The premier honors listed below are representative of hundreds of national and interdisciplinary society awards earned each year by leading scientists, teachers, social historians, writers and artists at UC Davis.
- AAAS Mentor Awards: Lifetime Achievement
- American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist
- Bollingen Prize for Poetry
- The Franklin Institute Awards - Benjamin Franklin Medal
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
- MacArthur Foundation Fellows
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- The Pulitzer Prizes
- Wallace Stevens Award