Distinguished Faculty Research Award

Distinguished Faculty Research Award and Lecture

The Distinguished Faculty Research Award is an annual award given by the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs to recognize the achievements of an IU Bloomington faculty member whose research makes important contributions to society.

Nomination deadline:

  • February 2nd

Submit a nomination here

The award includes a monetary stipend to support the awardee’s continuing research. The award is accompanied by a public lecture delivered by the recipient during the academic year following the announcement of the awardee.

Read about the Distinguished Faculty Research Award recipient

Eligibility

Full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty who have a current university appointment.

Nomination process

Applicants may be self-nominated or nominated by another individual.

If possible, please indicate the topic likely to be presented. The selection committee strives to choose an awardee who will deliver an excellent and generally accessible research-oriented lecture.

 The dossier should include:

Include a brief memo outlining reasons for the recommendation.

A copy of the nominee's curriculum vitae.

If you have any questions regarding the nomination and selection process, please contact our office.

Past Distinguished Faculty Research Award Recipients

  • Halina Goldberg, "The Dancing Jew” in Polish Culture: Between Phantasm and Practice"

  • John Patton, "Confronting the Unmet Need for Effective Childhood Vaccines"

  • Bernice Pescosolido, "The Mental Health Moment: Stigma in the Time of COVID-19 – Progress, Problems, and Prospects"

  • Suzanne Eckes, "The Potential for Discrimination in an Era of Education Privatization"

  • Jeffrey White, "Exploring the Inner Workings of Greenhouse Gases in Arctic Landscapes under Rapidly Warming Climate"

  • Linda B. Smith, "How Infants Break into Language"

  • Brian Powell, "Public Opinion after Obergefell: What Americans Believe about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Marriage Equality, and Same-Sex Parenting"

  • Gregory Udell, "Banks, Financial Crises, and Firm Access to Credit"

  • Rebecca J. Barthelmie, "Wind Energy 2030"


  • Susan Williams, "Solomon's Daughters: Women as Law-Makers in Customary Systems"

  • Mike Wade, "Nature, Nurture and the Nurturers"

  • Richard DiMarchi, "Miraculous Molecules"

  • Dror Wahrman, "The Collier Code: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age"

  • David Weaver "Journalists, Journalism, and Research: What Do We Know and Why Should We Care"

  • David R. Williams, "Marine Natural Products: Inspiration for Innovation in Organic Chemistry"

  • Meredith West, "Close Encounters of the Avian Kind: The Developmental Ecology of Vocal Communication in Birds"

  • Peter Bondanella, "Fellini and Fantasy"

  • Gary Hieftje, "The Three Sides of Scientific Investigation"

  • Alex Dzierba, "Exotic Particles and the Confinement of Quarks"

  • David C. Williams, "Civic Constitutionalism, the Second Amendment, and the Right of Revolution"

  • Ellen D. Ketterson, "Is It Just Hormones? Testosterone, Mating Systems, and Parental Care in Birds"

  • Roger G. Newton, "Alien Science"

  • Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "Clinton, Lewinsky, and the Great Books"

  • Larry N. Thibos, "Perfecting the Optical System of the Human Eye"

  • Charles S. Parmenter, "Laser Studies of Energy Flow in Molecules"

  • Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas P. Toth, "The Role of Rock: The Evolutionary Origins of Human Technology"
 

  • Eugene D. Weinberg, "Iron Withholding: A Defense Against Disease"

  • Ronald A. Hites, "The Movement of Toxic Pollutants through the Environment"

  • Lewis Rowell, "Narrative Beginnings in Music"

  • Esther Thelen, "The Origins of an Embodied Cognition and the Dynamics of Time Scales"

  • Joan Hoff, "Watergate Revisited"

  • Robert E. Pollock, "Cold Traps"

  •  H. Scott Gordon, "How Many Kinds of Things Are There in the World?"

  • Milos Novotny, "Chemical Communication in Mammals" 

  • Bruce Cole, "Love, Lust, and Loss in Venetian Painting of the Golden Age"

  • Howard Gest, "A Trail of Directed Serendipity in Research on Photosynthetic Bacteria"

  • Elinor Ostrom, "How Inexorable is the 'Tragedy of the Commons?': Institutional Arrangements for Changing the Structure of Social Dilemmas"

  • Richard Westfall,"Galileo and the Jesuits"

  • Richard M. Shiffrin, "Automatic and Controlled Processes in Memory and Attention"

  • Ciprian Foias, "Abstract Mathematics and Concrete Problems"
 

  • David Pisoni, "Speech Technology: The Evolution of Computers that Speak . . . and Listen"

  • Anthony Mahowald, "The Precocious Germ Cell, A Haven from Developmental Change"

  • J. Rufus Fears, "Roman Liberty: An Essay in Protean Political Metaphor"