The Distinguished Service Award is given at the discretion of the Dean with the criteria of being awarded to one who has performed outstanding service to the college.

2024

Vladimir Krstic, Professor, Kansas City Design Center

Sharon Hartwich, Budget/Fiscal Officer, Accounting and

Personnel Services, APDesign

Louis A. Meilink Jr., FAIA, FACHA, ACHvE, Senior Principal, Ballinger

2023
Damon Fairchild
Bruce McMillan

2022
Lisa Last
Diane Binckley

2021
Lynn Ewanow, APDesign Associate Dean (retired)
Susan Lannou, Former Director of Recruitment for APDesign

2020
N/A

2019
Margaret (Emmy) Chamberlin, AIA, Project Manager, Kansas State University

2018
Wyatt Hoch, Foulston Siefkin LLP

2017
Mark Hutton, Founder, Hutton Construction Corp.
Sue Peterson, Government Releations and Assistant to the President of K-State
Lisa Shubert, Assistant to the Dean

2016
Fred Willich, HI Tech Interiors, President
Maxine Ganske, Library Assistant III, Weigel Library APDesign

2015
Donald P. Crawford, APDesign Manager of Information Technology Services

2014
Jon A. Levin, Chairman of the Board, University Bok Store Inc. and owner, Varney's Book Store

2013
David Warm is the Executive Director of the Mid-America Regional Council

2012
Cassey Cassias, Director of Practice for BNIM

2011
Dennis Law, Professor and Dean, College of Architecture, Planning & Design

2010
Alton Barnes, Professor, APDesign Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning
Dawn Kirkwood, AIA, Director of the Kansas City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects

2009
M. Duane Nelis
Jonathan M. Kemper

2008
Vernon P. Deines, APDesign, Regional & Community Planning

James T. McCullough, President & CEO, McCullough Development, Inc.

2007
Daniel F. Musser, Zimmer Real Estate Services, Kansas City, Missouri
Diane Potts, administrative assistant to the Dean, APDesign
Thomas A. Tyler, owner of Answers Inc. St. Louis, Missouri

2006

Larry King, AIA,NCARB, IA Interior Architects
Alan Lauck, HOK Dallas

2005
Larry Walling, Chief of Transportation, National Parks Services, Denver

Dr. James R. Coffman, Provost, Kansas State University

2004
James Calcara
Bernd Foerster

2003
Howard & Sharon Kessinger
Arlene Tinkler

2002
John Renner
Brent Bowman
Michael Knapp

2001
Donald McKahan
John Wilhm

2000
F. Gene Ernst

1999
Emil Fischer
Dennis Scheer

1998
Charles Linn
Bill Gapske

1997
William Livingston
Eugene McGraw

1996
H. Stewart Mann
Joy Swallow

1995
Patricia L. Eidson

Homer Williams

1994
Trudy McDermott Aron
Douglas and Kay Sprouse

2023-2026

Genevieve Baudoin

2020-2023
Chad Schwartz

2017-2020
Bob Condia, FAIA

2015-2017
Michael McGlynn

2013-2015
Dick Hoag

2010-2013
David Sachs

2007-2010
Gary Coates

Learn more about the Victor L. Regnier Distinguished Visiting Professorship and the recipients

2024-2025

PAVA Architecture, Bangkok, Thailand

2023-2024

Rob Rogers, New York City, USA

2022-2023
Salvador Macias, Magui Peredo & Diego Quiarte

2021-2022
Jerry Tate, RIBA

2019-2020
Larry Scarpa, USA

2018-2019
Nieto Sobejano, Spain

2018-2018
Fran Silvestre, Spain

2016-2017
Goncarlo Byrne, Portugal

2015-2016
Jay Siebenmorgen, USA

2014-2015
Steven Ehrlich, USA

2013-2014
Javier Sanchez, Mexico

2012-2013
Beat Kampfen, Switzerland

2011-2012
Wendell Burnette, USA

2010-2011
Siv Helene Strangeland & Reinhard Kropf, Norway

2009-2010
Alan Dunlop, Scotland

2008-2009
Alfred Jacoby, Germany

2007-2008
Miguel Roca, Argentina

2006-2007
Mikko Heikkinen, Finland

2005-2006
Alberto Campo Baeza 2005-2006, Spain

2004-2005
Hiroshi Hara, Japan

 

2023-2024

Steven Ehrlich, Culver City, CA, USA

2022-2023
Vincent Snyder

Selections for four annual $2500 awards are made at the college levels to recognize excellence in teaching performance in the undergraduate program. These awards were established in 1968 and are now sponsored by the William T. Kemper Foundation through the Commerce Bank.

2024
Assistant Professor Grant Alford, Architecture

2022
Assistant Professor Michael Grogan, Architecture

2020
Associate Professor Katrina Lewis, Interior Architecture & Industrial Design

2018
Assistant Professor Genevieve Baudoin, Architecture

2016
Assistant Professor Huston Gibson, Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning

2014
Assistant Professor David Richter-O’Connell, Interior Architecture & Product Design

2012
Assistant Professor Howard D. Hahn, Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning

2010
Associate Professor LaBarbara Wigfall, Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning

2008
Professor Robert Condia, Architecture

2006
Associate Professor Vicky Borchers, Interior Architecture & Product Design

2004
Professor Susanne Siepl-Coates, Architecture

2002
Professor Dennis Day, Landscape Architecture

2000
Professor Gary Coates, Architecture

1998
Professor Donald J. Watts, Architecture

1994
Assoc. Professor Wayne M. Charney, Architecture

1992
Professor Gene Ernst, Architecture

1990
Professor Eugene T. McGraw, Interior Architecture & Product Design

1988
Professor William R. Jahnke, Architecture

The Commerce Bank and WT Kemper Foundation Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award is made annually to those faculty who have distinguished themselves nationally and internationally for excellence in research and graduate education. Normally, up to two faculty are selected annually by a group of faculty peers. Recipients receive an honorarium and deliver a public lecture following selection for this award.

2016 Graduate Faculty Award
Tim Keane, PhD

The Jarvis Chair of Landscape Architecture is funded through a bequeathed endowment established by Mary K. Jarvis, a 1942 graduate who is thought to be the first female to receive a landscape architecture degree from K-State. The Jarvis Chairs recognize faculty who have made significant contributions in their teaching, scholarship and/or service.

2022-2025
Lee Skabelund

2019-2021
Jarvis Chair, Associate Professor, Jessica Canfield

2015-2018
Jarvis Chair, Associate Professor, Lee Skabelund

2013-2014
Jarvis Distinguished Scholar, Associate Professor, Jon Hunt

2012-2013
Jarvis Emerging Faculty Chair, Associate Professor, Jessica Canfield

2011-2012
Jarvis Emerging Faculty Chair, Associate Professor, Katie Kingery-Page

2011-2012
Jarvis Tenured Faculty Chair, Associate Professor, Chip Winslow

2010-2011
Jarvis Emerging Faculty Chair, Associate Professor, Blake Belanger

2010-2011
Jarvis Tenured Faculty Chair, Professor, Tim Keane

2009-2010
Jarvis Chair, Professor, Tim Keane

2008-2009
Jarvis Chair, Professor, Stephanie Rolley

2007-2008
Jarvis Chair, Associate Professor, Chip Winslow

2006-2007
Jarvis Chair, Professor, Tim Keane

2006-2007
Jarvis Chair, Associate Professor, Dennis Day

2005-2007
Jarvis Chair, Professor, Stephanie Rolley

2005-2006
Jarvis Chair, Associate Professor, Lorn Clement

The McElwee Award is given to a faculty member for being an outstanding teacher as designated by the dean of APDesign based upon the recommendation of both students and faculty. This award was established in 1993 in honor of Wayne Hunt McElwee who received his Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from K-State in 1950.

2024
Blake Belanger

2023
Adulsak "Otto" Chanyakorn

2022
Vibhavari Jani

2021
Jessica Canfield

2020
Michael Gibson

2018
Bob Condia

2015
Blake Belanger, PLA, ASLA

2013
Jessica Canfield

2011
Susanne Siepl-Coates

2007
Sheri L. Smith

This award recognizes outstending efforts by faculty by involving the design profession in the education of our students.

2023-2022
Kendra Kirchmer

2022-2021
Chad Schwartz

2021-2020
Lee Skabelund

2020-2019
Vladimir Krstic

2019-2018
Genevieve Baudoin

2018-2017
Neal Hubble

2017-2016
Katie Kingery-Page

2016-2015
Dustin Headley

2015-2014
Michael Gibson