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FACULTY AWARDS

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.

Nomination Process for Chancellor’s Awards for Research

Past Winners

2003

• Jeffrey R. Balser (Anesthesiology)
• Rebecca L. Brown (Law)
• Daniel M. Fleetwood (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
• Sokrates Theodore Pantelides (Physics & Astronomy)
• Ronald D. Schrimpf (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
• Alfred L. George, Jr. (Medicine)
• Nilanjan Sarkar (Mechanical Engineering)

2004

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

2005

• A.B. Bonds (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
• Nancy J. King (Law)
• René Marois (Psychology)
• David A.Weintraub (Physics & 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 (Physics & 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)

2010

• Tony Lee Earley (English)
• Judy Garber (Psychology, Peabody College)
• Todd R. Graham (Biological Sciences)
• Björn C. Knollmann (Pharmacology)
• Charles R. Sanders II (Biochemistry)

2011

• Brandt F. Eichman (Biological Sciences)
• Larry W. Isaac (Sociology)
• Jeffrey N. Johnston (Chemistry)
• Antonis Rokas (Biological Sciences)
• David H. Zald (Psychology; Psychiatry)
• Robert M. Kessler (Radiology & Radiological Sciences; Psychiatry)

2012

• Darryl J. Bornhop (Chemistry)
• William O. Cooper (Pediatrics)
• Colin Dayan (English & Humanities)
• Kelly Oliver (Philosophy)
• Holly A. Tucker (French & Italian)