Professional Development
Outstanding Faculty Awards 2020
Congratulations to our 2020 awardees. Please click here to read about the Outstanding Faculty Awardees.
Distinguished University Professor
The Distinguished University Professor Award is bestowed upon members of the USF faculty who have had - and continue to have - outstanding records of achievement in their disciplines.

Susan S. Bell

Timothy H. Dixon

Thomas Unnasch
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
Election as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. The Association of American Universities (AAU) recognizes AAAS Fellows as one of the indicators of distinction within an institution’s faculty.

Robert H. Bishop

Michelle S. Bourgeois

Robert D. Frisina

Ivan Oleynik

Frances L. Ramos

Julianne Serovich

Lindsey (Les) Shaw

Paul E. Spector

Lilia M. Woods

Sarah Yuan
Core Fulbright U.S. Scholars
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Fulbright Program provides awardees with the opportunity to study, teach, conduct research, and find solutions to shared international concerns.

Redwan Alqasemi

Bárbara C. Cruz

Darlene De Marie
Tara F. Deubel

Benjamin Goldberg

Thomas Hallock

David Lewis

Matthew T. Mullarkey

Meera Nanjundan

Kyle B. Reed

John Skvoretz

Hariharan Srikanth
Fulbright International Education Administrator
This program offers fully-funded grants for U.S. higher education administrators to participate in an intensive two-week seminar abroad to learn about other countries’ higher education systems.

Amela Malkic
Fulbright Specialist
This program recognizes highly qualified U.S. academics and professionals who are then paired with host institutions abroad where they can share their expertise as well as invest themselves in other cultures.

Barnali Dixon

Yogi Goswami

Rangachar Kasturi

Jody L. McBrien

Carnot Nelson

Yashwant Pathak
Highly Cited Researchers
The Highly Cited Researchers list recognizes the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in 911±¬ÁÏÍøb of Science.

Rays H.Y. Jiang

Shengqian Ma

911±¬ÁÏÍøn-Xiu Ma

Fred Mannering

Vladimir N. Uversky
National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award
The Faculty Early Career Development Program offers the most prestigious awards to support early-career faculty who have the potential to stand as role models in both research and education, and lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

Jean-François Biasse

David Murphy

Paul Rosen

Attila A. Yavuz
NEH Summer Stipends Award
The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends Program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication, by recognizing scholars pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.

Esra Akin-Kivanç