Three Juniata faculty were honored in April at Spring Convocation. Peter Goldstein, John Downey Benedict Professor of English, received the Beachley Award for Distinguished Teaching; Grace Fala, professor of communication, received the Beachley Award for Distinguished Academic Service; and Jamie White, associate professor of physics, received the Henry and Joan Gibbel Award for Distinguished Teaching by a faculty member with fewer than six years of service. The Beachley Awards provide a $5,000 stipend. The Gibbel Award provides a $2,500 stipend.

Goldstein came to Juniata in 1991 after earning a doctorate in English at UCLA. A published poet, Goldstein received the Fred Weld Herman Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1988. He earned a law degree from the University of Southern California in 1979 and practiced law from 1979 to 1984. He earned a bachelor's degree in English and American literature and language from Harvard University in 1976. He was promoted to associate professor in 1996 and to full professor in 2001.

Fala came to Juniata in 1992. She earned a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in philosophy from West Chester University. She went on to earn a doctorate from Penn State. She received the 1998 Beachley Award for Distinguished Service for faculty with less than six years service (now known as the Gibbel Award). She received Juniata's Woman of the Year award in 1997. She also received the Kathryn DeBoer Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992 from Penn State. She was promoted to associate professor in 1998 and to full professor in 2003.

White joined the Juniata faculty in 1998 from the State University of New York at Potsdam, where he was assistant professor of physics. White maintains an active research career. His work has been published in the Journal of Chemical Physics, Surface Science, the American Journal of Physics, and The Physics Teacher. His academic and research interests include laser physics, surface physics, the physics of ice and musical acoustics. He began his university teaching career in 1994 as assistant professor of physics at Baldwin-Wallace College. In 1997, he accepted a position as assistant professor of physics at SUNY-Potsdam.