The Scholarly Practice Awards are given for excellence in applying scholarly Human Resource Development (HRD) theory and research to practice in a manner that brings measurable improvement to an organization and/or has the potential to advance the field of HRD.

The Distinguished Scholar Award recognizes a scholar whose contributions have been central to the intellectual development of the field of organization studies.

Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.

The Barbara Merino Award recognizes the author of the best book on an accounting historical topic published in the current or previous two years.

The Fulrath Award recognizes individuals for their excellence in research and development of ceramic sciences and materials.

The Akron Section Award recognizes young scientists who show great promise in their professional careers.

The Arthur C. Cope Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of organic chemistry, the significance of which has become apparent within the five years preceding the year in which the award will be considered.

The American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry recognizes innovative research in theoretical chemistry that either advances theoretical methodology or contributes to new discoveries about chemical systems.

The Unilever award recognizes fundamental work in colloid or surfactant science carried out in North America by researchers in the early stages of their careers.

The Irvin Langmuir Award recognizes and encourages outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry and physics, in the spirit of Irving Langmuir.

The Early Career Award recognizes outstanding contributions in experimental physical chemistry by a young investigator.

The Kirk Award celebrates outstanding careers in veterinary medicine with national and international recognition for contributions and service through clinical medical practice, instruction, research and/or public service.

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the most prominent leaders and celebrates those who have made significant contributions to their respective specialty.

ACLS Fellowships support outstanding scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

The Early Career Award celebrates the achievements of newer scholars in the field.

The Early Career Award recognizes a researcher in the first stages of their research career, a significant program of research on important problems of theory and/or practice that focus on teachers, teaching and/or teacher education.

The Emerging Scholar Award recognizes outstanding scholarship in language and social processes by an early career faculty.

The Critics’ Choice Award serves to recognize and increase awareness of recent scholarship deemed to be outstanding in its field and of potential interest to members of the Association.

The Gilbert F. White Distinguished Award and Lecture recognizes an honoree’s original contributions to the basic knowledge of natural hazards or disaster risks.

The Global Environmental Change Early Career Award recognizes outstanding contributions in research, educational, or societal impacts in the area of global environmental change by honorees within 10 years of receiving their Ph.D. or highest terminal degree.

The James B. Macelwane Medal recognizes early career scientists in recognition of their significant contributions to Earth and space science.

The AIAA Award for Aerospace Excellence honors a unique achievement by a group or team in the aerospace community that is shaping the future of aerospace–and inspiring the next generation to pursue careers in aerospace.

The Lawrence Sperry Award is presented for a notable contribution made by a young person, age 35 or under, to the advancement of aeronautics or astronautics.

The Wyld Award is presented for outstanding achievement in the development or application of rocket propulsion systems.

The AIA Award recognizes people and projects epitomizing the contributions of the architecture profession, the transformative power of design, and the dedication of individuals to service and excellence.

This annual award recognizes individuals for their contributions to the field and to the practice of biochemical engineering through their position in industry or academia.

This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the academic, scientific, technological, industrial, or service areas involving separations technologies for young candidates.

The Institute Medal is awarded for research having special merit and importance in connection with the activities and interests of the iron and steel industry.

The Clinical-Scientist Fellowship honors those pursuing canine health research to prevent, treat and cure canine diseases.

The Beta Phi Mu award is given in recognition of a library school faculty member’s achievement or another individual’s distinguished service to education for librarianship.

The Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award honors a literary work or series of works, in intellectual freedom, including matters of ethical, political, or social concerns related to intellectual freedom.

The Award celebrates an individual who has made significant contributions to the discipline and is well recognized within the discipline as being a science/technological leader.

The David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health celebrates those who have made an outstanding contribution to public health through science-based advocacy.

The Julian Hinds Award celebrates meritorious contribution to the field of water resources development, notable performance, long years of distinguished service, or specific actions that have served to advance engineering in the field of planning, development, and management of water resources.

The Research Scholar Award recognizes intellectual contributions and looks to increase the number of articles authored by community psychologists.

The Beckman Young Investigator Award supports promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences.

The Distinguished Achievement Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of methods, issues, concepts, applications, and the initiatives of environmental statistics inclusive of the formulation and foundational effort.

The APS Rising Star designation is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD.

The CAAM Fellowship Program aims to support and develop Asian American documentary filmmakers by pairing selected Fellows with accomplished professionals to develop a project in documentary filmmaking.

The Distinguished Professor Award recognizes individuals that have had a positive, stimulating, and nurturing influence upon students.

The DSSG is a program that introduces outstanding science and engineering professors to the country’s security challenges, fostering their talents towards working on these issues.

Engineering Unleashed Fellows are a cohort faculty members who are recognized for their contribution to entrepreneurial engineering education.

The Fulbright Program, the U.S. Government’s flagship international exchange program, is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Fulbright grants provide the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

The Fellowship in Bioethics is a program designed for a dozen thought leaders selected from among applicants from around the world who wish to deepen their work in bioethics.

The CAPAS fellows are awarded an opportunity to conduct collaborative research projects on theoretical and practical dimensions of the end of the world and what comes after.

This award recognizes and felicitates IISA members who have made outstanding contributions in all topics covered under the broad umbrella of statistics and data sciences.

The Early Academic Career Award recognizes academics who have made an identifiable contribution which have had a major impact on the robotics and automation fields.

The Nikola Tesla Award is a Technical Field Award given annually to an individual or team that has made an outstanding contribution to the generation or utilization of electric power.

The Intel Rising Star Faculty Award program selects early-career academic researchers who lead groundbreaking technology research demonstrating the potential to disrupt the tech industry.

This award celebrates a member of the qualitative and ethnographic community who has published an English-language book that best represents an important contribution to qualitative inquiry.

The Paris Medal is awarded to researchers who accomplished distinguished research in the field of fracture.

The IGS Award recognizes advances in the scientific and engineering development of geosynthetic products and associated technologies.

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes exceptional career-long contributions to understanding the process of photosynthesis.

The Gjønnes Medal in Electron Crystallography recognizes an outstanding contribution to the field of electron crystallography.

The Visiting Fellow Program supports visits from pre-eminent mathematicians around the world.

This award celebrates the most outstanding international and comparative employment issues paper.

The J.N. Reddy Medal is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of mechanics of advanced materials and structures.

The award is given each year to a young investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of bioinorganic chemistry.

The Young Investigator Award recognizes one young investigator for their excellence in the field of entomology.

The Symposium brings together outstanding, early-career German and American engineers from industry, universities, and other research institutions to introduce their areas of engineering research and technical work, thereby facilitating an interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge and methodology that could eventually lead to collaborative networks of engineers from the two countries.

Kavli Fellows are selected by the NAS to participate in the U.S. and international Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia of the NAS, which bring together scientists who are 45 or younger to engage in exceptional research in a variety of disciplines.

The Early Career Research Award is given annually to the early researcher who demonstrates the greatest potential to make outstanding and continuing contributions to educational research.

NCI’s Outstanding Investigator Award supports accomplished leaders in cancer research, who are providing significant contributions toward understanding cancer and developing applications that may lead to a breakthrough in biomedical, behavioral, or clinical cancer research.

The Fellow Award recognizes work in school finance deemed to be of significant practical and scholarly impact.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency, and one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States. NEH Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities, scholars, general audiences or both.

The New Innovator Award supports exceptionally creative early career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects in the biomedical, behavioral, or social sciences within the NIH mission.

The Trailblazer award is an opportunity for early career investigators to pursue research programs of high interest to the NIBIB at the interface of the life sciences with engineering and the physical sciences.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

The Young Investigator Program identifies and supports academic scientists and engineers.

The Feld Biophotonics Award recognizes individuals for their innovative and influential contributions to the field of biophotonics, regardless of their career stage.

Visiting fellows are distinguished writers, artists, and scholars from around the world.

The Psychonomic Society Mid-Career Award is given for excellent scientific contributions to the field of experimental and cognitive psychology and related areas by an individual who is currently in the middle of their career.

The Digital Innovation Award recognizes excellence in digital projects that support the study of the Renaissance (1300–1700).

This award recognizes outstanding research published during the previous six years.

The Young Manufacturing Engineer award recognizes exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry.

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the contribution of a particularly influential body of work to the field of reproductive and developmental toxicology.

The Visiting Fellows program awards scholars with the opportunity to exchange ideas, interact and work collaboratively at Hoover Institute.

The Gold Medal Award recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions or significant advancements to the Nondestructive Testing Industry or Society.

The Award is presented to an early-career recipient who demonstrates research excellence in the field of vibration and acoustics. 

The Nadai Medal is awarded in recognition of significant contributions and outstanding achievements which broaden the field of materials engineering.

The Manufacturing Technology Award recognizes an individual or team for contributing significantly to innovative manufacturing technology, the implementation of which has resulted in substantial economic and societal benefits.

The Visiting Fellowships program provides outstanding academics based in any country overseas with the opportunity to be based at a UK higher education or research institution.

The Best Book Award honors internationally oriented books published in the past ten years that advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the linkages between news media and politics in a globalized world in a significant way.

The New Faculty Award celebrates outstanding teaching and research contributions to the transportation field.

The Young Investigator Award is the highest honor for young scholars in the field of computational mechanics in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years, when many scientists do their most formative work.

The UCGIS Early-Mid Career Research Award celebrates an outstanding early-mid career research record of innovative ideas or methods that lead to research impacts on the theory and/or practice of GIScience or geographic information technology.

An honorary degree is conferred only on persons of conspicuous merit or distinction who are outstanding in their academic or professional life or field or who have given exceptional service to the University.

The Rothman Book Prize is given annually for the best book in western environmental history defined in its broadest sense.

Academy members are world leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy, and public affairs. Elected members join with other experts to explore challenges facing society, identify solutions, and promote nonpartisan recommendations that advance the public good.

Academy fellows are exceptional microbiologists who represent a wide variety of microbiology sectors, including research, education, public health, industry, and government service.

Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications. Among the goals of the AAAS are to enhance communication among scientists, engineers, and the public and to promote and defend the integrity of science and its use.

The American Association of Geographers Fellows is a recognition and service program that applauds geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography.

The Fellows program recognizes American Geophysical Union members who have made exceptional contributions to Earth and space science through a breakthrough, discovery, or innovation in their field.

The grade of Associate Fellow recognizes individuals who have accomplished or overseen important engineering or scientific work, or who have done original work of outstanding merit, or who have otherwise made outstanding contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.

Election into the Institute honors an individual who reflects the excellence and diversity of today’s legal profession.

The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.

Fellows shall have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences.

Fellows exhibit high ethical standards, scientific excellence, originality, scholarly and creative achievement, and leadership.

The Distinguished Membership is the highest honor the ASCE can bestow.

Fellow status is awarded to members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and application.

Senior Member status is designed to recognize AAAI members who have achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers grade of Fellow recognize an unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred only by invitation of the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments of a IEEE member in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

IAMBE Fellows are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the profession of medical and biological engineering.

The Honorary Membership honors life-time contributions to hydro-environment engineering and research, and for outstanding service to the association.

The ISCA Fellows Program recognizes and honors outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication.

The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.

Election to NAM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.

The status of fellow honors demonstrated leadership in both research and practice in the field of education finance.

The SoR Fellowship status recognizes a history of distinguished scientific achievement, a significant technological accomplishment, and/or outstanding scholarship in the field of Rheology.

A fellow is one who has attained a membership grade of distinction, at the time of advancement shall be a corporate member of the Society, shall have been responsible for significant engineering achievements and shall have 10 years of active practice and membership in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Fellows have exceptionally distinguished intellectual accomplishments in the arts, humanities and sciences, have helped promote the object of the Society in ways that have clear relevance for Canadian society.

The Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to faculty mentoring by actively assisting pre-tenure and mid-career faculty in developing their career(s).

The Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award recognizes a faculty member who has provided extraordinary leadership contributions across many dimensions of shared governance that advance the excellence of a unit, college, and/or the campus, and who exemplifies the campus commitment to collaborative decision-making.

The Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award recognizes outstanding academic leadership and vision by an executive officer within a college or campus unit.

Recipients of this award are honored for sustained excellence and innovation in graduate or professional teaching and their contributions to graduate or professional learning beyond classroom instruction.

This award recognizes faculty for their sustained excellence in graduate student mentoring, innovative approaches to graduate advising, and their impact on graduate student scholarship and professional development. The award is co-sponsored by the Graduate College.

This award recognizes faculty for their excellence in involving and guiding undergraduate students in scholarly research, having a positive impact on student scholarship or intellectual development, and for their innovative approaches to guiding undergraduate research. Honorees are represented from two employee categories: Faculty and Specialized Faculty.

This award honors excellence and innovation in online and/or distance teaching, contributions to student learning through innovative uses of technology, creativity in course development and instruction, and for having had a positive influence on the quality, extent, and development of a department’s online/distance program.

Recipients of this award are recognized for their excellence in and innovative approaches to undergraduate advising, and for having had a major impact on undergraduate students and their intellectual development through sustained academic advising relationships.

This award recognizes sustained excellence in and innovative approaches to undergraduate teaching and contributions beyond classroom instruction that have an overall positive impact on undergraduate student learning. Honorees are represented from three employee categories: Faculty, Specialized Faculty, and Teaching Assistants.

The Faculty and Staff Distinguished Award recognizes a faculty or staff member for their lifetime, sustained, or career achievements in public engagement activities.

The Faculty and Staff Emerging Award recognizes a faculty or staff member for earl career public engagement activities.

The Faculty and Staff Team Award recognizes a team of faculty or staff for public engagement activities that demonstrate significant impact.

The Community Award recognizes a member of the local community or alumni who have demonstrated significant individual contributions.

The Michael Aiken Chair was established in honor of former University Chancellor Michael Aiken for his devotion to enhancing the quality of teaching, research, and service across campus. The Aiken Chair is supported by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Campbell and other sources.

The Fox Family Professorship was established through a gift from Peter B. and Kim Blackwell Fox, who are long-time supporters of the University of Illinois. The Fox Family Professorship is awarded to an individual whose scholarship and teaching focus on economic development entrepreneurship and transfer of technology locally, in the state, and in the nation.

Gutgsell Endowed Professorships and Chairs were established by Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell to promote faculty development and to ensure high achievement. Gutgsell appointments have five-year renewable terms and provide funds for scholarly activities associated with individual fields of distinction.

Ikenberry Endowed Chairs were established in honor of Stanley O. Ikenberry’s tenure as the 14th President of the University of Illinois. Ikenberry Chairs are funded by a gift from Geraldine B. Cooke and other sources, and honor distinguished faculty members on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus.

The Presidential Humanities and Social Science Chair appointments were established through an endowment from the University of Illinois President to support humanities and social science scholars whose research focuses on innovation and discovery.

Swanlund Endowed Chairs are made possible by a gift from the late Maybelle Leland Swanlund. Mrs. Swanlund, who died in 1993, provided an endowment of $12 million to attract leading figures in the arts and sciences to the University or to recognize outstanding scholars already on its faculty.