Founders Day Faculty Awards 2026
Each year, Montana State University honors its dedicated advisers, teachers and researchers with annual awards, recognizing achievements in faculty research, teaching, outreach and creative projects.
Honorees for Spring 2025 will be announced starting Jan. 20.
| Date | Award | Honoree |
| January 2026 | ||
| 20 | Academic Advising Award | Jessi Peterson |
| 21 | Charles and Nora L. Wiley Award for Meritorious Research and Creativity (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) | Gretchen Minton |
| 22 | Charles and Nora L. Wiley Award for Meritorious Research and Creativity (STEM) | Jiong Qiu |
| 23 | Charles and Nora L. Wiley Award for Meritorious Research and Creativity (Professions) | Elizabeth Rink |
| 26 | Cox Faculty Award for Creative Scholarship and Teaching | Galen Brokaw |
| 27 | Excellence in Online Teaching Award | Deborah Rinio |
| 28 | Excellence in Open Education Award | |
| 29 | Excellence in Outreach Teaching | |
| 30 | Fox Faculty Award for Accomplishments in Teaching, Research/Creative Activity | |
| February 2026 | ||
| 2 | James and Mary Ross Provost's Award for Excellence | |
| 3 | Marley-Maben Native and Indigenous Peoples Leadership Award | |
| 4 | Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Anna K. Fridley Distinguished Teaching Award | |
| 5 | Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Anna K. Fridley Distinguished Teaching Award | |
| 6 | President's Award for Championing Campus Values | |
| 9 | President's Excellence in Teaching Award | |
| 10 | Provost's Award for Graduate Research/Creativity Mentoring | |
| 11 | Provost's Award for Undergraduate Research/Creativity Mentoring | |
| 12 | Teaching Innovation Award | |
| 13 | Vice President for Research's Award for Meritorious Technology/Service | |
