National & International Faculty Honors

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

Michal Kurlaender
Michal Kurlaender, Professor and Department Chair at the School of Education, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Education.
Jenkins
Bryan Jenkins, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, was named the 2020 recipient of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers James R. and Karen A. Gilley Academic Leadership Award.
NAI
Cristina Davis, Warren and Leta Geidt Professor and Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Walter Leal, Distinguished Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, have been elected fellows of the Class of 2019 National Academy of Inventors.
AAAS
New AAAS Fellows Class of 2019: Rajeevan Amirtharajah, Nicole Baumgarth, Robert Berman, Cristina Davis, Jiming Jiang, Thomas C.M. Lee, Kai Liu (now at Georgetown), Dina St. Claire, Sarah Stewart, Thomas Tomich.
David Amaral
David Amaral, the Beneto Foundation Chair in the UC Davis MIND Institute, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and faculty in the Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicine, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Da Yang
Da Yang, an assistant professor in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, is the recipient of a David and Lucille Packard Foundation fellowship.
Mark Huising
Mark Huising, Associate Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Behavior, and of Physiology and Membrane Biology, has been invited to deliver the Western Region Islet Study Group’s John Hutton Memorial Lecture, awarded to a rising star in the Western US and Canada.
Jennifer Curtis
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, Engineering Dean and Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, has received the 2019 AICHE Particle Technology Forum Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Neal Williams
Neal Williams, Professor of Entomology and Nematology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
Pamela Ronald
Pamela Ronald, distinguished professor of plant pathology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller and Ari Kellman
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Professor of English, and Ari Kelman, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Academic Programs in the College of Letters and Science, and the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History, have been named 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellows.
Cameron Carter
Cameron Carter, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and director of multiple research centers, has received the 2019 George Thompson Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry.