The Regents Award for Faculty Excellence was established in 1990 by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa in cooperation with the Faculty Senates of the three Regents institutions. The award provides a state-wide forum in which the excellence of faculty members is recognized and shared with colleagues from other Regent institutions. The University of Iowa will select up to six faculty members each year for this honor, each of whom will receive a one-time award of $1,500.

All UI faculty members are eligible for selection. Recipients must have a sustained record of excellence across the spectrum of faculty endeavors (teaching, scholarship, service) or such outstanding accomplishments in one or more of the areas as to justify their selection.

  1. The Provost will solicit nominations from each college. The number of nominees from a college will be based on the size of the college's faculty. (The Graduate College and the Colleges of Business, Dentistry, Education, Engineering, Law, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health may nominate two faculty members each. The Colleges of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Medicine may nominate four faculty members each.) Colleges must describe the process used to select their nominees. They must also provide
    • a nomination statement that speaks to all areas of faculty endeavor (teaching, scholarship, service), even if the nominee is being nominated for outstanding accomplishments in fewer than three areas;
    • a current curriculum vitae; and
    • two supporting letters from faculty members, one of whom must be a faculty member in the nominee’s department or college.
  2. The selection committee will be appointed by the President of the Faculty Senate in consultation with the Provost. The committee will include five faculty members with at least one departmental executive officer among them, a dean (or designee), and the Associate Provost for Faculty.
  3. The selection committee will recommend recipients of the Award to the Faculty Council. The Council will submit names of the recipients to the Provost for concurrence. The recipients will then be affirmed by the Board.

Collegiate Recommendation Due to the Provost, provost-office@uiowa.eduDecember 8, 2023
Faculty Awards Application Deadlines

2022-2023 (see news release)

  • Ted Abel, Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Carver College of Medicine
  • Joseph Cavanaugh, Biostatistics, College of Public Health
  • Rebekah Kowal, Dance, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Joseph Reinhardt, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Karin Weber-Gasparoni, Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry
  • Catherine Welch, Educational Measurement and Statistics, College of Education

2021-2022 (see news release)

  • Amy Colbert, Management and Entrepreneurship, Tippie College of Business
  • Bruce Gantz, Otolaryngology, Carver College of Medicine
  • Keri Hornbuckle, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Sara Mitchell, Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • James Torner, Epidemiology, College of Public Health
  • Sherry Watt, Education Policy and Leadership Studies, College of Education

2020-2021 recipients (see news release)

  • Charles Connerly, School of Planning and Public Affairs, Graduate College
  • Claire Fox, English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Brian Hand, College of Education
  • Jeffrey Murray, Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine
  • Stanley Perlman, Microbiology and Immunology, Carver College of Medicine
  • Michelle Scherer, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering

2019-2020 recipients (see news release)

  • Kurt Anstreicher, Business Analytics, Tippie College of Business
  • Lan Samantha Chang, Creative Writing, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Stephen Dunbar, Psychological & Quantitative Foundations, College of Education
  • Jose Morcuende, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Carver College of Medicine
  • Corinne Peek-Asa, Occupational & Environmental Health, College of Public Health
  • Barbara Rakel, Nursing, College of Nursing

2018 recipients  (see news release)

  • 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

2017 recipients (see news release)

  • Joseph Kearney, professor, Computer Science, interim dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • William Liu, professor, Psychological & Quantitative Foundations, College of Education
  • Michael O’Hara, professor and Starch Faculty Fellow, Psychological & Brain Sciences, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Edith Parker, Dean, Professor, Community and Behavioral Health, Director, Prevention Research Center for Rural Health, Professor, Public Policy Center, Office of the Vice President for Research
  • Richard Shields, professor, Chair & Departmental Executive Officer, Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, College of Medicine
  • Edwin Stone, Seamans-Hauser Chair in Molecular Ophthalmology, director, Molecular Ophthalmology Laboratory, director, Carver Family Center for Macular Degeneration

    director, Carver Nonprofit Genetic Testing Laboratory, director, Institute for Vision Research, professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

2016 recipients(see news release):

  • Ruth Bentler, professor, chair, and director of graduate studies, Communication Sciences & Disorders, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Colin Gordon, F. Wendell Miller Professor of History, Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Paul McCray, professor of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine
  • Keith Mueller, Gerhard Hartman Professor and head of Health Management & Policy, College of Public Health
  • Jodie Plumert, Chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Starch Faculty Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • George Weiner, Director of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, professor of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine

 

2015 recipients (see news release):

  • Gail Bishop, Holden Chair of Cancer Biology in the Carver College of Medicine
  • John Engelhardt, Chair of Molecular Medicine in the Carver College of Medicine
  • David Gompper, Director of the Center for New Music and professor of composition in the School of Music
  • Raymond Mentzer, Daniel J. Krumm Family Chair in Reformation in the Department of Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Christopher Merrill, Director of the International Writing Program and a professor of English
  • Carol Scott-Conner, professor emeritus of surgery in the Carver College of Medicine

2014 recipients (see news release): 

  • Charles Brenner, Roy J. Carver Chair and departmental executive officer of biochemistry and professor of internal medicine, Carver College of Medicine
  • Kim Brogden, professor of periodontics, College of Dentistry
  • Charles Lynch, professor of epidemiology, College of Public Health
  • John Beldon Scott, Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Arts and director of the School of Art & Art History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Larry Weber, Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydraulics, College of Engineering, and director of IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering
  • Mary Wilson, professor of internal medicine and microbiology, Carver College of Medicine, and epidemiology, College of Public Health

2013 recipients (see news release): 

  • Michael Flatté, professor of Physics and Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Sarah Larsen, professor of Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Ann Marie McCarthy, professor and associate dean, College of Nursing
  • Gary Rosenthal, professor of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine
  • Sara Rynes-Weller, John F. Murray Professor of Management, Tippie College of Business
  • Curt Sigmund, professor and chair of Pharmacology, Carver College of Medicine

2012 recipients (see news release):

  • Karim Abdel-Malek, professor of biomedical engineering, College of Engineering
  • Wallace Alward, Frederick C. Blodi Chair in Ophthalmology, Carver College of Medicine
  • Donald W. Black, professor of psychiatry, Carver College of Medicine
  • James McPherson, professor, Writers' Workshop, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Jonathan Wilcox, John C. Gerber Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Adrien Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law, College of Law

2011 recipients:

  • Ann Budd, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Geoscience in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • William Clarke, professor of biostatistics in the College of Public Health
  • Michael Cohen, professor of pathology and urology in Carver College of Medicine and professor of epidemiology in the College of Public Health
  • David Drake, professor of microbiology in the Department of Endodontics and the Dows Institute for Dental Research
  • Milan Sonka, professor of electrical and computer engineering in the UI College of Engineering
  • Janet Williams, Kelting Professor of Nursing in the College of Nursing

2010 recipients (see news release):

  • Thomas Boggess, Ph.D., professor of physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Michael Duffel, Ph.D., associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Pharmacy and professor in the Division of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry
  • Sarah England, Ph.D., is a professor in molecular physiology and biophysics in the Carver College of Medicine
  • Witold Krajewski, Ph.D., professor of civil and environmental engineering and Rose & Joseph Summers Chair in Water Resources Engineering in the College of Engineering
  • Lauren Rabinovitz, Ph.D., professor of American studies and of cinema and comparative literature in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Satish Rao, M.D., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine in the Carver College of Medicine

2009 recipients (see news release):

  • Er-Wei Bai, professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering and professor of radiology in the Carver College of Medicine
  • Mark Blumberg, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Willard Boyd, Rawlings-Miller Professor of Law in the College of Law and president emeritus of The University of Iowa
  • William Coryell, George Winokur Professor of Psychiatry in the Carver College of Medicine and director of inpatient service in psychiatry
  • Katherine Tachau, professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Danial Tranel, professor of neurology in the Carver College of Medicine and professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

2008 recipients (see news release):

  • Peter Damiano, professor of preventive and community dentistry and director of the UI Public Policy Center
  • Pamela Geyer, professor of biochemistry in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
  • William LaRue Jones, professor and director of orchestral studies in the School of Music in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Craig Kletzing, professor of physics and astronomy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Sheldon Kurtz, Percy Bordwell Professor of Law
  • Jane Paulsen, professor of psychiatry in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

2007 recipients (see news release):

  • Randall Bezanson, David H. Vernon Professor of Law and former UI vice president for finance
  • Beverly L. Davidson, Roy J. Carver Biomedical Research Chair in the UI Department of Internal Medicine
  • James B. Gloer, professor of chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Adelaide "Dee" Morris, John C. Gerber Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Ernest Pascarella, Mary Louise Petersen Professor of Higher Education in the College of Education
  • Alec Scranton, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering and associate dean for academic programs in the UI College of Engineering

2006 recipients (see news release):

  • Lee Anna Clark, professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and former associate provost for faculty
  • Vicki Grassian, professor of chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, chemical and biochemical engineering in the College of Engineering, and occupational and environmental health in the College of Public Health
  • Dennis Harper, professor of pediatrics in the Carver College of Medicine; counseling, rehabilitation, and student development in the College of Education; and health management and policy in the College of Public Health
  • Alan MacVey, professor and head of theatre arts in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Jarjisu Sa-Aadu, Chester A. Phillips Professor of Business Finance and Real Estate in the Tippie College of Business
  • Clark Stanford, professor of prosthodontics in the College of Dentistry and orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the Carver College of Medicine
  • Kenneth Cmiel, professor of history and American studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and director of the UI Center for Human Rights (posthumous)

2005 recipients (see news release):

  • Judith Aikin, professor of German and former dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Constance Berman, professor of history in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Dorothy Johnson, F. Wendell Miller Professor and director of the School of Art and Art History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Ronald Lauer, professor emeritus of pediatrics in the Carver College of Medicine and epidemiology in the College of Public Health
  • Raymond Crowe, George Winokur Professor of Psychiatry in the Carver College of Medicine
  • Keela Herr, professor in the College of Nursing

2004 recipients (see news release):

  • Krishnan B. Chandran, Lowell G. Battershell Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Battershell Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and faculty research engineer at IIHR–Hydroscience & Engineering
  • Raúl Curto, executive associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of mathematics
  • Mary Patricia Donahue, executive associate dean in the College of Nursing and professor of nursing
  • George El-Khoury, professor of radiology and orthopaedics in the Carver College fo Medicine
  • Peverill Squire, professor of political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences