Pace Setters Awards

Westerbeck Teaching Award

The Daniel Westerbeck Teaching Excellence Award was established in 2000 with a gift from Daniel Westerbeck. Drawing from student input, the award recognizes two Fisher College of Business faculty members, one who teaches at the undergraduate level and one who teaches at the graduate level, for teaching excellence.

Past recipients

2024: Lori Kendall, Management and Human Resources
2023: Chad Zipfel, Finance
2022: Steve DeNunzio, Marketing and Logistics
2021: Stephanie Wapner, Management and Human Resources
2020: Maria Landekhovskaya, Marketing and Logistics, Management and Human Resources
2019: Steven Salopek, Finance
2018: Bruce W. Bellner, Management and Human Resources
2017: Tyler Shepfer, Management and Human Resources
2016: Matt R. Sheridan, Finance
2015: Shashi Matta, Marketing and Logistics
2014: M. Johnny Rungtusanatham, Management Sciences
2013: Susan Clark, Finance
2012: Nancy Lahmers, Management Sciences
2011: Richard A. Young, Accounting and MIS
2010: Venkat Bendapudi, Management and Human Resources
2009: Larry Inks, Management and Human Resources
2008: Daniel Jensen, Accounting and MIS
2007: A. Michael Knemeyer, Marketing and Logistics
2006: Thomas Otter, Marketing and Logistics
2005: Elliot Klayman, Finance
2004: David D. Williams, Accounting and MIS
2003: H. Lee Mathews, Marketing and Logistics
2002: Leslie M. Fine, Marketing and Logistics
2001: John Current, Management Sciences
2000: Bernadette Minton, Finance
1999: Raymond Krasniewski, Accounting and MIS
1998: Neelima Bendapudi, Marketing and Logistics
1997: Deborah Ballam, Finance
1996: Eric Spires, Accounting and MIS
1995: Pervin Shroff
1994: Ken Pelfrey
1993: Rao Unnava, Marketing and Logistics
1992: John Grabner
1991: H. Rao Unnava, Marketing and Logistics
1990: Deborah Ballam, Finance
1989: James Bartos
1988: Wade Dyke 
1987: Roger Blackwell, Marketing and Logistics
1986: Ray Stephens
1985: Arnon Reichers, Management and Human Resources
1984: Roger Blackwell, Marketing and Logistics
1983: James Bartos
1982: Richard Northrup
1981: David Cole