Awards and Recognitons
OS has had much to celebrate in 2015-2016! Our OS community has been making a difference on many fronts, and in
many cases being recognized for our efforts.
Professor Michael Heaney’s 2015 book Party in the Street, has
been designated as one of the ‘Top 25 Books’ for 2015 by Choice:
Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
The 2016 Psychology Faculty Diversity Research Award went
to Professor Arnold Ho, who was recognized for his paper,
“The Nature of Social Dominance Orientation: Theorizing and
Measuring Preferences for Intergroup Inequality Using the New
SDO7 Scale.”
Michael Heaney
Jessica Hasper (OS ‘16) received the LSA Honors Program’s
Virginia Voss Award for exceptional writing in an Honors thesis.
Arnold Ho
Gary King (OS ‘16) won 2nd place in the Sigma Gamma Rho
sorority’s Black Male Highlight awards in November.
Nathan Novaria (OS ‘16) received special recognition in April
for his contributions to the Greek Life Diversity & Inclusion Task
Force.
Jessica Hasper
Alyssa Setting (OS ‘16) received the Michigan Difference Student
Leader “Social Justice” Award in March.
Gary King
Florence Rivkin (OS ‘17) was featured on the Alumni Association
webpage for the blog she wrote while studying abroad in Havana,
Cuba and wrote an article for the NY Times about President
Obama’s visit.
Nadia Weeks (OS ‘16) was picked to be an LSA Dean
Ambassador.
Nathan Novaria
Fourteen members of the OS ‘16 class were inducted into the Phi
Beta Kappa Honors Society.
Alyssa Setting
Congratulations to OS staff members Denise Yekulis for 20 years
of service and to Cathy Philbin for 30 years of service with U-M.
Cathy also won an LSA Staff Spotlight Award.
Melissa Eljamal was recognized as a 2016 finalist for the Robin
Sarris Outstanding Individual Employee Award.
Florence Rivkin
Nadia Weeks
Denise Yekulis and Cathy Philbin
Melissa Eljamal