Faculty Awards & Honors

In areas as diverse as astronomy, medicine, optics, entrepreneurship, and dance, UA faculty and programs are among the nation's best.

University Rankings, Highlights & Awards

UA faculty are also globally recognized for their leadership, scholarship and service by world-renowned academic societies and programs. Below is a listing of our national and international program awards, and our University of Arizona awards and honors recipients.

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National & International Awards

2015 Renu Malhotra
2010 Roy R. Parker
2007 Marcia J. Rieke
2006 Nancy A. Moran
2005 Keith E. Lehrer
2003 George H. Rieke 
2001 John G. Hildebrand, Robert C. Kennicutt
1998 Jane H. Hill
1994 Carol Marguerite Rose
1993 Margaret G. Kidwell
1992 Julia E. Annas, N. Scott Momaday, Seymour Reichlin
1990 J. Roger P. Angel
1988 David W. Arnett
1977 Peter A. Strittmatter
1959 Aden B. Meinel
1956 Nicolaas Bloembergen

 

AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science

2019 Monica Ramirez-Andreotta

AAAS Fellow

2018 Karl W. Flessa, Michael A. Riehle, Xubin Zeng
2017 Kimberly Andrews Espy, Martha S. Hunter, Mari N. Jensen, John L. Koprowski, Joceline Lega, Daniel Zeng
2016 Leslie Tolbert
2015 Carol Bender, Judith K. Brown, Dennis L. Lichtenberger
2014 Peter A. Franken, Todd A. Schlenke
2013 Malcolm K. Hughes, Katrina Marie Miranda, Diana E. Wheeler
2012 Alexander Badyaev, Michael F. Brown, Yves Carriere, Brian Enquist
2011 Elliot Herman
2010 Eugene G. Sander, Rod A. Wing
2009 Steven R. Archer, David D. Breshears, Robert T. Downs, Christopher D. Impey, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Jeanne E. Pemberton, Mary A. Peterson, Bruce E. Tabashnik, Mary J. Wirth
2008 Charles Gerba, William Vélez
2007 Carol Barnes, Nancy A. Moran, Steven D. Shwartz, Feiyue Wang, Jason X.-J. yuan
2006 George Bowden, M. Bonner Denton, Ian Pepper, Hans VanEtten
2005 Michael Nachman
2004 Pierre Meystre
2003 Gail Burd, Lisa Graumlich, William Hubbard
2002 David W. Galbraith, Merrill Garrett, Jonathan Lunine, Charles Prewitt
2001 Richard Green, Nasser Peyghambarian
2000 David Arnett, Michael A. Cusanovich
1999 William Dickinson
1998 Deborah Hughes Hallett, Robert Sloviter, Marlys Hearst Witte
1997 Carl William Birky
1996 Keith A. Joiner
1995 Li-Zhi Fang, Frank Porreca
1994 Nancy Parezo
1993 D. M. Hunten
1992 C. Vance Haynes, James F. Hays, William Hoffman, Margaret G. Kidwell
1991 Donald A. Falk, Lynn Nadel
1990 Laurence H. Hurley
1989 Victor Baker, Elden Braun, Joseph P. Mascarenhas
1988 Jeffrey Dean
1987 Peter Chesson, I. Glenn Sipes
1986 John G. Hildebrand
1984 Richard Glass, Michael Schiffer, Frances Ann Walker
1982 Hyatt M. Gibbs, Jane H. Hill
1981 Michael Brown
1972 Alice Schlegel
1971 John Enemark, B. Roy Frieden, Victor Hruby, John Kessler, Thomas Lindell, Everett Lindsay, Neil Mendelson, Cornelius Steelink, Roald Wangsness
1969 William Longacre
1959 Arthur Jelinek
1958 H. V. Aposhian, Elizabeth Roemer
1950 Aden B. Meinel

AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize

2009 Travis Barman

Membership

2016 John G. Hildebrand
2013 Julia Elizabeth Annas
1991 Heiko A. Oberman
1969 Emil W. Haury
1945 Carl S. Marvel

Franklin Grants

2016 Irene Bald Romano
2013 Ronald H. Towner
2011 Cheryl K. Malone
2007 Eleni Hasaki

Phillips Fund Grant Recipients

2003 Eileen M. Luna-Firebaugh
1995 Nancy J. Parezo

Sabbatical Fellowships

1999 Julia Clancy-Smith

John Frederick Lewis Award

1993 David Gilman Romano

2019 Judith X. Becerra, Heidi Brown, Robert B. Fleischman, Rachel Gallery, Lisa Molomot, Johann Rafelski, Johanna Skibscrud, D. Lawrence Venable
2017 Mihai Ducea
2016 Melissa A. Fitch, Jeannine Relly, Jerzy Rozenblit
2015 Suzanne Dovi, Stephen Kobourav, Nicolette Teufel-Shone, Qing Zhang
2014 Sama Alshaibi, Christopher Castro, Christian Collberg, Benedict Colombi, Roger Nichols, Bane Vasic, Richard Ziolkowski
2013 Alberto Arenas, Wendell Ela, Frank Gohlke, Dale LaFleur, Jenny Lee
2012 Thomas DeGomez, Grace Fielder, Norma Gonzalez, A. J. Timothy Jull, Virginia Lebaron, Linda Lumsden, Supapann Seraphin, Marcela Vazquez-Leon
2011 Carol Bender, Michael M. Brescia, William E. Boyd, Melissa A. Fitch, Avigdor Leftin, Lesley P. Newman
2010 Rodney D. Adam, Maribel Alvarez, Anne Browning-Aiken, Jeferey Burgess, Lesley D. Frame, Barron J. Orr, Jeffrey J. O Sallaz, Bonnie Wasserman
2009 Emmanuel T. Akporiaye, Stephanie J. Buechler, James Cunningham, Reid Fontaine, Marie A. Griego-Jones, Christopher K. Jones, Donald Slack, James T. Watson
2008 Mary Beth Adam, David Gibbs, Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, Beretta Smith-Shomade, Gonda VanSteen
2007 George Burr, David Chisholm, Eniko Enikov, Joseph Galaskiewicz, Ellen McMahon
2006 Stephen Kobourov, Barbara Kosta, Dennis Larson, Anna Marie O'Leary
2005 Kevin M. Fitzsimmons, Ana Maria Merico-Stephens, Katherine A. Snyder, Gary David Thompson
2004 Irene S D'Almeida, Keith James, Richard E. Michod, Russell Keith Monson
2003 Alfred James Quiroz
2002 Carl J. Bauer, Susan Aimee Crane, Muluneh Yitayew
2001 Ludwik Adamowicz, Peter Michael Beudertm, George Nikolas Frantziskonis, Leila O. Hudson, Robert Anthony Williams, Muluneh Yitayew
2000 Michael Frederick Brown, Elizabeth Jessie Garber, Thomas Kovach

2017 Julia Clancy-Smith, Ander Monson
2016 Feryal Ӧzel
2015 Alison Hawthorne Deming
2014 Diana Liverman
2013 Ann Zabludoff
2008 Xiaohui Fan, Robin Stryker, David J. Taylor, Jason X.-J. Yuan
2007 Fenton Johnson
2006 Dennis Zaritsky
2005 Jonathan T. Overpeck
2004 Steve Johnstone
2003 Susan C. Karant-Nunn
2002 Ellen B. Basso, Craig Walsh, Jonathan Weinberg
2000 Rabi Bhattacharya, Elizabeth Vierling
1999 Steve Orlen
1998 Russel K. Monson, Jay Rosenblatt
1994 Nicholas James Strausfeld
1991 Harmony Hammond
1989 Jerrold Edwin Hogle
1988 Jane R. Miller
1987 Alan E. Bernstein, Arthur J. Jelinek
1986 Daniel Asia
1984 Victor J. Hruby, Hermann George Rebel, William M. Schaffer
1983 Keith Lehrer
1982 Jonathan Beck, Edgar A. Dryden, Gerald C. Monsman
1981 William G. Denver, Michael Schaller, Donald Robert Uhlmann
1980 William H. Wing
1977 Jonathan Penner
1976 Thomas G. Bever, Alan C. Newell, Douglas G. Stuart
1975 Robert Porter Erickson, Frank Gohlke
1974 Eliot S. Hearst
1972 John A. Mills
1968 Harold Clark Fritts, Charles Philip Sonnet
1966 N. Scott Momaday
1965 Paul Schultz Martin
1964 William R. Dickinson
1953 Henry Koffler

NAM Members

2015 Kenneth S. Ramos
2012 Arthur B. Sanders
2011 Joe G.N. "Skip" Garcia
2009 Setsuko K. Chambers
1998 J. Lyle Bootman
1988 M. Paul Capp

Robert Wood Johnson Policy Fellowship

2007 Daniel Derksen

2015 Sara Tolbert
2014 Nolan L. Cabrera
2013 Francesca Lopez
2011 Thomas L. Good
2005 Regina Dell-Amen
1998 Dwight S. Atkinson, Luis C. Moll

NAE Members

2014 Harrison H. Barrett
2010 Larry Peterson
2007 James C. Wyant
2006 Thomas L. Koch
2005 Kenneth A. Jackson, Spencer R. Titley
2003 Soroosh Sorooshian
1997 J. Brent Hiskey
1996 Donald R. Uhlmann
1992 Shlomo P. Neuman, Robert R. Shannon
1989 Israel J. Wygnanski
1986 Ernest T. Smerdon
1984 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Peter W. Likins
1975 W. David Kingery

US Frontiers of Engineering Participant

2012 Armin Sorooshian
2011 Armin Sorooshian

 

NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing

2019 Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr.

NAS Members

2018 Carol Barnes
2015 Renu Malhotra
2012 Marcia J. Rieke, Roy R. Parker
2011 George H. Rieke
2010 Jonathan Lunine
2007 John G. Hildebrand
2006 Robert C. Kennicutt
2004 Nancy A. Moran
2003 H. Jay Melosh
2002 Vicki L. Chandler
2001 J. Randolph Jokipii
2000 J. Roger P. Angel
1996 Margaret G. Kidwell, Brian A. Larkins
1994 William Bowers
1992 William Dickinson, John H. Law
1990 C. Vance Haynes
1985 W. David Arnett
1981 Donald M. Hunten
1974 Frank J. Low
1960 Nicolaas Bloembergen
1954 Willis E. Lamb, Jr.

Gulf Research Program/Early-Career Research Fellowship

2017 Laura Bakkensen

Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellows

2016 Katalin Gothard, Valerie Trouet
2014 Katalin Gothard, Ryan Gutenkunst
2013 Alexander Badyaev
2011 Jeffrey Pyun
2010 R. Jones
2009 Felicia Goodrum
2005 Martin Dufwenberg, Caitlin Griffith
2004 Shane Byrne, Keith Dienes
2000 Renu Malhotra

 

NAI Senior Member (Inaugural class)

2019 Dong Chul "Jeffrey" Pyun

NAI Fellow

2018 Harrison H. Barrett,  Thomas L. Koch
2017 J. Roger P. Angel
2016 Nasser Peyghambarian
2015 Marvin J. Slepian
2013 Frederic Zenhausern

2005 Roy J. Glauber
1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen
1955 Willis E. Lamb, Jr.

2015 Juan Felipe Herrera

University Awards & Honors

2017 Melissa Fitch
2016 Elliott Cheu, Alan Nighorn
2015 Vincente Talanquer
2014 Andrew S. Cohen, Frederick P. Kiefer
2013 Eric A. Betterton, Charles Scruggs
2012 Paul Blowers, Judith Bronstein
2011 Peter M. Beudert, Avelino Eduardo Sáez
2010 Mary Poulton
2009 Jerzy Rozenblit
2008 Carrol McLaughlin, Paul Wilson
2007 J. Jefferson Reid
2006 John J.B. Allen, William G. McCallum
2005 George E. Gehrels, Harold P. Larson
2004 Albrecht Classen, Dennis T. Ray
2003 Gail D. Burd
2002 Robert F. Butler, Harold W. Dixon, Wanda H. Howell, Robert H. Robichaux
2000 James W. Clarke, Christopher D. Impey
1999 Richard A. Demers, Delbert D. Phillips
1998 Susan H. Aiken, William Yslas Velez
1997 William S. Bickel, Richard A. Cosgrove
1996 Jerrold E. Hogle, David O. Lomen
1995 Christopher Franklin Carroll, James F. LaSalle, Clifford M. Lytle, Raymond E. White, Jr.

2014 Bruce Bayly
2009 Trent Teegerstrom
2008 John Marchello
2007 Joel Meister
2006 Robert Williams, Jr.
2005 Sherry C. Betts
2004 Alfred Kaszniak
2003 Michael A. Wells
2002 Jill Guernsey de Zapien

2016 Ed Prather
2012 Vicente A. Talanquer
2009 Alexander Cronin
2008 Carrol McLaughlin
2006 Richard W. Shelton
2005 Renate A. Schulz
2004 Christopher D. Impey
2002 JoLaine Reierson Draugalis

2012 Laura G. Gutierrez, Thomas B. Wilson
2011 Stacey Oberly
2010 James Riley, Joellen Russell
2009 Elaine Marchello, Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman
2007 Edward E. Prather
2006 Beatriz Urrea
2004 Melissa Fitch, John Kupfer, Ralph Price, Timothy Swindle, J. Pat Willerton
2003 Richard Cosgrove, Suzanne Delaney, Katherine Hirschboeck
2002 Peter Foley, Gregory Jackson, James O'Brien, Susan M. White
2001 Felice Bedford, V. Spike Peterson, Richard Poss, Dennis Ray
2000 Thomas Fleming, George Gehrels, Helle Mathiasen, Cecile McKee
1999 Albrecht Classen, Jennifer Jenkins, Harold P. Larson, John McCullen
1998 Kari McBride, Homer Pettey, Cindy Rankin, Robert H. Robichaux
1997 Janice Dewey, Gerald Swanson

2019 Alfred McEwen, John Rutherfoord, Marvin Slepian, Rod Wing, Lucy Ziurys
2018 David Brashears, Allan Hamilton, Barbara Mills, Steven Schwartz, Robert A. Williams
2017 Alison Hawthorne Deming, Hoshin Gupta, Pham Huu Tiep
2016 Ronald Breiger, Frank Gohlke, Renu Malhotra
2015 Julia Clancy-Smith, Bruce Tabashnik
2014 Jonathan Overpeck, Mary C. Stiner
2013 Neal R. Armstrong, Hsinchun Chen, Xiaohui Fan
2012 Robert J. Glennon, Thomas W. Swetnam
2011 Thomas G. Bever, Diana M. Liverman
2010 S. James Anaya, Edgar A. Dryden, Marcia J. Rieke
2009 Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Fernando D. Matrtinez, W. James Shuttleworth
2008 Howard Ochman, Elizabeth Vierling, Richard Wilkinson
2007 Malcolm K. Hughes, Michael W. Marcellin, Ofelia Zepeda
2006 Carol A. Barnes, Mary P. Koss, Toni M. Massaro, Mark A. Nichter
2005 Michael A. Cusanovich, Michael J. Drake, Paula Ya-Mei Fan, John W. Olsen, Jeanne E. Pemberton, Farhang Shadman, Vladimir E. Zakharov
2004 H. Jay Melosh, Alan C. Newell, John L. Pollock, George H. Rieke
2003 David S. Alberts, Vicki L. Chandler, Lynn Nadel, Muriel R. Saville-Troike
2002 Pierre Meystre, Roy R. Parker, Michael Schaller, Leslie P. Tolbert, Michael A. Wells
2000 Brian A. Larkins, Nancy A. Moran, Frances Ann Walker
1999 Therese A. Markow, Oscar J. Martinez, Barbara Timmermann
1998 George H. Davis, John H. Enemark, Audrey L. Holland, Nicholas James Strausfeld
1997 J. Randolph Jokipii, H. David Soren, Gordon Tollin, Henry I . Yamamura
1995 Julia E. Annas, W. David Arnett, Jane H. Hill
1994 J. Douglas Canfield, Margaret G. Kidwell, Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr., Peter A. Strittmatter
1993 Barbara A. Babcock, Allen S. Whiting
1992 Dan B. Dobbs, Donald R. Huffman, W. David Kingery
1991 Elizabeth A. Bernays, Yetta M. Goodman, C. Vance Haynes, John H. Law, Robert M. Netting, Richard W. Shelton
1990 J. Roger P. Angel, Harrison H. Barrett, Robert H. Colescott, Ralph E. Griswold, Mark R. Haussler, Willis E. Lamb, Jr., Keith E. Lehrer, Charles P. Sonett, Douglas G. Stuart
1989 Chandrakant S. Desai, John G. Hildebrand, Travis W. Hirschi, Victor J. Hruby, Frank J. Low, Sydney E. Salmon, Arthur T. Winfree
1988 Victor R. Baker, Joel Feinberg, Donald M. Hunten, N. Scott Momaday, Shlomo P. Neuman, Heiko A. Oberman, James R. Wait