Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award
The nomination process for academic year 2020-21 is now open.
The University of Toledo will recognize those faculty members selected as Outstanding Faculty Researchers and Scholars at the Outstanding Faculty and Adviser Awards Ceremony. The award will recognize the quality and contributions of faculty research, scholarship and creative activity undertaken while a faculty member at The University of Toledo. The Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award recognizes outstanding research, scholarship, and creative activity across the spectrum of disciplines on this multi-campus university. Winners receive a monetary prize as well as formal recognition at the Outstanding Faculty Awards Ceremony.
Faculty may be nominated by their peers or may submit their own file for consideration. Full-time faculty members at The University of Toledo are eligible to receive the award for contributions made while the nominee was a full-time member of the faculty at The University of Toledo. An individual may receive the award only once.
The deadline for nominations - extended!
nominations are due
Monday, March 1, 2021 by 11:59 P.M.
Submit Questions or Nominations by E-mail to OFRSA@utoledo.edu.
The nomination form is downloadable here. To the extent possible, we ask nominators to coordinate efforts to avoid redundant nominations of the same candidate. A single well-written nomination package will suffice!
(Responses to items #1 through #7 may not exceed a total of 10 single-spaced pages using a type size no smaller than 12 points.)
The list of previous recipients is below.
The criteria for selection of the Outstanding Researcher or Scholar include explanation of the following:
- The nature and significance of the research, scholarship or creative activity upon which the nomination is based
- The impact of the research, scholarship or creative activity on the nominee's area of specialization
- How the research, scholarship or creative activity was presented and disseminated to the nominee’s peers and to the wider professional community
- Awards, honors or other recognition of the significance of the research, scholarship or creative activity
- Support received for the nominee's activities
- A complete CV and signed and dated letters of recommendation (Do NOT submit reprints, books or posters.)
- A minimum of two and a maximum of five external letters of recommendation are expected for competitive nominations. Recommendation letters should not be submitted from co-authors (past 5 years) nor from former graduate student or post-doctoral fellow advisees of the nominee.
The Outstanding Research and Scholarship Selection Committee will review all materials; Vice President Calzonetti will present the committee’s recommendations to the provost. Committee members are past winners of this award.
Past Award Recipients
2019-2020
A. Champa Jayasuriya | Sridhar Viamajala
2018 - 2019
Christopher Cooper | Youssef Sari | Jami K. Taylor
2017 - 2018
Vijay Devabhaktuni | Nicole Buonocore Porter | Yanfa Yan
2016 - 2017
Robert Collins | Mohammad Elahinia | Blair Grubb | Lee Strang
2015 - 2016
Joseph Slater | Geoffrey Rapp | Sarit Bhaduri
2014 - 2015
Paul Hong | Bina Joe | Sasidhar Varanasi
2013 - 2014
Abdollah Afjeh | Timothy Fisher
2012 - 2013
Jane Bradley | Llew Gibbons | Stanislaw Stepkowski
2011 - 2012
Kevin Czajkowski | Rebecca Zietlow
2010 - 2011
Marthe Howard | Shanhe Jiang | Gretchen Tietjen | Elizabeth (Liz) Tietz
2009 - 2010
Robert Blumenthal | Ezdihar Hassoun | Sonia Najjar | T. S. Ragu-Nathan
2008 - 2009
Abdul-Majeed Azad | Neil Reid
2007 - 2008
Andrew Geers, Clint Longenecker, Carol Stepien
2006 - 2007
Rickye Heffner | Douglas Leaman | Ron Viola
2005 - 2006
Jiquan Chen | Paul Erhardt | Vijay Goel | Marcia McInerney
2004 - 2005
Jeanne B. Funk | Susan Martyn | John Murray | Katherine Wall
2003 - 2004
Jacques Amar | Glenn Ames | Mohamed Samir Hefzy | Biao Zhang
2002 - 2003
Lamar Bentley | James Lesage | Russell Reising | Mark Vonderembse
2001 - 2002
Gloria Borhstahl | Zunming Deng | Ali Fatemi | Peter Linebaugh
2000 - 2001
David Harris | G. "Nagi" Naganathan | Daniel Watermeier | Adolf Witt
1999 - 2000
1998 - 1999
Martin A. Abraham | Howard M. Friedman | Philip B. James
1997 - 1998
Keith R. Johnson | Thomas A. Stuart | Krzysztof J. Cios
1996 - 1997
Alfred Cave | William Messer | Margaret Wheelock
1995 - 1996
Hua Guo | Richard A. Hudson | Carol Bresnahan Menning
1994 - 1995
Ronald L. Fournier | James A. Harrell | Saleh A. Jabarin
1993 - 1994
James Campbell | A. Alan Pinkerton | James H. Price
1992 - 1993
Alvin D. Compaan | David Dollimore | Matthew H. Wikander
1991 - 1992
Thomas E. Barden | James L. Fry | Marshall A. Leaffer
1990 - 1991
Don H. Bialostosky | Max O. Funk | Demetrios D. Raftopoulos
1989 - 1990
E. Richard Gregory | Richard W. Komuniecki | Subhash C. Kwatra
1988 - 1989
Lawrence J. Dessner | Wayne P. Hoss | Alan R. Morgan
1987 - 1989
Henry Bourgignon | William Doll | Theo Keith
1986 - 1987
Julian A. Davies | Michael Manheim | William Richman
1985 - 1986
Kenneth Bachmann | Jimmie G. Edwards | Wallace Martin
1984 - 1985
Henry C. Wente | Larry J. Curtis | Richard W. Edwards, Jr.