Recent and Previous Faculty Awardees
UCF celebrates its faculty members whose achievements and exceptional creative works earn external honors and recognition.
Below are current and previous UCF faculty award recipients and a separate list of current and previous Fulbright scholars. For assistance with award opportunities or other inquires, please contact Faculty Excellence at FacultyExcellence@ucf.edu.
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| Faculty | Award | Year | Society |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demetrios Christodoulides | Arthur L Schawlow Prize in Laser Science | 2023 | American Physical Society |
| Chen, Kenle | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2023 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Pamela Wisniewski | William T. Grant Scholar | 2023 | William T. Grant Foundation |
| Peter J. Delfyett | AAAS Fellow | 2022 | American Association for the Advancement of Science, The (AAAS) |
| Ronald F. DeMara | AAAS Fellow | 2022 | American Association for the Advancement of Science, The (AAAS) |
| Greg Trompeter | AAA/Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award | 2022 | American Accounting Association |
| Eunkyung Lee | AACR Minority and Minority-serving Institution Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Award | 2022 | American Association for Cancer Research |
| Mubarak Shah | AAIA Fellow | 2022 | Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association |
| Ross Wolf | ACE Fellow | 2022 | American Council on Education (ACE) |
| Liu, Fei | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2022 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Jiang, Tengfei | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2022 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Jung, Yeonwoong | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2022 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Kim, Brian | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2022 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Wahl, Thomas | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2022 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Thankachan, Sharma | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2022 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Kwok, Kawai | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2022 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Razavi, Mehdi | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2022 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Kent-Walsh, Jennifer | ASHA Fellows | 2022 | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association |
| Sonia C. Arellano | CCCC Richard Braddock Award | 2022 | National Council of Teachers of English |
| Magdalena Pasarica | Curtis G Hames Research Award | 2022 | Society of Teachers of Family Medicine |
| Kathleen Richardson | Darshana and Arun Varshneya Frontiers of Glass Lecturer | 2022 | American Ceramic Society |
| Patrick Pabian | Distinguished Fellow, FNAP | 2022 | National Academies of Practice |
| Damla Turgut | Distinguished Lecturers | 2022 | IEEE Communications Society |
| Timothy Kotnour | Distinguished Professor Award | 2022 | IEOM Society International |
| Popolan-Vaida, Denisia | Early Career Research Award | 2022 | Department of Energy |
| David H. Fukuda | Educator of the Year | 2022 | National Strength and Conditioning Association |
| Shin-Tson Wu | Edwin H Land Medal | 2022 | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| Laurene Tetard | Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative | 2022 | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation |
| Yunjun Xu | Fellow | 2022 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Hsin-Hsiung Huang | Frank F Aplan Award | 2022 | American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers(AIME) |
| Jun Wang | IEEE Fellow | 2022 | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Gregory Welch | IEEE Fellow | 2022 | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Ahmad Elshennawy | IEOM Distinguished Service Award | 2022 | IEOM Society International |
| Mansooreh Mollaghasemi | IEOM Woman in Industry and Academia (WIIA) Award | 2022 | IEOM Society International |
| Nichole Lighthall | Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellows | 2022 | National Academy of Sciences |
| Morris Casano Beato | Neurologic Physical Therapy Section/Excellence in Neurologic Education | 2022 | American Physical Therapy Association |
| Caranto, Jonathan | NIH Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) | 2022 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Staci Zavattaro | PAR/Laverne Burchfield Award | 2022 | American Society for Public Administration, The |
| Luis Favela | Scialog Fellows | 2022 | Research Corporation for Science Advancement |
| Mindi Anderson | SSH Fellow | 2022 | Society for Simulation in Healthcare |
| Earley-Spadoni, Tiffany C. | Summer Stipends Awards | 2022 | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
| Richard Klemm | U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program | 2022 | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) |
| Felipe Viana | U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program | 2022 | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) |
| W. Bryce Hagedorn | ACA Foundation David K Brooks Distinguished Mentor Award | 2021 | American Counseling Association |
| Eleazar Vasquez | ACE Fellow | 2021 | American Council on Education (ACE) |
| Shah, Mubarak Ali | ACM Fellow | 2021 | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Peter J. Delfyett, Jr. | Arthur L Schawlow Prize in Laser Science | 2021 | American Physical Society |
| Peter J. Delfyett | NAE Membership | 2021 | National Academy of Engineering |
| Naim Kapucu | Fellow of National Academy of Public Administration | 2021 | National Academy of Public Administration |
| Robert Steward JR. | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2021 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Yanjie Fu | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2021 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Samik Bhattacharya | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2021 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Salvador Almagro-Moreno | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2021 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Lorraine F Leon | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 2021 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| Waldemar Karwowski | Arnold M. Small President's Distinguished Service Award | 2021 | Human Factors and Ergonomics Society |
| Zhaomiao Guo | Best ISERC Paper Award | 2021 | Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers |
| Paul Gazzillo | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) | 2021 | Department of Defense (DOD) |
| Sejal Barden | Don Dinkmeyer Social Interest Award | 2021 | American Counseling Association |
| Dalena Dillman Taylor | Don Dinkmeyer Social Interest Award | 2021 | American Counseling Association |
| Xiaoxiao Fu | Emerging Scholar of Distinction | 2021 | International Academy for the Study of Tourism |
| Ali P. Gordon | Fellow | 2021 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Peter Hancock | Fellow | 2021 | National Academy of Kinesiology |
| Jeffrey Stout | Fellow | 2021 | National Academy of Kinesiology |
| Mark Schafer | FPA Distinguished Scholar Award | 2021 | International Studies Association |
| Patric R. Spence | Instructional Development Division/Top Paper Award | 2021 | National Communication Association |
| Humberto Campins | Jefferson Science Fellows at the US Dept of State | 2021 | National Academies, The |
| Michelle Kelley | Judy Richardson Literacy as a Living Legacy Award | 2021 | Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers |
| Heather Keathley-Herring | Merritt Williamson Award | 2021 | American Society for Engineering Management |
| Gregory Welch | NAI Fellow | 2021 | National Academy of Inventors |
| William Hanney | NSCA Fellowship | 2021 | National Strength and Conditioning Association |
| Elizabeth J. Brisbois | PMSE-Young Investigator | 2021 | American Chemical Society |
| Laurene Tetard | Scialog Collaborative Team Awards | 2021 | Research Corporation for Science Advancement |
| Laurene Tetard | Scialog Fellows | 2021 | Research Corporation for Science Advancement |
| Xiaohu Xia | Scialog Fellows | 2021 | Research Corporation for Science Advancement |
| Salvador Almagro-Moreno | Scialog Fellows | 2021 | Research Corporation for Science Advancement |
| Sch?lzgen, Axel | SPIE Fellow | 2021 | International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) |
| Sonia C. Arellano | The Kathleen Ethel Welch Outstanding Article Award | 2021 | Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition |
| Varadraj Prabhu Gurupur | Triumph Awards/Innovation Award | 2021 | American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) |
| Michael Leuenberger | U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program | 2021 | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) |
| Richard Klemm | U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program | 2021 | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) |
| Shawn Putnam | U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program | 2021 | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) |
| Kathleen Richardson | ACerS/EPDC: Greaves-Walker Lifetime Service Award | 2020 | American Ceramic Society |
| Jacqueline LaManna | ADCES Fellows | 2020 | American Association of Diabetes Educators |
| Amie Newins | APS Rising Star | 2020 | Association for Psychological Science |
| Moharam, M. G. | OSA Fellow | 1996 | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| Delfyett Jr., Peter | Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) | 1996 | President of the United States of America |
| Phanstiel, Otto | Cottrell College Science Award | 1996 | Research Corporation for Science Advancement |
| Beidel, Deborah C | APA Fellow | 1996 | American Psychological Association |
| C. Kumar N. Patel | National Medal of Science | 1996 | National Science and Technology Medals Foundation |
| LI, GUIFANG | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | 1996 | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| NICHOLAS J. GARBER | D. Grant Mickle Award | 1995 | Transportation Research Board |
| Guifang Li | Young Investigator Program Award (YIP) | 1995 | Office of Naval Research (ONR) |
| Klemm, Richard Andrew | APS Fellow | 1994 | American Physical Society |
| Peter A. Hancock | Best Ergonomics in Design Article Award | 1994 | Human Factors and Ergonomics Society |
| Scot French | Carter G. Woodson Institute/Residential Fellowship | 1994 | University of Virginia |
| Deborah J. Nightingale | NAE Membership | 1993 | National Academy of Engineering |
| Wu, Shin-Tson | OSA Fellow | 1993 | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| Chow, Louis | Fellow | 1992 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Richardson, Martin | OSA Fellow | 1992 | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| Bahaa A. Saleh | IEEE Fellow | 1991 | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Folger, Robert G | APA Fellow | 1991 | American Psychological Association |
| Deborah Beidel | President's New Researcher | 1990 | Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies |
| Fon L. Gordon | Research Fellowships for Recent Recipients of the PhD Degree | 1990 | American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) |
| Soileau, M. J. | OSA Fellow | 1990 | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| Gavriel Salvendy | NAE Membership | 1990 | National Academy of Engineering |
| Waldemar Karwowski | Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer Award - Education and Industry | 1989 | Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers |
| C. Kumar N. Patel | Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Endowment Winners | 1989 | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| C. KUMAR PATEL | Medal of Honor | 1989 | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Konstantin Vodopyanov | Humboldt Research Fellowship | 1989 | Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation |
| C. Kumar N. Patel | George E Pake Prize | 1988 | American Physical Society |
| Marwan Simaan | IEEE Fellow | 1988 | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Gavriel Salvendy | IISE Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award | 1988 | Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers |
| Soileau, M. J. | SPIE Fellow | 1988 | International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) |
| Peter Hancock | Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award | 1987 | North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity |
| Wasfy B. Mikhael | IEEE Fellow | 1987 | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Salvendy, Gavriel | APA Fellow | 1987 | American Psychological Association |
| Gavriel Salvendy | Fellow Award | 1986 | Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers |
| Bahaa E. Saleh | Guggenheim Fellowship | 1984 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
| Maureen Ambrose | Division 14-Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology-Robert J Wherry Award for the Best Paper At the IO/OB Conference | 1983 | American Psychological Association |
| Chandra Kumar N. Patel | Charles Hard Townes Award | 1982 | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| Saleh, Bahaa E.A. | OSA Fellow | 1982 | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| Patel, Chandra Kumar Naranbhai | AAAS Fellow | 1980 | American Association for the Advancement of Science, The (AAAS) |
| Patel, Kumar Naranbhai | American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member/Fellow | 1976 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Patel, Chandra Kumar N. | OSA Fellow | 1976 | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
| C. Kumar N. Patel | IEEE Fellow | 1975 | Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| C. Kumar Patel | NAS Members | 1974 | National Academy of Sciences |
| M. Zuhair Nashed | Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards | 1967 | Mathematical Association of America |
| Chandra Kumar N. Patel | Adolph Lomb Medal | 1966 | Optical Society of America, The (OSA) |
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