Griswold Receives Eminent Faculty Award
Dean of Sciences Michael Griswold joined WSU’s select group of Eminent Faculty at the 2009 Showcase Celebration of Excellence. Former winners of the award from the College of Sciences include Ralph Yount (inaugural honoree in 2000), Yogendra Gupta, and J. Thomas Dickinson. Griswold was honored with the Eminent Faculty award for his continued work as an administrator, researcher, teacher, adviser, and mentor.
A recognized leading authority in the study of male reproductive biology, specifically the role of the Sertoli cells in sperm-cell development, Griswold has received a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health and has served as president of the Society for the Study of Reproduction. He has published more than 185 papers and trained more than 60 doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. Griswold received the Research Award from the Society for the Study of Reproduction in 2006 for his significant scientific contributions to the understanding of male reproduction. He received the Frontiers in Reproduction Beacon Award and Lectureship in 2008. He has been a member of several NIH review panels and continues to serve in an ad hoc capacity. He has also served and continues to serve on a number of Editorial Boards of well-respected journals.
Griswold joined the WSU faculty in 1976 in the Biochemistry Department. Griswold served as chair of the department from 1986 until 1994, and then took over again as Director of the newly formed School of Molecular Biosciences in 1999 until he was asked to serve as Dean of the College of Sciences in 2002. Griswold was promoted to Regents’ Professor in 2008 on the strength of his research program even as he served as Dean of the College. He has also received a number of university awards for his work, including and Edward R. Meyer Professorship from 1995 to 1998 and the WSU Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Research, Scholarship and Arts in 1998.
The Eminent Faculty Award was created in 2000 to honor career-long excellence within WSU’s academic community and has been awarded annually ever since. The nominees must have changed the thinking in their respective fields by making lasting contributions through teaching, research, creative scholarship and service. They must also make notable contributions to the vitality and strength of the WSU community.