National & International Faculty Honors

UC Davis is home to globally renowned visionaries in the arts and education, law and letters, engineering, and the physical and life sciences, assuring its place as one of the top public universities in the country. Click through the categories on the right to view a sampling of the many premier faculty honors received. For more faculty distinctions by discipline and related stories, visit the colleges and schools linked here.

Camelia Hostinar, Developmental Psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology, has received the Boyd McCandless Award from the American Psychological Association.

King Hall Professor of Law Raquel Aldana has been reappointed chair of the American Bar Association’s Latin America and Caribbean Law Initiative Council.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Management, Paul Griffin, has been appointed an honorary professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Jeffrey Gibeling, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Interim Dean of the College of Engineering, has received the Oleg D. Sherby Award from the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.

Maury Hull, Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering, has received the Robert M. Nerem Education and Mentorship Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Deb Niemeier, Professor Emerita of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Education at UC Davis, and the Clark Distinguished Chair in Sustainability, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Distinguished Professor Bruno Nachtergaele of Mathematics has received an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award for lifetime achievement.

David Olson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, received a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.

Professor Emerita Wendy Kuhn Silk of Land, Air, and Water Resources has received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Root Research.

John Lopez, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History, has received a yearlong fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Robyn Rodriguez, Professor and Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies, and founding director of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies, has received an Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Association of Asian American Studies.

Patsy Eubanks Owens, Professor of Landscape Architecture in Human Ecology, and associate dean for human and social sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been named a fellow of the Academy of Fellows of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Composer and Professor of Music Kurt Rohde will spend a second summer as composer-in-residence at the Weekend of Chamber Music in the Catskills.

Andrew Wetzel, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has received an NSF CAREER Award.

Three faculty have received an Early Career Research Program grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science. Left to Right: Roopali Kukreja (Materials Science and Engineering), James Letts, (Molecular and Cellular Biology), and Aditya Thakur (Computer Science).

Rishidev Chaudhuri, assistant professor in the departments of Mathematics and Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, has been named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.