Honoring SUNY and UB Award Recipients
The Office of Faculty Affairs oversees the nomination of outstanding faculty for a host of SUNY and UB awards that recognize excellence in teaching, research, creative activity and service.
Below we feature our most recent recipients, all of whom have brought distinction to the university and to their departments. We applaud these faculty and all UB faculty for their ongoing pursuit of excellence.
SUNY Award Recipients
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity
2026
Department: Earth Sciences
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Department: Communicative Disorders and Sciences
2025
Department: Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Department: Communication
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
2026
Department: Urban and Regional Planning
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
2025
Department: Biomedical Engineering
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching
2025
Department: Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
2026
Department: Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Department: Pharmacy Practice
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
2025
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship
2026
Associate Director of the Charles B. Sears Law Library
2025
Coordinator, Community Outreach Services for the Health Sciences Library
Associate Librarian and Liaison to the Departments of Music and Theatre and Dance
SUNY Chancellor's Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship Honorees
2026
Department: Structural Biology
2025
Department: Communication
UB Award Recipients
UB Distinguished Professor
2025
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department: Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Department: Electrical Engineering
Department: Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Department: Biomedical Engineering
2024
Department: Ophthalmology
UB Teaching Innovation Award
2024
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
UB Exceptional Scholar—Young Investigator Award
2025
Department: Learning and Instruction
Department: Biostatistics
Department: Communication
Department: Earth Sciences
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Department: Pharmacy Practice
2024
Department: Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Department: Educational Leadership and Policy
Department: Learning and Instruction
Department: Electrical Engineering
UB Exceptional Scholar—Sustained Achievement Award
2025
Department: Biological Sciences
Department: Counseling, School and Educational Policy
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
Department: Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Department: Learning and Instruction
Department: Biomedical Engineering
2024
Department: Counseling, School and Educational Psychology/Educational Leadership and Policy
Department: Ophthalmology
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department: Electrical Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Celebration of Faculty & Staff Excellence
Each Fall, the UB community celebrates the achievements of our faculty and staff in the areas of research, teaching and service. The Celebration of Faculty and Staff Excellence event includes a welcome by President Satish K. Tripathi, remarks by Provost A. Scott Weber, and an on-stage presentation recognizing awardees in the following categories:
- External awards designated as "prestigious" and "highly prestigious" by the National Research Council.
- SUNY Distinguished Professor.
- SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence.
- UB Distinguished Professor.
- 50 and 60 years of service.
