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Award Recipients
UM System Awards
2025 Curators’ Distinguished Professorships
Anne Alexander
Stephen Ball
Donald Burke-Agüero
Sheila Grant
Scott Holan
Raghuraman Kannan
R. Scott Rector
Brian Silvey
John “Jack” Tanner
Wesley Warren
External Awards
Highly Prestigious
American Society of Plant Biologists – Stephen Hales Prize
Gary Stacey
American Academy of Arts and Science – Member
Deborah Pearsall
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Noah Heringman
Prestigious
American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Paul de Figueiredo
Roman Ganta
Wesley Warren
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) – Heat Transfer Memorial Award
Hongbin “Bill” Ma
Association for Psychological Science Fellow
Jordan Booker
Nicholas Gaspelin
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference – Harold J. Grimm Prize
John Frymire
Fulbright Scholar
2025-26
Susanta Behura
Sachin Handa
Laura Morett *(already honored last year?)
Allison Pease
Anne Sales
2024-25* (already honored last year?)
Christina Carney
Dan Edidin
Brian Silvey
Robert Walker
Mizzou Campus Awards
Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Activity – Behavioral and Social Sciences
Sungkyoung Lee
Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Activity – Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Zheng Yan
Donald W. Fancher Provost Award for Outstanding Achievement in Extension & Continuing Education
James “Kale” Monk
Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Amy Knopps
Kathleen & Robert Unrath Excellence in Visionary Teaching
Lesleighan Cravens
Maxine Christopher Shutz Award & Lecture for Distinguished Teaching
Robert Thomen
Provost’s Award for Creative Extension Programming by New Faculty
Peng Tian
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship – Arts & Humanities and Social & Behavioral Sciences
Ashley Groh
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship – Life Science, Math, and Physical Science (STEM)
Elizabeth King
Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education
Marcello Mogetta
Provost’s Award for University Citizenship in Leadership
Walter Gassman
Provost’s Award for University Citizenship in Mentoring
Sonja Wilhelm Stanis
Provost’s Award for University Citizenship in Service
Eileen Avery
Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Research & Creative Activity Award
Joseph Santin
Andrew Kelleher
Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award
Keely Alexander
Bonnie McLarty
Doug Valentine
SEC Faculty Achievement Award
Ron Mittler
William H. Byler Distinguished Professor Award
Wendy Reinke
William T. Kemper Fellowships for Excellence in Teaching
Eric Aldrich
James Crozier
Amanda Durbak
Karthik Panchanathan
Jenna Wintemberg