Given by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, the award honors faculty members for work representing a significant contribution to excellence in public education. The University of Iowa will select up to six faculty members each year to receive this award and will award each recipient a $1,000 one-time stipend. The recipients are announced in the spring and the award is presented in the fall semester.
Please see the guidelines for nominations.
2018 recipients
- Susan Assouline, Belin-Blank Center, College of Education
- Barry Carter, Pharmacy Practice & Sciences, College of Pharmacy
- Donna Hammond, Pharmacology, Carver College of Medicine
- Karen Heimer, Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Dan Moore, Music, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Peter Thorne, professor and head of Occupational & Environmental Health, College of Public Health