Faculty Incentive Awards

Each year, faculty are invited to apply for one of the Faculty Incentive Awards.

2025-2026 Award winners:

Congratulations to all recipients of the 2025-2026 Faculty Incentive Awards! 

New Course and Program Development Award:

Justin Golub for his project, “Pre-Professional Pathways at MCLA”

creative civic learning and engagement Award:

Gregory Scheckler for his project, “Pictures within Pictures: Migrations in Time”

creative civic learning and engagement Award:

Lisa Donovan for her project, “Developing an Open Educational Resource (OER) for Community Arts Engagement and Education”

Research Award for Tenure-track faculty:

Samuel Bruun for his project, “Theoretical Framework and Methodology”

Sabbatical Research Award:

Michaela Petrovich for her project, “Reimagining the 17th Century Casket”

Sabbatical Research Award:

Ely Janis for his project, “The Battle of New York: Henry George, Abram Hewitt, Theodore Roosevelt and the 1886 New York City Mayoral Campaign”

Three-Credit Research APR for Spring 2026:

Carter Carter for his project, “Field Theory: Agrarianism and Analysis”

Three-Credit Research APR for Spring 2026:

Daniel Shustack for his project, “Testing predictions of differential migration with a common songbird in western Mass”

Three-Credit Research APR for Spring 2026:

Andrew Best for his project, “Does sweat gland density matter?”

Previous Winners:

2024-2025 Winners

2023-2024 Winners

2022-2023 Winners

2021-2022 Winners

2020-2021 Winners

2019-2020 Winners

2018-2019 Winners

2017-2018 Winners

2016-2017 Winners

2015-2016 Winners

2014-2015 Winners

2012-2013 Winners

2011-2012 Winners

2010-2011 Winners

2009-2010 Winners

2008-2009 Winners