LAS faculty honors and awards.
| Awardee | Honor/award | Awarder |
|---|---|---|
| Joshua Rosenbloom | Appointed to NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Angela Hakim | Appointed Associate Editor | Applied Linguistics |
| Olga Mesropova | Appointed to committee | Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession |
| Shu-Hui (Susan) Chang | Quality Matters (QM) and CELT High-Quality certifications | Quality Matters, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching |
| Daniela Dimitrova | Editor-in-Chief of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly | Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) |
| Joshua L. Rosenbloom | Society of Distinguished Fellows | Economic History Association |
| Burak Senel | 2024 MwALT Best Student Paper Award | Midwest Association of Language Testers |
| Shalini Singh | Second place, short fiction | Wordweavers |
| Peter Orazem | Fulbright Specialist Award | Fulbright Program |
| Craig A. Anderson | International Society for Research on Aggression Life Fellow award | International Society for Research on Aggression |
| Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa | Outstanding Chapter Award for the last Triennium | Phi Beta Kappa |
| Abram Anders | Jonathan Wickert Professor of Innovation | Iowa State University |
| Katherine Rafferty | Quality Matters Certification | Quality Matters |
| Karen Kedrowski | Ask Every Student Grant | Ask Every Student |
| Mariana Castro Azpíroz | Richard R. Wright Award | Iowa State University Department of English |
| Joe Aung | NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Tess Neal | Member Spotlight | The Association for Psychological Science |
| James Vary | Distinguished Professor | Iowa State University |
| Robyn Lutz | Distinguished Professor | Iowa State University |
| Michael Bailey | Distinguished Professor | Iowa State University |
| Arthur Winter | Morrill Professor | Iowa State University |
| Chad Jacobsen | LAS P&S Excellence Award | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Lauren Ramos | UHR Leadership Skills Certificate | University Human Relations |
| Jeffrey Wheatley | American Academy of Religion Research Grant | American Academy of Religion |
| Shenglan Zhang | CELT Teaching Excellence Award in SoTL | Iowa State University |
| Tess Neal | Fellow | Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues |
| Jan Lauren Boyles | Visiting Fellow | University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |
| Gayatri Viswanathan | 2024 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award | American Chemical Society |
| Betsy Hoffman | Economic Science Association (ESA) Fellow | Economic Science Association |
| John Levis | Fulbright award | Fulbright Program |
| Shalini Singh | The Best in Show in the Studies in Creativity Award | Iowa State Memorial Union |
| Corey Welch | 2023 Inclusiveness, Diversity, Equity, and Access Award | The Society for the Study of Evolution |
| Shira Zerbib | NSF CAREER award | National Science Foundation |
| Jeremy Best | Franklin Research Grant | American Philosophical Society |
| Katherine Rafferty | 2024 Faculty/Staff Inspiration Award | ISU Alumni Association |
| Kelly Marie Schaefer | Kennedy Center Gold Medallion | Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival |
| Victoria Kyveryga | Voices of Materials Chemistry | Chemistry of Materials Journal |
| Matthew DeLisi | Ranked #5 – Most Influential Scholar in Justice in the World (2023) | ScholarGPS |
| Beate Schmittmann | 2024 Women Impacting ISU calendar | Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics |
| Leslie Hogben | American Mathematical Society Fellowship | American Mathematical Society |
| Alicia Carriquiry | Hagler Fellow | Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University |
| Ananda Muhammad | TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant | TIRF Publications |
| Miko Wilford | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award | National Science Foundation |
| Myra Cohen and Robyn Lutz | NASA University Leadership Initiative | NASA |
| Liz Hergert | Elected President of the Career Professionals of Iowa | Career Professionals of Iowa |
| Jeffrey Wheatley | Young Scholars in American Religion program | Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture |
| Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology | 2023 Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units Project Award | Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units National Network |
| Manisha Sharma | Semi-finalist | 2023 Iron Horse Literary Review Poetry Chapbook Competition |
| Bill Gutowski, Lisa Schulte Moore, Gene Takle, Jim Pease | Winner, 2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - Nature | Midwest Book Awards |
| Jacqueline Reber | Frontier Science Fund grant | Frontier Science Fund |
| Stephanie Hamilton | Learning Communities Champion Award | Iowa State University Learning Community Advisory Committee |
| Cason Murphy | President | Mid-America Theatre Conference |
| Alexander Gundlach-Graham | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award | National Science Foundation |
| Pamela Riney-Kehrberg | Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award | State Historical Society of Iowa |
| Christina Hill | NSF Research, Innovation, Synergies, and Education (RISE) Grant | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Jacque Parker | Early Achievement in Learning Community Coordination | Iowa State University Learning Community Advisory Committee |
| Katherine Dentzman | Early Career Achievement Award | Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society |
| Jonathan Wendel | Member | National Academy of Sciences |
| William Gallus | 2023 Interdisciplinary Team Research Award | Iowa State University |
| Ramesh Balayar | Emory Bogardus Teaching Excellence Award | Alpha Kappa Delta |
| Chris Meissner | 2023 Gallagher Mentor of the Year Award | National Postdoctoral Association |
| Ryan Martin and Yiu Tung Poon | Scott Hanna Awards | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Kathleen Hilliard and Chad Sonka | Jerry Shakeshaft Master Teacher | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Jonathan Wendel | Member | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Jonathan Kelly | National Science Foundation Grant | National Science Foundation |
| Kimberly Hadaway | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship | National Science Foundation |
| Claire Kruesel | P&S CYtation award | Iowa State University Professional and Scientific Council |
| Amy Lewman | Woodin CYtation Award | Iowa State University Professional and Scientific Council |
| Noah Brenny and Saya Mitra | Ozaki Fellowship | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Paul Lasley | 2023 Iowa Master Farmer Exceptional Service Award | Wallaces Farmer |
| Patricia Ferriera | 2023 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship | Ford Foundation |
| Johna Wolfe | P&S CYtation award | Iowa State University Professional and Scientific Council |
| Christopher Hopkins | MacDowell Fellowship | MacDowell |
| Javier Vela-Becerra | Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award | Fulbright |
| Lucia Suarez | Special citation for the 2019 Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno© Award | Dance Studies Association |
| Ramesh Balayar | Early Advisor Award | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences |
| Ryan Martin | Distinguished Guest Fellowship Programme in Hungary | Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| Olga Mesropova | Board of Directors | American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) |
| María Soria-Carro | 2023 Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Dissertation Prize | 2023 Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) |
| Cason Murphy | Prize for Innovative Teaching | Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Region 5 |
| Marcus Crede | Fellow | The Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology |
| Andrew Hochstetler | Donald MacNamara Award | Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences |
| Michael Bailey | Fellow | The Medieval Academy of America |
| Celeste Chaves | Humanitarian Award | Ames Human Relations Commission |
| Olga Mesropova | Quality Matters (QM) Certification - Russian 375 | Quality Matters |
| Jeremy Best | The Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize shortlist | The Waterloo Centre for German Studies |
| Olga Mesropova | Quality Matters Master Reviewer | Quality Matters |
| Douglas A. Gentile | Appointed to the Committee on the Impact of Social Media on the Health and Wellbeing of Adolescents and Children | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| Yuyu Zhou | Highly Cited Researcher | Clarivate |
| Abram Anders | Outstanding Article in International Journal of Business Communication Award | Association for Business Communication |
| Eric Riddell | George A. Bartholomew Award | Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology |
| Otávio Bartalotti and Brent Kreider | $40,000 competitive award | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| Kirill Kovnir and Julia Zaikina | Frontier Science Fund grant | Frontier Science Fund in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Corey Welch | SACNAS Presidential Service Award | Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science |
| Karen Kedrowski | Ask Every Student Implementation Grant | Ask Every Student Steering Committee |
| Sarah Dees | 2022-23 American Fellowship | American Association of University Women |
| Pelin Guven Geredeli | Two National Science Foundation grants; and a Simons Foundation grant | National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation |
| Jonathan Kelly | National Science Foundation grant | National Science Foundation |
| Rebecca Flint | 2022 Chemical and Materials Sciences to Advance Clean-Energy Technologies and Transform Manufacturing award | U.S. Department of Energy |
| Michael Wigton | Allen Essman Faculty Fellowship | Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication |
| Dipali Sashital | Named to Biotechnology Council | Office of Biotechnology at Iowa State University |
| Iowa State University | Highly Established Action Plan Seal of Recognition | ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge |
| Karen Kedrowski | Andrew Goodman Campus Champion of the Year | Andrew Goodman Foundation |
| Alison Phillips and Philip Dixon | $1,050,000 research grant | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
| James T. Andrews | Scholar Research Grant | Stanford University’s Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace |
| Yu Wang | National Science Foundation, EPA grants | National Science Foundation and Environmental Protection Agency |
| J. Gordon Arbuckle | Fellow | Soil and Water Conservation Society |
| Arthur Winter | Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery) Award for 2022 | Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement |
| Pamela Riney-Kehrberg | Gladys L. Baker Lifetime Achievement Award | Agricultural History Society |
| Tracy Lucht | 2022 Best Article prize | American Journalism Historians Association |
| Nell Gabiam and Scott Feinstein | Co-principal investigators on National Science Foundation award | National Science Foundation |
| Liz Hergert | Elected president-elect | Career Professionals of Iowa |
| William Gallus | Dr. T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement award | National Weather Association |
| Junqi Li | National Institutes of Health grant | National Institutes of Health |
| Novotny Lawrence | Editor | The Journal of Popular Culture |
| Wallapak Tavanapong and colleagues | National Science Foundation grant from the Division of Graduate Education | National Science Foundation |
| Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn | National Science Foundation Standard Grant | National Science Foundation |
| Ali Jannesari | National Science Foundation Continuing Grant | National Science Foundation |
| Katherine Rafferty | Quality Matters Certification | Quality Matters |
| Dean Adams | Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award | The Fulbright Program |
| Simon Estes | Honorary doctoral degree | Juilliard School of Music |
| Deb Marquart | Silver Medal honors | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) |
| Michael Golemo and Cason Murphy | Ames Community Arts Council Awards | Ames Community Arts Council |
| Daniela Dimitrova | Invited speaker | University of Salzburg, Austria |
| Leslie Ginder | Co-Leader of NACE Serving/Recruiting Students with Disabilities Affinity Group | National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) |
| Danise Jones | CYtation Award | Professional and Scientific Council |
| Jillian Olson | Fulbright award | Fulbright U.S. Student Program |
| Amy Rutenberg | Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore Research Fellowship | Swarthmore College |
| Amy Rutenberg | National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Cason Murphy | Vice president | Mid-America Theatre Conference |
| Bonar Hernandez, Christopher Hopkins, Megan Myers, Cristina Pardo-Ballester | Research Grant | Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities |
| Shenglan Zhang | Fulbright Scholarship | Fulbright Scholar Program |
| Loreto Prieto | 2022 Robert S. Daniel Teaching Excellence Award | Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2 of the American Psychological Association) |
| Summer Awad and Andrea Flinn | Critical Language Program awards | U.S. Department of State |
| Omar Muhammetkulyyev, Addison Schmidt, Michael O'Brien | 2022 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) North American Championship | North American Championship and Programming Camp |
| RO Adeleke | Fulbright Distinguished Professor | Fulbright Program |
| Tessa Brow | Career Teaching Academy | National Career Development Association |
| Jeremy Best | “Ten Outstanding Books in Mission Studies, Intercultural Theology, and World Christianity for 2021” | International Bulletin of Missionary Research |
| Katherine Rafferty | Invited guest speaker | Institute for Reproductive Grief Care |
| Alison Phillips | Society of Behavioral Medicine fellow | Society of Behavioral Medicine |
| Reuben Peters | 2022 fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| Kelsey O'Brien | American Association for the Advancement of Science Student E-Poster (first place award) | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Matthew Hufford | Cassling Family Professorship | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Robyn Lutz | IEEE Fellow | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Jennifer Newman | Scott Hanna Faculty Fellowship in Mathematics | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Thomas Iadecola | CAREER award | National Science Foundation |
| Timothy McNicholl | Scott Hanna Professorship in Mathematics | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Diane Bassham, Sarah Nusser, Nicole Valenzuela, Jim Vary | 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Peter Orazem | 2022 Faculty-Staff Inspiration Award | ISU Alumni Association |
| Nok Wongpiromsarn | CAREER award | National Science Foundation |
| Robbyn Anand | Carlyle G. Caldwell Endowed Chair in Chemistry | Iowa State University |
| Xuan Hien Nguyen | Dio Lewis Holl Chair in Applied Mathematics | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Gary J. Ockey | Angela B. Pavitt Professorship in English | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Carol Chapelle, Gustavo MacIntosh, Mayly Sanchez | LAS Dean's Professorship | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Michael Christopher Low | 2021 Albert Hourani Book Award | Middle East Studies Association |
| Michelle Hertzke and Pablo Raúl Stinga | Ames Chamber of Commerce FUEL Story County '4 Under 40' award | Ames Chamber of Commerce |
| Pablo Raul Stinga | Ames Chamber of Commerce FUEL Story County '4 Under 40' award | Ames Chamber of Commerce |
| Olga Mesropova | Quality Matters Higher Education Peer Reviewer | Quality Matters |
| Boping Chen | 2021 U.S. ATLAS Outstanding Graduate Student award | U.S. ATLAS |
| Tracy Lucht | Second Vice President | American Journalism Historians Association |
| Jigang Wang | 2021 Fellow of the American Physical Society | American Physical Society |
| Dee Egdorf | Excellence in Teaching Award | ESPN and the College Football Playoff Foundation |
| Debra Solberg Gibson | 2021 James W. Schwartz Award | Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication |
| The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' computer science program | 60th in national rankings | U.S. News and World Report |
| Jeremy Best | Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award | Phi Alpha Theta |
| Michael Christopher Low | Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies shortlist | British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize |
| Arthur Winter | National Science Foundation renewal grant | National Science Foundation |
| Charles Kostelnick | Frank R. Smith Award for Distinguished Journal Article | Society of Technical Communications |
| Department of Mathematics | 2021 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award | INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine |
| Richard Mansbach | Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award | International Studies Association-Midwest |
| Emma Murray | 2021-2022 Iowa Arts Fellowship | The Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts |
| Manisha Sharma | Featured speaker for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs | Association of Writers and Writing Program |
| Javier Vela | 2021 American Chemical Society Fellow | American Chemical Society |
| Kathleen Hilliard | Elected vice president of the American Historical Association, Teaching Division | American Historical Association |
| Charlie Nagle | National Science Foundation grant | National Science Foundation |
| David A.M. Peterson | Best Book Award | Race and Ethnic Politics section of the American Political Science Association |
| Tina Coffelt | UniCEN grant | Central Asia University Partnerships Program (UniCEN) |
| Department of Computer Science | National Science Foundation Grants totaling $1.5 million | National Science Foundation |
| Ali Ghanbari/Hridesh Rajan | 2021 Computing Innovation Fellow | Computing Innovation Fellow |
| Gustavo MacIntosh | President of the American Society of Plant Biologists | American Society of Plant Biologists |
| David Peters, Andrew Hochstetler | 2021 Fred Buttel Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award | Rural Sociological Society |
| Monic Behnken | 2021 Iowa Character Award—Adult Citizen of Character (Honorable Mention) | Drake University, Robert D. and Billie Ray Center |
| John Monroe | 2021 Arnold Rubin Outstanding Book Award | Arts Council of the African Studies Association |
| J. Herman Blake | 2021 American Sociological Association (ASA) Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology | American Sociological Association |
| Daniela Dimitrova | Fulbright-University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences | Fulbright Program |
| Jennifer Newman | Scott Hanna Faculty Fellowship | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Debra Marquart | 2021 Poet Laureate Fellow | Academy of American Poets |
| Jennifer Knox | 2022 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses Anthology | The Pushcart Prize |
| Srimoyee Sen | Early Career Research award | Department of Energy |
| Janci Bronson | Miller Open Education Mini Grant | Iowa State University |
| Sarah Huffman | Miller Open Education Mini Grant | Iowa State University |
| Charles Kostelnick | Morrill Professor | Iowa State University |
| Michael Golemo | University Professor | Iowa State University |
| Reuben Peters | Distinguished Professor | Iowa State University |
| Carolyn Cutrona | Distinguished Professor | Iowa State University |
| Dean Adams | Distinguished Professor | Iowa State University |
| Cason Murphy | International conference presentations | De Montfort University, Duke Learning Innovation, and the Global Institute for Research Education and Scholarship |
| Richard R. Phillips | LAS Distinguished Service Award | Iowa State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Hongyang Gao | NSF CISE Research Initiation Grant | National Science Foundation |
| Shawn Dorius, Data Science for the Public Good team | Interdisciplinary Team Research Award | Iowa State University |
| Ann Oberhauser | 2020 Emory Bogardus Teaching Excellence Award | Alpha Kappa Delta (Sociology National Honor Society) |
| Rebecca Runyon | 2021 Think Big Entrepreneur of the Year | America's Small Business Development Center, Iowa |
| Ann Oberhauser | Jan Monk Service Award | Feminist Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) |
| Karen R. Scheel | American Psychological Association Division 2 Adjunct Faculty Teaching Excellence Award | Society for the Teaching of Psychology |
| Olga Mesropova | Research Associate at the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center (REEC) Summer Laboratory | The State Department |
| Megan Myers | Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award | The Fulbright Program |
| Suzanne Harle | 2021 Learning Communities Outstanding Innovations award | Iowa State University Learning Communities |
| Charlie Nagle | Fulbright Scholar Award | Fulbright Scholar Program |
| J. Arbuckle | Outstanding Achievement in Extension and Outreach Award | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Iowa State University |
| Alicia Carriquiry | 2021 COPSS Florence Nightingale David Award and Lectureship | The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) |
| Stephanie Madon | NPA Gallagher Mentor Award finalist | The National Postdoctoral Association |
| Wei Le | Software Engineering Institute grant | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Hridesh Rajan | Named general chair for SPLASH 2021 | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Adisak Sukul | Google Cloud Faculty Expert | |
| Alicia Carriquiry | Zellner Medal | International Society for Bayesian Analysis |
| Kelly Winfrey | Judith S. Trent Award for Early Career Excellence in Political Communication | Central States Communication Association |
| Jan Lauren Boyles | 2021 David Donald Fellowship in Data Journalism | National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR)/Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) |
| Katherine Rafferty | Federation Prize | Central States Communication Association |
| Davit Potoyan | Cottrell Scholar | Research Corporation for Science Advancement |
| Andrew Smith | Rising Star | Association for Psychological Science |
| Alex Tuckness | Whitaker-Lindgren Faculty Fellowship in Political Science | Mary Whitaker-Lindgren and Douglas Lindgren |
| Robbyn Anand | Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award | Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy |
| Jin Tian | Invited to join Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing | University of California, Berkeley |
| Charles Nagle | LAS Social Science Seed Grant | LAS |
| Michele Schaal | LAS Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Initiative | LAS |
| Andrew Somerville | LAS Social Science Seed Grant | LAS |
| Shenglan Zhang | LAS Social Science Seed Grant | LAS |
| Jo Mackiewicz | LAS Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Initiative | LAS |
| Jonathan Kelly | LAS Social Science Seed Grant | LAS |
| Sarah Dees | Editor | Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief |
| Urminder Singh | Graduate Student Research Impact award | Iowa State University |
| Hua Bai | CAREER award | National Science Foundation |
| Jae Kwang Kim | Elected president-elect for the Korean International Statistical Society | The Korean International Statistical Society |
| Julia Domínguez | Fellow | Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Shawn Dorius | Advancing Substance Use Recovery in Iowa II, Iowa Department of Public Health Organization Giving Award | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration |
| Shawn Dorius | Iowa Health Information Platform Development, Iowa Department of Public Health Organization Giving Award | Centers for Disease Control |
| Leana Bouffard | Outstanding Mentor Award | Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences |
| Jenny Macken | Exemplary Student Support Award | Iowa State University |
| Brianna Burke | ISU Alumni Association | 2021 Faculty/Staff Inspiration Award |
| Monic Behnken | 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Achievement Award | Office on the Status of African Americans in the Iowa Department of Human Rights |
| Brad Dell | BroadwayWorld Des Moines Arts Educator of the Decade | BroadwayWorld |
| Charles Kostelnick | 2020 Fellow of the Association Award | Association for Business Communication |
| Christina Gish Hill | NEH fellowship | U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Jeremy Withers | Faculty-Staff Inspiration Award | ISU Alumni Association |
| Zlatan Krizan | Appointed editor in chief | Journal of Research in Personality |
| Heike Hofmann | Kingland Data Analytics Faculty Fellow | Kingland |
| David Fernandez-Baca | Dale D. Grosvenor Chair award | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Julia Dominguez | 2020 Cassling Innovation Award | Iowa State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Daniela Dimitrova | Editor-in-Chief of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly | Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication |
| Daniel Butler | Distinguished New Scholar Award | American Society of Criminology, Division of Corrections and Sentencing |
| Jay Newell | Allen Essman Faculty Fellowship | Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication |
| Rangeet Pan and Hridesh Rajan | ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award | Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Software Engineering |
| Michael Gerten, James Lathrop and Myra Cohen | ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award | Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Software Engineering |
| Qi Li | National Science Foundation Grant | National Science Foundation |
| Mayly Sanchez | American Physical Society 2020 Fellow | American Physical Society |
| Wenyu Huang | Trapp Innovation Award | Onnolee U. Trapp and Orlin D. Trapp |
| Douglas Gentile | Fellow | Society for Personality and Social Psychology |
| Sarah Dees and Jeffrey Wheatley | Regional Development Grant Award | American Academy of Religion |
| Simon Cordery | 2019 George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award | Railway & Locomotive Historical Society |
| Ritushree Chatterjee | First-place ranking in the 2020 Distance Education Journal Article (Quantitative) Awards | Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Division of Distance Learning |
| Jonathan Kelly and Lucia Cherep | 2019 Raymond S. Nickerson Award | The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied |
| Jason McCullough | Scott Hanna Faculty Fellowship | Department of Mathematics |
| Bernard Lidický | Scott Hanna Faculty Fellowship | Department of Mathematics |
| Tao Wang | Lucken Faculty Fellowship | Kent Lucken (’86 political science) |
| David Peterson | Lucken Professorship in Political Science | Kent Lucken (’86 political science) |
| Joydeep Bhattacharya | National Science Foundation Grant | National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Sciences |
| Stephanie Madon | Graduate College 2020 Postdoctoral Mentoring Award | Department of Psychology |
| Theresa Windus | American Chemical Society Fellow | American Chemical Society |
| Christina L. Svec | Chair-elect of the Early Childhood Music Special Research Interest Group | National Association for Music Education, Early Childhood Music SRIG |
| King (Alex) Lai | Humboldt Fellowship | The Humboldt Foundation |
| Jay Newell | Allen Essman Faculty Fellowship | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Jason McCullough | Scott Hanna Faculty Fellowship | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Bernard Lidicky | Scott Hanna Faculty Fellowship | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Tao Wang | Lucken Faculty Fellowship | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Amanda Petefish-Schrag | Art Educator Award | Ames Community Arts Council |
| Miriam Zach | Elected Dean of the Central American Guild of Organists | Central American Guild of Organists |
| Aaron Sadow | Named as lead of the Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics | U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette |
| Julia Zaikina | 2021 Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award | American Crystallographic Association |
| Elizabeth Swanner | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award | National Science Foundation |
| Robbyn Anand | Satinder Ahuja Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science | American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry |
| Alex Gonzalez | National Science Foundation Grant | National Science Foundation Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics Program |
| Hridesh Rajan | Facebook Probability and Programming Award | |
| Jacob Erickson | Spring 2020 Graduate College Research Excellence Award | Graduate College, Iowa State University |
| Matthew DeLisi, Andrew Hochstetler | 2020 Exemplary Faculty Mentor Award | Iowa State University, Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost |
| Julia Domínguez | AATSP Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award | The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese |
| Jae-Kwang Kim | IMS Fellowship | Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
| Lily Wang | IMS Fellowship | Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
| Barry Thomas | Teaching Excellence Award | Iowa State University Graduate College |
| Robbyn Anand | 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award | 3M |
| Robbyn Anand | 2021 Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award | Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry |
| Amy Erica Smith | 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow | Carnegie Corporation of New York |
| Autumn Cartagena | 2020 Learning Communities Outstanding Innovations Award | Iowa State University |
| Matthew DeLisi | 2020 McNair Faculty Mentor of the Year | Iowa State University Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program |
| Elizabeth G. Elmi | Fulbright US Scholar | The Council for International Exchange of Scholars |
| Paul Canfield | Member | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Julia Domínguez | University Teacher of the Year Award | American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese |
| Yunxiao (Michelle) Zhai | 2020 Ozaki Fellowship | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Nell Gabiam | American Council of Learned Societies 2020 Fellow | American Council of Learned Societies |
| Diane Bassham | Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists | American Society of Plant Biologists |
| Shawn Dorius | $260,000 grant | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration |
| Robbyn Anand | Suresh Faculty Fellow | Iowa State University |
| Michael Golemo | Director | John Philip Sousa Foundation Board of Directors |
| Aaron Rossini | 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Shenglan Zhang | Miller Faculty Fellowship | Iowa State University |
| Heather Bolles, Sara Pistolesi | Miller Faculty Fellowship | Iowa State University |
| Michael Young | Governor's STEM Advisory Council Appointment | Governor Kim Reynolds |
| Michael Christopher Low | Member of the Editorial Board | Journal of Tourism History |
| Michael Christopher Low | Senior Humanities Research Fellow for the Study of the Arab World | New York University Abu Dhabi |
| Hridesh Rajan | National Science Foundation Grant | The National Science Foundation |
| Jason Chan | Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science | Association for Psychological Science |
| Jonathan Kelly | Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science | Association for Psychological Science |
| Gary Wells | 2020 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy | American Psychological Association |
| Zhe Fei | CAREER innovation award | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Julia Zaikina | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Shannon Harper | Outstanding Dissertation Award | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Dave Peterson, Lori Biederman | PLOS One top papers | PLOS Blogs |
| Costas Soukoulis | Highly Cited Researchers for 2019 | Clarivate Analytics |
| Paul Canfield | Highly Cited Researchers for 2019 | Clarivate Analytics |
| Tina A. Coffelt | Fulbright Scholar Award | Fulbright |
| Aleksandra Badaczewska-Dawid | Bioscience Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship | Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust |
| Hal Schenck | Fellow of the American Mathematical Society | American Mathematical Society (AMS) |
| Hridesh Rajan | $1.5 Million grant | National Science Foundation |
| Myra Cohen and James Lathrop | National Science Foundation Grant | National Science Foundation |
| Monic Behnken | 2019 Way Up Recognition Award | The Way Up |
| Jared Anderson | The Power List 2019: Top 100 analytical scientists in the world | Analytical Scientist |
| Leslie Hogben | Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics | Association for Women in Mathematics |
| Christina Gish Hill | $200,000 grant | North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NCR-SARE) |
| Beth E. Caissie | National Science Foundation Grant | National Science Foundation |
| Department of Mathematics selects inaugural Scott Hanna award recipients | ||
| Alan Wanamaker | Fellow | Geological Society of America |
| Jeremy Best | Member | Iowa Council for Holocaust Education |
| Cornelia Flora | 2019 Richard P. Haynes Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award in Agriculture, Food and Human Values | Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society |
| J. Gordon Arbuckle | William R. Freudenburg Award of Merit | Rural Sociological Society National Resource Research and Interest Group |
| Dean Adams | 2019 Rohlf Medal for Excellence in Morphometric Methods and Applications | Stony Brook University |
| Michael Young selected as national fellow for IAspire Leadership Academy | ||
| Matthew DeLisi | Fellow, Association for Psychological Science | Association for Psychological Science |
| Lucia Suarez | Special citation for the 2019 Dance Studies Association de la Torrre Bueno award | Dance Studies Association |
| Cinzia Cervato | NSF ADVANCE award | National Science Foundation |
| Robbyn Anand | NIH NIBIB Trailblazer Award | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering |
| Hector Avalos | Inductee | Iowa Latino Hall of Fame |
| Mohan Gupta, Jacqueline Reber, Robbyn Anand, Brett VanVeller | CAREER award | National Science Foundation |
| Dipali Sashital | 2019 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award | The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation |
| Jacqueline Reber | CAREER award | National Science Foundation |
| Mohan Gupta | 2019 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Mark Rectanus | 2020 Marvin A. Pomerantz Endowment for Faculty Enrichment | Iowa State University |
| Brett VanVeller | CAREER award | National Science Foundation |
| Geetu Tuteja | Pew Scholars Biomedical Research Program | Pew Trusts |
| Jue Yan | Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians | Simons Foundation |
| Bernard Lidicky | Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians | Simons Foundation |
| Jonas Hartwig | Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians | Simons Foundation |
| Tathagata Basak | Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians | Simons Foundation |
| Monic Behnken | 2019 Exemplary Faculty Mentor | Iowa State University |
| Dara Wald | 2019 Cassling Innovation Award | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Dipa Sashital | 2019 Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award | The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation |
| Yan Zaho | 2019 Trapp Innovation Award | Iowa State University |
| Kent Kerby | 2019 Learning Communities Collaborator Award | Iowa State University |
| Clark Coffman | Thomas B. Thielen Award | ISU Division of Student Affairs |
| Dennis Lavrov | Research program grant | The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization |
| Daniela Dimitrova | Page/Johnson Legacy Scholar Grant for Advocacy Communication | The Arthur W. Page Center |
| John Levis | Angela B. Pavitt Professorship in English | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Brad Dell, Charissa Menefee and Cason Murphy | ISU Theatre Faculty present at MATC | Mid-American Theatre Conference |
| Amy Erica Smith | 2019 Luce/ACLS Fellows in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs | The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) |
| Daniela Dimitrova | Fellowship | University of Munich |
| Amanda Petefish-Schrag | Plays In Progress Series | Athena Project |
| Gulbahar Beckett and Tammy Slater published in award-winning TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language and Teaching | Prose Award for Best Multi-Volume Reference in the Humanities | Association of American Publishers |
| Monic P. Behnken | 2019 Women of Achievement Award | YWCA Ames at Iowa |
| Michael Christopher Low | Named editorial board member | Journal of Global History |
| Corey Welch | Re-elected to national board of directors | Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science |
| Cason Murphy | Presenter | American Society for Theatre Research |
| Gloria Betcher | Presenter | Productive Partnering at the National League of Cities (NLC) City Summit |
| Charlie Kostelnick | Outstanding Researcher | Association of Business Communication |
| Daniela Dimitrova | Guest editor | Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly |
| Steven Rodermel | Honorary Member | Iowa State University Zeta of Iowa chapter of Phi Beta Kappa |
| Pablo Raúl Stinga | Mathematician of the Day | The Lathisms project |
| Michèle Schaal | Michael Delahoyde Award for Distinguished Contributions in Editing | Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association |
| Andrew Hochstetler, David Peters, Jeffrey Bouffard, Kyle Burgason | $725,000 grant for their project “Building Drug Intelligence Networks to Combat the Opioid Crisis in Rural Communities: A Collaborative Intelligence-Led Policing Strategy” | National Institute of Justice |
| Monic Behnken | Breakout session speaker at the Iowa State women empowerment and leadership conference | WE Lead |
| Monic Behnken | Juvenile Justice National Topic Chair, 56th Annual Meeting in 2019 | Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences |
| Thomas Holme | Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chemical Education | American Chemical Society |
| Joel Geske | 2018-19 Allen Essman Faculty Fellowship | Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication |
| Geetu Tuteja | $1.5M Trophoblast Differentiation and Function grant | National Institute of Health (NIH) |
| Jonathan Sturm | 2018 Leopold LaFosse Outstanding Studio Teacher Award | Iowa String Teachers Association |
| David Peterson | Top 1% peer reviewer | Publons |
| Amy Andreotti | Biotechnology Council | Office of Biotechnology |
| Diane Bassham | Spring 2018 Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grant Program (PIRS) | Office of the Vice President for Research |
| Xuefeng Wang | Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for Early Stage Investigators (MIRA) | National Institutes of Health |
| Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) | Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry and Government (SPAIG) Award | American Statistical Association (ASA) |
| Craig Anderson | 2018 Distinguished Scholar Award | Society for Personality and Social Psychology |
| Karen Zwier | 2018 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize | American Philosophical Association |
| Amanda Petefish-Schrag | Finding Amelia play selected for Tiny Shorts event | Union Theatre |
| Nell Gabiam, Christina Gish Hill | Bridging the Divide funding | Office of the Vice President for Research |
| Cason Murphy | first prize | Cinema Scandinavia Ingmar Bergman Writing Competition |
| Gianina Alina Negoita, Glenn R. Luecke, James P. Vary, Pieter Maris | Best Paper | Computation Tools 2018 |
| Jeff Bremer | Fulbright teaching fellowship | Fulbright |
| Amy Erica Smith | Editor | Mischiefs of Faction blog on Vox |
| Peng Liu, Bing Yang | PSI Faculty Scholars | Plant Sciences Institute |
| Jennifer L. Knox | 2018 Bill Pelz Arts Advocacy Award | Ames Community Arts Council |
| Jay Newell | Editor | Journal of Advertising Education |
| Erin Wilgenbusch | Inducted into the Cardinal Key Honor Society | Cardinal Key Honor Society |
| Michael Bugeja | South Dakota State Journalism School Distinguished Alumnus Award | South Dakota State Journalism School |
| James Ranalli, Heather Bolles, Megan Jeanette Myers, Flor Romero de Slowing | Miller grants | Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, the University Library, and the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost |
| Dara Wald | Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Seed (PIRS) Grant | Office of the Vice President for Research |
| Xuefeng Wang | 2017 McGee-Wagner Interdisciplinary Research Fund | Office of the Vice President for Research |
| Hridesh Rajan | Fulbright award to the United Kingdom | J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board |
| Arthur Winter | Bailey Research Career Development awards | Office of the Vice President for Research |
| Gloria Betcher | Vice Chair of National League of Cities Council | National League of Cities |
| Klaus Ruedenberg | 2018 Schrödinger Medal | World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) |
| Michael Young | Martin Luther King, Jr. Advancing One Community Award | Iowa State University Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion |
| Aili Mu | Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials | Association for Asian Studies |
| Sean Grass | Vice President | Dickens Society |
| Theresa Windus | Association fellow | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
| Emily Barske, Stacy Ko and Daniela Dimitrova | Women Impacting ISU 2018 | Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics on the 12th annual Women Impacting ISU calendar |
| Alicia Carriquiry | 2017 Women of Innovation Awards: Research Innovation and Leadership | The Technology Association of Iowa (TAI) |
| Amber Manning-Ouellette | Emerging Scholars Research Consortium | International Leadership Association |
| Hridesh Rajan | ACM Distinguished Member | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Danica Ommen | Stephen E. Fienberg CSAFE Young Investigator award | 2017 International Conference on Forensic Inference |
| Neal Iverson | Arthur L. Day Medal | Geological Society of America |
| Brad Dell | Catch Des Moines Champion Award | Des Moines Convention and Visitor’s Bureau |
| Robert Mazur | Award for Meritorious Achievement | Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Grain Legumes |
| Jennifer L. Knox | Featured Writer | University of Wisconsin Platteville's Creative Writing Festival |
| Jennifer L. Knox | Distinguished Visiting Writer | Waldorf University |
| James M. McCormick | Fulbright Canada Research Chair in U.S.-Canada Relations | Fulbright Canada |
| Julie Snyder-Yuly | 2017 Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities | University of Utah’s CGS/ProQuest |
| Carol Vleck | Loye and Alden Miller Award | American Ornithology Society |
| David Marshall Miller | Collaborative research grant | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Miles Arthur White | Reaxys PhD Prize Finalist | Reaxys PhD Prize |
| Craig Anderson | 2017 Kurt Lewin Award | The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues |
| Dianne Bystrom | 2017 Women of Influence | Des Moines Business Record |
| Diane Bassham | Member | Faculty 1000 |
| Gustavo Macintosh | Distinguished Iowa Scientist Award | Iowa Academy of Science |
| Javier Vela | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’s (IUPAC) Young Observer | U.S. National Committee (USNC) of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’s (IUPAC) |
| Hridesh Rajan and Stephen Vardeman | Kingland Professor of Data Analytics and Kingland Data Analytics Faculty Fellow | Kingland and its owners, David and Deb Kingland |
| Amber Manning-Ouellette | Wilbur Layton Faculty Recognition Award | Iowa State University |
| Kathleen Hilliard | 2017-2018 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship | American Antiquarian Society |
| Kathleen Hilliard | 2017-2018 Program in Early American Economy and Society Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Kathleen Hilliard | 2017-2018 Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, Its Origins, and Consequences | Awarded jointly by the Boston Athenaeum and Massachusetts Historical Society. |
| Charissa Menefee | Second Place winner at the ISU Faculty Research Day Lightning talks | Office of the Vice President for Research |
| Michael Golemo | Distinguished Service to Music Medal | Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity |
| Amber Manning-Ouellette, Lecturer in Leadership Studies and Psychology | 2017 Gender and Sexuality Research Award | Margaret Sloss Women’s Center and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Student Services |
| Stacey Weber-Fève, Associate Professor of French | 2017 Dorothy Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award at the Post-Secondary Level | American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) |
| Eric Gangloff | Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellowship | European Commission |
| Michael Bugeja | 2017 Distinguished Service Award | Iowa Newspaper Association |
| LAS faculty and staff | CYtation Awards | Professional and Scientific Council |
| Department of Music and Theatre's Cyclone Marching Band | John Philip Sousa Foundation’s Sudler Trophy for Excellence | The John Philip Sousa Foundation |
| Kelly Odenweller | Sandra Petronio Dissertation Excellence Award | National Communication Association Family Communication Division |
| Michael Tringides | 2017 Theodore E. Madey Award | American Vacuum Society |
| Edward Yu | 2016 Fellow of the American Physical Society | American Physical Society |
| Mayly Sanchez | Cassling Family Professorship | LAS |
| Paul C. Canfield | James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials | American Physical Society |
| Alicia Carriquiry | induction | National Academy of Medicine |
| Nathan Young | Hydrogeology Division Student Research Award | Geological Society of America |
| Richard Mansbach | Distinguished Scholar Panel | International Studies Association |
| Debra Marquart | inclusion in the Best American Poetry 2016 anthology | New School Writing Program |
| Leigh Tesfatsion | two grants | Department of Energy, Iowa Energy Center |
| Elisa Rizo, Elanor Taylor | Cassling Family Faculty Awards | LAS |
| Rachel Meyers | 2016 Jerry Shakeshaft Master Teacher | LAS |
| Colleen Bertoni | Margaret Butler Fellowship in Computational Science | Argonne Leadership Computing Facility |
| Jennifer Knox | 2017 Iowa Arts Council Fellowship | Iowa Arts Council |
| Jeffrey Trimarchi | Outstanding Honors teaching, advising, or mentoring | University Honors Program |
| Kirsten Hofmockel | Early Career Research Program | Department of Energy |
| Rebecca Flint | early career grants | U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, National Science Foundation |
| Nina Whitney | 2016 Gretchen L. Blechschmidt Award | Geological Society of America |
| Jay Newell | 2016 Distinguished Advertising Educator Award | American Advertising Federation |
| Catherine Kling | President’s Chair in Environmental Economics | President Steven Leath |
| Long Nguyen | Distinguished Alumni Award | Iowa State University Alumni Association |
| Krista Klocke | 2016 Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior Award | Iowa State University Alumni Association |
| Young-Jin Lee | 2016 Trapp Innovation Award | LAS |
| Amy Erica Smith | Visiting Fellowship | University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute of International Studies |
| Michael Bugeja | 2015 Charles E. Scripps Journalism & Mass Communication Administrator of the Year | Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication |
| Dave Vogel, Dirk Deam | Student Choice Award | Iowa State Daily |
| Jonathan Wendel | featured | Crop Science Society of America |
| Lynn Clark | 2016 Peter Raven Award | American Society of Plant Taxonomists |
| Charlie Kostelnick | 2016 Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research | Society for Technical Communication |
| Gary Wells | 2017 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award | Association for Psychological Science |
| Michael Chris Low | 2016 Alice Hamilton Prize | American Society for Environmental History |
| Bill Simpkins | 2015 George Bruke Maxey Distinguished Service Award | Geological Society of America, Hydrogeology Division |
| Paul Canfield | Vice Chair for the Division of Condensed Matter Physics | American Physical Society |
| Alison Phillips | 2016 Rising Star | Association for Psychological Science |
| Jennifer Knox | review | New York Times Sunday Book Review |