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