The Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost actively encourages faculty to apply for and to also nominate others for external award opportunities. National honorific awards are administered by many professional societies and governing bodies and provide essential recognition for career advancement.
External Honors and Awards
Interdisciplinary opportunities
Robert Brown (2025)
Sarah Rajala (2022, Dean and Professor Emerita)
Charles Sukup (2018)
Lanny Robbins (2006)
Alicia Carriquiry (2016)
Jim Roth (2016)
Diane Birt (2015)
Catherine Woteki (1998)
Dan Shechtman (2023, Distinguished Professor Emeritus)
Jonathan Wendel (2023)
Qijing Zhang (2022)
Arnel Hallauer (1989, Distinguished Professor Emeritus)
How to apply: Membership in the highly prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences is made by a members-only annual election process.
For questions or more information, contact Kirsten Abel, (515) 294-1498, kabel@iastate.edu.
Award Recipients
2023
Jonathan Wendel
2020
Paul Canfield
2019
Patricia Thiel (emerita, in memoriam)
How to apply: Fellows are typically elected by a 3-Fellow nomination process in the spring. The association is organized by section and nominations are reviewed by each area.
For questions or more information, contact Kirsten Abel, (515) 294-1498, kabel@iastate.edu.
Award Recipients
2024
Amy Andreotti
Rodney Fox
Douglas Gentile
Wenyu Huang
Christian Meissner
Dan Nettleton
Ruslan Prozorov
Lisa Schulte Moore
Amy Toth
2023
Paul Canfield
Elisabeth Huff Lonergan
Emily Smith
Namrata Vaswani
Yan Zhao
2022
How to apply: American Council of Learned Societies fellowships support academic research in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. Online applications are accepted annually, typically with a fall deadline.
For questions or more information, contact Sandra Norvell, (515) 294-1594, snorvell@iastate.edu.
Award Recipients
2020
How to apply: The Andrew Carnegie fellows program provides support for research in the humanities and social sciences. Nominations are permitted only from nominators designated by the Carnegie Corporation.
For questions or more information, contact Sandra Norvell, (515) 294-1594, snorvell@iastate.edu.
Award Recipients
2020
Amy Erica Smith
How to apply: The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers multiple awards in teaching and research in over 125 countries. Please refer to the Iowa State guidelines for managing Fulbright awards.
For questions or more information, contact Sandra Norvell, (515) 294-1594, snorvell@iastate.edu.
Award Recipients
2024
John Levis, Scholar
Elisa Rizo, Scholar
2023
Jeff Bremer, Scholar
April Eisman, Scholar
Javier Vela-Beccera, Scholar
2022
David Acker, Specialist
Dean Adams, Scholar
Tunde Adeleke, Distinguished Professor (emeritus)
Samantha Cross, Specialist
Rodney Fox, Distinguished Chair
Joey George, Scholar (emeritus)
Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock, Scholar
Tess Neal, Scholar
Shenglan Zhang, Scholar
2020/2021 Compiled
Carol Chapelle, Core Scholar
Johnny DiBlasi, Core Scholar
Daniela Dimitrova, Core Scholar
Elizabeth Elmi, Core Scholar
David Jiles, Core Scholar (emeritus)
Joanne Marshall, Core Scholar
Ellen McKinney, Core Scholar
Megan Myers, Core Scholar
Charles Nagle, Core Scholar
Aaron Sadow, Core Scholar
Curtis Youngs, Specialist
How to apply: The highly competitive Jefferson Science Fellowships program is administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and supported by the U.S Department of State and the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID). The online application process typically closes in October.
For questions or more information, contact Kirsten Abel, (515) 294-1498, kabel@iastate.edu.
Award Recipients
2021
Rameshwar Kanwar
Richard Lesar (emeritus)
How to apply: Nomination of MacArthur Fellows is made through a highly confidential, invitation only process.
For questions or more information, contact Kirsten Abel, (515) 294-1498, kabel@iastate.edu.
Award Recipients
2021
Daniel Grooms (2024)
Eric Cochran (2024)
Matt Darr (2024)
Robert Brown (2023)
Balaji Narasimhan (2019)
Guru Rao (2019, lifetime, Professor Emeritus)
Max Rothschild (2017, Professor Emeritus)
Patrick Halbur (2016, Professor Emeritus)
Surya Mallapragada (2016)
Iver Anderson (2015, Adjunct Professor Emeritus)
Jonathan Wickert (2014)
The NAI fellows program highlights academic inventors who demonstrate a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.
Nominations are typically accepted annually from May-July through a peer process. For questions contact Kirsten Abel kabel@iastate.edu.
How to apply: National Endowment for the Humanities offers a range of competitive awards granted to scholars pursuing research in various areas.
For questions or more information, contact Sandra Norvell, (515) 294-1594, snorvell@iastate.edu.
Award Recipients
2020
Christina Gish Hill
Luke Roling (2025)
Cheng Wang (2025)
Kyaw Aung (2024)
Danial Davarnia (2024)
Cheng Huang (2024)
Siddhartha Pathak (2024)
Joshua Peschel (2024)
Ethan Secor (2024)
Azadeh Sheidaei (2024)
Hugo Villegas Pico (2024)
Shira Zerbib (2024)
Qi Li (2023)
Wenjie Xia (2023)
Soumik Sarkar (2025)
Dipali Sashital (2025)
Zengyi Shao (2025)
Discipline Society Fellows
Elevation to fellow status is an honor reserved for those individuals who have established themselves with distinction in their respective fields. Professional fellows are recognized for their outstanding contributions in many areas such as research, teaching, or service to the profession. Search for opportunities by discipline area (EXCEL).
Alpha Sigma Mu
Peter Collins
American Society of Civil Engineers
Alice Alipour
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Mark Bryden
International Society for Optics and Photonics
Manojit Pramanik
Optica
Xinwei Wang
American Dairy Science Association
Lance Baumgard
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Cody Fleming (Associate)
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
Michelle Soupir
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Adarsh Krishnamurthy
Eliot Winer
Economic History Association
Joshua Rosenbloom
Economic Science Association
Elizabeth Hoffman (Emerita)
Gerontological Society of America
Jeongeun Lee
Institute of Physics
Simon Laflamme
International Society for Research on Aggression
Craig Anderson
Optical Society of America
Jigang Wang
Royal Society of Chemistry
Wenzhen Li
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier
Society of American Foresters
Jan Thompson
American Chemical Society Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division Fellow
Brent Shanks
American Institute of Architects
Rob Whitehead
American Mathematical Society
Leslie Hogben (emerita)
American Phytopathological Society
Alison Robertson
American Psychological Association
Carl Weems
American Society of Animal Science
Jodi Sterle
Crop Science Society of America
Asheesh (Danny) Singh
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Valery Levitas
National Academies of Practice in Veterinary Medicine Distinguished Fellow
Dan Grooms
National Academy of Kinesiology
Tim Derrick
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
Diane Birt
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Marcus Crede
Society for Prevention Research
Richard Spoth
The Medieval Academy of America
Michael Bailey
American science association honors nine Iowa State innovators for "scientific excellence"
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For questions, more information, assistance on a nomination, or to report an award, contact: Kirsten Abel, (515) 294-1498, kabel@iastate.edu.