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The University of Virginia features faculty who have received prestigious awards at the state, national, and international levels. A sampling of these honors is listed here.
A Highly Cited Researcher is in the top 250 of scientists and scholars worldwide cited in 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences.
This prestigious award is granted to faculty in their early career stages who have demonstrated an effective integration of research and education and who show great potential. The awards range from $200,000 to $500,000 each over a period of four or five years.
Commonly known as "genius" grants, MacArthur Fellowships provide an unrestricted $500,000 award in recognition of the exceptional work invidividuals have accomplished in their fields.
- Terry Belanger, Rare Book School Director; University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections READ MORE
- Janine Jagger, Epidemiologist; Professor, Internal Medicine and Director, International Health Care Worker Safety Center READ MORE
- Brooks Pate, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Chemistry READ MORE
A number of U.Va. faculty have been honored with membership to the National Academies where they serve as advisors to the nation in the areas of science, engineering, and medicine.
This award is considered the nation’s highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers.
- Laura Justice, Director, Preschool Language & Literacy Lab, Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning; Assistant Professor, Curry School of Education. READ MORE
- David Wotton, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
- Cassandra Fraser, Professor, Chemistry
Elmer L. Gaden Jr., a retired University of Virginia chemical engineering professor, won the 2009 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize for his pioneering research that enabled the large-scale manufacture of antibiotics.
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>Tyler Prize
James N. Galloway of the University of Virginia, a prescient explorer of nitrogen's wide-ranging effects on local and global ecosystems, is one of two recipients of the 2008 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement -- the premier award for environmental science, energy and environmental health, and widely considered as the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in those fields. READ MORE |
