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

• Janis Antonovics, Professor, Biology, College of A&S
  
• Ann Beattie Professor, English & Creative Writing, College of A&S
  
• James Franklin Childress, Professor, Religious Studies, College of A&S
  
• Ralph Cohen, Professor, English, 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
• William Wulf, Professor, Computer Science, SEAS
  
• Charles Wright, Professor, Creative Writing, College of A&S

*Professor Emeritus

> 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."

• Mark Edmundson, Professor, English, College of A&S
  
• William Wylie, Associate Professor, Art, College of A&S
  
• Joseph C. Miller, Professor, History, College of A&S
  
• John D. Lyons, Professor, French, College of A&S
  
• Michael Kubovy, Professor, Psychology, College of A&S
  
• Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, College of A&S
  
• Katharine Eisaman Maus, Professor, English, College of A&S
  
• Jahan Ramazani, Professor, English, College of A&S
  
• Lenard R. Berlanstein, Professor, History, College of A&S
  
• Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor, History, College of A&S
  
• Karen Hunger Parshall, Associate Professor, History and Mathematics, College of A&S
  
• David L. Vander Meulen, Associate Professor, English, 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

> 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.

> The Tyler Prize

James N. Galloway, 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 Tyler Prize is the premier award for environmental science, energy and environmental health, and widely considered as the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in those fields. Previous winners include primate researcher Jane Goodall and former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Coop. READ MORE

> Other Notable Honors & Awards News

U.Va. Archaeologist Anastasia Dakouri-Hild Receives Fellowship to Study the Ancient City of Thebes in Greece READ MORE (05/08)

U.Va. Professor Robert Tai Wins Education Research Award for Work in Tracing the Complex Pathway from Student to Scientist READ MORE (05/08)

NEH Awards Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to Virginia Center for Digital History to Develop 'Jefferson's Travels HistoryBrowser.' Under the new grant, VCDH director Scot French and director of technology Bill Ferster will partner with Monticello webmaster Chad Wollerton and archivists, librarians and content experts at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation's International Center for Jefferson Studies to develop a demonstration project focused on "Jefferson's Travels." READ MORE (4/08)

Dr. Paul D. Mintz, was elected to the inaugural class of the National Blood Foundation Hall of Fame. Dr. Mintz is Professor of Pathology and Medicine and Director of the Clinical Laboratories and Transfusion Services at the University of Virginia Health System, and was recognized for sustained excellence in research and leadership in transfusion medicine. The National Blood Foundation (NBF) is a highly competitive grant funding organization for research in cellular therapies and transfusion medicine. Dr. Mintz has previously been recognized as an NBF Scholar and is a past-President of the American Association of Blood Banks. (4/08)

Phoebe Crisman, associate professor of architecture, earns a major award from the American Institute of Architects for the 'Learning Barge' project. READ MORE (3/08)

James Galloway, a University of Virginia environmental sciences professor, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Fellows are nominated by their colleagues for "eminence in the earth and space sciences." READ MORE (2/08)

Vanessa L. Ochs, associate professor of religious studies, won the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice category for "Inventing Jewish Ritual," which was published by the Jewish Publication Society this summer. READ MORE (1/08)

James Landers, professor of chemistry and mechanical engineering, and associate professor of pathology, was recently recognized with the 2008 Innovation Award from the Association for Laboratory Automation for his novel "lab-on-a-chip" technology. READ MORE (1/08)

Jill Venton, assistant professor of chemistry, recently received the 2007 Eli Lilly and Company Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry for her pioneering efforts to design tools to measure neurotransmission in real time. READ MORE (1/08)

Dr. Anindya Dutta, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, and William R. Pearson, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, were named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (11/07)

U.Va. Neurosurgeon John A. Jane Honored With ACGME's Highest Award for Physician Educators. READ MORE (11/07)

Dr. R. Ariel Gomez Earns Prestigious MERIT Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. READ MORE (10/07)

Darden professor Greg Fairchild has won a three-year, $850,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. READ MORE (10/07)

U.Va. Scholar and Educator Awarded France's Highest Honor in Ceremony at Carr's Hill. READ MORE (09/07)

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