Daniel E. Baker, professor of
pharmacotherapy in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, was
honored with the United States Pharmacopeia’s Thomas S. Foster Award in
recognition of his significant contributions to global public health. Baker
has volunteered with USP for many years, helping to develop and revise a
drug classification system that Medicare Drug Benefit plans use to develop
a list of medicines to reflect changes in therapeutic uses.
Kunter Gunasti, assistant professor of marketing in the Carson College of Business,
received a 2019 Emerald Literati Award for a research paper he
co‑authored on consumer preferences for copycat brands. His paper, “Original
Brands in Competition Against High Quality Copycats,” co‑authored by Michigan
State’s Hang Nguyen, was named a “Highly Commended Paper,” at the Awards of
Excellence, sponsored by Emerald Publishing.
Marcelo Diversi, professor in the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences at
WSU Vancouver, won the 2019 Ethnography Division Best Book Award from the
National Communication Association for his book, “Betweener Autoethnographies
(Qualitative Inquiry and Social Justice).” Diversi co‑authored the book with
friend and colleague Claudio Moreira, a faculty member at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
