Professional Development

Outstanding Faculty Awards 2020

Congratulations to our 2020 awardees. Please click here to read about the Outstanding Faculty Awardees.

Distinguished University Professor

The Distinguished University Professor Award is bestowed upon members of the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢faculty who have had - and continue to have - outstanding records of achievement in their disciplines.

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Susan S. Bell

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Timothy H. Dixon

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Thomas Unnasch

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow

Election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. The Association of American Universities (AAU) recognizes AAAS Fellows as one of the indicators of distinction within an institution’s faculty.

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Robert H. Bishop

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Michelle S. Bourgeois

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Robert D. Frisina

Ivan Oleynik

Ivan Oleynik

Frances L. Ramos

Frances L. Ramos

 Julianne Serovich

Julianne Serovich

Lindsey (Les) Shaw

Lindsey (Les) Shaw

Paul Spector

Paul E. Spector 

Lilia Woods

Lilia M. Woods

Sarah Yuan

Sarah Yuan

Core Fulbright U.S. Scholars

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Fulbright Program provides awardees with the opportunity to study, teach, conduct research, and find solutions to shared international concerns.

Redwan Alqasemi

Redwan Alqasemi

Bárbara Cruz

Bárbara C. Cruz

Darlene DeMarie

Darlene De Marie

Tara Deubel

Tara F. Deubel

Benjamin Goldberg

Benjamin Goldberg

Thomas Hallock

Thomas Hallock

David Lewis

David Lewis

Matthew T. Mullarkey

Matthew T. Mullarkey

Meera Nanjundan

Meera Nanjundan

Kyle Reed

Kyle B. Reed

John Skvoretz

John Skvoretz

Hariharan Srikanth

Hariharan Srikanth

Fulbright International Education Administrator

This program offers fully-funded grants for U.S. higher education administrators to participate in an intensive two-week seminar abroad to learn about other countries’ higher education systems.

Amela Malkic

Amela Malkic

Fulbright Specialist

This program recognizes highly qualified U.S. academics and professionals who are then paired with host institutions abroad where they can share their expertise as well as invest themselves in other cultures.

Barnali Dixon

Barnali Dixon

Yogi Goswami

Yogi Goswami

Rangachar Kasturi

Rangachar Kasturi

Jody L. McBrien

Jody L. McBrien

Carnot Nelson

Carnot Nelson

Yashwant Pathak

Yashwant Pathak

Highly Cited Researchers

The Highly Cited Researchers list recognizes the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

Rays H.Y. Jiang

Rays H.Y. Jiang

Shengqian Ma

Shengqian Ma

Wen-Xiu Ma

Wen-Xiu Ma

Fred Mannering

Fred Mannering

Vladimir Uversky

Vladimir N. Uversky

National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award

The Faculty Early Career Development Program offers the most prestigious awards to support early-career faculty who have the potential to stand as role models in both research and education, and lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

Jean-François Biasse

Jean-François Biasse

David Murphy

David Murphy

Paul Rosen

Paul Rosen

Attila Yavuz

Attila A. Yavuz

NEH Summer Stipends Award

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends Program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication, by recognizing scholars pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.

Esra Akin-Kivanç

Esra Akin-Kivanç