Research Achievement Award
The Research Achievement Awards are the University’s most prestigious recognition of outstanding research achievements for faculty who have made significant contributions to scholarship in their disciplines, such as through publications in first-tier academic journals, and to the research and graduate education goals of the University.
Research Achievement Award Winners (2001–present)
- 2025 – Jason Rohr, Department of Biological Sciences; Olaf Wiest, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
- 2024 — Hsueh-Chia Chang, Bayer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- 2023 — William Evans, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics
- 2022 — Harindra Joseph Fernando, Wayne and Diana Murdy Endowed Professor of Engineering and Geosciences
- 2021 — Nora J. Besansky, Martin J. Gillen Professor of Biological Sciences
- 2020 — Panos J. Antsaklis, H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 2019 — Laura Dassow Walls, William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English
- 2018 — Peter M. Kogge, Ted H. McCourtney Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
- 2017 — Norman J. Dovichi, Grace-Rupley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- 2016 — Michael Detlefsen, McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy
- 2015 — Joan F. Brennecke, Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 2014 — Prashant V. Kamat, Rev. John A. Zahm Professor of Science
- 2013 — Scott P. Mainwaring, Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science
- 2012 — Shahriar Mobashery, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- 2011 — Michael C. Wiescher, Professor, Physics
- 2010 — E. Mark Cummings, Professor, Psychology
- 2009 — Ahsan Kareem, Professor, Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
- 2008 — Vittorio Hösle, Professor, German and Russian Languages and Literatures
- 2007 — Thomas Corke, Clark Equipment Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- 2006 — John Borkowski, Professor, Psychology
- 2005 — Frank Collins, Professor, Biological Sciences
- 2004 — George Marsden, McAnaney Professor of History
- 2003 — Maureen Hallinan, White Professor of Sociology
- 2002 — Eugene C. Ulrich, John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scripture and Theology
- 2001 — Arvind Varma, Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical Engineering