UIC External Awardees
Introduction
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.
2025-26 External Awardees
Please find below a list of external awardees by college.
Brad Sturt
Assistant Professor, Information and Decision Sciences
2025 Roger J. B. Wets Junior Researcher Prize, Stochastic Programming Society
Chris Westland
Professor, Information and Decision Sciences
Fulbright Scholarship, U.S. Department of State
Sahar Alrayyes
Clinical Professor, Pediatric Dentistry
Dr. Ann Page Griffin Humanitarian Award, American Association of Pediatric Dentists
Stephen Campbell
Professor, Restorative Dentistry
Lifetime Achievement Award, The Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics (GNYAP)
Susan Rowan
Professor (Dean), Restorative Dentistry
Fellowship, Pierre Fauchard Academy
Scott Tomar
Professor, Pediatric Dentistry
John W. Knutson Distinguished Service Award in Dental Public Health, American Public Health Association (APHA)
Scott L. Tomar Mid-Career Public Health Professional Award, American Public Health Association (APHA)
Eben Alsberg
Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Elected Fellow, Controlled Release Society (CRS)
Elected Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers (IAMBE)
Danilo Erricolo
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Outstanding Service Award, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
Wei Tang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
CAREER: Compositional Learning and Understanding of the Physical World, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Saeid Tizpaz Niari
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
CAREER: Metamorphic Debugging for Responsible AI-Software Development, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Amit Trivedi
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2024 Outstanding Researcher Award, Intel
Claudia Fernandez
Clinical Associate Professor, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Teacher of the Year Award Four-Year College/University Level, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
Distinguished Practitioner’s Award, International Association of Task-Based Language Teaching
Jeffrey Cheung
Assistant Professor, Medical Education
M. Brownell Anderson Award, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
Karen Colley
Professor (Provost), Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
2025 Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology, Society for Glycobiology
Sugasini Dhavamani
Research Assistant Professor, Medicine
2025 Mary Swartz Rose Early Career Investigator Award, American Society for Nutrition (ASN)
Lisa Meeks
Clinical Professor, Medical Education
Highly Commended for the Inaugural Chair’s Award, Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
Carlos Murga-Zamalloa
Associate Professor, Pathology
2025 Ramzi S. Cotran Young Investigator Award, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP)
Gail Prins
Distinguished Professor, Urology
2024 Meritorious Achievement Award, Society for Basic Urologic Research, Inc. (SBUR)
Jun Sun
Professor, Medicine
2026 John S. Fordtran Distinguished Research Award, American Physiological Society (APS)
Rachel Yudkowsky
Professor, Medical Education
2025 John P. Hubbard Award, National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)
Monzurul Roni
Teaching Associate Professor, Health Sciences Education and Pathology
Fellow, ASPET Academy of Pharmacology Educators (FAAPE)
Pamela Martyn-Nemeth
Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing Science
International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, Sigma Theta Tau
Yelena Duterte
Associate Professor, UIC Law
Evan Seamone Social Justice Award, National Law School Veterans Clinic Consortium
Teri McMurty-Chubb
Professor, UIC Law
2025 ALWD Diversity Award, Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD)
Emily Gilbert
Assistant Professor, University Library
2024 Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award, Illinois Library Association (ILA)