Each year, Colorado State University celebrates the teaching, research and service achievements of CSU students, alumni and friends, academic faculty, administrative professionals and classified staff as part of the Celebrate! Colorado State Awards. Honorees from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences:
Gordon and Joan Bishop Professorship
Yvette Nout-Lomas
Associate Professor
Department of Clinical Sciences
Associate Professor Yvette Nout-Lomas is an invaluable member of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Her focused research efforts have been impacted by her heavier-than-average clinical service and teaching assignments requiring daytime, after-hours and intermittent emergency responsibilities. Yet, she continuously demonstrates excellence in all areas and works relentlessly to meet the needs of her students, patients and research collaborators.
Nationally and internationally recognized for her contributions to advancing equine neurology, Nout-Lomas’ research efforts center on horse gait assessment, spinal cord injury and comparative neuroscience with a goal to improve diagnostic capabilities and treatment options regarding neurologic disease in horses. She has authored more than 85 publications and 73 research abstracts and has attained more than $530,000 in externally funded research awards as principal investigator or co-investigator and more than $190,000 in internally funded awards as PI or Co-I.
Nout-Lomas is a Diplomate in both the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. To date, she has mentored nine ACVIM residents, one previous and one current ACVECC resident and more than six other residents as well as 13 professional veterinary medicine students.
She currently serves on the Department of Clinical Sciences Equine Medicine Strategic Planning and Equine Emergency and Critical Care Strategic Planning committees, the CVMBS Equine Veterinary Health System Working Group Service Advisory Council and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, and she is an organizer of the DCS Annual Conference Equine Program.
Positive Action Award
The Positive Action Award recognizes individuals, groups, units or departments that have made a positive contribution to state classified employees at CSU by fostering a supportive work environment, improved campus climate and/or positive work experiences for state classified employees.
Technician Advisory Council
Shawn Thompson, Amy Rodriguez, Jhoni Sorenson, Stacey Weisser, Bailey Kendro, Michelle Davis, Shania Mumford, Lisa Disner, Jocelyn Pronko, Stevi Glascott, Lisa Mangin and Tracy Wangler
Veterinary Teaching Hospital
14’er Award
This award recognizes exceptional innovative achievements demonstrating unique vision, creativity and grit.
Brian Scansen
Professor and Service Head, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital
Kevin Ann Oltjenbruns Award for Outstanding Leadership
This award celebrates the significant and lasting impact of leadership for those who work to ensure the success of others with a commitment to equity and fairness.
Erica Suchman
Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
Scholarship Impact Award: Recent Achievement
This award recognizes those whose scholarship has had a major impact nationally and/or internationally.
Douglas Thamm
Professor
Department of Clinical Sciences
Distinguished Administrative Professional Award
This award is presented to administrative professional staff for continuing meritorious and outstanding achievement in the areas of outreach, teaching, administration, and/or research.
Christine Haase
Executive Assistant
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Interdisciplinary Scholarship Individual Award
This award recognizes either a faculty member or research team whose interdisciplinary scholarship has had a major impact nationally and/or internationally, or who have demonstrated their potential to do so.
Candace Mathiason
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
Extension Distinguished Service Award
This award is to recognize individuals for outstanding commitment to CSU Extension and contributions made toward Extension’s mission of providing information and education on various issues affecting individuals and communities of Colorado.
Ragan Adams
Veterinary Extension Specialist
Office of Engagement and Extension
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Franklyn Garry
Veterinary Extension Specialist
Office of Engagement and Extension
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Provost’s N. Preston Davis Award for Instructional Innovation
This award recognizes technology-related instructional innovation or the significant encouragement of such innovation. It is named for N. Preston Davis, who retired in 1992 after serving the CSU community for more than four decades.
Tod Clapp
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Director of Professional Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences Neuroscience Director
CU School of Medicine Fort Collins Branch Campus
Shari Lanning
Veterinarian, Assistant Professor, and Director of Veterinary Clinical Care Graduate Program
Department of Clinical Sciences
