Keith David Watenpaugh, Professor of Religious Studies and founding Director of the Human Rights Studies program, has received the Institute of International Education’s Centennial Medal.

Rachael Bay, assistant professor in the department of Evolution and Ecology, has been named a 2019 Sloan Fellow.

Plant biologist Patrick Shih, an assistant professor in the College of Biological Sciences, has been named a 2019 Sloan Fellow.

Eduardo da Silva Neto and Inna Vishik, quantum physicists and assistant professors in the Department of Physics, have been named 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellows.

Jonathan P. Heritage, Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

David Slaughter, Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, has received the 2019 Cyrus Hall McCormick Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and "smart" sprayer tech innovator, D. Ken Giles, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Class of 2019.

The ten newly elected 2018 AAAS Fellows include, from top left to right, Professors Sean Burgess, Savrithramma Dinesh-Kumar, M. Saif Islam, Philip Kass, Carlito Lebrilla, Isaac Pessah, Eric Post, Michael Rogawski, J. Edward Taylor, and Steven Theg.

Sarah Stewart, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has been named a Class of 2019 MacArthur Fellow.

Chancellor Gary S. May was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering's Class of 2018.

Professor Jay Lund has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Professor Emerita of Law Angela Harris (left) was elected a member of the American Law Institute.

Assistant Professor Jamal Lewis of the Department of Biomedical Engineering has received an NIH Promising Young Investigator grant.

Susan P. Harrison, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dean Jennifer S. Curtis, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, has received the 2018 ASEE ChED CACHE Award for Excellence in Engineering Education.

Hsuan Hsu, Professor of English, Cecilia Tsu, Professor of History, and Charles Walker, Professor of History, have been elected fellows of the American Council of Learned Societies.