Findings Staff Report | Jan. 11, 2021
In January of any normal year, the Office of Research would recognize its annual top sponsored research awardees at a special ceremony, but the pandemic has made that impossible this year. Top awardees for fiscal year 2020 in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences secured over $100,000 in external support. Within the STEMM disciplines, the top awardees brought in more than $275,000.
So—despite the pandemic limiting any in-person activities—UC is proud to congratulate the more than 150 researchers who met those criteria.
Provost Kristi Nelson notes that, “These awardees represent the best of the best. It has been an extremely challenging year, yet they have continued to push boundaries and positively impact others through their research, scholarship and creative activities. They represent our Next and I am proud of the positive impacts their work is having within our global society.”
“I am so proud to see teacher-scholars represented from across the breadth of UC’s disciplines in this list of awardees” says Patrick Limbach, UC’s vice president for research. “Research2030 is focused on enhancing our reputation and impact—to do so requires researchers from every discipline, and these awardees’ successes last year, and years prior, illustrate how committed our faculty are to sustained success.”
To those top awardees, and all of the nearly 600 individuals who captured external research funding at any level in 2020—researchers and scholars who are actively transforming our society through creation of game-changing new knowledge and application of disruptive discoveries—our congratulations and thanks from the Office of Research.
Kudos. Especially to those researchers and scholars listed below, who have been recognized as a Top Awardee four or five of the last five years.
College of Allied Health Sciences
4X winner
Shauna P. Acquavita
College of Arts & Sciences
5X winners
Michael D. Sokoloff
Sarah Whitton
4X winners
Anna D. Gudmundsdottir
Richard J. Harknett
College of Education, Criminal Justice & Human Services
5X winners
Benjamin M. Kelcey
Edward Latessa
4X winners
Victoria Carr
Robin S. Engel
Kathie J. Maynard
Julie Morrison
College of Engineering & Applied Science
5X winners
Ephraim J. Gutmark
Jay Lee
College of Medicine
5X winners
Opeolu Adeoye
Mark L. Baccei
Richard D. Branson
Joseph P. Broderick
Jose A. Cancelas-Perez
Robert M. Cohen
Melanie T. Cushion
George Samuel Deepe
Melissa P. Delbello
Guochang Fan
Carl J. Fichtenbaum
Fred D. Finkelman
Michael D. Goodman
Jun-lin Guan
David Y. Hui
Pooja Khatri
Brett M. Kissela
Alex B. Lentsch
Michael S. Lyons
Francis X. McCormack
William Miller
Diego Perez-Tilve
Timothy A. Pritts
Alvaro Puga
Carol H. Rice
Jeffrey David Schlaudecker
Kenneth E. Sherman
John A. Sweeney
Thomas B. Thompson
Michael C. Tranter
Patrick P.W. Tso
Theresa Winhusen
Daniel Woo
Ying Xia
Jun-Ming Zhang
4X winners
David S. Askew
Jason T. Blackard
Thomas C. Blakeman
Michael T. Borchers
William Sean Davidson
Steve Davidson
Matthew L. Flaherty
Lynne Tracey Haber
James P. Herman
James E. Heubi
Andrew B. Norman
Jaime C. Robertson
Peter J. Stambrook
Jason Joseph Winnick
Changchun Xie
Xiaoting Zhang
College of Nursing
5X winner
Greer L. Glazer
UC’s Leather Lab
4X winner
Steven D. Lange