Faculty Honorifics Office

External honorific awards are a critical component of faculty recognition and career development, and tie in closely to future research success. The Faculty Honorifics Office seeks to bolster recognition for U-M researchers by increasing the number, diversity, and quality of our nominations through better coordination, sharing best practices across the institution, and ensuring equitable nomination processes.

The Faculty Honorifics Office works to promote recognition of U-M faculty who are leaders in their fields and celebrate the value and impact of Michigan research.

Recent Recipients

Faculty Honorific 2025 News
News Archives

Twelve U-M faculty members named as AAAS fellows – April 18, 2024

Melanie S. Sanford receives Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis – April 2024

Mark Moldwin receives Research Corporation for Science Advacement’s STAR Award – April 2, 2024

Three U-M faculty members elected to National Academy of Education – March 26, 2024

Mark Newman receives 2024 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize Recipient – March 2024

Optica Names Franco Nori the 2024 Charles Hard Townes Medal Recipient – February 2024

Three U-M researchers named Sloan Research Fellows – February 20, 2024

Robotics leader Dawn Tilbury elected to National Academy of Engineering – February 8, 2024

Lisa DuRussel receives 2024 CELA Award – January 23, 2024

Vonnie C. McLoyd receives a 2024 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences – January 22, 2024

Sara Pozzi elected International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences – January 12, 2024

2023

Dee E. Fenner, M.D., to receive award for advancing women in academic medicine – December 14, 2023

Two U-M faculty members elected to National Academy of Inventors – December 21, 2023

Neuroscientist Huda Akil wins National Medal of Science – October 24, 2023

Bioengineer and M.D. receives Packard Fellowship to study cellular memory – October 16, 2023

Firearm injury prevention expert and emergency medicine physician Patrick M. Carter, M.D., elected to National Academy of Medicine – October 9, 2023

Shinobu Kitayama and Robert Sellers Receive APS’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Awards – September 11, 2023

2 Michigan professors join prestigious national society founded by Benjamin Franklin – July 29, 2023

ME professor posthumously awarded ASME Soichiro Honda Medal – May 5, 2023

Two from U-M elected to the National Academy of Sciences – May 3, 2023

American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducts seven from U-M – April 19, 2023

Two from U-M receive Guggenheim Fellowships – April 7, 2023

U-M’s Earl Lewis awarded the National Humanities Medal – March 21, 2023

Two professors elected to National Academy of Engineering – February 10, 2023

Academy Members

American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Medicine, and National Academy of Science

Honorifics Societies & Fellowships

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Contact the Faculty Honorifics team

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Henry Dyson – Director of Faculty Honorifics

Email: [email protected]

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Carly Bower, Program Manager of Faculty Honorifics

Email: [email protected]