Faculty Awards & Honors
In areas as diverse as astronomy, medicine, optics, entrepreneurship, and dance, UA faculty and programs are among the nation's best.
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 Fellow
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 |
| 2012 | Oliver Guyon |
| 1999 | Ofelia Zepeda |
| 1997 | Nancy A. Moran, Brackette F. Williams |
| 1996 | J. Roger P. Angel |
| 1995 | Nicholas James Strausfeld |
| 1990 | Gary Paul Nabhan |
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 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 |
| 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 | David G. Armstrong, Daniel McDonald |
| 2016 | Thomas Sheridan, Cynthia Thomson |
| 2015 | Henrietta "Etta" Kralovec, Frans Tax |
| 2014 | Donald W. McCarthy, Supapan Seraphin |
| 2013 | Peder Cuneo, Sally J. Reel |
| 2012 | Todd V. Fletcher, Sally Stevens |
| 2011 | Carol Bender, Edward F. Reid |
| 2010 | Sharon Megdal |
| 2009 | Francisco A.R. Garcia |
| 2008 | Diane Austin, Russell Tronstad |
| 2007 | Celestino Fernandez |
| 2005 | Timothy Dennehy, Lay James Gibson |
| 2004 | Charles (Corky) Poster, Jeanette L. Ryan |
| 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. |
| 2016 | Nader Chafoun, Price Fishback |
| 2015 | Jerry Gaus, Hoshin Vijay Gupta |
| 2014 | Susan Shaw, Robin Stryker |
| 2013 | Diana Archangelli, David Christenson |
| 2012 | Nancy J. Parezo, Karen S. Schumaker |
| 2011 | Katia da Costa Bezerra, Heidi Harley |
| 2010 | Andrew Carnie, Elizabeth Kennedy |
| 2009 | Thomas Mauet, Chris Segrin |
| 2008 | Meg Lota Brown, Dennis Lichtenberger, Gary Thompson |
| 2007 | Russell Cropanzano, Cindy Rankin |
| 2006 | Patricia Anders, Sallie Marston, A. Edwardo Sáez |
| 2005 | John J.B. Allen, Carrol McLaughlin |
| 2004 | Barbara Atwood, Thomas Holm |
| 2003 | Herbert E. Pollock, Mary Wildner-Bassett |
| 2002 | John Enemark, Guy McPherson |
| 2001 | Arthur Andrews, Yetta M. Goodman, Samual H. Yalkowsky |
| 2000 | Robert Bates, Brian Crisp |
| 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 |
| 2017 | Shufeng Zhang |
| 2015 | Bruce Tabashnik |
| 2013 | Ida M. Moore |
| 2011 | Nicholas James Strausfeld |
| 2009 | Jane H. Hill |
| 2008 | Albrecht Classen |
| 2007 | Sumitendra Mazumdar |
| 2006 | John G. Hildebrand |
| 2005 | George H. Rieke |
| 2004 | Pamela Decker |
| 2003 | Brian A. Larkins |
| 2002 | J. Roger P. Angel |
| 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 |