University Awards

Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching

Honored for their superior teaching, faculty members are nominated for the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching by present and former students and colleagues and selected by a committee of alumni, students and faculty.

2024

  • Frances Sivakoff
  • Mary Sterenberg

2023

  • Steven Brown
  • Amy Brunell
  • Christin E. Burd
  • Theodora Dragostinova
  • Ashley Hope Pérez
  • Vincent Roscigno

2021

  • Anna Grotans
  • Nicole Kraft
  • Jacob Risinger
  • Michael Stamatikos

2020

  • Sharon Amacher
  • Lanier F. Holt
  • Ciriyam Jayaprakash

2019

  • Peter F. Craigmile
  • Glenn Martinez
  • Danielle Marx-Scouras
  • Chad Rappleye

2018

  • Gregor William Anderson
  • Eugenia Costa-Giomi
  • Bartow J. Elmore
  • Andrew Frank Heckler
  • Namiko Kunimoto
  • Beverly Janine Moss
  • Bradley Okdie

2017

  • Frederick Luis Aldama
  • Jennifer S. Cheavens
  • Susan E. Cole
  • Rachel Dwyer
  • Allison Bean Ellawadi

2016

  • Hollie Nyseth Brehm
  • Michael C. Edwards
  • Karen Eliot
  • Elizabeth Kolkovich
  • Amy Shuman

2015

  • Christopher Frank Highley
  • Julie Marie Hupp
  • Scott A. Jones
  • Robin Judd
  • W. Scott McGraw
  • Karl P. Whittington

2014

  • Steven James Joyce
  • Trevon D. Logan
  • Warren Benson McCorkle Jr.
  • Jennifer E. Schlueter
  • Todd Alan Thompson

2013

  • Juan D. Alfonzo
  • Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza
  • Mathew Coleman
  • Kay Halasek
  • David L. Hoffmann
  • Erin McGraw
  • Douglass Schumacher

2012

  • David Herman
  • Hasan Kwame Jeffries
  • Mark A. Kleffner
  • Robin Rice

Community Engaged Practitioner Award

The Community Engaged Practitioner Award recognizes staff members who have demonstrated superior commitment to developing, coordinating, and/or sustaining projects, activities, or initiatives involving Ohio State and community partners that enhance engaged scholarship and community impacts.

2024

  • Jason Cervenec

2023

  • Wayne Schlingman

Community Engaged Scholar Award

The Community Engaged Scholar Award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated engaged scholarship that has impacted communities. Community Engaged Scholars have made significant contribution to Ohio State's culture of engagement, further establishing and strengthening the institution's commitment to supporting communities.

2024

  • Sharon Amacher
  • John Beacom
  • Townsand Price-Spratlen

2023

  • Susan Melsop
  • Nyama McCarthy-Brown

2022

  • Jeffrey Cohen
  • Hasan Jeffries
  • Harvey Miller

2021

  • Simone Drake
  • Michael Neblo
  • Elisabeth Root
  • Michael Stamatikos

2020

  • Elena Foulis

Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award

The Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award celebrates and rewards members of the Ohio State community who are shaping the university with cutting-edge curriculum, mentorship, new programs or policy impact that are making diversity and inclusiveness a part of its best practices by changing daily operations, program components or cultural awareness.

2023

  • Alexander Abreo
  • Kent “Kip” Curtis
  • Simone Drake

2022

  • Thomas J. Magliery
  • Tabitha Willis

2021

  • Lidia K. Garcia Berrelleza

2020

  • Sadé Lindsay

2019

  • Hollie Nyseth Brehm, PhD
  • Stephanie Shaw, PhD

2018

  • Radhika Pandit
  • Paul Reitter, PhD

2017

  • Mariame Diabate

2016

  • Maurice Stevens
  • Andreá Williams

2014

  • Christine Ballengee Morris
  • Amy Shuman

2012

  • Helen Chamberlin
  • Martin J. (Joe) Ponce

Distinguished Scholar Award

By receiving the Distinguished Scholar Award, senior professors are honored for their exceptional scholarly accomplishments and younger faculty members for their demonstrated scholarly potential.

2023

  • Adeleke Adeeko
  • Korie Little Edwards
  • Mohit Randeria
  • Matthew Sullivan

2022

  • John Beacom
  • Bruce Weinberg
  • Daniel J. Wozniak

2021

  • Christopher Hirata
  • Kendra McSweeney
  • Dorothy Noyes

2020

  • Ian Howat
  • Michael Lisa
  • Margaret Newell
  • Todd Thompson

2019

  • H. Lisle Gibbs
  • Michael Ibba
  • Nandini Trivedi

2018

  • Jane Hathaway
  • William Berry Lyons
  • Krzysztof Stanek

2017

  • Leonard J. Brillson
  • Marc H. Pinsonneault
  • Claudia Turro

2016

  • Alice L. Conklin
  • B. Scott Gaudi
  • Brian G. McHale

2015

  • Heather C. Allen
  • Thomas P. Kasulis
  • Amy E. Shuman

2014

  • Frederick Luis Aldama
  • Lung-fei Lee
  • Samir D. Mathur

2013

  • Julia F. Andrews
  • William I. Ausich
  • Dan Levin
  • Anne B. McCoy

2012

  • Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
  • Louis Franklin DiMauro
  • Anita K. Hopper
  • Vincent J. Roscigno

Distinguished Service Award

The Distinguished Service Awards are not made on the basis of long, faithful, or loyal service alone, but rather for service that is truly distinguished. Recipients of this award have provided a broad spectrum of services to the university in both official and unofficial capacities.

2023

  • Paul A. Beck
  • Ruth D. Peterson

2019

  • William "Ted" McDaniel, Jr.
  • Gifford Weary

2018

  • Valerie B. Lee

2017

  • Richard S. Stoddard

2016

  • Gary Booth

2015

  • Christian Zacher

2014

  • Daniel “Dan” Shapiro

2012

  • Randall B. Ripley
  • Keith Monda
  • James R. Tootle
  • Jon Woods

Distinguished Staff Award

The Distinguished Staff Award annually honors staff members for their outstanding achievements, service, leadership and dedication to The Ohio State University.

2023

  • Amy Kulesza
  • Chris Manion
  • Walter Williams

2022

  • Laura Seeger

2021

  • Christy Goodman
  • Kristy Krehnovi
  • Brittany Poast
  • Jay Smith
  • Jackson R. Stotlar

2020

  • Jill Morris
  • Patricia Strope

2019

  • Kathleen Griffin
  • Shannon Hand
  • Daniel Pappalardo

2018

  • Lynaya Elliott
  • Courtney Sanders
  • Jean Scott

2017

  • Luciana Musetti
  • Karen E. Sobul
  • David Will

2016

  • Lindsey Thaler

2015

  • Amy L. Carey
  • Susan Chess
  • Pete Gosser

2014

  • Mark Derwent

2013

  • Darry Andrews

2012

  • Terry Bradley
  • Jane Harper

Distinguished University Professor

The Office of Academic Affairs awards the permanent, honorific title of Distinguished University Professor on a competitive basis to full professors who have truly exceptional records in teaching, in research, scholarly or creative work, and in service.

2020

  • Janet Box-Steffensmeier
  • Susan Olesik
  • Roger Ratcliff

2019

  • Frederick Luis Aldama

2018

  • Barbara L. Andersen

2017

  • Clark S. Larsen
  • David Weinberg

2016

  • Peter W. Culicover
  • Tina M. Henkin

2015

  • Julia F. Andrews
  • James A. Cowan
  • Ulrich W. Heinz

2013

  • Charles M. Atkinson
  • Randy J. Nelson

Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award

The Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award, created in 2022, annually recognizes three faculty members with outstanding scholarly activities who show promise of making significant contributions to Ohio State and their field for years to come.

2023

  • Christin Burd
  • Christo Sevov

High Impact Program Award

The High Impact Program Award, formerly Community Engaged Program Award, recognizes outstanding achievement by faculty, staff and/or student led programs/initiatives focused on community-university partnerships and impact.

2022

  • The SciDome
  • West Campus Science and Sustainability Festival

2021

  • SKY Breathing for Recovery

2020

  • SciAccess

Innovators of the Year

The Innovator of the Year and Early Career Innovator of the Year awards recognize Ohio State researchers who are actively working to promote commercialization of university intellectual property, through invention disclosures filed, patents applied for and/or received, technologies licensed or spin-off companies formed. The Next Generation Innovator of the Year award is open to postdocs along with undergraduate and graduate students. The award recognizes innovation and entrepreneurship that has contributed to the development or commercialization of a new technology. Learn more about these awards.

2023

  • Tom Darrah

2022

  • Madison Tuttle

2021

  • Abraham Badu-Tawiah
  • Caroline Karbowski

2018

  • Forrest Schoessow

President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service

The President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service annually recognizes up to three tenure-track, clinical, or research faculty members who have been at Ohio State for at least five years.  Their contributions to the development and implementation of university policies and programs, through non-administrative roles, have been extensive and have made documentable impact on the quality of  the university.

2024

  • Eric Bielefeld
  • Elizabeth Hewitt
  • Christopher Jaroniec

2023

  • Steven Lopez
  • Piers Norris Turner

2021

  • Jared Gardner
  • Wendy S. Hesford
  • Eric MacGilvray

2020

  • Marymegan Daly
  • Wendy Smooth
  • Shari Speer

2019

  • David G. Horn
  • Lisa Florman

2018

  • Harald Vaessin
  • Susan Hadley
  • Jim Cogdell

2017

  • Timothy Gerber

2016

  • Caroline Breitenberger

2015

  • Michael Kelly Bruce
  • Lawrence A. Krissek

2014

  • Terry L. Gustafson

2013

  • Diane W. Birckbichler
  • Brian W. McEnnis

Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer

The Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer annually recognizes a maximum of six lecturers, senior lecturers, or other associated faculty members for their teaching excellence.

2024

  • Julia Applegate
  • Dawn Starr
  • Amy Tibbals

2023

  • Steven Bengal
  • Lijuan Bi
  • Ted Clark
  • Jenny Sheldon

2021

  • Ethan Doetsch
  • Rebecca Ricciardo
  • James Talamo
  • Deborah Wilson

2020

  • Stephanie Aubry
  • Teppei Kiyosue
  • Eduan Martinez-Soto

2019

  • Elena Foulis
  • Galit Golan

2018

  • Salome Fouts
  • Meghan Burke Hattaway
  • Trena Shank
  • Edward Taketa

2017

  • Hope C. Dawson
  • Kim M. Lopez
  • Noel M. Paul

2016

  • Christopher Callam
  • Barbara A. Heck

2015

  • Jennifer Patton
  • Kristie Sigler

2014

  • Lisa Cravens-Brown
  • Anthony Shoup

2013

  • Ruth Kinder
  • Matthew “Dr. Fus” Stoltzfus