2012-2013 BFA Excellence Awards

The Boulder Faculty Assembly is pleased to announce that it will grant twelve awards for faculty excellence in spring semester, 2013. This year's recipients are:

For Excellence in Service:
John Cumalat, Physics
Janet deGrazia, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Hillary Potter, Sociology
Eric Stade, Mathematics and the Libby Residential Academic Program

For Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work:
Carol Cleland, Philosophy
Noah Fierer, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Kristine Larson, Aerospace Engineering
Karl Linden, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering

For Excellence in Teaching:
Christine Hrenya, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Daphne Leong, Music
Dragan Maksimovic, Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
Greg Tucker, Geological Sciences

Each award includes a $3,000 cash prize, funded by the Chancellor's office.

Photographs from the official presentation ceremony and reception, and group photos of the recipients, will be available after May 1st on the BFA website at www.Colorado.edu/FacultyGovernance/awards.

For detailed nomination instructions in each category, please click the links below:

• Teaching
• Service
• Research, Scholarly and Creative Work

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. 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 Distinguished Professors (list of current) - http://www.colorado.edu/AcademicAffairs/distinguishedFaculty.html
• Chase Faculty Service Award - https://www.cu.edu/chase
• UCB 'The Best Should Teach' Gold Award for Faculty http://gtp.colorado.edu/events/bst/gold_awards (Graduate Teacher Program)
• UCB Hazel Barnes Prize - http://www.colorado.edu/chancellor/awards/ .
• UCB Outreach Awards - http://outreachawards.colorado.edu/
• CU Alumni Association Awards - http://www.cualum.org/awards/ .
  • Robert L. Stearns Award acknowledging outstanding CU-Boulder faculty and staff.
  • George Norlin Award honors alumni for distinguished lifetime achievement.
  • Alumni Recognition Award honors alumni service to CU-Boulder.
  • Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Graduate Award recognizes exceptional young alumni
    
• CU Alumni Relations (SOAR) Teacher Recognition Award
• UCB Vice Chancellor for Research - http://www.colorado.edu/VCResearch/funding/ .
• UCB Innovate SEED grants (IGP) - https://seedgrant.colorado.edu/ .
• UCB IMPART fellowships - http://www.colorado.edu/odece/faculty_success/impart.html
• UCB Council on Research and Creative Work (CRCW) .
• CU President's Teaching Scholars - http://www.colorado.edu/ptsp/ . (Directory: http://www.colorado.edu/ptsp/about/PTSPdirectory.html )
• 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).
• UCB Mortar Board Society - http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/mortarboard/index.html