Students participate in Club Olympics, including an egg race and tug of war, during Spirit Week leading up to Homecoming Weekend in October 2019. The event is hosted by the Student Association (SA) and took place outside the Student Union. Photographer: Douglas Levere.

The following faculty are among a select group to receive awards and honors designated as Highly Prestigious by the National Research Council (NRC). The NRC collects and assesses awards in the arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and life sciences.

Members of the National Academies

Amit Goyal.
Amit Goyal

National Academy of Engineering
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering

Michael J. Lockett.
Michael J. Lockett (Emeritus)

National Academy of Engineering
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering

Nancy Nielsen.
Nancy Nielsen

National Academy of Medicine
Senior Associate Dean for Health Policy

C.R. Rao.
C.R. Rao

National Academy of Sciences
Department: Biostatistics

American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Photo of Professor Deborah Chung.
Deborah Chung

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Susan Howe Photo.
Susan Howe ( Emeritus)

Department: English

Oren Lyons Photo from 50 Years of Indigenous Studies at UB Speaker Series.
Oren Lyons (Emeritus)

Department: American Studies

Peter Rogerson photo.
Peter Rogerson (Emeritus)

Department: Geography

American Academy in Rome

Roger Woodard.
Roger Woodard

Rome Prize
Department: Classics

American Antiquarian Society

Tamara Thornton.
Tamara Thornton

NEH Fellow
Department: History

American Association for the Advancement of Science

portrait of Luis A. Colon.
Luis A. Colón

Lifetime Mentor Award

Department: Chemistry

Fengzhi Li picture.
Feng-Zhi Li

Newcomb Cleveland Prize
 Department: Cancer Sciences

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

Rachel Ablow.
Rachel Ablow

Department: English

Rodolphe Gashe.
Rodolphe Gasché

Department: Comparative Literature

Sarah Handley-Cousins photo.
Sarah Handley-Cousins

Department: History

Martha Malamud.
Martha Malamud

Department: Classics

Ndubueze Mbah.
Ndubueze L. Mbah

Department: History

Christopher Mele.
Christopher Mele

Department: Sociology

Cristanne Miller.
Cristanne Miller

Department: English

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Carl Nightingale

Department: Africana and American Studies

Livingston Watrous.
Livingston Watrous

Department: Art

American Philosophical Society

Barry Smith.
Barry Smith

Sabbatical Fellowships
Department: Philosophy

Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation

David Heppner.
David E. Heppner

The Beckman Scholars Program
Department: Chemistry

Association for Information Science & Technology

Dagobert Soergel.
Dagobert Soergel

Award of Merit
Department: Information Sciences

Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences Residency

Jaekyung Lee.
Jaekyung Lee

Department: Counseling, School, & Educational Psychology

Eduardo Mercado.
Eduardo Mercado III

Department: Psychology

Peter Rogerson photo.
Peter Rogerson (Emeritus)

Department: Geography

International Prize in Statistics

Headshot of Dr. C.R. Rao.
C.R. Rao

Department: Biostatistics

Guggenheim Fellowship

Ana Bacigalupo.
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Department: Anthropology

David Felder.
David Felder

Department: Music

Professor Eduardo Mercado III.
Eduardo Mercado III

Department: Psychology

Carla Mazzio.
Carla Mazzio (Emeritus)

Department: English

Paras Prasad.
Paras Prasad

Department: Chemistry

National Academy of Education

Lois Weis.
Lois Weis

National Academy of Education
Department: Educational Leadership and Policy

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship

Photograph of Professor of Linguistics, Christian DiCanio.
Christian DiCanio

Department of Linguistics

Andreas Daum.
Andreas Daum

Department: History

James Holstun.
James Holstun

Department: English

Hal Langfur.
Hal Langfur

Department: History

Carla Mazzio.
Carla Mazzio (Emerita)

Department: English

Cristanne Miller.
Cristanne Miller

Department: English

Erik Seeman.
Erik Seeman

Department: History

Tamara Thornton.
Tamara Thornton

Department: History

Livingston Watrous.
Livingston Watrous

Department: Art

Victoria Wolcott.
Victoria Wolcott

Department: History

Ziarek.
Krzysztof Ziarek

Department: Comparative Literature

National Humanities Center Fellow

Ana Bacigalupo.
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Department: Anthropology

Irus Braverman photo.
Irus Braverman

Law School

Elizabeth Otto.
Elizabeth Otto

Department: Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Organization of American Historians

Adam Rome.
Adam Rome

Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Department: Environment and Sustainability