Boston University faculty receive frequent national and international recognition for their outstanding contributions to their fields. The following pages represent a sampling of major awards and distinctions presented to our faculty.
Fellowships, Memberships, and Scholarships

Fellowships

Fellowships
Fellowships are awarded to faculty in recognition of outstanding performance and distinguished contributions to the field. They highlight the excellent potential of each researcher.

Memberships

Memberships
Memberships of honor societies are conferred to exemplary professors, researchers, and scholars whose work distinguishes them within their chosen disciplines. Members are nominated and elected to societies for life and serve as leading lights for their fields of study.

Rhodes Scholars

Rhodes Scholars
The Rhodes Scholarship, named for British businessman and philanthropist, Cecil John Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for selected foreign students to study at the University of Oxford. Established in 1902, it is widely regarded as the most prestigious academic scholarship in the world.

Fulbright Scholars

Fulbright Scholars
The Fulbright Scholar Program, a program of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, presents some of the most prestigious research opportunities faculty around the world can receive. The program, which awards approximately 800 teaching and/or research grants annually, allows faculty members to take courses, teach, or perform research abroad in some of the world’s finest institutions. The following Boston University faculty are current or previous Fulbright Scholars.
National and International Honors and Achievements

National Science Foundation CAREER Award Winners

National Science Foundation CAREER Award Winners
Among the nation’s top recognitions for rising researchers, the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards support the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization.

Nobel Laureates (Faculty and Alumni)

Nobel Laureates (Faculty and Alumni)
The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of academic, cultural and/or scientific advances. It is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics.

Poet Laureates

Poet Laureates
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress serves as the nation’s official poet. During his or her term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry. The Poet Laureate is appointed annually by the Librarian of Congress and serves from September to May.

Presidential Award Winners

Presidential Award Winners
The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. The White House, following recommendations from participating agencies, confers the awards annually.

Pulitzer Prize Winners

Pulitzer Prize Winners
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for excellence in newspaper journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition and signifies the penultimate achievement in journalism.

Medals, Grants, and Prizes

Medals, Grants, and Prizes
Boston University’s talented faculty hold distinction as national award winners and elected members of professional honor societies. The following are additional honors received by faculty in recent years.
Celebration of Teaching Research & Scholarship

2018 Honoree Faculty

2018 Honoree Faculty
Each spring, Boston University has the pleasure of celebrating faculty whose work has been recognized through an impressive roster of national and international distinctions. The following list reflects awards and recognitions earned by BU faculty in 2018.

2019 Honoree Faculty

2019 Honoree Faculty
Each spring, Boston University has the pleasure of celebrating faculty whose work has been recognized through an impressive roster of national and international distinctions. The following list reflects awards and recognitions earned by BU faculty in 2019.

2020 Honoree Faculty

2020 Honoree Faculty
Each spring, Boston University has the pleasure of celebrating faculty whose work has been recognized through an impressive roster of national and international distinctions. The following list reflects awards and recognitions earned by BU faculty in 2020.

2021 Honoree Faculty

2021 Honoree Faculty
Each spring, Boston University has the pleasure of celebrating faculty whose work has been recognized through an impressive roster of national and international distinctions. The following list reflects awards and recognitions earned by BU faculty in 2021.

2022 Honoree Faculty

2022 Honoree Faculty
Each spring, Boston University has the pleasure of celebrating faculty whose work has been recognized through an impressive roster of national and international distinctions. The following list reflects awards and recognitions earned by BU faculty in 2022.

2023 Honoree Faculty

2023 Honoree Faculty
Each spring, Boston University has the pleasure of celebrating faculty whose work has been recognized through an impressive roster of national and international distinctions. The following list reflects awards and recognitions earned by BU faculty in 2022.