The University of Virginia features faculty who have received prestigious national and international awards based on their research and scholarship. Some highlights are included here.

> American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows

• Kenneth Abraham, Professor, School of Law
• Janis Antonovics, Professor, Biology, College of A&S
  
• Ann Beattie Professor, English & Creative Writing, College of A&S
• President John T. Casteen III
  
• James Franklin Childress, Professor, Religious Studies, College of A&S
  
• Ralph Cohen, Professor, English, College of A&S
  
• Judy S. DeLoache, Professor, Psychology, College of A&S
• Rita Dove, Professor, Creative Writing, College of A&S
  
• *Norman Arthur Graebner, Professor, History, College of A&S
  
• *Paul R. Gross, Professor, Biology, College of A&S
  
• *Eileen Mavis Hetherington, Professor, Psychology, College of A&S
  
• Eric Donald Hirsch Jr., Professor, English Literature, College of A&S
  
• Matthew Holden Jr., Professor, Politics, College of A&S
  
• *Dell Hathaway Hymes, Professor, Anthropology, College of A&S
  
• Anita Katherine Jones, Professor, Engineering & Computer Science, SEAS
• Rachel Keen, Professor, Psychology, A&S
  
• Jerome John McGann, Professor, English, College of A&S
  
• Michael Menaker, Professor, Biology, College of A&S
  
• William B. Quandt, Professor, Politics, College of A&S
  
• *Patricia Meyer Spacks, Professor, English, College of A&S
  
• John David Summers, Professor, Art History, College of A&S
  
• *Kenneth Winfred Thompson, Professor, Politics, College of A&S
  
• Michael Oliver Thorner, Professor, Internal Medicine/Neurosurgery, SOM
  
• G. Edward White, Professor, Law, School of Law
  
• Louis Wilken, Professor, Religious Studies, College of A&S
• Timothy Wilson, Professor, Psychology, College of A&S
• William Wulf, Professor, Computer Science, SEAS
  
• Charles Wright, Professor, Creative Writing, College of A&S

*Professor Emeritus

> The American Society for Clinical Investigation

The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), established in 1908, is one of the nation's oldest and most respected medical honor societies. ASCI honors the physician as scientist. View U.Va.'s ASCI members.

> Carnegie Scholar

• Farzaneh Milani, Director, Studies in Women and Gender Program and professor in Persian literature and women’s studies, was selected to be one of 20 Carnegie Scholars receiving grants of up to $100,000 to pursue Islam-centered research themes over the next two years. READ MORE

> Guggenheim Fellows

The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation offers fellowships of varying amounts to support scholars and artists in their research. "The Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."

• Lenard R. Berlanstein, Professor, History, College of A&S
• Mark Edmundson, Professor, English, College of A&S
• Francesca Fiorani, associate professor of art history;
• Risa Goluboff, Professor, School of Law
  
• Michael Kubovy, Professor, Psychology, College of A&S
  
• Deborah Lawrence, Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences, College of A&S
  
• Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor, History, College of A&S
• John D. Lyons, Professor, French, College of A&S
• Charles Marsh, Professor, Religious Studies, College of A&S
  
• Katharine Eisaman Maus, Professor, English, College of A&S
  
• Joseph C. Miller, Professor, History, College of A&S
  
• Karen Hunger Parshall, Associate Professor, History and Mathematics, College of A&S
  
• Jahan Ramazani, Professor, English, College of A&S
• Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, College of A&S
• David L. Vander Meulen, Associate Professor, English, College of A&S
• Lisa Russ Spaar, Associate Professor, English, College of A&S
• William Wylie, Associate Professor, Art, College of A&S

> Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awardees

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.

> Packard Fellows

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering "allow the nation's most promising young professors to pursue their science and engineering research with few funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements."

• Kelsey Johnson, Assistant Professor, Astronomy, College of A&S
• Steven Majewski, Associate Professor, Astronomy, College of A&S
• Gabriel Robins, Professor, Computer Science, SEAS
• Hilary Bart-Smith, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SEAS
• Robert R. Jones, Jr., Professor, Physics, College of A&S

> Pew Scholars in Biomedicine

The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences "is designed to support young investigators of outstanding promise in the basic and clinical sciences relevant to the advancement of human health." The program awards scholars a total of $240,000 over four years.

• Todd P. Stukenberg, Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, SOM
  
• Dean H. Kedes, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, SOM

> Sloan Research Fellows

Awards are given to early-career faculty in select sciences fields in order to assist them in setting up their laboratories and independent research. As of 2008, fellows receive $50,000 for a two-year period.

• Phillip Arras, Assistant Professor, Astronomy, College of A&S
• J. Julius Zhu, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, SOM
  
• Charles A. Sackett, Assistant Professor, Physics, College of A&S
  
• Cassandra Lynne Fraser, Professor, Chemistry, College of A&S
  
• Paul Fendley, Associate Professor, Physics, College of A&S
  
• W. Dean Harman, Professor, Chemistry, College of A&S
  
• Julia W. P. Hsu, Associate Professor, Physics, College of A&S
• Bellave S. Shivaram, Associate Professor, Physics, College of A&S

> Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research

The Keck Foundation annually gives five investigators nationally up to $1 million each to pursue cutting edge research in biomedicine.

• Barry Condron, Associate Professor, Biology, College of A&S

> Other Notable Awards & Accolades

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