Awards

2024 Insight into Culture Alumni Association Inclusive Excellence Award Recipient

2024-2025 You Belong Here Awards

The You Belong Here CAB Champion Award recognizes faculty and staff who are nominated by students, faculty and staff in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. This award honors those who live the CANR Office of Culture, Access and Belonging Statement through their work and space. The CANR Office of Culture, Access and Belonging established the award to provide an opportunity to identify CAB champions the CANR community regularly engages with. You Belong Here Champions support a culture where every member of our college community feels valued and inspired to achieve individual and common goals, with an uncommon will.

You Belong Here Faculty Award: Travis Brenden, Ph.D., Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
You Belong Here Graduate Student Award: Melanie Pimentel-Concepcion, Department of Animal Science
You Belong Here Academic Specialist Award: Dustin Petty, Bailey Scholars Program

CANR Digital Badges

The goal of the OCAB Badge Project is to help collectively recognize, acknowledge and be inspired by the amazing work each department, school and unit contributes to and implements as a way to build lasting culture, access and belonging.

Platinum 2024-2025 Badge:

Department of Animal Science
Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Department of Community Sustainability
MSU Extension: Agriculture and Agribusiness Institute
MSU Extension: Children and Youth Institute
MSU Extension: Health and Nutrition Institute
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
School of Planning, Design and Construction

Gold 2024-2025 Badge:

ANR Information Technology

Green 2024-2025 Badge

Department of Forestry