Awards, Recognitions, and Grants of RTI Participants & Faculty

MLA Honors

MLA Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Health Sciences Librarian of the Year

  • 2021 Karen Gutzman, RTI Faculty
  • 2019 Mark MacEachern, RTI Faculty

MLA Honorary Member

  • 2024 Mary Langman, MLA RTI Liaison

MLA Ida and George Eliot Prize

  • 2022 Laura Menard, RTI Fellow & Peer Coach
  • 2019 Emily Vardell, RTI Faculty
  • 2018 Mark MacEachern, RTI Faculty

MLA Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award

  • 2023 Emily Vardell, RTI Faculty
  • 2021 Jodi Philbrick, RTI Faculty
  • 2019 Whitney Townsend, RTI Fellow

MLA President’s Award

  • 2024 Mary Langman, RTI Lead
  • 2022 Helen-Ann Brown Epstein, RTI Fellow & Peer Coach
  • 2020 Sally Gore, RTI Faculty
  • 2020 Jodi Philbrick, RTI Faculty
  • 2018 and 2020 Susan Lessick, RTI Founding Director
  • 2017 and 2018 Jodi Philbrick, RTI Faculty

MLA Research Advancement in Health Sciences Librarianship Award

  • 2018 University of Illinois-Chicago, RTI Host Library 2018-2019

MLA Research, Development, and Demonstration Grant

  • 2023 Lisa Acuff, RTI Fellow

MLA Rising Stars

  • 2024-2025 Angela Murrell, RTI
  • 2024-2025 John Mokonyama, RTI
  • 2022-2023 Hilary M Jasmin, RTI Fellow
  • 2022-2023 Alessia Zanin-Yost, RTI Fellow
  • 2021-2022 Nancy Shin, RTI Fellow
  • 2019-2020 Elaina Vitale, RTI Fellow
  • 2018-2019 Liz Kellermeyer, RTI Fellow

MLA Virginia L. William K. Beatty Volunteer Service Award

  • 2020 Margaret Hoogland, RTI Fellow & Peer Coach

MLA/Hospital Library Caucus Catch a Rising Star Award

  • 2019 Liz Kellermeyer, RTI Fellow

Chapter Honors

MLA/Midcontinental Chapter (MCMLA) Awards

Professional Honors

Librarian of the Year

Marla Graber Award

Contributed Paper Awards

Poster Awards