Award Winners

For the current list of SNS DPG Award of Excellence Winners through 2016, click here (pdf)

2023-2024 Awards

  • No awards noted.

2022-2023 Awards

Jocie Karbo, RDN, SNS

  • 2023 SNS DPG Award of Excellence

2021-2022 Awards

April Liles, RDN, SNS

  • SNS DPG Award of Excellence

Shennie Quintanilla, MS, RD, LDN

  • SNS Emerging Leader Award

Betti J. Wiggins, CMP

  • AND 2022 Honorary Membership Award

Jeanne Reilly, NDTR, SNS

  • AND 2022 Outstanding NDTR Award

2020-2021 Awards

Nancy Rice, MS, RDN, SNS

  • SNS DPG 2020 Award of Excellence

2019-2020 Awards

Rebecca L. Larson

  • Anita Owen Award of Recognition for Innovative Nutrition Education

Judith Wylie-Rosett

  • Elaine R. Monsen Memorial Award for Outstanding Research Literature

Elli Nyberg, MS, RDN, LN, LD, PhD Program, South Dakota State University

  • Frances Carr Parker and School Nutrition Services DPG Scholarship

Nancy Rice, MEd, RD, LD, SNS

2018-2019 Awards

Amanda Kruse, Master’s Program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

  • Frances Carr Parker and School Nutrition Services DPG Scholarship

Cyndie Story, PhD, RDN, SNS, Certified Chef

  • SNS DPG Award of Excellence

2017-2018 Awards

Dayle Hayes, MS, RD

  • Lena Frances Cooper Memorial Lecture Award

2016-2017 Awards

Alice Jo Rainville, PhD, RD, CHE, SNS, FAND

Beverly Girard, PhD, MBA, RD

Jessica Johnson, RD, LD, SNS

  • SNS DPG Award of Excellence

2015-2016 Awards

Penny McConnell, MS, RDN, SNS

  • Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award

Carol Shanklin, PhD, RD

  • Excellence in Practice - Dietetic Research Award

Cathy Reed, MS, RD, LD/N, SNS

  • SNS DPG Award of Excellence

2014-2015 Awards

Nicole Brandenburg, MBA student, Ross College of Business, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, CA

  • Frances Carr Parker Scholarship and School Nutrition

2012-2013 Awards

Congratulations to Dora Rivas, MS, RD, SNS 

Congratulations to Constance Mueller, MS, RD, SNS

Congratulations to Dayle Hayes, MS, RD

Congratulations to Diane Santoro, RD, SNS

  • Recipient of the School Nutrition Services Dietetic Practice Group's 2012 Award of Excellence

Congratulations to USDA's Healthier US School Challenge 

  • Recipient of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Presidents' Circle Nutrition Education Award

Congratulations to Neva Cockran, MS, RD, LD and Ellen R. Shanley, MBA, RD, CD-N

  • Recipients of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' 2012 Medallion Awards

2011-2012 Awards

Congratulations to Diane Duncan-Goldsmith, MS, RD, LS 

Congratulations to Penny McConnell, MS, RD, NS 

Congratulations to Camellia Patey, MS, RD, SNS 

2007-2008 Awards

Congratulations to Alice Jo Rainville, PhD, RD, CHE, SFNS

Congratulations to Donna S. Martin, EdS, RD, LD, SNS 

Congratulations to Vivian B. Pilant, PhD, RD 

Congratulations to Ruth Gordon, MEd, LD, RD, SNS 

2006-2007 Awards