Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards
All of the nominations for faculty awards administered by Rackham are submitted directly through our website. This may require some changes in the way nominators put together the dossiers. Please read through this site before you begin the nomination process.
These awards honor senior faculty who have consistently demonstrated outstanding achievements in the areas of scholarly research and/or creative endeavors, teaching and mentoring of students and junior faculty, service and a variety of other activities which have brought distinction to themselves and to the University of Michigan. Faculty at the rank of full or associate professor may be nominated.
- General Information
- Guidelines for the Preparation of Nominations
- Recipients of Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards
General Information
Eligibility
Faculty with the rank of full or associate professor may be nominated for these awards. Departments and programs are encouraged to nominate women, minorities and members of other groups historically underrepresented in their disciplines.
Selection Criteria
These awards honor senior faculty who have consistently demonstrated outstanding achievements in the areas of scholarly research and/or creative endeavors, teaching and mentoring of students and junior faculty, service and a variety of other activities which have brought distinction to themselves and to the University of Michigan.
Number of Awards
Each year up to 5 awards of $1,500 will be made.
Source of Nominations
Nominations may be submitted by deans, directors and department/program heads or by executive, promotion or award committees. The nomination process should be coordinated through the appropriate academic unit (e.g., dean’s, departmental or program office).
Selection Process
Nominations are reviewed by an interdisciplinary selection committee comprised of distinguished senior faculty from a range of schools and colleges. Awardees are selected by the Dean of the Graduate School, based upon the recommendations of this committee. Awards will be determined in the spring, and formally presented at a ceremony in October 2012.
Deadline and Submission
The nomination deadline for the 2012 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards is February 20, 2012, 12PM\noon EST.
For more information contact:
Pat McCUne, Ph.D.
Senior Program Manager
915 East Washington Street
1130 Rackham
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1070
Telephone: 936-1647
E-mail: faculty-awards@umich.edu
Guidelines for the Preparation of Nominations
The complete instructions for submitting a nomination for this award, and the FAQ for the general process of submitting nominations online, are available here as well as on the separate nomination website.
Listed below are the seven items that must be included in the dossier before the nomination can be submitted. You will be asked to either enter text into text boxes or online forms, or upload documents in Adobe PDF format.
Before you begin, please read the section about requesting and submitting letters of support below. These letters should not be sent to you but rather submitted directly by the letter writer electronically through a separate website.
A nomination dossier can be set up by a U-M faculty or staff member. Up to six others may be given access to the site by the person who opens the dossier on the website. After a nomination dossier is started the nominator(s) and assistant(s) may login to the faculty awards nomination system as many times as needed in order to complete the nomination.
1. Contact Information Form
Provide in the online form all the contact information requested for both the nominee and the nominator—not the administrative contact.
2. Letter of Nomination
You may submit your nomination letter by uploading the document in Adobe PDF format. Or, if you would prefer to use the text box, we recommend that you write your statement in a non-web format (such as a word processing or text editor program), save a copy for your personal records, and then copy and paste the final document into the space provided.
The nomination letter may be no longer than five pages (3,400 words) in length.
The letter of nomination should be prepared by the nominee’s department/program chair or designate, or by a senior member of the faculty who knows the nominee’s work well. If the nomination is being submitted by a department or program other than the one in which the nominee has his/her major appointment, the head of that department should also sign the letter.
Remember that the committee members represent a range of disciplines and may not be familiar with your nominee’s field. Committee members often find the following information helpful as they try to evaluate nominees from very different disciplines.
- A succinct description of the nominee’s major scholarly and/or creative activities and an indication of their overall significance to the discipline.
- A concise assessment of the nominee’s scholarly ability and professional reputation, including a sense of how the nominee might rank nationally and, where appropriate, internationally, among senior scholars in the discipline.
- An evaluation of the nominee’s contributions as a teacher and mentor of students. This might include reference to
- Development of new courses or revitalization of existing ones.
- Significance of the nominee’s course offerings to the discipline.
- Strength of the nominee’s advising and mentoring skills.
- Awards and honors received in recognition of teaching, advising, and mentoring.
- An assessment of the nominee’s service contributions. This may include committee assignments, counseling duties, formal and informal advisory roles, or other activities that reflect outstanding service to department, school/college, institution, community, and professional organizations and societies.
3. Letters of Support
Note: Do not have the letters of support sent to you. These letters must be submitted by the writers directly to the nomination dossier through a separate website. Writers will be asked to either enter text into an online form, or upload documents in Adobe PDF format.
When you contact the letter writer with your request, direct the him/her to https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/support/ and provide the writer with the UMID of the nominee and name of the award. On this website the writers will find straightforward directions for submitting the letter of support for your nominee.
Once the letters have been sent into the website you will be able to read them in the nomination dossier and then select which letters you actually want to include when you submit the nomination. Only the letters you have selected will be seen by the review committee.
Nominations should include up to eight letters in support of the nominee. (Additional letters will not be considered.) These letters may come from faculty members within the nominee’s department or program or from elsewhere in the University; from faculty at other institutions in the U.S. or abroad; and from former students of the nominee.
Each letter of support may be no longer than five pages (3,400 words) in length.
4. Complete and Current Curriculum Vitae
Include the nominee’s c.v. by uploading the most recent version in Adobe PDF format. (Note: while information about courses taught and dissertation service may be in the c.v., providing that same information by completing the forms below is necessary because it facilitates the review process.)
5. Courses Form
Complete the online form by providing in the text boxes the following information for all courses, undergraduate and graduate, taught during the past eight terms: course number, course name, approximate number of students enrolled, term and year taught.
If your school/college represents course information in another format you will be able to describe this in a separate text box.
6. Doctoral Committee Service Form
Complete the online form by providing in the text box the following information for all doctoral committee service in the past ten years: name of student, student’s department/program, year the degree was conferred or is expected, role served by the nominee, and placement information for the student, if available.
7. Teaching Evaluations (optional)
Please indicate the courses for which you would like us to request your nominee’s evaluation reports from The Office of Evaluations and Examinations. That office will send the summary reports on student evaluations directly to us in a digital file. This file will then be uploaded to the dossier.
If your school/college uses another mode of evaluation please contact us to determine how your nominee’s evaluations can be submitted.
Recipients of Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards
2012
- Eva Feldman, Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology
- Theodore Goodson III, Richard Barry Bernstein Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering
- Joan Nassauer, Professor of Landscape Architecture
- Georg Raithel, Professor of Physics
- Carl Simon, Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Complex Systems, and Professor of Public Policy
2011
- Paul Berman, Physics
- Christin Carter-Su, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
- Richard Gonzalez, Psychology, Statistics, Marketing
- Alfred Hero, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering & Statistics
- Mark Meyerhoff, Chemistry
2010
- David Allan, Natural Resources and the Environment
- Nikolaos Katopodes, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Jeff MacKie-Mason, Information
- Kamal Sarabandi, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Valerie Traub, English & Women’s Studies
2009
- Dionissios Assanis, Mechanical Engineering
- Michael Imperiale, Microbiology and Immunology
- John Jackson, Political Science
- Robert Kennedy, Chemistry
- Henry Wellman, Psychology
2008
- Carl Akerlof, Physics
- Valerie Lee, School of Education and LSA
- Vincent Pecoraro, Chemistry
- Christopher Peterson, Psychology
- George Steinmetz, Sociology, Germanic Languages and Literatures
2006-07
- Sushil Atreya, AOSS
- Laurence Goldstein, English Language & Literature
- Jessy Grizzle, EECS
- Joyce Marcus, Anthropology
- Ralph Yang, Engineering
2005-06
- David Ballou, Biological Chemistry
- Enoch Brater, English Language & Literature
- Victor Li, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Sherry Smith, Art and Design
- Alan Wineman, Mechanical Engineering
2004-05
- Carol A. Fierke, Chemistry
- Thomas W. Glover, Human Genetics
- George Kling, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Khalil Najafi, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Eric Rabkin, English Language & Literature
- William Zimmerman, Political Science
2003-04
- Kim F. Hayes, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- June Howard, American Culture, English, and Women’s Studies
- John Kucich, English Language & Literature
- Victor Lieberman, History
- Kenneth Lieberthal, Political Science and Business
- John A. Williams, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
2002-03
- David Engelke, Biological Chemistry
- James House, Sociology
- John Jonides, Psychology
- William Paulson, Romance Languages & Literatures
- Robert L. Smith, Industrial and Operations Engineering
2001-02
- Donald Clewell, Microbiology & Immunology
- Robert E. Lewis, English Language & Literature
- Andrew F. Nagy, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Science
- Jeffrey Parsons, Anthropology/Museum of Anthropology
- Richard D. Woods, Civil & Environmental Engineering
2000-01
- Jonathan Freedman, American Culture
- Kang Shin, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- Tobin Siebers, English Language & Literature
- Dennis Thiele, Biological Chemistry
1999-00
- Pallab Bhattacharya, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- David Ginsburg, Human Genetics
- Linda Gregerson, English Language & Literature
- Michael Marletta, Biological Chemistry/Medicinal Chemistry
- Regina Morantz-Sanchez, History
1998-99
- John Hayes, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- Fred Karsch, Physiology
- Jairam Menon, Biological Chemistry
- William Roush, Chemistry
- Henry Wright, Anthropology
1997-98
- John Faulkner, Physiology
- Anne Ruggles Gere, English & Education
- Michael Morris, Chemistry
- Arlene Saxonhouse, Political Science
1996-97
- Jacquelynne Eccles, Psychology
- Thomas Gelehrter, Human Genetics
- Phillip Gingerich, Geological Sciences
- Rowena Matthews, Biological Chemistry
- Roy Rappaport, Anthropology
1995-96
- Philip Bucksbaum, Physics
- Nicholas Delbanco, English Language & Literature
- H. Scott Foglerv, Chemical Engineering
- Steven L. Kunkel, Pathology
- Abigail Stewart, Psychology/Women’s Studies
1994-95
- Reynolds Farley, Sociology/Population Studies
- Sarah Winans Newman, Anatomy & Cell Biology
- James Winn, English Language & Literature
- Kensall Wise, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- Charles Yocum, Biology
1993-94
- Richard Crawford, Music
- Stephen S. Easter, Jr., Biology
- Albert Schultz, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics
- John Shy, History
- Edward Smith, Psychology
1992-93
- George Bornstein, English Language & Literature
- Dimitri Coucouvanis, Chemistry
- Martin Katz, Music
- Hazel Markus, Psychology
- Miriam Meisler, Human Genetics
1991-92
- L. Ross Chambers, Romance Languages & Literatures
- Martinus J. G. Veltman, Physics
- Charles H. Williams, Biological Chemistry
- Shien-Ming Wu, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics
- Tadataka Yamada, M.D., Internal Medicine
1990-91
- Francis S. Collins, Internal Medicine
- Elmer G. Gilbert, Aerospace Engineering
- Yuri Gurevich, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- David A. Hollinger, History
- Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
1989-90
- Robert Axelrod, Political Science
- Joseph Blotner, English Language & Literature
- Robert E. Cole, Sociology and Business Administration
- William G. Rosenberg, History
- Rob Van der Voo, Geological Sciences
1988-89
- Richard Bailey, English Language & Literature
- Raoul Kopelman, Chemistry
- Jochen Schacht, Otolaryngology
- Howard Schuman, Sociology
- Maris Vinovskis, History
1987-88
- Marshall Becker, Public Health
- Floyd Gray, Romance Languages & Literatures (French)
- Ali Mazrui, Political Science
- Raymond Ruddon, Pharmacology
- Edgar Westrum, Chemistry
1986-87
- Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., History
- John H. Holland, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Stevo Julius, M.D., Internal Medicine
- Martha Vicinus, English/Women’s Studies
1985-86
- George I. Haddad, Electrical Engineering
- Samuel Krimm, Physics
- Martha L. Ludwig, Biological Chemistry
- Michael M. Martin, Biological Sciences
- Bradford Perkins, History
1984-85
- Elizabeth Douvan, Psychology
- Irwin J. Goldstein, Biological Chemistry
- William C. Kelly, Geological Sciences
- Robert L. Kahn, Psychology
- Charles G. Overberger, Chemistry
1983-84
- Bernard W. Agranoff, Biological Chemistry
- Albert Feuerwerker, History
- Gerald P. Hodge, Medical & Biological Illustration
- Kenneth P. Matthews, Internal Medicine
- Rosemary C. Sarri, Social Work
1982-83
- Sherman Kuhn, English Language & Literature
- Vincent Massey, Biological Chemistry
- Kenneth Organski, Political Science
- Frank Richart, Jr., Civil Engineering
- Chester Starr, History
1981-82
- William Beierwaltes, Nuclear Medicine
- John H. D’Arms, Classical Studies
- David M. Gates, Biological Science
- Gustav Meier, Music
- C. A. Patrides, English Language & Literature
1980-81
- Richard D. Alexander, Zoology
- Lawrence S. Bartell, Chemistry
- Isadore A. Bernstein, Biological Chemistry
- Frederick W. Gehring, Mathematics
- Jacob M. Price, History
1979-80
- Thomas C. Adamson, Aerospace Engineering
- Stanley M. Garn, Anthropology
- Myron Levine, Human Genetics
- T. Michael Sanders, Physics
- Charles E. Trinkaus, History
1978-79
- Sigurd Ramfjord, Dentistry
- Joseph L. Sax, Law
- Allen L. Shields, Mathematics
- Rolf G. Freter, Microbiology
- Elizabeth Bergmann, Dance
1977-78
- Harold Jacobson, Political Science
- Donald Lewis, Mathematics
- John Pedley, Classical Studies
- Robert Super, English Language & Literature
- Walter J. Weber, Jr., Civil Engineering
1976-77
- Phillip J. Elving, Chemistry
- James N. Morgan, Economics
- Russell A. Fraser, English Language & Literature
- Warren E. Miller, Political Science
- Burton L. Baker, Anatomy
1975-76
- Gardner Ackley, Economics
- Richard B. Brandt, Philosophy
- Minor J. Coon, Biological Chemistry
- William R. Dawson, Zoology
- James B. Griffin, Anthropology
1974-75
- Leslie Kish, Sociology
- Guy J. Palazzola, Art
- William D. Robinson, Internal Medicine
- Chen-To Tai, Electrical Engineering
- Herbert H. Wagner, Botany
1973-74
- Solomon J. Axelrod, Medical Care Organization
- Henry J. Meyer, Social Work
- Rhoads Murphy, Geography
- Helen D. Prince, Astronomy
- Herbert C. Youtie, Classical Studies
1972-73
- David F. Bohr, Physiology
- Philip E. Converse, Political Science/Sociology
- Louise E. Cuyler, Music
- Emmett N. Keith, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Robert E. Moyers, Orthodontics
1971-72
- Marilyn Mason Brown, Music
- Robert C. F. Bartels, Mathematics
- C. Gardner Child, III, Surgery
- Donald A. Kerr, Dentistry
- Alfred S. Sussman, Botany
1970-71
- Marvin Felheim, Music
- Frank R. Kennedy, Law
- C. Theodore Larson, Architecture
- James V. Neel, Human Genetics
- W. Allen Spivey, Business Administration
1969-70
- Arthur W. Burks, Computer & Communications Sciences/Philosophy
- Ronald Freedman, Sociology
- William C. Morse, Education
- Joseph E. Rowe, Electrical Engineering
- Robert W. Ward, Political Science
1968-69
- Angus Campbell, Psychology/Sociology
- Robert C. Elderfield, Chemistry
- Sidney Fine, History
- Walter B. Sanders, Architecture
- Maurice J. Sinnott, Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering
1966-67
- John E. Bardach, Fisheries (Natural Resources)
- Samuel J. Eldersveld, Political Science
- F. Bruce Fralick, Ophthalmology
- Theodore H. Hubbell, Zoology
- Daniel Katz, Psychology
1967-68
- Marston Bates, Zoology
- George Katona, Economics/Psychology
- Raymond W. Waggoner, Psychiatry
- Harold E. Wethey, History of Art
- L. Hart Wright, Law
1965-66
- Stanley E. Dimond, Education
- Gerald F. Else, Classical Studies
- Joseph J. Martin, Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering
- Kenneth L. Pike, Linguistics
- Walter A. Reichart, Germanic Languages & Literatures
1964-65
- William W. Bishop, Jr., Law
- William K. Frankena, Philosophy
- Fred J. Hodges, Radiology
- Robert M. Thrall, Mathematics
- J. Philip Wernette, Business Administration
1963-64
- Kenneth E. Boulding, Economics
- Ferrel Heady, Political Science
- Donald L. Katz, Chemical Engineering
- Reed M. Nesbit, Surgery
- Theodore M. Newcomb, Sociology/Psychology
1962-63
- David M. Dennison, Physics
- Dwight L. Dumond, History
- Ross Lee Finney, Music
- Norman F. Miller, Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Charles L. Stevenson, Philosophy
1961-62
- Carl E. Badgley, Surgery
- Arthur W. Bromage, Political Science
- William G. Dow, Electrical Engineering
- Rensis Likert, Psychology/Sociology
- Floyd A. Peyton, Dentistry
1960-61
- John C. Kohn, Civil Engineering
- Albert H. Marckwardt, English Language & Literature
- Wesley H. Maurer, Journalism
- D. M. Phelps, Business Administration
- William D. Revelli, Music
1959-60
- Paul S. Barker, Internal Medicine
- Thomas Francis, Jr., Epidemiology
- Lewis N. Holland, Electrical Engineering
- E. Lowell Kelly, Psychology
- Hans Kurath, English Language & Literature
1958-59
- Stanley A. Cain, Natural Resources
- Kenneth A. Easlick, Dentistry
- Paul G. Kauper, Law
- Paul W. McCracken, Business Administration
- James K. Pollock, Political Science
1957-58
- Robert C. Angell, Sociology
- Paul S. Dwyer, Mathematics
- Roger W. Heyns, Psychology
- Howard Y. McClusky, Educational Psychology
- Lars Thomassen, Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering
1956-57
- Frederick F. Blicke, Pharmacy
- Frederick A. Coller, Surgery
- H. Richard Crane, Physics
- Gilbert Ross, Music
- Leslie A. White, Anthropology
1955-56
- Elizabeth C. Crosby, Anatomy
- John Dawson, Law
- Paul H. Naghdi, Engineering Mechanics
- Warner G. Rice, English Language & Literature
- Jean Paul Slusser, Art