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The Chancellor's Award for Research

The Chancellor's Awards for Research recognize excellence in research, scholarship, or creative expression. All tenured and tenure-track members of the Vanderbilt faculty are eligible for consideration. The awards are given for works presented or published in the preceding three calendar years. Up to five awards may be given each year. Works by research teams are eligible for consideration. The award carries a stipend of $1,000 and an engraved pewter julep cup.

Past Winners

2003
Jeffrey R. Balser (Anesthesiology & Pharmacology)
Rebecca L. Brown (Law)
Daniel M. Fleetwood (Engineering & Physics)
Sokrates Theodore Pantelides (Physics)
Ronald D. Schrimpf (Engineering)
Alfred L. George, Jr. (Medicine)
Nilanjan Sarkar (Engineering)

2004
Marilyn L. Murphy (Art)
Robert A. Knop, Jr. (Physics and Astronomy)
Randolph Blake (Psychology)
Joseph S. Lappin (Psychology)
Gabor Karsai (Electrical Engineering; Computer Engineering)
Janos Sztipanovits (Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Computer Engineering)

2005
A.B. Bonds (Electrical Engineering)
Nancy J. King (Law)
René Marois (Psychology)
David A.Weintraub (Astronomy)
Douglas P. Hardin (Mathematics)
Edward B. Saff (Mathematics)
Martin Egli (Biochemistry)
Carl H. Johnson (Biological Sciences)

2006
Kenneth C. Catania (Biological Sciences)
Walter J. Chazin (Biochemistry)
Ellen H. Fanning (Biological Sciences)
Daniela Drummond-Barbosa (Cell and Developmental Biology)
E. Duco Jansen (Biomedical Engineering)
Changqing Kao (Neurological Surgery)
Peter E. Konrad (Neurological Surgery)
Anita Mahadevan-Jansen (Biomedical Engineering)
G. Kane Jennings (Chemical Engineering)
Hassane S. Mchaourab (Molecular Physiology and Biophysics)

2007
Bruce Hans Appel (Biological Sciences)
James E. Crowe, Jr. (Pediatrics)
Peter T. Cummings (Chemical Engineering)
Richard Douglas Lloyd (Sociology)
Daphne Manoussaki (Mathematics)
Keivan Guadalupe Stassun (Astronomy)

2008
Michael Goldfarb (Mechanical Engineering)
Douglas G. McMahon (Biological Sciences)
Tracy G. Miller (History of Art)
Frank Tong (Psychology A&S)
Mark A. Wollaeger (English)

2009
Yanqin Fan (Economics)
Irina N. Kaverina (Cell & Development Biology)
Gordon Dennis Logan (Psychology, A&S)
Thomas J. Palmeri (Psychology, A&S)
Jeffery D. Schall (Psychology, A&S)
James G. Patton (Biological Sciences)
Eric Patrick Skaar (Microbiology & Immunology)