Awards & Accolades

University of Oregon employees strive for excellence in teaching, research, artistic expression, and the generation and application of knowledge. They are frequently honored for their research, scholarship, teaching, leadership and service that exemplifies individual excellence and delivers on our institutional purpose.

Recognizing individual achievements acknowledges contributions to the UO and their profession and celebrates accomplishments such as grants, honors and fellowships, elections to regional and national boards or committees in professional organizations, and other career awards. Congratulations to the honorees.

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November 28, 2023

David Frank earns National Communication Association's Distinguished Publication Award

David Frank, professor emeritus in the Clark Honors College, has been honored with the National Communication Association Law and Communication Division Distinguished Publication Award for his co-editorship of the book The Rhetoric of Judging Well: The Conflicted Legacy of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. This award acknowledges exemplary scholarship that makes a significant contribution to exploring law through the lens of communication.

November 27, 2023

Rhonda Nese receives NIH grant to study opioid misuse

Rhonda Nese, an associate professor in the College of Education, received a $3.7 million grant over five years from the National Institutes of Health's The Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative. Nese will evaluate the effectiveness of the Inclusive Skill-building Learning Approach in reducing opioid misuse and related health issues by addressing social factors.

November 15, 2023

Victor Ostrik receives the 2024 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory

Victor Ostrik, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2024 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory by the American Mathematical Society. Ostrik is being honored for his fundamental contributions to tensor category theories.

November 13, 2023

Isabel Millán receives International Latino Book Awards medals

Isabel Millán, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, was honored with three medals from the International Latino Book Awards. Her children’s book, “Chabelita's Heart,” received nominations for three awards and secured three medals: one gold and two bronze.

November 6, 2023

Ariel Williamson earns Arthur Spielman Early Career Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award

Ariel Williamson, an assistant professor at the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health and in the Department of Psychology, received the Arthur Spielman Early Career Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award. This award recognizes an early career individual for significant, sustained contributions to the field of behavioral sleep medicine.

November 6, 2023

Kirby Brown wins Modernist Studies Association book award

Kirby Brown, an associate professor of Native American Literatures in the Department of English and the director of Native American and Indigenous Studies, along with co-editors Stephen Ross and Alana Sayers from the University of Victoria, have been awarded the Modernist Studies Association's prize for Best Edition, Collection for Best Edition, Anthology, or Edited Collection for their 2022 work, "The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms."

November 6, 2023

Mat Johnson writes episode for top-ranked Netflix show

Mat Johnson, Philip H. Knight Chair and professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English , wrote the script for Episode 4, titled "The Black Cat," in the Netflix series "The Fall of the House of Usher." This limited series claimed the top spot on Netflix for several weeks in October.

October 30, 2023

Diana Garvin receives multiple awards for book on fascism and food

Diana Garvin, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Romance Languages, was awarded the 2023 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian history or Italian-American relations by the American Historical Association for her book "Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work." Additionally, the book has received several other awards, including the Harvard De Bosis Colloquium 2023 selection, the Portland Book Festival 2022 selection, and an honorable mention for the 2020 Jeanne and Aldo Scaglione Publication Award.

October 30, 2023

Lamia Karim wins Gregory Bateson Book Prize honorable mention

Lamia Karim, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology , has received an honorable mention for the Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her work, "Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh."

October 11, 2023

Michelle Jacob receives award to study Indigenous kinship

Michelle Jacob, professor of Indigenous Studies and director of the Sapsik’ʷałá (Teacher) Education Program in the College of Education, received an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine how kinship, as practiced in Indigenous communities, can inform research and evaluation as practiced more broadly in the United States.