Provost Xuanning Fu is proud to announce the 2024-25 Provost’s Awards recipients to the campus community. The following list of awardees highlights the strength of our faculty and staff, for their contributions to student success, research and service.

This year’s awardees are:

Excellence in Teaching

• Athanasios Aris Panagopoulos, associate professor – Department of Computer Science

Faculty Service

• Kathi Rindahl, associate professor/chair – School of Nursing

Distinguished Achievement in Research, Scholarship or Creative Accomplishment

• Chelsey Juarez, associate professor – Department of Anthropology

Promising New Faculty

• Kristina M. Rios, assistant professor – Department of Literacy, Early, Bilingual and Special Education
• Joel Slade, assistant professor – Department of Biology
• Yang Sao Xiong, assistant professor – Department of Anthropology

Outstanding Lecturer

• Akhil Kanodia, Department of Management

Outstanding Staff

• Rocio Garcia, Department of Public Health
• Alexis Holladay, Division of Graduate Studies

The campus community is invited to attend a celebration of the distinguished achievements of our colleagues at 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 7 in the Residence Dining Hall – East Banquet Room.

For more information, contact Randy Aoki at raoki@csufresno.edu.