Celebrating College of Sciences 2025 Founders’ Day Awardees
UCF’s annual event celebrates outstanding accomplishments and contributions of employees, faculty, and students
By: Emily Dougherty | March 31, 2025
Student Awards
Order of Pegasus
UCF’s highest student honor, which recognizes new inductees into the Order of Pegasus. Additional awards include graduate honors for exceptional master’s theses and dissertations, undergraduate awards for outstanding honors theses, and individual college awards selected by the respective deans. All honorees receive financial awards.
Dave Austin
Austin Bennett
Nicholas Bruno
Tiffany Dawson
Hannah DeGraw
Nelson Jones
Stephanie Lough
Gabriela Polera
Anderson Rosa
College Founders’ Award
Amanda Lindquist
Outstanding Honors Undergraduate Thesis
Abdulrazak Kalae
Gregory DeCamillis
Maria Ocando Monaco
Outstanding Creative Work
Sylvia McMillon
Faculty Awards
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching University Winner
Christine Hanlon
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching College Winner
Archana Dubey
Christine Hanlon
Michael Mousseau
Karin Chumbimuni Torres
Rani Vajravelu
Excellence in Graduate Teaching College Winner
Jihyun Kim
Excellence in Research College Winner
Xiaohu Xia
20-years Service
Max Croft
Kenneth Fedorka
Yanga Fernandez
Richard Hall
Sally Hastings
Eric Hoffman
Daniel Novatnak
Fernando Rivera
John Rotolo
Zixia Song
Alexandru Tamasan
Ronald Weaver
Harry Weger
25-years Service
Aniket Bhattacharya
Deguang Han
Peter Hancock
Christine Hanlon
Kimberly Renk
Pamela Thomas
30-years Service
Aubrey Jewett
Heath Martin
Marianna Pensky
35-years Service
Clint Bowers
Sudipto Choudhury
Alfons Schulte
40-years Service
Piotr Mikusinski
Bhimsen Shivamoggi
Emeritus/Emerita
Roger Handberg
David Jenkins
Elizabeth A. Klonoff
Pedro Francisco Quintana-Ascencio
Michael Sigman
Cherie Yestrebsky
Retired
Barry Edwards
Shari Hodgson
Steve Jex
Barbara Kinsey
Zuhair Nashed
Pedro Patino Marin
Timothy Sellnow
Michael Sigman
Janan Smither
Ula Stoeckl
Joseph Vasquez
Xin Yan
Staff Awards
Staff Excellence Award Nominee
Kariss Grissom
Zachary Knauer
Jodi Reinhart
5-years Service
Noha Bukatwa
LaNique Chesterfield
Raevaun Clarke
Allison Freitas
Sheila Kramer
Magali Lopez
Patrick Maloney
Gabrielle Martinez
Mirelys Medina
Gabriel Perez-Mercado
Leida Vera Nater
10-years Service
Miriam Beckles
Jennifer Branson
Shena Parks
Alina Stefanov
15-years Service
Elena Sequera
Donna Phillips
25-years Service
Chi Chan
35-years Service
James McCully
Retired
Donna Oppenheim
Karen Reinemund
To view the full list of honorees, please visit the Founder’s Day website.