Faculty and staff awards

Summer 2026 Research Award Program

  1. General procedures
    1. The Summer Research Award Program is designed to enhance the skills and productivity of the faculty participant.
    2. All recipients are required to report the results of their summer research to the supporting unit (with a copy to the Senior Associate Dean’s office) by the end of January 2027.
    3. A written proposal must be submitted to the unit offering the support. The proposal must conform to the guidelines established by the WCB Faculty Research Committee or the offering unit. The guidelines and appropriate forms for college support are available below. The submission deadline date is March 2, 2026.
  2. Source specific information and procedure: Submit proposals to the Senior Associate Dean’s office via email to Ainsley Thomas.
    1. Commitment Research Awards. Several faculty will receive summer support as a result of various commitments including hiring awards. A proposal is required for all Commitment Research Awards as well as a post-activity report.
    2. Competitive Research Awards. The College expects to offer a number of competitive research awards.  The number of awards, which depends on current budgetary outcomes and the number of qualified applicants, will be announced at the award date. Tenured, tenure track, and clinical faculty are eligible to apply. A proposal is required for all Competitive Research Awards as well as a post-activity report.
    3. Award Date and Amount: All awards will be paid in a lump sum in June. The exact date and award amount will be specified with the award notification.
    4. Notwithstanding the above requirements, research awards are not available to faculty members who will not be faculty members in the college for the academic year following the summer of the research award. If a research award payment is made and the faculty member subsequently ceases employment with the college before completing the academic year following the year of award receipt, such research award must be paid back to the College within three months of ceasing employment. If the employment cessation is caused by a short term leave of absence, a visiting position at another university, governmental, or business entity, or something of a similar nature, the faculty member may receive a summer award. However, if the faculty member does not return to the college faculty for the academic year following the return from the leave of absence, any research award must be paid back to the college within three months of the end of the leave of absence.  The college may waive this research award repayment requirement with the approval of the Dean.
    5. All award payments under this program are subject to the availability of college funding and subject to change without notice.

Accounting Teacher of the Year Award

J. Michael Cook Excellence in Teaching Award

J. Michael Cook is the former CEO of Deloitte and a longtime supporter of the Fisher School. He earned his bachelor’s in accounting from the University of Florida in 1964. Named after Cook, the Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Commons in Gerson Hall is the heart of the building. He has been a longtime supporter of excellence in teaching, including the Fisher School teaching award, and he sponsors the American Accounting Association/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize as the foremost recognition of an individual who consistently demonstrates the attributes of a superior teacher in the discipline of accounting.

YearWinner
2025-2026Gabriel Pundrich
2024-2025Dan Rimkus
2023-2024Cindy Dosch
2022-2023Scott Rane
2021-2022Michael Ricci
2020-2021Michael Schadewald
2019-2020Robert Ronald Carnes
2018-2019Michael Mayberry
2017-2018Sonia Singh
2016-2017Jennifer Wu Tucker
2015-2016Christopher Falk
2014-2015Justin Leiby
2013-2014Kathy Rupar
2012-2013Paul Madsen
2011-2012Marcus Kirk
2010-2011Jesse Boyles
2009-2010Charles L. McDonald
2008-2009Deborah Garvin
2007-2008Victoria Dickinson
2006-2007Stephen Asare
2005-2006Doug Snowball
2004-2005Deborah Garvin
2003-2004Gary McGill
2002-2003Stephen Asare
2001-2002Jesse Boyles
2000-2001Hadley Schaefer
1999-2000Doug Snowball
1998-1999W. Robert Knechel
1997-1998Gary McGill
1996-1997Stephen Asare
1995-1996Deborah Garvin
1994-1995Anwer Ahmed