Honors and Recognition
Honors Spotlight:
Moriba Jah, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics
Cockrell School of Engineering
Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
Moriba Jah has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation “for envisioning transparent and collaborative solutions for creating a circular space economy that improves oversight of Earth’s orbital spheres.” Dr. Jah’s work tracks and monitors the more than 30,000 human-made objects orbiting the earth.
The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. UT has had nine previous winners.
Visit the links below to find out more about award criteria and past UT winners.
- Nobel Prize
- Pulitzer Prize
- National Medal of Science
- National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- National Academy of Education
- National Academy of Inventors
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
- Members and Fellows of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences
- Members of the National Academies
- American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
- Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
- Vannevar Bush Award
- Andrew Carnegie Fellows
- Cottrell Scholars
- Charles Stark Draper Prize
- Edison Medal
- Charles C. Eldredge Prize
- Enrico Fermi Award
- Guggenheim Fellowships
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
- Japan Prize
- Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- Prix de Rome Award
- Sloan Research Fellowships
- Alan T. Waterman Award
- Welch Foundation Awards
- Wolf Prize
