The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is pleased to celebrate its exemplary faculty by announcing the 2025 Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Excellence Awards winners. The recipients were recognized at the LAS 2026 Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony in April. Click here to see the full gallery of event photographs.
2025 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences award winners. LAS award recipients celebrated at this event include:
Peng Liu
Department of Statistics
Laurence H. Baker Chair in Biological Statistics
Gulbahar Beckett
Department of English
Angela B. Pavitt Professor in English
Alicia Carriquiry
Department of Statistics
Patricia S. Conn Statistics Professor
Dipali Gurudutt Sashital
Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Roy J. Carver Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Wallapak Tavanapong
Department of Computer Science
Kingland Professor in Data Analytics or Cognitive Machine Learning
Jonathan Hassid
Department of Political Science
Lucken Faculty Fellowship
Mack Shelley
Department of Political Science
Whitaker-Lindgren Faculty Fellowship
Zhengyuan Zhu
Department of Statistics
Kingland Fellowship in Data Analytics or Cognitive Machine Learning
Charles Kerton
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Cassling Family Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching
Olga Mesropova
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Shakeshaft Master Teacher in Humanities and Social Sciences
To view a historical list of LAS and University awards, dating back to 1964, click here.