2011-2012 BFA Excellence Awards

The Boulder Faculty Assembly is pleased to announce that it has granted nine awards for faculty excellence in spring semester, 2012 to members of the Boulder Faculty Senate.

The Chancellor provides funds for these prestigious awards. Recipients have been granted $3,000 and were honored by colleagues, family and friends at a reception at the University Club on April 18th.

Recipients of the 2011-2012 BFA Faculty Excellence Awards: Photos by Patrick Campbell / University of Colorado   For Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work Michael Radelet, Sociology Susan Kent, History Matt Sponheimer, Anthropology       For Excellence in Teaching Myles Osborne, History Harihar Rajaram, Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering Oliver DeWolfe, Physics Hanspeter Schaub, Aerospace Engineering       For Excellence in Service Brian Argrow, Aerospace Engineering Angela Bielefeldt, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering       Each spring the BFA presents up to twelve faculty with awards for faculty excellence to recognize the outstanding work of Boulder Campus faculty members. These awards are especially notable because Boulder Campus colleagues make the nominations as well as the selections of award recipients. Each award includes a $3,000 cash prize, funded by the Chancellor's office. To review a complete list of past recipients please click here. The BFA normally announces its Excellence Awards program in late fall each year, via campus E-Memo. The BFA Office will post award details and nomination instructions via this website. Last year's nomination instructions are available via links in the left column of this page. Nomination packets are normally due in the BFA Office in January or February. The BFA honors recipients with a reception and presentation ceremony in mid-to-late spring semester. For more information please contact BFA Coordinator Sierra Swearingen-Todd at sierra.swearingen@colorado.edu or 303-492-6271.

Other CU Awards and Funding Opportunities:

• CU Distinguished Professorships - https://www.cu.edu/policies/aps/academic/1017.pdf . Contact your Dean for more information.
• UCB 'The Best Should Teach' Gold Award for Faculty http://gtp.colorado.edu/events/bst/gold_awards
• UCB Hazel Barnes Prize - http://www.colorado.edu/chancellor/awards/ .
• CU Alumni Association Awards - http://www.cualum.org/awards/ .
• UCB Vice Chancellor for Research - http://www.colorado.edu/VCResearch/funding/ .
• UCB Innovate SEED grants (IGP) - https://seedgrant.colorado.edu/ .
• UCB Council on Research and Creative Work (CRCW) .
• CU President's Teaching Scholars - http://www.colorado.edu/ptsp/ .
• UCB Student Affairs Faculty Member of the Year Award - (Contact Barney Ballinger in Student Affairs).
• UCB Global Citizen Award (Office of International Education).
• Regents' Awards - https://www.cusys.edu/regents/Awards/index.html (Distinguished Service Awards, University Medals, Honorary Degrees).