judith Summerfield (2018)
• Diane Pomeroy Wormsley, PhD (2017)
• JoAnne E. Burley, PhD (2016)
• Kay Alicyn Ferrell, PhD (2015)
• Sean McComb (2014)
• Beverly K. Michael, PhD (2013)
• Jacqueline Lee Dempsey, PhD (2012)
• Walt A. Stoy, PhD (2011)
• Mary Cataldi, EdD (2010)
• Richard David Wertheimer, EdD (2009)
• Richard P. Mathews, MEd (2007)

Department of Health and Physical Activity

• Niall M. Moyna, PhD, FACSM, FFPHMI (2021)
• Reed Humphrey (2020)
• Robert Spina (2019)
• Jennifer Pintar (2018)
• Enzo Cafarelli, PhD (posthumous, 2017)
• John R. Tomayko, PhD (2016)
• Andrea M. Kriska, PhD (2015)
• Robert Robertson, PhD (2014)
• Alan C. Utter, PhD (2013)
• Patricia A. Nixon, PhD (2012)
• Carl J. Caspersen, PhD (2011)
• Paul Morgan Ribisl, PhD (2010)
• Stella Lucia Volpe, PhD (2009)
• Donna Sanft, MEd (2008)
• Kent B. Pandolf, PhD (2007)

Department of Administrative and Policy Studies

• Mary Catherine Reljac, EdD (2021)
• Alphonse DeSena, PhD (2020)
• Patrick O’Toole (2019)
• Amy Pfender (2018)
• Donna L. Imhoff, PhD (2017)
• Gloria P. Hill, PhD (2016)
• Erica Kolat, EdD (2015)
• Cynthia Reed, EdD (2014)
• Carol Wooten, EdD (2013)
• S. Allen Condeluci, PhD (2012)
• Gregg S. Margolis, PhD (2011)
• Maria Eugenia Piantanida, PhD (2010)
• Namgi Park, PhD (2009)
• Charlene Mickens Dukes, EdD (2008)
• Yidan Wang, PhD (2007)

Department of Psychology in Education

• Cynthia J. Popovich, EdD (2021)
• Leon E. Wiles (2020)
• Matthew Fasano-McCarron (2019)
• Denise Esposto (2018)
• Michelle Figlar (2017)
• Bernard E. Beidel, MEd (2016)
• Hedda Sharapan, MS (2015)
• Antoinette Y. Farmer, PhD (2014)
• Natalie Kaplan, MEd (2013)
• Pamela Moss, PhD (2012)
• Jennifer Engel, MS (2011)
• Larry Irwin Edelman, MS (2010)
• Richard C. Carney, MS (2009)
• James E. Hughes, PhD (2009)
• Dr. Dale H. Curry, PhD (2008)
• Merle D. Griff, PhD (2008)
• Sister Madeleine Rybicki, MS (2008)

• Yuan Gao (2023)
• Sendi Judith Estrada (2022)
• Sarah E. Kurz (2021)
• Ashley Shafer (2020)
• Paulette Vincent-Ruz (2019)
• Qiana Lightner-Lachaud (2018)
• Jasmine D. Williams (2017)
• Ida Chavoshan (2016)
• Everett Herman (2015)
• Joshua Childs (2014)
• Aaron Kessler (2013)
• April A. Mattix (2012)
• Christina L. Scanlon (2011)
• Jorge E. Delgado (2010)
• Chantee McBride (2009)
• Francesca Amati (2008)
• Wendy M. Sink (2007)

Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award

• Emily Rose Korn Koren (2023)
• Rachel Anne Schles, PhD (2021)
• Lauren E. Moran, EdD (2020)
• Eben B. Witherspoon, PhD (2020)
• Ross Higashi, PhD (2019)
• Stacy Kehoe, PhD (2018)
• Anita M. Schuchardt, PhD (2017)
• Laura Northrop, PhD (2017)
• Joshua Childs, PhD (2016)
• Lisa Brahms, PhD (2015)
• Miray Tekkumru Kisa, PhD (2014)

Outstanding EdD Dissertation Award

• Julie Schultz (2023)
• Christian Alberto, EdD (2022)
• Julia Adele Cavallo, EdD (2021)
• Elizabeth LaGamba, EdD (2019)
• Tracy Driver, EdD (2018)
• Joseph McCormick, EdD (2016)