Awards & Honors
Peter Hirschfeld Wins 2022 John Bardeen Prize
Physicist Peter Hirschfeld wins a prestigious award honoring his exploration of superconductivity.
2022 College Teaching/Advising Award Winners Revealed
The awards honor exceptional teachers and advisors in each college for their commitment to enhancing the student experience.
Prof. Sixue Chen Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
The biology professor is among seven faculty members from the University of Florida to receive the prestigious honor.
CLAS Faculty Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
Professors Elizabeth Dale of the Department of History and Matthieu Felt of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures received the fellowships.
Prof. Robert Walker Receives Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award
The professor was recognized for fostering a greater understanding of Latin American geography.
UF Pre-Law Fraternity Earns Top Awards at National Conference
The UF chapter of Phi Alpha Delta (PAD) took home nine awards, including several first-place honors, at the fraternity’s national pre-law conference.
Prof. Richard Yost Elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow
The UF professor of chemistry invented the triple quadrupole mass spectrometer.
Prof. Xiao-Xiao Zhang Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Xiao-Xiao Zhang, assistant professor in the UF Department of Physics, was awarded the prestigious NSF grant to further her research.
History and Philosophy Student Awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Aimee Clesi is the University of Florida's first Rhodes Scholar since 2000.
Dimitri Bourilkov Elected American Physical Society Fellow
Dimitri Bourilkov, associate scientist in the Department of Physics, was recognized for his work in data-intensive science.
Prof. Mary Ann Eaverly Recognized as ‘Luminary’ by Eos Africana
Recognizing her scholarly achievements, Professor of Classics Mary Ann Eaverly was interviewed as an "Eos Luminary" by the society.
UF Team Wins Best Paper Award from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Statistics professor Joseph Antonelli was part of a team recognized for the paper “Parental Language Input to Children With Hearing Loss: Does It Matter in the End?"
Prof. Yuxuan Wang Wins Nevill Mott Prize
Yuxuan Wang, UF Assistant Professor of Physics, was recognized for "outstanding contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems."
Prof. Juliane Dannberg Receives Jason Morgan Early Career Award
The geological sciences professor was selected for her outstanding contributions to the field of tectonophysics.
Physics Graduate Student Receives Prize for Invited Talk
Physics graduate student Prachi Sharma received the best presentation SIlver Prize for her invited talk at an international conference.
CLAS Students and Alumni Named Fulbright Finalists for 2021-22
Out of nine UF finalists and four alternates, six finalists and two alternates were from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
UF alumna named NSF assistant director for geosciences
Alexandra Isern, who received her bachelor’s degree in geology at the University of Florida, will be the first Hispanic person and second woman to hold the position.
Carolyn Tucker Elected to the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida
The psychology professor was honored for “creating science-based tools for health promotion and culturally sensitive health care in underserved communities.”
Astronomer Paul Torrey Receives UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
Each year, the award honors 10 pre-tenure faculty members throughout the university who have shown outstanding promise in research.
Delia Steverson Named Citizens & Scholars Career Enhancement Fellow
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Career Enhancement Fellowship supports the research of underrepresented junior and other faculty members in the humanities, social sciences and arts.