3/31/25 Pres. Office, PAPE Award Presentation; Alyssa Murray.
University of Michigan associate professors April Zeoli and Monica Dus have made far-reaching impacts through their work in firearm safety and supporting the U.S. Navy on science and education, respectively, and are recipients of the 2024 presidential awards for public engagement.
The awards recognize the recipients’ demonstrated commitment to public service, contributions to significantly impact society through national and state leadership, and efforts to address the challenges communities face every day.
President Santa J. Ono presented the awards to Zeoli and Dus at a dinner in their honor at the President’s Residence on March 31.
Zeoli, associate professor of health management and policy at the School of Public Health, is receiving the President’s Award for Public Impact. She is the nation’s leading expert on policy interventions for firearm use in intimate partner violence. Her research on that topic has been used to close the “boyfriend loophole” in domestic violence firearm restriction laws.
“Dr. Zeoli has been instrumental in providing evidence-based testimony and research expertise to lawmakers in Lansing and Washington, D.C.,” wrote her nominators. “It is rare and special for academic researchers to be able to have the kind of direct and clear impact on public policy that Dr. April Zeoli has had.”
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