UIC External Awardees
In conjunction with the Faculty Awards Ceremony and Reception, discover the list of prestigious UIC faculty external award winners listed by their college. For an archived list of previous external awardees, listed by academic year from 2021 to the present, please note the jumbo link under the current list of awardees.
2024-2025 External Awardees
Please find below a list of external awardees by college.
Kruti Acharya
Associate Professor, Disability and Human Development
2024 Fellow, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Tanvi Bhatt
Professor, Physical Therapy
2024 John P. Maley Award, Academy of Physical Therapy Research
Andrew Boyd
Professor, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences
2024 Clinical Informatics Physician Innovator Award, American Medical Informatics Association
Ashley Stoffel
Clinical Professor, Occupational Therapy
2024 Distinguished Fellow in Occupational Therapy, National Academies of Practice
Brian Anderson
Associate Professor, School of Design, Industrial Design
2024 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, U.S. Department of State
Zhenyu Yuan
Associate Professor, Managerial Studies
2023 Sage Publications/RMD/Lawrence R. James Early Career Achievement Award, Research Methods Division (RMD), Academy of Management
Rustam Zufarov
Assistant Professor, Accounting
American Accounting Association (AAA) Competitive Manuscript Award
Alison Doubleday
Professor, Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
2024 William J. Gies Award for Outstanding Innovation Dental Educator, ADEAGies Foundation
Anne George
Professor, Oral Biology
President, International Conferences on the Chemistry and Biology of Mineralized Tissues
Brittaney Hill
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatric Dentistry
40 Under 40 Award, National Dental Association; 10 Under 10 Award, American Dental Association; 2024 Jerome B. Miller “For the Kids” Award, American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
Michael Miloro
Professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
2023 Donald B. Osbon Award for Outstanding Educator in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
Eben Alsberg
Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering
2024 International Fellow, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine; 2024 Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers
Kamran Avanaki
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Member, Engineering, Science, and Technology Policy (ESTeP) Committee, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
Betul Bilgin
Clinical Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
2024 Ray W. Fahien Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chemical Engineering Division
Barbara Di Eugenio
Professor, Computer Science
Fellow, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Miiri Kotche
Clinical Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Biomedical Engineering Division
Jane Lin
Professor, Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering
2024 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems Best Paper Award, Intelligent Transportation System Society
Yayue Pan
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED)
Xincheng Yao
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
2024 Fellow, Optica (formerly OSA)
Philip Yu
Professor, Computer Science
2024 IEEE CIS Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Outstanding Paper Award
Claire Decoteau
Professor, Sociology
2023-2024 Robin M. Williams Jr. Distinguished Lectureship Award, Eastern Sociological Society
Matthew Harrison-Trainor
Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
Sloan Research Fellowship, Sloan Foundation
Steve Jones
Professor, Communication
Frederick Williams Prize for Contributions to the Study of Communication Technology, International Communication Association
Oliver Keyhani
Professor, Biological Sciences
2024 AAAS Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Osama Khalil
Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, U.S. National Science Foundation
Steven Ackerman
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
2024 Paul Ehrlich Lectureship Award, International Eosinophil Society
Eben Alsberg
Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering
2024 International Fellow, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine; 2024 Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers
Kamran Avanaki
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Member, Engineering, Science, and Technology Policy (ESTeP) Committee, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
Dimitri Azar
Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Lifetime Achievement Award and 2024 Laureate, TAKREEM America
Stephen Bartlett
Clinical Professor, Surgery
2023 Richard C. Lillehei Memorial Lecture Award, International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association (IPITA)
Keija Cai
Associate Professor, Radiology
2024 Distinguished Reviewer – Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
Jeffrey Cheung
Assistant Professor, Medical Education
2023 M. Brownwell Anderson Award, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Central Group on Educational Affairs
Christopher Colbert
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Excellence in Education Award, American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP)
Mark Hutchinson
Professor, Family and Community Medicine
President, American College of Sports Medicine Foundation
Shikha Jain
Associate Professor, Medicine
2024 Physician Leader of the Year, Illinois State Medical Society
Miiri Kotche
Clinical Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Biomedical Engineering Division
Victoria Lee
Associate Professor, Otolaryngology
George L. Adams, MD, Young Faculty Award, Triological Society
Jennifer Lim
Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
2024 Taylor Smith, M.D., Medal and Lecture, New England Ophthalmology Society
Pauline Maki
Professor, Psychiatry
Vivian W. Pinn Award for Excellence in Women’s Health Research, NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)
Asrar Malik
Distinguished Professor, Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine
Earl P. Benditt Award, North American Vascular Biology Organization
Subhash Pandey
Professor, Psychiatry
James H. Tharp Award, Research Society on Alcoholism
Yoon Soo Park
Professor, Medical Education
2023 Fellow, Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education (KIPRIME)
Neil Pliskin
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry
Karl F. Heiser APA Presidential Award for Advocacy, American Psychological Association (APA)
Mark Rasenick
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics
2023 Anna-Monika Prize for Depression Research, Anna-Monika-Foundation
Damiano Rondelli
Professor, Medicine
2024 IOMC Global Humanitarian Award, Institute of Medicine of Chicago (IOMC)
Deepak Shukla
Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
2024 AAAS Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Neil Smalheiser
Professor, Psychiatry
2023 Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)
Thasarat Vajaranant
Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
2024 Secretariat Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
Terry Vanden Hoek
Professor, Emergency Medicine
Member, National Academy of Medicine
Barry Wenig
Professor, Otolaryngology
Vice Presidential Citation, Triological Society
Adrienne Williams
Clinical Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Reviewer of the Year, Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings (JCPMS)
Tohru Yamada
Associate Professor, Surgery
2023 Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Xincheng Yao
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
2024 Fellow, Optica (formerly OSA)
Xiaohong Zhou
Professor, Radiology
President, American Board of Medical Physics (ABMP)
Shoji Samson
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
State Emerging Leader Award, American Osteopathic Foundation
Gloria Barrera
Clinical Instructor, RN-BSN Program
2023 Nurse Influencer of the Year, ANA-Illinois
Susan Dunn
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing Science
International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, Sigma Nursing
Krista Jones
Clinical Professor, Populational Health Nursing Science
2024 Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
Mary Dawn Koenig
Associate Professor, Human Development Nursing Science
Excellence in Teaching Award, American College of Nurse-Midwives; Fellow, Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (FAWHONN)
Catherine Yonkaitis
Clinical Associate Professor, Population Health Nursing Science
2024 Fellow, National Academy of School Nursing
Sara Hovey
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice
Presidential Citation, Pediatric Pharmacy Association
Alexander Mankin
Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
2024 AAAS Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Shilpa Sant
Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
Joanne Simboli Hodge
Clinical Professor, UIC Law
2024 Virginia S. Mueller Outstanding Member Award, National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL)
Jamie Chriqui
Professor, Health Policy and Administration
Stephen P. Hooker Research Award, American Public Health Association (APHA) Physical Activity Section
Sage Kim
Professor, Health Policy and Administration
2023 Human Rights Forum Oral Abstract Award, American Public Health Association (APHA)
Kristen Malecki
Professor, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Committee on State-of-the-Science & the Future of Cumulative Impact Assessment, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Alisa Velonis
Associate Professor, Community Health Science
2023 Innovative Curriculum Award, Delta Omega
Laurenia Mangum
Assistant Professor
2023 Kate Raftery Emerging Leader Award, Women of Peace Corps Legacy (WPCL)