The Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program supports scientists and engineers who show exceptional ability and promise to conduct basic research.

This prestigious research grant recognizes outstanding academic achievements of international researchers from outside Germany, allowing them to conduct research at a German institution.

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.

This award is granted to an educator who has made a significant contribution to the profession in the area of educating practitioners.

This award recognizes distinguished achievements in research over the last decade that have significantly impacted the field of educator preparation.

Recipients are selected for the award for their efforts to advance electrochemical analysis.

This award recognizes a preceptor and an outstanding graduate student in chemistry.

This award recognizes and encourages outstanding contributions to analytical chemistry by a young analytical scientist.

This award recognizes exceptional early-career faculty members making significant contributions to the field of computational chemistry.

ACLS fellows and grantees are engaged in creating new knowledge that benefits our understanding of the world.

The AERA Fellows Program honors scholars for their exceptional contributions to, and excellence in education research.

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

This prize is presented to AIChE members for significant contributions to chemical engineering through publications.

This award recognizes outstanding research in computational molecular science and engineering, encompassing both methods and applications.

This honor is to a young researcher who has made significant contributions in materials science and engineering.

The Distinguished Public Service Award recognizes a public servant who has demonstrated leadership in energy policy formulation and public enlightenment and has made significant contributions to the betterment of humanity in the national or international sphere of public service.

This prize recognizes lifetime achievement in the field of hydrologic engineering.

This prize is awarded in honor of the nominee’s contributions to the advancement of the knowledge and practice of transportation engineering.

This award is presented to an individual who has made long-lasting, influential contributions to the foundations or practice of the field of high-performance parallel and distributed computing.

This award is given for contributions to computer and digital systems architecture where the field of computer architecture is considered at present to encompass the combined hardware-software design and analysis of computing and digital systems.

The ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes excellence in educating the next generation of library and information professionals.

This prize recognizes outstanding researchers for their exceptional contributions in advancing the field of single-molecule biophysics.

The Teacher-Scholar Award recognizes faculty who are within the first five years of their academic careers, have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship and are deeply committed to education.

The competition showcased diverse Asian American storytelling from emerging documentary filmmakers from the Midwest and South.

The annual award recognizes the contributions of an outstanding edited collection of essays to children’s literature history, scholarship, and criticism.

This award recognizes a lawyer, judge, teacher, or legislator who exemplifies the best in scholarship, advocacy, judicial administration, or legislative activities in bankruptcy.

This fellowship is granted to top-performing Young Faculty Award recipients who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and technical achievement.

The Young Faculty Award identifies and engages rising stars in junior research positions in their development of research ideas in the context of national security needs.

This program invests in the innovative research and education programs of outstanding early career faculty poised to pave new lines of inquiry and advance mission critical research directions in nuclear energy.

This award honors individuals making a difference in the lives of young children at risk for developmental delays and disabilities and their families.

ETH Zurich awards honorary doctorates to individuals who have made significant contributions to science, education, or practical applications. 

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. 

This award honors early and outstanding leaders in the fields of family and policy.

Guggenheim Fellowships are to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed.

This fellowship is awarded to the most thoughtful and exciting contemporary scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and arts—along with writers, journalists, playwrights, and other distinguished professionals.

The scholar award supports the development of the next generation of academic leaders and connects a worldwide community enriched by academic freedom.

This award recognizes outstanding sustained and continuing contributions to the technology in fields encompassed by the EPS. 

This award honors innovative work in computing leading to lasting impact on other aspects of engineering, science, technology, or society. 

This fellowship honors a candidate with well-established leadership whose contributions to the field of statistics or probability. 

This award recognizes outstanding photoscientific contributions by early career Society members. 

This award honors distinguished scientific achievements of scholars who are in the middle stages of their career. 

This award recognizes a book published by a member of IARR that has made a significant and original contribution to the study of personal relationships.

This award recognizes excellence in teaching in the field of personal relationships. 

This award recognizes excellent and consistent contributions to the field of carotenoids by an early career researcher.

The IEA Fellowship is given to recognize extraordinary or sustained, superior accomplishments of an individual. 

This award recognizes a distinguished junior scientist who has made outstanding theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of social cognition. 

This award honors a senior scientist who has made major contributions to the field of computational biology.

The award honors an up-and-coming researcher who has been a catalyst for scientific progress in high performance computing.

This award is given to a book that has made an “outstanding contribution of enduring value” to our understanding of language and linguistics.

This award is given to a promising early career faculty in mixed methods research.

Scholars are selected for their demonstrated leadership and exceptional professional achievement in biomedical science, population health, and health care.

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 Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes longtime contributions to the vocal arts and dedication to the singing community.

This award recognizes faculty members who combine outstanding research accomplishments with excellence in graduate mentoring, as well as those who advocate for gender equity in computing fields at both a local and national level.

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. 

This award supports promising, newly graduated scientists with the intellect, scientific creativity, drive, and maturity to bypass the traditional postdoctoral training period to launch independent research careers. 

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 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.

The NDEP Award recognizes the teaching, mentoring, and leadership activities of faculty in ACEND®-accredited dietetics education programs.  

The PTC Emerging Scholars Program recognizes exceptional, rising scholars in the field of information and communication technologies.

This 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 honor of fellow recognizes a highly promising early career scientist with a record of accomplishment of significant research accomplishments commensurate with career level.

This award supports the underlying science needed to make technologies to capture and utilize greenhouse gases globally scalable.  

This award recognizes early to mid-career researchers who have made significant, innovative, and sustained contributions to social psychology. 

This award recognizes individuals who have made distinguished contributions to enable and further the use of biotechnology to produce fuels and chemicals.

This award recognizes outstanding achievements by early career scholars in social and personality psychology.

This award recognizes practicing structural engineers under the age of 35 who have made significant achievements in their fields as determined by their colleagues.

This award recognizes outstanding research contributions and celebrates academic excellence in the field of applied linguistics.

This award recognizes outstanding research contributions to the field of electrodeposition and encourages publication of high-quality papers in this field. 

This award is given for meritorious service and excellent achievement or service of unusual value that contributes to the accomplishment of the NRC’s mission or to assigned major work programs with agency wide significance. 

This award recognizes exceptional accomplishments and distinctions of an individual in the water resources field. 

This prize honors a researcher, educator, or manager for advances in plasma science and engineering that have or will significantly benefit society.

This award recognizes outstanding, young, independent investigators who are the source for future advances in the biomedical sciences. 

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. 

Fellows are recognized for their unusual and outstanding contribution in the field of psychology.

Fellows are recognized for their unusual and outstanding contribution to international psychology. 

Distinguished Membership is the highest honor the ASCE can bestow on civil engineers who are either ASCE members or fellows.

The ASN Fellow is the highest honor that the Society bestows for notable lifetime achievements. 

The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. 

Distinguished Membership recognizes members who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field. 

Fellows are recognized as the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology 

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers grade of Fellow recognizes 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 an IEEE member in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

Fellows are distinguished by their scientific and professional contributions to agricultural and biosystems engineering.

The Fellow title is awarded to those who have made an outstanding contribution to the Society and the field of physical activity and health. 

Fellows are appointed in recognition of their scientific or technical contributions to the field of electrochemistry. 

Election to National Academy of Engineering membership is one of the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer. Members have distinguished themselves in business and academic management, in technical positions, as university faculty, and as leaders in government and private engineering organizations. 

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 NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. 

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. 

Optica Fellows are elected members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics through distinguished contributions to education, research, engineering, business and society. 

The Fellows program recognizes members who demonstrate clear evidence of independent scholarship, active engagement in methodologically, rigorous, and theoretically interesting high-level research, and indications of an imminent national/international reputation for excellence in the psychological sciences. 

Fellows have shown evidence of substantial contribution to social psychology as an empirical science. 

The honor of Fellow is granted to persons who have their main base of activity at institutions abroad and who have been active in the field of engineering as well as who have made meritorious service to the education or research at this School and whose continued support can be expect. 

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 Graduate or Professional Student Award recognizes a graduate or professional student for public engagement activities.

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.

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.