Award Winners by Sponsor
Please find a listing of award winners by year as well as a directory of many professional associations and societies from which UofM faculty have received awards. While not exhaustive, this list reflects a wide range of honors and recognizes faculty excellence across the institution.
For any additions to or inquiries regarding this list, please contact OSP to submit your award information.
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Academy of American Poets
Walt Whitman Award-
Emily Skaja (English) 2018
Academy of Management
Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division/Outstanding Reviewer Service Award-
Frances Fabian (Management) 2009
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Frances Fabian (Management) 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program-
Eddie Jacobs (Electrical Computer Engineering) 2015
Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation
Anneliese Maier Research Award- Shaun Gallagher (Philosophy) 2011
American Academy In Rome
Rome Prize- Hamlett Dobbins (Art) 2013
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Arts and Letters Awards- Kamran Ince (Music) 2013
American Academy of Health Behavior
Research Laureate Award- Kenneth D. Ward (Public Health) 2017
American Academy of Nursing
Fellow- Lin Zhan (Loewenberg College of Nursing) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
American Academy of Religion
American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant-
Andre E. Johnson (Communication & Film) 2019
American Accounting Association
Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section-KPMG Best Paper Award Gender Section- Kevin Kim (Accountancy) 2017
American Anthropological Association
National Association of Student Anthropologists-Carrie Hunter Tate Award Graduate Student- Keri Brondo (Anthropology) 2004
- Keri Brondo (Anthropology) 2016
- Lindsey Feldman (Anthropology) 2017
American Antiquarian Society
Stephen Botein Fellowships- Brian Baaki (English) 2020
American Association of Law Libraries
Law Library Journal Article Of The Year Award- D. R. Jones (Law) 2014
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
AATSP Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award/College or University Level-
Diana Ruggiero (World Languages & Literatures) 2019
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award-
Judith Brown (Business Information & Technology) 2005
American Auditory Society
Ear and Hearing Editors' Award-
Jani Johnson (Communication Sciences & Disorders) 2011
American Chemical Society
PRF (Petroleum Research Fund) Doctoral New Investigator Grant-
Kensha Clark (Chemistry) 2019
American College of Sports Medicine
ACSM Foundation Doctoral Student Research Grant- Russell Emmons (Health Sciences) 2016
- Brandt Pence (Health Sciences) 2009
- Melissa Puppa (Health Sciences) 2013
- Brandt Pence (Health Sciences) 2014
American College Personnel Association
Annuit Coeptis Award - Emerging Professional- Pamela Cogdal (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 1990
- Rosie Bingham (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 1982
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture- Diana Ruggiero (World Languages & Literatures) 2018
American Counseling Association
ACA Research Award- Melanie Burgess (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 2020
American Educational Research Association
Outstanding Reviewer- Celia Rousseau Anderson (Instruction Curriculum Leadership) 2018
American Geophysical Union
Fellow- Charles A Langston (Center for Earthquake Research and Information) 2003
American Heart Association
AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award (AIREA)- Brandt Pence (Health Sciences) 2018
- Brandt Pence (Health Sciences) 2019
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellow- Gary Bowlin (Biomedical Engineering) 2013
- Joel D. Bumgardner (Biomedical Engineering) 2011
American Journalism Historians Association
Book of the Year Award-
Thomas J. Hrach (Journalism & Atrategic Media) 2017
American Law Institute
Member-
Peter V. Letsou (Law) 1900 -
Katharine Traylor Schaffzin (Law) 1900 -
William P. Kratzke (Law) 1900
American Marketing Association
AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Fellows- Subhash Jha (Marketing & Supply Chain Management) 2017
- George Deitz (Marketing & Supply Chain Management) 2004
- Balaji Krishnan (Marketing & Supply Chain Management) 1997
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Rajiv Grover (Marketing & Supply Chain Management) 1992
American Mathematical Society
AMS Fellow-
Bela Bollobas (Mathematical Sciences) 2013 -
Irena Lasiecka (Mathematical Sciences) 2015 -
Jerome A. Goldstein (Mathematical Sciences) 2014
American Musicological Society, Inc.
Robert M Stevenson Award-
Kenneth Kreitner (Music) 2007
American Philosophical Society
Library Short-Term Resident Research Fellowship- Andrei A. Znamenski (History) 2005
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Andrei A. Znamenski (History) 1991, 1999
American Physical Society
APS Fellow-
Mohamed Laradji (Physics & Materials Science) 2014
American Political Science Association
Political Psychology Section/Best Paper Award- Eric Groenendyk (Political Science) 2009, 2011, 2016
American Psychological Association
Division 12-Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology/Florence Halpern Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology- J. Gayle Beck (Psychotherapy) 2016
- J. Gayle Beck (Psychotherapy) 1994
- Thomas K. Fagan (Psychology) 1988
- Randy G. Floyd (Psychology) 2014
- Frank Andrasik (Psychology) 2000
- James G. Murphy (Psychology) 2017
- Rosie Phillips Bingham (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 1997
- Sara K. Bridges (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 2011
- Suzanne H. Lease (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 2015
- Kristoffer S. Berlin (Psychology) 2013
- Rosie Phillips Bingham (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 2007
- Suzanne Lease (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 2013
- Sara K. Bridges (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 2015
- Kurt Kraiger (Management) 2019
- Kathryn Howell (Psychology) 2019
- Thomas K. Fagan (Psychology) 1991
- Thomas K. Fagan (Psychology) 2015
- Kurt Kraiger (Management) 2014
- Kathryn H. Howell (Psychology) 2019
- Enrica Ruggs (Management) 2011
- Kristen Jones (Management) 2015
- Alex P. Lindsey (Management) 2013
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Rosie Phillips Bingham (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 2015
American Society for Engineering Education
Civil Engineering Division/Glen L Martin Award- Paul Palazolo (Civil Engineering) 2001
- Charles Camp (Civil Engineering) 2001
American Society of Addiction Medicine
ASAM Abstract Award: Young Investigator-
Steven L. West (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 2005
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Fellow-
Ali Fatemi (Mechanical Engineering) 2010 -
Gladius Lewis (Mechanical Engineering) 2008
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
ASHA Fellows- Lisa Lucks Mendel (Communication Sciences & Disorders) 1998
- D. Kimbrough Oller (Communication Sciences & Disorders) 2004
- Marilyn Dunham Wark (Communication Sciences & Disorders) 2008
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D. Kimbrough Oller (Communication Sciences & Disorders) 2013
American Statistical Association
ASA Fellow- E. Olusegun George (Mathematical Sciences) 2017
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
SIGSOFT/Distinguished Paper Award- Scott Fleming (Computer Science) 2016
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Santosh Kumar (Computer Science) 2012, 2015
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
Teacher Education Division/Outstanding and Dedicated Service to the Division Award- Clif Mims (Instruction & Curriculum Leadership) 2007
- Craig Shepherd (Instruction & Curriculum Leadership) 2007
- Clif Mims (Instruction & Curriculum Leadership) 2002
- Clif Mims (Instruction & Curriculum Leadership) 2015
- Andrew A. Tawfik (Instruction & Curriculum Leadership) 2019
- Andrew Tawfik (Instruction & Curriculum Leadership) 2015
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Andrew Tawfik (Instruction & Curriculum Leadership) 2013, 2016
Association for Information Systems
AIS Distinguished Member/Distinguished Member-Cum Laude- Sandra Richardson (Business Information & Technology) 2020
Association for Psychological Science ( formerly American Psychological Society)
Fellow- Kurt Kraiger (Management) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
- J. Gayle Beck (Psychology) 1998
- Frank Andrasik (Psychology) 1992
- Roger Kreuz (Psychology) 2020
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Living Legacy Awards- Beverly Bond (History) 2012
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Faculty Design Award- Brian Delford Andrews (Architecture) 1991, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2012
Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging
Borchard Foundation Grants- Donna S. Harkness (Law) 2000
Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
BBRF Young Investigator Grant- Nicholas W. Simon (Psychology) 2015
Broadcast Education Association
Festival of Media Arts/Faculty Best of Competition- Jay Gilmore (Journalism & Strategic Media) 2021
Broadcast Music, Inc.
BMI Student Composer Awards- Kamran Ince (Music) 1985
Corporation of Yaddo
Yaddo Residency- David Appleby (Communication & Film) 1900
- Kamran Ince (Music) 1900
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Fulbright Scholar- Kenneth Ward (Public Health) 2015
- Sarah Brown (Theatre & Dance) 2010
- Robert Smalley (Earthquake Research & Information) 2017
- Emily Thrush (English) 2000, 2012
- Jeffrey Byford (Instruction & Curriculum Leadership) 2013
- Lee Allen (Instruction & Curriculum Leadership) 2009
- Daniel Kiel (Law) 2015
- William P. Kratzke (Law) 2001
- Matthias Kaelberer (Political Science) 2008
- Marika Snider (Architecture) 2013
Council of Directors of School Psychology Programs
Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Profession of School Psychology- Tom Fagan (Psychology) 2002
Department of Energy
Early Career Research Award- Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan (Mechanical Engineering) 2020
Early Music America
Thomas Binkley Award- Kenneth Kreitner (Music) 2011
Emerald Publishing
Emerald Citations of Excellence- Huigang Liang (Business Information & Technology) 2011, 2014
- C.A. Pierce (Management) 2016
- Alex Lindsey (Management) 2015
- Cody T. Havard (Hospitality and Resort Management) 2016
- Joshua G. Coyne (Accountancy) 2019
- Kenton B. Walker (Accountancy) 2019
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Subhash Jha (Marketing & Supply Chain Management) 2018 -
Mihalis M. Golias (Civil Engineering) 2018 -
Amanda Rockinson-Szapkiw (Instruction & Curriculum Leadership) 2019
Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange (EIX)
Schulze Publication Awards- Brian Janz (Business Information & Technology) 2014, 2018
European Society for Evolutionary Biology
John Maynard Smith Prize- E. Keith Bowers (Biological Sciences) 2016
Gamma Sigma Delta, Honor Society of Agriculture
Member- William Thomas Jackson (Earth Sciences) 1995
- Joel D. Bumgardner (Biomedical Engineering) 2003
Geological Society of America
Fellow- Daniel Larsen (Earth Sciences) 2012
- Randel Tom Cox (Earth Sciences) 2012
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William T. Jackson (Earth Sciences) 2018
Getty Foundation
Getty Conservation Institute-Conservation Guest Scholars- José Rodrigues (Mathematical Sciences) 2017
Gulf Coast Literary Journal
Gulf Coast Prizes- Emily Skaja (English) 2015
Historic Brass Society
Christopher Monk Award- Kenneth Kreitner (Music) 2012
IEEE Computer Society
Certificate of Appreciation- Scott Fleming (Computer Science) 2014
IEEE Photonics Society
Graduate Student Fellowship- Thang Hoang (Physics & Materials Science) 2018
Institute for Advanced Study
School of Mathematics/Members- Béla Bollobás (Mathematical Sciences) 1996
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow- Sajjan G. Shiva (Computer Science) 1993
- Irena Lasiecka (Mathematical Sciences) 2005
- Dipankar Dasgupta (Computer Science) 2015
Institute of Transportation Engineers
Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award- Stephanie Ivey (Civil Engineering) 2020
International College of Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering
ICF-BSE Fellows- Joel D. Bumgardner (Engineering) 2016
International Communication Association
Applied Research Award- Joy Goldsmith (Communication & Film) 2017
International Mathematical Union
International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers- Béla Bollobás (Mathematical Sciences) 1998
International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
Fellow- Eddie Jacobs (Electrical Computer Engineering) 2013
- Chrysanthe Preza (Electrical Computer Engineering) 2019
International Studies Association
Margaret Hermann Award- Leah Windsor (Institute for Intelligent Systems) 2018
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Dursun Peksen (Political Science) 2020
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Guggenheim Fellowship- Kamran N. Ince (Music) 1987
- Mahir Cetiz (Music) 2017
John W. Kluge Center
Scholars in Residence- Andrei Znamenski (History) 2002
Library Company of Philadelphia
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow- Bradley Dixon (History) 2015
London Mathematical Society
Senior Whitehead Prize- Béla Bollobás (Mathematical Sciences) 2007
MacDowell Colony
MacDowell Fellowships- Kamran Ince (Music) 1986
- Beth Edwards (Art) 1994
Music Teachers National Association
MTNA e-Journal Article of the Year Award- Kevin Richmond (Music) 2014
NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
Pillars of the Profession- Rosie P. Bingham (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 2015
National Academies of Practice
Distinguished Fellow- Lisa Lucks Mendel (Communication Sciences and Disorders) 2018
National Academy of Inventors
NAI Fellow- Gary L. Bowlin (Biomedical Engineering) 2015
National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST)
Outstanding Doctoral Research Award- Katherine Wade-Jaimes (Instruction and Curriculum Leadership) 2018
National Communication Association
Health Communication Division/Distinguished Article Award- Joy Goldsmith (Communication & Film) 2009
- Joy Goldsmith (Communication & Film) 2012
- Wendy Atkins-Sayre (Communication & Film) 2012, 2014
- Andre E. Johnson (Communication & Film) 2013
- Joy Goldsmith (Communication & Film) 2013, 2018
- Amanda Nell Edgar (Communication & Film) 2014, 2015
- Katherine Grace Hendrix (Communication & Film) 2015
- Joy Goldsmith (Communication & Film) 2015
- Joy Goldsmith (Communication & Film) 2017
- Joy Goldsmith (Communication & Film) 2017
- Joy Goldsmith (Communication & Film) 2020
- Amanda Nell Edgar (Communication & Film) 2020
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Katherine G. Hendrix (Communication & Film) 2020
National Council of Teachers of English
CCCC Research Initiative- Scott Sundvall (English) 2018
- Elizabeth Lane (English) 2018
- Katherine Fredlund (English) 2018
- William Duffy (English) 2018
National Council on Rehabilitation Education
Distinguished Career in Rehabilitation Education Award- Chrisann Schiro-Geist (Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research) 2009
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars- Timothy D. Roche (Philosophy) 1990
- Shaun A. Gallagher (Philosophy) 1994
- Daphene R. McFerren (Institute for Social Change) 1994
- Janet Kathleen Page (Music) 2007
- Timothy D. Roche (Philosophy) 1998
- Peter James Brand (History) 1999, 2004
- Andrei A. Znamenski (History) 2000
- Suzanne Onstine (History) 2006
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Peter James Brand (History) 2010, 2013
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Career Transition Award (K99/R00)- Helen J. K. Sable (Psychology) 2006
- Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian (Electrical and Computer Engineering) 2011
National League for Nursing
Mary Adelaide Nutting Award for Outstanding Teaching or Leadership in Nursing Education- Lin Zhan (Nursing) 2010
National Poetry Series
Open Competition- Marcus Wicker (English) 2011
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program-
Mohammed Yeasin (Electrical Computer Engineering) 2008 -
Chrysanthe Preza (Electrical Computer Engineering) 2009 -
Xuan Zhao (Chemistry) 2014 -
Alfred Hall (Education) 2016 -
Nathan DeYonker (Chemistry) 2019 -
Jessica A Jennings (Biomedical Engineering) 2020 -
Thomas Watson (Computer Science) 2020 -
Ana Doblas (Electrical and Computer Engineering) 2021
National Society for Histotechnology
Diamond Cover Award (Journal of Histotechnology)-
Omar Skalli (Biological Sciences) 2018
National Strength and Conditioning Association
Editorial Excellence Award (JSCR)- Larry W. Weiss (Health Sciences) 1998
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Lawrence Weiss (Health Sciences) 2003
Newberry Library
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows, Long-Term- Susan Eva O'Donovan (History) 2009
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Darryl Domingo (English) 2010
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award-
Xiaohua Huang (Chemistry) 2011 -
Xiao Shen (Physics & Materials Science) 2016 -
Thang Hoang (Physics & Materials Science) 2018
Organization of American Historians
Erik Barnouw Award- David Appleby (Communication & Film) 1994
- Susan Eva O'Donovan (History) 2008
Photolucida
Critical Mass Top 50-
Beth Edwards (Art) 2006
Pushcart Press
Pushcart Prize- Marcus Wicker (English) 2019
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship- Cristina Maria Cervone (English) 2011
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Cottrell College Science Award- Sanjay R. Mishra (Physics & Materials Sciences) 2005
- Mohamed Laradji (Physics & Materials Sciences) 2006
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Nathan DeYonker (Chemistry) 2020
Royal Society
Fellows and Foreign Members- Béla Bollobás (Mathematical Sciences) 2011
SAE International
SAE Engineering Events Outstanding Oral Presentation Award- Ali Fatemi (Mechanical Engineering) 2005, 2018
SEL Studies in English Literature
Monroe Kirk Spears Award- Joshua Phillips (English) 2014
Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation
Koussevitzky Foundation Commissions- Kamran Ince (Music) 1987
Simons Foundation
Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians- Bentuo Zheng (Mathematical Sciences) 2018
Society for Biomaterials
Society For Biomaterials Award for Service- Joel D. Bumgardner (Biomedical Engineering) 2017
Society for History in the Federal Government
Thomas Jefferson Prize- Susan E. O'Donovan (History) 2015
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
W T and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics- Irena Lasiecka (Mathematical Sciences) 2011
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Irena Lasiecka (Mathematical Sciences) 2019
Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
Ivan B. Rahn Education Award- Richard Sweigard (Engineering) 2013
Society of Behavioral Medicine
SBM Fellows- Frank Andrasik (Psychology) 1986
- Kenneth D. Ward (Public Health) 2011
Stanford University
Stanford Humanities Center/External Faculty Fellowship- Cristina Maria Cervone (English) 2016
The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
Homer Hoyt Doctoral Dissertation Award- Mark A. Sunderman (Finance) 1988
The Japan Foundation
CGP Education Grants-
Yuki Matsuda (World Languages & Literatures) 2012
The New South
New South Writing Contest-Prose- Eric Schlich (English) 2016
Thomson Reuters
Highly Cited Researcher-
Irena Lasiecka (Mathematical Sciences) 2001 -
Robert Triggiani (Mathematical Sciences) 2001
Trainers of School Psychologists
Outstanding Contributions to Training Award-
Thomas Fagan (Psychology) 2006
United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Fulbright U.S. Student Program- Leslie A. Robinson (Psychology) 1978
- Daniel Unowsky (History) 1990
- Joel D. Bumgardner (Biomedical Engineering) 1993
- Dennis Laumann (History) 1996
- Kelz, Robert V. (World Languages & Literatures) 1998
- Catherine L. Phipps (History) 2000
- Keri A. Brondo (Anthropology) 2001
- Amanda K. Lambert-Pennington (Urban Affairs) 2001
- Evelyn Fogle (English) 2002
- Michael V. Perez (Anthropology) 2005
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Marika Snider (Architecture) 2017
University of Alabama
The Plank Center/Plank Educator Fellowship- Melissa Janoske McLean (Journalism and Strategic Media) 2016
University of California, Los Angeles
Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies/Clark Short-Term Fellowship- Darryl Domingo (English) 2010
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis Population Center/IPUMS Research Award- Joseph T. Lariscy (Sociology) 2014
Volkswagen Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at Universities and Research Institutes in Germany and the U.S.- James Bahoh (Philosophy) 2017
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant- Michael Vicente Perez (Anthropology) 2007
Whiting Foundation
Dissertation Fellowship- Shaun Gallagher (Philosophy) 1979
- Melanie Conroy (World Languages & Literatures) 2011
Yale University
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition/Postdoctoral and Faculty Fellowships- Susan O'Donovan (History) 2006