National and international faculty awards are an important component of institutional reputation. Each year, Michigan State University faculty members earn a variety of honors for their scholarly contributions. Some receive prizes and awards from learned societies or government agencies for specific work or career contributions. Others are elected to fellowship in major learned societies as listed below. A selection of background stories follows the lists.
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
National Academy of Education (NAEd)
National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Visit the MSU Honored Faculty website to read about MSU Endowed Chairs and Faculty as well as MSU Foundation Professors.
Paula Winke, Associate Professor in the Second Language Studies Program, has been named Co-Editor of the journal Language Testing, effective January 1, 2019. This marks the fourth major…
Michigan State University recently named five new MSU Foundation Professors, a designation given to outstanding faculty who demonstrate excellence in research and teaching, while enhancing the prominence of…
A Michigan State University study conducted last year has won two kinesiology researchers and an alumnus a national award for their work exploring how walking might reduce the…
A chemical engineer at Michigan State University received the 2018 Peter Debye Prize for Young Investigators in Dielectric Research by the International Dielectric Society. Shiwang Cheng, assistant professor…
Michaela TerAvest, Michigan State University assistant professor of biochemistry, was recently awarded the Beckman Young Investigator Award by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The award program provides research support…
Catherine Ryu, MSU associate professor of Japanese literature, received the prestigious 2018 Esperanto “Access to Language Education” Award, presented by CALICO, or Computer Assisted Language Consortium, the Esperantic Studies Foundation, and Lernu.net for…
Michigan State University Professor Kalyanmoy Deb earned the 2018 IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence for his pioneering contribution, development,…
University Foundation Professor and Co-Director of the Alliance for African Partnership Thomas Jayne will be honored as a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) at their annual…
In mid-June, Michigan State University Human Development and Family Studies professor Sarah Douglas learned that she had received a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences in the…
Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University Distinguished Professor of chemistry and adjunct professor of physics and astronomy, has been elected to one of physical science’s most exclusive learned societies,…
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