Alumni Awards for Outreach Excellence
Initiated in 1995 as the Public Service Excellence Award, this award recognizes university employees for outstanding outreach accomplishments. In 1999, the Public Service Excellence Award was merged into the Alumni Award for Outreach Excellence and in 2001, the University Outreach Excellence Award was also merged into this award. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by faculty members who have extended the university’s outreach mission throughout the commonwealth, nation, and world. Recipients are nominated by their peers, are awarded a $2,000 cash prize, and are inducted into the university's Academy of Outreach Excellence. In 2004, a team award was added. After team awards commenced, individual award winners are noted; the remaining names form the winning team.
| Individual Awards | |
| 2022 | John Gordon Casali |
| 2021 | Katrina Powell |
| 2020 | Paul Quigley |
| 2019 | |
| 2018 | Richard Crowder |
| 2017 | Randel L. Dymond |
| 2016 | Annie R. Pearce |
| 2015 | Carla Finkielstein |
| 2014 | Mike Rosenzweig |
| 2013 | Shannon Jarrott |
| 2012 | Carl Zipper |
| 2011 | Linda F. Tegarden |
| 2010 | Mary Kasarda, Joyce Latimer (no team nominations, two individual awards were given) |
| 2009 | Nikki Giovanni |
| 2008 | E. Thomas Ewing |
| 2007 | Llyn Sharp |
| 2006 | Doris Zallen |
| 2005 | L. Leon Geyer |
| 2004 | Howard Feiertag |
| 2003 | Laurence Carstensen |
| 2002 | E. Scott Geller |
| 2001 | C. Wayne Patty |
| Team Awards | |
| 2022 | Center for Educational Networks and Impacts |
| 2021 | Virginia Tech Urban Computing Team |
| 2020 | Angela Scarpa and Jennifer Pollard Scott |
| 2019 | Patricia Raun and Carolyn Kroehler |
| 2018 | ICAT Team: Benjamin Knapp, Donna Raines, Holly Williams, Melissa Wyers |
| 2017 | Raffaella De Vita and Alexander Leonessa |
| 2016 | The Flint Water Study Team: undergraduate students, Madeleine Brouse, Margaret Carolan, Sara Chergaoui, Matthew Dowdle, Kim Hughes, Rebecca Jones, and Alison Vick; graduate students, Christian Devine, Emily Garner, Catherine Grey, Pan Ji, Anurag Mantha, Rebekah Martin, Jake Metch, Victoria Nystrom, Kelsey Pieper, Colin Richards, William Rhoads, Siddhartha Roy, Laurel Strom, Owen Strom, Min Tang, and Ni Zhu; Post-docs/research Scientists, Brandi Clark, Dongjuan Dai, Sheldon Masters, Jeffrey Parks, Kelsey Pieper, David Schwake, and Fei Wang; Principal Investigators, Marc Edwards, Amy Pruden, and Joseph Falkinham |
| 2015 | Lara Browning, Elizabeth Gilboy |
| 2014 | Shamindri Arachchige, Karen J. Brewer |
| 2013 | Virginia Cooperative Extension: John W. Blankenship, Jr., Robert R. Meadows, Jocelyn D. Dailey, Glenda M. Snyder, Brian L. Hairston, Tonya T. Price, Jeremy T. Johnson |
| 2012 | No team award issued |
| 2011 | Elizabeth T. Gilboy and Andrew McCoy |
| 2010 | No team nominations received |
| 2009 | Center for Watershed Studies: Brian Benham, Kevin Brannan, Theo Dillaha, Conrad Heatwole, Sang Min Kim, Karen Kline, Saied Mostaghimi, Mary Leigh Wolfe, Gene Yagow, Rebecca Zeckoski |
| 2008 | Community Design Assistance Center: Terri Fisher, Elizabeth T. Gilboy, Maxine Lyons, Kim Steika |
| 2007 | Virginia Tech Women’s Center Outreach Effort: Penny Cook, Anna LoMascolo, Jessie Meltsner |
| 2006 | Virginia Tech’s Intergenerational Program, Neighbors Growing Together: Shannon Jarrott, Vickie Fu, Alison Galway, Ila Schepisi, Kate Milne, Cynthia Smith, Karen Gallagher |
| 2005 | Fralin Biotechnology Center Outreach Team: Kristi DeCourcy, Erin Dolan |
| 2004 | Barbara B. Bunn, Gary L. Long |
| 2000† | Gregory D. Boardman, Harold A. Kurstedt Jr. |
| 1999 | No awards issued |
| 1998* | R. Michael Chandler |
| 1997* | W. Dee Whittier |
| 1996* | Clifford W. Randall |
| 1995* | Waldon R. Kerns, D. G. Larsen |
*Public Service Excellence Award
†University Outreach Excellence Award