{"id":17398,"date":"2025-06-23T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/?p=17398"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:19:59","slug":"faculty-kudos-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/faculty-kudos-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Kudos, June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"117\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2021\/06\/AmbroseJohnson-Grace-0446web20-e1750696780873.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Ambrose\" class=\"wp-image-2354\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Grace Ambrose, Teaching Associate Professor, Marketing, on receiving the 2025 Lazirko Award for the Innovative Use of Learning Technologies from UWM&#8217;s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"117\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2021\/06\/Rank-ChirstmanTracy-9012web20-e1750696679252.jpg\" alt=\"Tracy Rank Christman\" class=\"wp-image-2133\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"uwm-u-mt-0\">Congratulations to Tracy Rank-Christman, Assistant Professor, Marketing, on being\u00a0selected as the 2025\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/uhxvbk\/mnw4rhw\/amv1fw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MASSIG Emerging Scholar<\/a>\u00a0winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2025-awards-for-research-and-teaching\">2025 Awards for Research and Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to all who received the 2025 Lubar College of Business awards for research and teaching!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research Awards<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katherine Du, Michael Farrell and Amy Tegeler &#8211; V. 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