University Awards & Honors

Distinguished Professors
University Distinguished Professor awards honor faculty who have made sustained contributions of consistent educational excellence and have demonstrated outstanding commitment to undergraduate education.
Susan H. Aiken PhD Professor of English Visit Website
John J.B. Allen PhD Professor of Psychology Visit Website
Peter M. Beudert MFA Professor of Design & Technology, School of Theatre, Film & Television Visit Website
William S. Bickel PhD Professor Emeritus of Physics Visit Website
Paul Blowers PhD Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Visit Website
Judith Bronstein PhD Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Visit Website
Gail D. Burd PhD Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Visit Website
Robert F. Butler PhD Professor Emeritus of Geosciences Visit Website
Christopher Franklin Carroll PhD Lecturer Emeritus of English Visit Website
James W.Clarke PhD Professor Emeritus of Political Sciences Visit Website
Albrecht Classen PhD Professor of German Studies Visit Website
Richard A. Cosgrove PhD Professor Emeritus of History Visit Website
Richard A. Demers PhD Professor of Linguistics Visit Website
Harold W. Dixon PhD Professor of Theatre Arts Visit Website
George E. Gehrels PhD Professor of Geosciences Visit Website
Jerrold E. Hogle PhD Professor of English Visit Website
Wanda H. Howell PhD Professor of Nutritional Sciences Visit Website
Christopher D. Impey PhD Professor of Astronomy Visit Website
Harold P. Larson PhD Professor Emeritus of Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Visit Website
James F. LaSalle PhD Professor Emeritus of Management Information Systems Visit Website
David O. Lomen PhD Professor of Mathematics Visit Website
Clifford M. Lytle PhD Professor Emeritus of Political Science Visit Website
William G. McCallum PhD Professor of Mathematics Visit Website
Carrol McLaughlin PhD Professor of Music Visit Website
Delbert D. Phillips PhD Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies Visit Website
Mary Poulton PhD Professor and Department Head, Mining and Geological Engineering Visit Website
Dennis T. Ray PhD Professor of Plant Sciences Visit Website
J. Jefferson Reid PhD Professor of Anthropology Visit Website
Robert H. Robichaux PhD Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Visit Website
Jerzy Rozenblit PhD Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Visit Website
Avelino Eduardo Saez PhD Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Visit Website
William Yslas Vélez PhD Professor of Mathematics Visit Website
Raymond E. White, Jr. PhD Professor of Astronomy Visit Website
Paul Wilson PhD Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Visit Website
Regents Professors
Regents' Professor, the highest of faculty ranks, is reserved for full professors with exceptional achievements that have brought them national or international recognition.
David S. Alberts PhD Professor of Pharmacology, Medicine and Public Health Visit Website
J. Roger P. Angel PhD Professor of Astronomy Visit Website
S. James Anaya JD Professor of Law Visit Website
Julia E. Annas PhD Professor of Philosophy Visit Website
W. David Arnett PhD Professor of Astronomy Visit Website
Barbara A. Babcock PhD Professor of English Visit Website
Victor R. Baker PhD Professor of Geosciences Visit Website
Carol A. Barnes PhD Professor of Psychology Visit Website
Harrison H. Barrett PhD Professor of Optical Sciences Visit Website
Elizabeth A. Bernays PhD Professor Emerita of Entomology Visit Website
Thomas G. Bever PhD Professor of Linguistics Visit Website
J. Douglas Canfield PhD Professor of English Visit Website
Vicki L. Chandler PhD Professor of Plant Sciences and Molecular & Cellular Biology Visit Website
Robert H. Colescott PhD Professor Emeritus of Art Visit Website
Michael A. Cusanovich PhD Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry Visit Website
George H. Davis PhD Professor Emeritus of Geosciences Visit Website
Chandrakant S. Desai PhD Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Visit Website
Dan B. Dobbs PhD Professor of Law Visit Website
Michael J. Drake PhD Director of Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Visit Website
Edgar A. Dryden PhD Professor of English Visit Website
John H. Enemark PhD Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry Visit Website
Paula Ya-Mei Fan PhD Professor of Music Visit Website
Joel Feinberg PhD Professor of Philosophy and Law Visit Website
Robert J. Glennon PhD Law Instruction Visit Website
Yetta M. Goodman PhD Professor Emeritus of Language and Reading Visit Website
Ralph E. Griswold PhD Professor of Computer Science Visit Website
Mark R. Haussler PhD Professor of Physiology Visit Website
C. Vance Haynes PhD Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Visit Website
John G. Hildebrand PhD Professor of Neuroscience Visit Website
Jane H. Hill PhD Professor of Anthropology Visit Website
Travis W. Hirschi PhD Professor Emeritus of Sociology Visit Website
Audrey L. Holland PhD Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences Visit Website
Victor J. Hruby PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Visit Website
Donald R. Huffman PhD Professor Emeritus of Physics Visit Website
Malcolm K. Hughes PhD Professor of Dendrochronology Visit Website
Donald M. Hunten PhD Professor of Earth and Planetary Atmospheres Visit Website
J. Randolph Jokipii PhD Professor of Astronomy Visit Website
Susan C. Karant-Nunn PhD Professor of History Visit Website
Margaret G. Kidwell PhD Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Visit Website
W. David Kingery PhD Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Visit Website
Mary P. Koss PhD Professor of Public Health, Psychiatry, and Family & Community Medicine Visit Website
Willis E. Lamb, Jr. PhD Professor of Physics Visit Website
Brian A. Larkins PhD Professor of Plant Sciences Visit Website
John H. Law PhD Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry Visit Website
Keith E. Lehrer PhD Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Visit Website
Diana M. Liverman PhD Professor, Institute of the Environment, School of Geography and Development Visit Website
Frank J. Low PhD Professor of Astronomy Visit Website
Michael W. Marcellin PhD Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Visit Website
Therese A. Markow PhD Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Visit Website
Fernando D. Martinez MD Professor of Pediatrics Visit Website
Oscar J. Martínez PhD Professor of History Visit Website
Toni M. Massaro JD Professor of Law Visit Website
H. Jay Melosh PhD Professor of Geosciences Visit Website
Pierre Meystre PhD Professor of Physics Visit Website
N. Scott Momaday PhD Professor Emeritus of English Visit Website
Nancy A. Moran PhD Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Visit Website
Lynn Nadel PhD Professor of Psychology Visit Website
Robert M. Netting PhD Professor of Anthropology Visit Website
Shlomo P. Neuman PhD Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Visit Website
Alan C. Newell PhD Professor of Mathematics Visit Website
Mark A. Nichter PhD Professor of Anthropology Visit Website
Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr. PhD Professor of Management Information Systems Visit Website
Heiko A. Oberman PhD Professor of History Visit Website
Howard Ochman PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Visit Website
John W. Olsen PhD Professor of Anthropology Visit Website
Roy R. Parker PhD Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Visit Website
Jeanne E. Pemberton PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Visit Website
John L. Pollock PhD Professor of Philosophy Visit Website
Marcia J. Rieke Sc.D. Professor of Astronomy Visit Website
George H. Rieke PhD Professor of Planetary Sciences Visit Website
Sydney E. Salmon MD Professor of Medicine Visit Website
Muriel R. Saville-Troike PhD Professor Emerita of English Visit Website
Michael Schaller PhD Professor of History Visit Website
Farhang Shadman PhD Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Visit Website
Richard W. Shelton PhD Professor Emeritus of English Visit Website
W. James Shuttleworth PhD Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Visit Website
Charles P. Sonett PhD Professor Emeritus of Planetary Sciences Visit Website
H. David Soren PhD Professor of Art, Anthropology and Classics Visit Website
Nicholas James Strausfeld PhD Professor of Neuroscience Visit Website
Peter A. Strittmatter PhD Professor of Astronomy Visit Website
Douglas G. Stuart PhD Professor Emeritus of Physiology Visit Website
Thomas W. Swetnam PhD Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Visit Website
Barbara Timmermann PhD Professor Emerita of Pharmacology and Toxicology Visit Website
Leslie P. Tolbert PhD Professor of Cellular Biology and Anatomy Visit Website
Gordon Tollin PhD Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Visit Website
Elizabeth Vierling PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Visit Website
James R. Wait PhD Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Visit Website
Frances Ann Walker PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Visit Website
Michael A. Wells PhD Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Visit Website
Allen S. Whiting PhD Professor Emeritus of Political Science Visit Website
Richard Wilkinson PhD Professor of Classicss Visit Website
Arthur T. Winfree PhD Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Visit Website
Henry I. Yamamura PhD Professor of Pharmacology Visit Website
Vladimir E. Zakharov PhD Professor of Mathematics Visit Website
Ofelia Zepeda PhD Professor of Linguistics Visit Website
Distinguished Outreach Professors
This award recognizes faculty who have made outstanding contributions to outreach at The University of Arizona, in the State of Arizona and the nation.
Diane Austin PhD Professor of Anthropology Visit Website
Carol Bender MSSS Distinguished Outreach Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Visit Website
Timothy Dennehy PhD Professor Emeritus of Entomology Visit Website
Celestino Fernández PhD Professor of Sociology Visit Website
Todd V. Fletcher PhD Associate Professor of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies Visit Website
Francisco A.R. García MD Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Visit Website
Lay James Gibson PhD Professor of Geology and Regional Development Visit Website
Sharon Megdal PhD Director, Water Resources Research Center Visit Website
Charles (Corky) Poster Mr Director of Drachman Institute Visit Website
Edward F. Reid MM Distinguished Outreach Professor of Music Visit Website
Jeanette L. Ryan Ms Deputy Director of AHSC Library Visit Website
Sally Stevens PhD Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Executive Director, Southwest Institute for Research on Women Visit Website
Russell Tronstad PhD Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Visit Website
Henry and Phyllis Koffler Prize in Teaching
The Koffler Prizes, established through the generosity of Henry and Phyllis Koffler in 2000, recognize outstanding accomplishment in the areas of teaching; research/scholarship/creative activity; or public service/outreach.
Vincente A. Talanquer PhD Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Visit Website
Provost's General Education Teaching Award
This award acknowledges teaching excellence in university general education.
Laura G. Gutiérrez PhD Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Visit Website
Thomas B. Wilson PhD Lecturer, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science Visit Website
University of Arizona Foundation Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award
This award recognizes excellence in the art of teaching at all levels, but the Foundation places particular emphasis on teaching at the undergraduate level.
Lester I. McCann PhD Lecturer, Department of Computer Science Visit Website
Graduate & Professional Education Teaching & Mentoring Awards
This award acknowledges faculty and professionals who excel in their teaching and mentoring of graduate students.
Nancy J. Parezo PhD Professor of American Indian Studies Visit Website
Karen S. Schumaker PhD Professor of Plant Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology Visit Website