Faculty External Recognition
Our excellent faculty at UTRGV deserve recognition, and our goal is to support them as they build their careers at UTRGV. We aim to help match faculty with honorific award opportunities relevant to their research focus and career path, including prestigious and highly prestigious awards, fellowships, and national academy memberships.
Why consider pursuing external recognition?
Honorific awards can provide benefits such as:
- Providing new opportunities for study and research
- Amplifying the network of collaborators
- Multiplying opportunities for travel and interdisciplinary engagement
- Increasing visibility within and external to the institution
- Increasing the profile of the institution
Do you want to submit a nomination?
For assistance finding an external recognition opportunity appropriate for you, please fill out the form below. Please consider nominating your fellow faculty members or yourself!
Access External Recognition Interest FormFeatured External Awards
Prestigious Application open March 1 - May 1 The NRC Research Associateship Programs (RAP) are prestigious research awards designed to provide promising scientists and engineers with high-quality research opportunities at federal laboratories and affiliated institutions. These programs offer a comprehensive experience, including mentorship, access to state-of-the-art facilities, and opportunities to influence government policy, all geared toward enhancing the research career development of the Research Associates.
Prestigious Applications open until May 1 Established in 2002, the prize will be awarded to a member of the association for an outstanding scholarly study in any language of United States Latina and Latino or Chicana and Chicano literature or culture.
Nominations close June 1 The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements.
Nominations open May 1 - June 20 ASHE is a scholarly society with 2,200 members dedicated to higher education as a field of study. The Early Career Award will be presented in recognition of an emerging, significant, and potential for the future of a body of scholarship.
Prestigious Applications open March 1 - July 1 The Cottrell Scholar Award honors and helps to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills. The Cottrell Scholar Award provides entry into a national community of outstanding scholar-educators who produce significant research and educational outcomes.
Nominations open May 1 - July 31 The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
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