Awards

Director Honored with Campus Distinguished Scholarship Award

Her commitment to studying clinical weight interventions for underserved populations, mentorship of new faculty, and scholarly advancements resulted in STRIDE director and kinesiology Professor Suzanne Phelan receiving Cal Poly’s 2017 Distinguished Scholarship Award.

“Suzanne is at the center of an amazing wheel of people whose research questions and clinical interventions have achieved tremendous success in obtaining grants and getting papers published,” said Kinesiology Department Chair Kris Jankovitz in her introduction at the campuswide awards ceremony. “But more importantly these endeavors are designed to ultimately help people – especially those who were and are at the margins of society.”

The Cal Poly Academic Senate created the Distinguished Scholarship Award to celebrate achievement in creative activity and scholarship. Phelan was one of three award recipients, along with Patrick Lin from the Philosophy Department and Jay Singh from the Industrial Technology Department. All three presented a summary of their research for the Cal Poly community at the beginning of fall quarter.

Phelan follows in the footsteps of three STRIDE affiliates who received campus awards in 2016. Bob Clark, a kinesiology professor, and Karen Muñoz-Christian, a modern languages and literatures professor and STRIDE research co-investigator, received Cal Poly’s Distinguished Teaching Award last year. Peggy Papathakis, a food science and nutrition professor and STRIDE co-investigator, received Cal Poly’s Distinguished Scholarship Award.