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2022-2023 Chancellor-Provost Awards for Faculty Excellence

The Office of the Chancellor-Provost is accepting nominations for awards that recognize the excellence of our Rutgers–New Brunswick faculty through innovative teaching; cross-disciplinary research, inquiry, or artistic expression; public engagement; and service.

This year, to reflect the priorities of our Academic Master Plan, the Chancellor-Provost Awards for Faculty Excellence include two new awards for Excellence in Community-Engaged Scholarship and Excellence in Mentoring.

Award recipients will be honored at a Celebration of Faculty Excellence in April and will each receive an institutional award of $5,000.

The deadline for nominations is Wednesday, March 1, 2023.

  • Deans, department chairs, and colleagues are invited to submit nominations.
  • Each nomination must include a 300-word summary of the individual’s qualifications and up to three letters of support.
  • A committee of senior faculty members will review nominations and make recommendations to the Chancellor-Provost.

Please submit all nominations with supporting materials to nbfacultyaffairs@echo.rutgers.edu by March 1, 2023.

Teaching Awards

  • Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching: This award honors a faculty member (Professor or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure-track) whose teaching contributions resulted in an extraordinary impact on the institution, students’ experiences, and public engagement.
  • Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations: This award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure-track) whose teaching practices involve innovative approaches to enhance learning outcomes, new forms of pedagogy, experiential practices, instructional technologies, or innovative multimedia.
  • Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Part-Time Lecturer: This award celebrates the valuable contributions of a part-time faculty member to the university’s teaching mission.

Scholarly Inquiry Awards

  • Chancellor-Provost Award for Pioneering Scholarship: This award honors a faculty member (Professor or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track) whose scholarly contributions have transformed the field, including highly cited research, practiced patents, and/or artistic accomplishments.
  • Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Scholarship: This award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose scholarly area disrupts or transforms the interface of two disparate fields of research, inquiry, or artistic expression.
  • Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Community-Engaged Scholarship: This award honors a faculty member (all ranks, tenure-track or non-tenure-track) whose scholarship integrates community engagement as a vital component of their research, inquiry, or artistic expression. This work centers community collaboration, benefits the external community, has significant public and scholarly impact, is disseminated through both traditional and non-traditional outlets, and reflects the mission of Rutgers–New Brunswick.

Service Awards

  • Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Service: This award honors a faculty member (all ranks, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose outstanding service to their school or the campus advances the university’s mission to perform public service to support the needs of the greater Rutgers–New Brunswick community or residents of the state.
  • Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Mentoring: This award honors a faculty member (Associate Professor, Professor, or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure-track) for their exceptional contributions toward mentoring post-doctoral researchers or early or mid-career faculty and advancing the next generation of scholars.

Impact Awards

  • Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in STEM Diversity: This award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure-track) whose work aims to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM fields through innovative approaches in pedagogy and teaching practices; research, inquiry, or artistic expression; and community engagement.
  • Chancellor-Provost Award for Global Impact: This award honors a faculty member (all ranks, tenure-track or non-tenure-track) whose scholarship, teaching, or service has catalyzed global partnerships or generated global impacts and exceptional public engagement.

Previous Award Recipients

  • Eight outstanding faculty members were recipients of the 2021-2022 Chancellor-Provost's Awards for Faculty Excellence. They represent faculty at all stages of their careers whose outstanding work has been recognized by their peers.

    Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching

    The award honors a faculty member (Professor or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching contributions resulted in an extraordinary impact on the institution, students’ experiences, and public engagement.

    Richard Miller, Professor, English, School of Arts and Sciences

    Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations

    An award extended to a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching practices involve innovative approaches to enhance learning outcomes, new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, or innovative multimedia.

    Annalisa Scacchioli, Assistant Teaching Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering

    Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Part-Time Lecturer

    The award honors a part-time lecturer whose work has made valuable contributions to the teaching mission of Rutgers–New Brunswick.

    Anuja Kabra, Part-Time Lecturer 2, African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, School of Arts and Sciences

    Chancellor-Provost Award for Pioneering Research

    The award honors a faculty member (Professor or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track) whose research contributions have transformed the field, including highly cited scholarship or practiced patents.

    Victoria Banyard, Professor, School of Social Work

    Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Research

    The award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose research area disrupts or transforms the interface of two disparate fields of scholarship or inquiry.

    Carlos Decena, Associate Professor, Latino and Caribbean Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

    Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in Service

    The award honors a faculty member (all ranks, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose outstanding service to their school or the campus advances the university’s mission to perform public service to support the needs of the greater Rutgers–New Brunswick community or residents of the state.

    Jeffrey Friedman, Associate Professor, Dance, Mason Gross School of the Arts

    Chancellor-Provost Award for Excellence in STEM Diversity

    The award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose work aims to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM fields through innovative approaches in pedagogy and teaching practices, research, and community engagement.

    Geraldine Cochran, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences

    Chancellor-Provost Award for Global Impact

    The award honors a faculty member (all ranks, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose research, teaching, or service has catalyzed global partnerships or generated global impacts and exceptional public engagement. 

    Ethel Brooks, Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences

  • Thirteen faculty members were honored on May 24, 2021 as recipients of the 2020-2021 Chancellor's and Provost's Awards for Faculty Excellence. They represent faculty at all stages of their careers whose outstanding work has been recognized by their peers.

    Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

    The award honors a faculty member (Professor or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching contributions resulted in an extraordinary impact on the institution, students’ experiences, and public engagement.

    Ross Baker, Distinguished Professor, Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences

    Chancellor's Award for Pioneering Research

    The award honors a faculty member (Professor or Distinguished Professor, tenure-track) whose research contributions have transformed the field, including highly cited scholarship or practiced patents.

    Charles Dismukes, Distinguished Professor, Waksman Institute, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS, and Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS

    Chancellor's Award for Global Impact

    The award honors a faculty member (all ranks) whose research, teaching, or service has catalyzed global partnerships or generated global impacts and exceptional public engagement.

    Mona Lena Krook, Professor, Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences

    Brooke Maslo, Assistant Professor, Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

    Provost's Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Research

    The award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose research area disrupts or transforms the interface of two disparate fields of scholarship or inquiry.

    Jinchuan Xing, Associate Professor, Genetics, School of Arts and Sciences

    Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations

    An award extended to a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose teaching practices involve innovative approaches to enhance learning outcomes, new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, or innovative multimedia.

    Mason Ameri, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Management & Global Business, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick

    Laurent Burlion, Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering

    Jenevieve DeLosSantos, Assistant Teaching Professor, Art History and Director of Special Pedagogical Projects, Office of Undergraduate Education, School of Arts and Sciences

    Christopher Ellison, Assistant Professor, Genetics, School of Arts and Sciences

    Kristen Labazzo, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering

    Brandon Williams, Assistant Professor, Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts

    Provost's Award for Excellence in STEM Diversity

    The award honors a faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track or non-tenure track) whose work aims to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM fields through innovative approaches in pedagogy and teaching practices, research, and community engagement.

    Ana Paula Centeno, Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences

    Provost’s Award for Excellence in Service

    The award honors a faculty member (all ranks) whose outstanding service to the school or campus advances the university’s mission to perform public service to support the needs of the greater Rutgers–New Brunswick community or residents of the state.

    Carlos Decena, Associate Professor, Latino and Caribbean Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

  • The recipients of the 2019-2020 Chancellor's and Provost's Awards for Faculty Excellence were honored on March 24, 2020, and represent faculty members at all stages of their careers whose outstanding work has been recognized by their peers.

    Chancellor's Award for Impacts in Teaching

    This award honors individual faculty whose teaching contributions have resulted in exceptional impacts on the institutional student experience and public engagement.

    Julien Musolino, Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences

    Chancellor's Award for Pioneering Research

    This award honors individual faculty whose research contributions have transformed the field of research, including highly cited scholarship or practiced patents that have reshaped the impacts of the academe.

    Eddy Arnold, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, School of Arts and Sciences

    Chancellor's Award for Global Impacts

    This award honors individual faculty whose research or teaching or service has catalyzed global partnerships or generated international impacts and exceptional public engagement.

    Alan Robock, Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

    Provost's Award for Excellence in Innovative Teaching

    This award honors individual faculty whose teaching practices involve non-traditional approaches to enhance learning outcomes, including new forms of pedagogy, instructional technologies, and multimedia.

    Nirav Patel, Honors College, Rutgers–New Brunswick

    Jonathan Singer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering

    Provost's Award for Excellence in Cross-Disciplinary Research

    This award honors individual faculty whose research area aims to achieve disruptive or transformative impacts at the interface of two disparate fields of scholarship or inquiry.

    Rebecca Cypess, Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts

    Laleh Najafizadeh, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering

    Provost's Award for Excellence in STEM Diversity

    This award honors individual faculty whose work aims to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM fields through innovative approaches in pedagogy and teaching practices, research, and community building.

    Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering

  • Excellence in Teaching Awards

    Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Latino and Caribbean Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

    Can Uslay, Marketing, Rutgers Business School

    Excellence in Research Awards

    Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences

    Richard Ebright, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, School of Arts and Sciences

    Erin Vogel, Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences

    Excellence in Service Awards

    Lea Stewart, Communication, School of Communication and Information

    International Impact Award

    James Simon, Plant Biology and Pathology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

  • Excellence in Teaching Awards

    Siobain Duffy, Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

    Camilla Stevens, Latino and Caribbean Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

    Excellence in Research Awards

    Henryk Iwaniec, Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences

    Shantenu Jha, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering

    Excellence in Service Awards

    Emily Allen-Hornblower, Classics, School of Arts and Sciences

    Kathleen Scott, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, School of Arts and Sciences

    International Impact Award

    Mark Gregory Robson, Plant Biology and Pathology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences