Honored

LAS faculty honors and awards.

Awardee Honor/award Awarder
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
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
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 Google
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
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 Facebook
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