This faculty development award recognizes newly promoted faculty members who excel in both teaching and scholarship or creative work. The two-year awards carry a grant of $5,000 in each year, which may be used for equipment, travel, supplies, and other support for research and teaching initiatives.

The Dean's Scholar Awards are funded by the UI Alumni Association's endowment of the Dean's Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. The CLAS Committee on Faculty Promotion and Tenure selects each year's class of Dean's Scholars from among those faculty recommended for promotion and/or tenure.

Recipients of the Dean's Scholar Award

2007- 2009

Mark Andrejevic, Communication Studies
Loren Glass, English
John Prineas, Physics & Astronomy

2006- 2008

Frederick Boehmke, Political Science
Christopher Brochu, Geoscience
Brian Gollnick, Spanish & Portuguese
Susan White, Art & Art History

2005- 2007

Christine Getz, Music
Leonard MacGillivray, Chemistry
Jane Singer, Journalism & Mass Communication
Douglas Trevor, English
Kasturi Varadarajan, Computer Science

2004- 2006

Jonathan Adrain, Geoscience
Sonya Franklin, Chemistry
Julie Hochstrasser, Art & Art History
Roumyana Slabakova, Linguistics

2003- 2005

Patricia Foster, English
Laurent O. Jay, Mathematics
Michael Lovaglia, Sociology

2002- 2004

Carin Green, Classics
Elizabeth Heineman, History
Judith Liskin-Gasparro, Spanish & Portuguese
Lisa Oakes, Psychology

2001-2003

Maria Paola Bonacina, Computer Science
James Enloe, Anthropology
Roberta Marvin, Music

2000-2002

Douglas Dion, Political Science
Karen Heimer, Sociology
Kimberley Marra, Theatre Arts
Mary Hall Reno, Physics & Astronomy

1999-2001

Luis Gonzalez, Geoscience
Vicki Hesli, Political Science
Kevin Kregel, Exercise Science
Teresa Mangum, English