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Fifteen external award winning faculty members earn Pathways and Highly Prestigious Award status.


The College of Arts & Sciences has identified fifteen faculty members that have garnered external awards and recognitions qualifying as Highly Prestigious and Pathways Awards within the Vice President of Faculty Affairs' Amplifying External Awards Program. As a result, each award recipient will receive monetary awards from the college along with a match from Faculty Affairs.

Launched in August of 2022, Faculty Affairs is committed to partnering with colleges/schools across the university through the Amplifying External Awards Program to better position and incentivize faculty to apply for prestigious external awards.

The 2023 Amplifying External Award Program recipients are:

Highly Prestigious Awards

  • Hoi-Eun Kim, Department of History, National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award
  • Kofi Nutor, Department of Anthropology, American Council of Learned Societies Fellow
  • Hong-Cai Zhou, Department of Chemistry, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Pathways Awards

  • Brian Anderson, Department of Psychology & Brain Science, American Psychological Society Fellow

  • Lane Baker, Department of Chemistry, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

  • Jessica Bernard, Department of Psychology & Brain Science, American Psychological Society Fellow

  • Irina Bobkova, Department of Mathematics, National Science Foundation Career Award

  • Richard Gomer, Department of Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

  • Wendy Jepson, Department of Geography, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

  • Xiaohong Liu, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

  • Yina Liu, Department of Oceanography, National Science Foundation Career Award

  • Jonas Luhrmann, Department of Mathematics, National Science Foundation Career Award

  • Quentin Michaudel, Department of Chemistry, National Science Foundation Career Award

  • Rebecca Schlegal, Department of Psychology & Brain Science, American Psychological Society Fellow

  • Michael Waters, Department of Anthropology, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

Four faculty members from the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences qualified for Amplifying External Awards Program recognition during the Fall 2022 semester:

Highly Prestigious

  • Vijay Singh, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, National Academy of Engineering

Pathways Awards

  • Jeff Tomberlin, Department of Entomology, Entomological Society of America Fellow

  • Dara Wald, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications, National Science Foundation Early Career Award

  • Rodolfo Nayga, Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Fellow