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Academic Affairs: Faculty Recipients of Major Awards & Honors

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This page highlights University of California Davis faculty who have received prestigious national and international honors and awards.

Recipients of other awards, some of which may be of comparable prestige to those below but are discipline, or professional society-specific, can be located at the various School and College sidebar links.

 

Presidential Awards  (4)

    National Medal of Arts  (1) Recipients
    National Medal of Science  (1) Recipients
    Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring  (1) Recipients
    Presidential Medal of Freedom  (1) Recipients

National Academy Memberships  (205)

    American Academy of Arts and Letters  (2) Recipients
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences  (21) Recipients
    American Association for the Advancement of Science  (120) Recipients
    American Law Institute  (13) Recipients
    American Philosophical Society  (6) Recipients
    Institute of Medicine  (11) Recipients
    National Academy of Engineering  (11) Recipients
    National Academy of Sciences  (21) Recipients

International Academy Memberships  (20)

    Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de France  (1) Recipients
    Australian Academy of Science  (2) Recipients
    French National Academy of Medicine  (1) Recipients
    Germany Academy of Sciences Leopoldina  (1) Recipients
    Hungarian Academy of Sciences  (1) Recipients
    National Academy of Engineering of Mexico  (1) Recipients
    National Academy of Science Armenia  (1) Recipients
    National Academy of Science Korea  (1) Recipients
    National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine  (1) Recipients
    Romanian Academy of Science  (1) Recipients
    Royal Society (United Kingdom)  (5) Recipients
    Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala (Sweden)  (1) Recipients
    Russian Academy of Sciences  (1) Recipients
    Senior Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science  (1) Recipients
    Spanish Royal Academy  (1) Recipients

National Awards  (134)

    American Council of Learned Societies  (26) Recipients
    Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)  (1) Recipients
    Bollinger Prize for Poetry  (1) Recipients
    Fulbright Senior Scholar  (13) Recipients
    Guggenheim Fellowship  (59) Recipients
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scientists  (3) Recipients
    MacArthur "Genius" Award  (3) Recipients
    National Endowment for the Humanities  (11) Recipients
    NIH MERIT Award/Pioneer Award  (10) Recipients
    NSF Creativity Award/Special Creativity Extension  (4) Recipients
    Pulitzer Prize  (2) Recipients
    Rhodes Scholar  (1) Recipients

International Awards  (29)

    Alexander von Humboldt Award  (24) Recipients
    Ordre des Arts et des Lettres  (1) Recipients
    Royal Irish Academy  (1) Recipients
    Wolf Prize  (2) Recipients
    World Food Prize  (1) Recipients

Young Investigator Awards  (137)

    DOE Young Investigators (formerly OJI)  (6) Recipients
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician-Scientist Early Career  (1) Recipients
    NSF Early Career Award  (59) Recipients
    ONR Young Investigators  (2) Recipients
    Packard Fellowship  (2) Recipients
    Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering/Presidential Faculty Fellowship/Presidential Investigator Award  (22) Recipients
    Searle Scholars  (2) Recipients
    Sloan Research Fellows  (43) Recipients