Faculty Recognition

We are proud of the faculty at USU Statewide Campuses. The quality of instruction and the impact of your work provide tremendous value to our students and communities. Please share with us any grants, awards, and research happenings to help spread the word about your work.

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Awards

John Barton

Principal Lecturer
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Uintah Basin
History Department

Department Lecturer of the Year

Sunshine Brosi

Associate Professor 
SJ and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Eastern
Wildland Resources Department

College Faculty University Service Award

Evey Gannaway Dalton

Assistant Professor
College of Science | Eastern
Geosciences Department

Department Teacher of the Year

 

Hannah Lewis

Professional Practice Assistant Professor
College of Science | Eastern
Mathematics & Statistics Department

Department Faculty University Service Award

 

Rachel Turner

Assistant Professor
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Eastern
Teacher Education and Leadership Department

Department Teacher of the Year
College Teacher of the Year



Clinton Behunin

Lecturer
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Blanding
Communication Studies & Philosophy Department

Department Lecturer of the Year

Mark Chynoweth

Associate Professor 
SJ and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Uintah Basin
Wildland Resources Department

College Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year

 
Brian Droubay

Assistant Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Brigham City
Social Work Department

Department Graduate Faculty Mentor
College Graduate Faculty Mentor


Robert Mueller

Associate Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Tooele
History Department

Department Teacher of the Year


Katherine Vela

Assistant Professor
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Eastern
Teacher Education and Leadership Department

Department Undergraduate Faculty Mentor of the Year






Charlie Bayles

Clinical Associate Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Blanding
Social Work Department

Department Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year
College Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year

Bruce Boucher

Professional MHR Program Director / Lecturer
Jon M. Huntsman School of Business | Salt Lake
Management Department

Department Teacher of the Year

Sunshine Brosi

Associate Professor
S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Eastern
Wildland Resources Department

College Undergraduate Faculty Mentor of the Year

Noel A. Carmack

Associate Professor
Caine College of the Arts | Eastern
Arts and Design Department

College Faculty University Service Award

Mike Christiansen

Associate Professor
College of Science | Uintah Basin
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department

USU Uintah Basin Outstanding Faculty of the Year

Amanda Deliman

Assistant Professor
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Salt Lake
Teacher Education and Leadership Department

Department Teacher of the Year

College Teacher of the Year

Maria Givler

Clinical Assistant Professor
College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Salt Lake
Dietetics Program

Outstanding Dietetic Education in the Graduate Program Category from Nutrition and Dietetics NDEP West Coast Region

Vonda Jump

Associate Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Brigham City
Social Work Department

Lifetime Achievement Award from the Utah Association for Infant Mental Health

Steven Merrell

Adjunct Instructor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Uintah Basin
English Department

Department Adjunct Instructor of the Year

Gustavo Ovando-Montejo

Assistant Professor
S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources | Blanding
Environment and Society Department

College Teacher of the Year

Jason Olsen

Associate Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Eastern
English Department

Department Researcher of the Year

Lacie Peterson

Clinical Associate Professor / Director of Dietetics Internship
College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences | Salt Lake
Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences Department

Department Faculty University Service Award

Jeremy Rickets

Lecturer
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Eastern
English Department

Department Lecturer of the Year

Jason Twede

Associate Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences| Tooele
Sociology Department

USU Tooele Outstanding Faculty of the Year

Rachel Turner

Assistant Professor
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services | Eastern
Teacher Education and Leadership Department

Department Graduate Teacher of the Year

Becky Williams

Associate Professor
College of Science | Uintah Basin
Biology Department

USU Uintah Basin Outstanding Researcher of the Year

 

 

Grants

Don Busenbark

Senior Lecturer / Assistant Head of Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Statewide Campuses
Mathematics & Statistics | Uintah Basin
  • 2024-2030: National Science Foundation Noyce Grant: “Community Impact with Teacher Leaders in Data Science and Math Modeling”: $3,000,000
    • (Senior Personnel): Provides comprehensive support and training for Master Teaching Fellows to enable them to become local teacher-leaders in mathematical modeling and data science and bring learning opportunities in these blossoming fields to students in rural Utah.

Amanda Deliman

Assistant Professor
Teacher Education & Leadership | Salt Lake
  • 2024-2025: Teaching with Primary Sources Western Regional Grant: "Exploring Worlds Within Pages: Enhancing Elementary Social Studies and Language Arts through Primary Sources and Children's Literature". $25,000
  • 2024-2026: Spencer Foundation Education Grant: "I can't teach that: The determinants of curriculum and instructional choices of elementary Social Studies teachers in the age of declining teacher autonomy". $49,995

Colleen Jones

Lead Researcher
Bingham Research Center | Uintah Basin
  • 2024-2025: Utah Public Lands Initiative. Cattail Control Management Strategies on Utah’s Public Lands. $42.465
  • 2023-2026: Collaborative Research: Verification of Atmospheric Mercury Redox Reaction Rates. Colleen P. Jones and Seth Lyman. National Science Foundation. $584,512 

Seth Lyman

Associate Professor / Research Professor and Director
Bingham Research Center | Uintah Basin
  • 2021-2024: Uinta Basin Air Quality Research. Funded in annual contracts by Uintah Special Service District 1 (formerly Uintah Impact Mitigation Special Service District). $1,000,000
  • 2023-2026: Methane Emissions from Energy Production to Consumption: multiscale test bed in the Uinta and Salt Lake Basins. Funded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. $73,361
  • 2023-2026: Collaborative Research: Verification of Atmospheric Mercury Redox Reaction Rates. Co-investigator with Colleen Jones, USU, as lead investigator. Funded by National Science Foundation. $585,000
  • 2021-2024: Collaborative Research: Development of a Better Understanding of Ambient Reactive Mercury Chemistry. Funded by National Science Foundation. $403,000
  • 2024-2027: Uinta-Piceance Basin Carbon Management and Community Engagement Partnership. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. University of Utah is prime awardee. $363,000
  • 2024-2026: Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity. Oversight and management of grantees for the Air and Water Innovations Grant Program. $30,000

Brooke Osborne

Assistant Professor
Environment and Society | Moab
  • 2023-2028: S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Science: “Incorporating above- and below ground carbon into terrestrial dryland state and transition models to better understand, predict, and manage for carbon”: $492,749
    • (PI): Proposed research to provide novel, actionable science in partnership with the NRCS to directly address ongoing management questions related to carbon sequestration.
  • 2022-2028: Bureau of Land Management, Rangeland Management Program: $250,000
    • (Co-PI): Collaborative effort to inventory and scale soil carbon stocks on Utah’s BLM lands and identify management practices to sequester carbon and increase forage and drought resiliency. This work aims to help build a framework with which the U.S. can sequester carbon on public lands.

Tim Riesen

Research Assistant Professor / Director of Research and Training
Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice | Salt Lake

Marla Robertson

Associate Professor
Teacher Education and Leadership | Uintah Basin
  • 2024-2025: Teaching with Primary Sources Western Regional Grant: "Exploring Worlds Within Pages: Enhancing Elementary Social Studies and Language Arts through Primary Sources and Children's Literature": $25,000

Eric Rowley

Clinical Professor / Director of the Utah Mathematics Endorsement Project
Mathematics & Statistics | Blanding
  • 2024-2030: National Science Foundation Noyce Grant: “Community Impact with Teacher Leaders in Data Science and Math Modeling”: $3,000,000
    • (Senior Personnel): Provides comprehensive support and training for Master Teaching Fellows to enable them to become local teacher-leaders in mathematical modeling and data science and bring learning opportunities in these blossoming fields to students in rural Utah.

Rachel Turner

Assistant Professor
Teacher Education and Leadership | Eastern
  • 2024-2025: Teaching with Primary Sources Western Regional Grant: "Exploring Worlds Within Pages: Enhancing Elementary Social Studies and Language Arts through Primary Sources and Children's Literature": $25,000
  • 2024-2026: Spencer Foundation Education Grant: "I can't teach that: The determinants of curriculum and instructional choices of elementary Social Studies teachers in the age of declining teacher autonomy". $49,995

Brian Droubay

Assistant Professor
Social Work | Brigham City

Seth Lyman

Associate Professor / Research Professor and Director
Bingham Research Center | Uintah Basin
  • 2022-2023: The Salt Lake Regional Smoke, Ozone and Aerosol Study. Funded by Utah Division of Air Quality, Chevron, and Big West Oil. $125,000
  • 2022: Measurement of Organic Compound Emissions from a Produced Water Disposal Facility. Funded by a produced water disposal company (subject to a non-disclosure agreement). $68,000
  • 2021-2022: Analysis of Glycols in Water Samples. Funded by a private company (subject to a non-disclosure agreement). $10,000
  • 2021-2022: Development of Top-down Hydrocarbon Emission from Oil and Gas Production in the Uinta Basin. Funded by the Utah Division of Air Quality. $38,000

Becky Williams

Associate Professor
Biology | Uintah Basin

Publications

Clayton Brown

Associate Professor
History | Uintah Basin

Sunshine Brosi

Associate Professor
Wildland Resources | Eastern

Benjamin Burger

Associate Professor
Geology | Uintah Basin

Don Busenbark

Senior Lecturer and Assistant Department Head
Mathamatics & Statistics | Uintah Basin

Noel A. Carmack

Professor
Art & Design | Eastern

Mike Christiansen

Associate Professor
Organic Chemistry | Uintah Basin

Amanda Deliman

Assistant Professor
Teacher Education and Leadership | Salt Lake
  • Turner, R., Deliman, A. & Robertson, M. K. (2023). Curriculum Integration Using Picture Books: Combining Language Arts and Social Studies Standards to Address Controversial Issues. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 36(1), 27-32.
  • Deliman, A. & Lott, K. (2023). Inquiry-based Learning on Biomimicry: Linking Science and Literacy Using Children’s Picturebooks in the Early Childhood Classroom. Science and Children, 60(6). 20-24.
  • Deliman, A. & Breitenstein, J. (2022). Nurturing Meaningful Student Agency: A Kindergarten Teacher Supports Beginning Readers Using Wordless and Post-Modern Picturebooks. The Dragon Lode, 40(2), 25-36.
  • Deliman, A., Robertson, M.K. & Turner, R.K. (2024). Combining Social-Emotional Learning Competencies and Contemporary Concerns Picturebooks to Foster Early Literacy Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach, The Reading Teacher. http://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2357
  • Deliman, A., Smith, J.M., Robertson, M.K., *Bunnell, G. & *De Oliveira, J. (2024). The texts, the tasks, the talk: Reading, discussing, and exploring children’s literature. The Dragon Lode, 42(2), 47-57.

Brian Droubay

Assistant Professor
Social Work | Brigham City

Kim Hales

Senior Lecturer
English | Uintah Basin

Colleen Jones

Lead Researcher
Bingham Research Center | Uintah Basin

Vonda Jump

Associate Professor
Social Work | Brigham City

David Law

Professor / Associate Vice President
Human Development and Family Studies | Uintah Basin

John Lawson

Senior Air Quality Scientist Research
Brigham Research Center | Uintah Basin

Hannah Lewis

Professional Practice Assistant Professor
Mathematics & Statistics | Eastern

Seth Lyman

Associate Professor / Research Professor and Director
Chemistry & Biochemistry / Bingham Entrepreneurship & Energy Research Center | Uintah Basin
  • Jaffe, D. A., Ninneman, M., Nguyen, L., Lee, H., Hu, L., Ketcherside, D., Jin, L., Cope, E., Lyman, S., Jones, C., O’Neil, T., & Mansfield, M. L. Key results from the Salt Lake Regional Smoke, Ozone and Aerosol Study (SAMOZA). Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association.
  • Ninneman M., Lyman S., Hu L., Cope E., Ketcherside D. and Jaffe D., (2023). Investigation of Ozone Formation Chemistry during the Salt Lake Regional Smoke, Ozone, and Aerosol Study (SAMOZA). ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 7, 2521-2534.
  • Derry, E.J., Elgiar, T.R., Wilmot, T.Y., Hoch, N.W., Hirshorn, N.S., Weiss-Penzias, P., Lee, C.F., Lin, J.C., Hallar, A.G., Volkamer, R. and Lyman, S.N., 2024. Elevated oxidized mercury in the free troposphere: Analytical advances and application at a remote continental mountaintop site. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24, 9615-9643.
  • Jones, C., Tran, H., Tran, T., Lyman, S., 2024. Assimilating Satellite-Derived Snow Cover and Albedo Data to Improve 3-D Weather and Photochemical Models. Atmosphere, 15, 954.
  • Elgiar, T.R., Lyman, S.N., Andron, T.D., Gratz, L., Hallar, A.G., Horvat, M., Nair, V.S., O’Neil, T., Volkamer, R., Živkovic,́ I., 2024. Traceable Calibration of Atmospheric Oxidized Mercury Measurements. Environmental Science & Technology, 58, 10706–10716.
  • Gustin, M.S., Dunham-Cheatham, S.M., Lyman, S., Horvat, M., Gay, D.A., Gačnik, J., Gratz, L., Kempkes, G., Khalizov, A., Lin, C.J., Lindberg, S.E., 2024. Measurement of Atmospheric Mercury: Current Limitations and Suggestions for Paths Forward. Environmental Science & Technology, 58,12853-12864.
  • Gačnik, J., Lyman, S., Dunham-Cheatham, S.M., Gustin, M.S., 2024. Limitations and insights regarding atmospheric mercury sampling using gold. Analytica Chimica Acta, 1319, 342956.

Jason Olsen

Associate Professor
English | Eastern

Tzung-Shiang Ou

Assistant Professor
Kinesiology and Health Science | Salt Lake

Jim LaMuth

Director of Programs
Uintah Basin

Brooke Osborne

Assistant Professor
Environment & Society | Moab

Lacie Peterson

Clinical Associate Professor / Director of Dietetics Internship / Master of Dietetics and Food Sciences
Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences | Salt Lake

Marla Robertson

Associate Professor
Teacher Education and Leadership | Uintah Basin
  • Turner, R., Deliman, A. & Robertson, M. K. (2023). Curriculum Integration Using Picture Books: Combining Language Arts and Social Studies Standards to Address Controversial Issues. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 36(1), 27-32.
  • Deliman, A., Robertson, M.K. & Turner, R.K. (2024). Combining Social-Emotional Learning Competencies and Contemporary Concerns Picturebooks to Foster Early Literacy Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach, The Reading Teacher. http://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2357
  • Deliman, A., Smith, J.M., Robertson, M.K., *Bunnell, G. & *De Oliveira, J. (2024). The texts, the tasks, the talk: Reading, discussing, and exploring children’s literature. The Dragon Lode, 42(2), 47-57.
  • Mohr, K., Jones, C., *Chamberlain, K., *DeCoursey, K., Robertson, M.K, *Summers, C., & *Bagley, M. (2024). Evidence-based practices to enliven writing instruction and support reading. The Reading Teacher, 77(6), 909-917. doi:10.1002/trtr.2321

Jeff Spears

Assistant Professor
Social Work | Eastern

James Y. Taylor

Associate Professor / Vice President for Statewide Campuses
Sociology & Anthropology | Uintah Basin

Rachel Turner

Assistant Professor
Teacher Education and Leadership | Eastern
  • Turner, R., Deliman, A. & Robertson, M. K. (2023). Curriculum Integration Using Picture Books: Combining Language Arts and Social Studies Standards to Address Controversial Issues. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 36(1), 27-32.
  • Deliman, A., Robertson, M.K. & Turner, R.K. (2024). Combining Social-Emotional Learning Competencies and Contemporary Concerns Picturebooks to Foster Early Literacy Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach, The Reading Teacher. http://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2357

Joseph Wilson

Professor
Biology | Tooele

Martha Archuleta

Professor / Director of MDA Program
Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences | Salt Lake

Sean Camp

Clinical Professor
Social Work | Tooele
  • Camp, S., & Egbert, S.C. (2022). Enhancing Technology-Based Distance Education Delivery Using Collaborative Team-Teaching Methods. Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 5(3), 9-26.
  • Egbert, S.C., & Camp, S. (2021). Self-Care for the Caregiver: Trauma Stewardship for Foster Parents. Fostering Families Today, Nov/Dec, 34-37.
  • Egbert, S.C., & Camp, S. (2021). Teaching Trauma-Burdened Students: Life-Balancing and Self-Care Strategies for Educators. The Best of the 2021 Teaching Professor Conference, 36-42.

Mike Christiansen

Associate Professor
Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Education | Uintah Basin

Brian Droubay

Assistant Professor
Social Work | Brigham City

Pamela A. Dupin-Bryant

Professor / Vice Provost for Statewide Campuses
Data Analytics & Information Systems | Tooele

Susan Egbert

Clinical Professor / MSW Program Director
Social Work | Kaysville
  • Camp, S., & Egbert, S.C. (2022). Enhancing Technology-Based Distance Education Delivery Using Collaborative Team-Teaching Methods. Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 5(3), 9-26.
  • Egbert, S.C., & Camp, S. (2021). Self-Care for the Caregiver: Trauma Stewardship for Foster Parents. Fostering Families Today, Nov/Dec, 34-37.
  • Egbert, S.C., & Camp, S. (2021). Teaching Trauma-Burdened Students: Life-Balancing and Self-Care Strategies for Educators. The Best of the 2021 Teaching Professor Conference, 36-42.

Maria Givler

Clinical Assistant Professor
Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences | Tooele

Vonda Jump

Associate Professor
Social Work | Brigham City

John Lawson

Senior Air Quality Scientist Research
Bingham Research Center | Uintah Basin

Seth Lyman

Associate Professor, Research Professor and Director
Chemistry & Biochemistry | Bingham Entrepreneurship & Energy Research Center | Uintah Basin
  • Lyman, N., Tran, H. N. Q., O’Neil, T. L., Mansfield, M. L. (2022) Low NOX and high organic compound emissions from oilfield pumpjack engines. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 10, 00064.
  • Dunham-Cheatham S. M., Gustin M. S., Lyman S. N. (2022) Comparison and calibration of methods for ambient reactive mercury quantification. Science of the Total Environment, 856, 159219.
  • Lyman, N., Elgiar, T., Gustin, M. S., Dunham-Cheatham, S. M., David, L. M., Zhang, L. (2022) Evidence against rapid mercury oxidation in photochemical smog. Environmental Science and Technology, 56, 11225-11235.
  • Lin, J. C., Bares, R., Fasoli, B., Garcia, M., Crosman, E., Lyman, S. (2021) Declining methane emissions and steady, high leakage rates observed over multiple years in a western US oil/gas production basin. Scientific Reports, 11, 22291.
  • Gustin, M., Dunham-Cheatham, S., Huang, J., Lindberg, S., Lyman, S. (2021) Development of an understanding of reactive mercury in ambient air: a review. Atmosphere, 12, 73.
  • Mansfield, M. L., Lyman, S. N. (2021) Winter ozone pollution in Utah’s Uinta Basin is Attenuating. Atmosphere, 12, 4.
  • Gustin, M. S., Dunham-Cheatham, S. M., Zhang, L., Lyman, S. N., Choma, N., Castro, M. (2021) Use of membranes and detailed HYSPLIT analyses to understand atmospheric particulate, gaseous oxidized, and reactive mercury chemistry. Environmental Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c07876.
  • Lyman, N., Holmes, M. L., Tran, H. N. Q., Tran, T., O’Neil, T. (2021) High ethylene and propylene in an area dominated by oil production. Atmosphere, 12, 1.

Brooke Osborne

Assistant Professor
Environment & Society | Moab

Lacie Peterson

Clinical Associate Professor / Director of Dietetics Internships
Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences | Salt Lake

Becky Williams

Associate Professor
Biology | Uintah Basin