CFF Director honored with University engagement award

Purdue’s Office of Engagement named winners of the annual faculty and staff engagement awards for 2019 at a luncheon on April 16.

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, PhD, CFF director, received the 2019 Faculty Engagement Fellow Award which recognized her work that has led to a strong record in the Scholarship of Engagement.

The purpose of the engagement awards are to reward outstanding accomplishments that exemplify the highest levels of excellence in the Scholarship of Engagement; to reinforce the core characteristics of the Scholarship of Engagement, namely, the creation and dissemination of new knowledge through intensive community interaction and partnership culminating in documented community impact; and to promote engagement as a powerful vehicle for fostering impactful scholarship.