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
- Andrew Carnegie Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Bollingen Prize for Poetry
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellows
- MacArthur Foundation Fellows
- NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- PEW Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences
- The Pulitzer Prizes
- Searle Scholarship
- Sloan Research Fellowship
- Wallace Stevens Award