University Research Excellence Awards
Since 1997, the University Co-op Hamilton Book Author Awards have recognized the outstanding scholarship and creativity of University of Texas at Austin faculty and staff members. Part of the Hamilton Book Awards program are three research awards that recognize outstanding achievement: Research Excellence Career Award, acknowledging a faculty member or staff researcher who has maintained superior research programs over many years; the Creative Endeavor Award, that recognizes extraordinary creative achievement, and the Research Paper Excellence Award, presented to a faculty or staff researcher who is the principal or sole author of a peer-reviewed scholarly paper reporting original research. The past recipients of the three research awards are listed below.
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Research Excellence Career Award
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- 2022-23: Debra Umberson, Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
- 2021-22: Kristen Harris, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, College of Natural Sciences
- 2019-20: Alan Bovik, Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering; Professor, Institute for Neuroscience, College of Natural Science
- 2018-19: Jonathan L. Sessler, Professor and R.P. Doherty, Jr. – Welch Regents Chair, Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences
- 2017-18: John DiGiovanni, Coulter R. Sublett chair in Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy; Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School
- 2016-17: Mary Wheeler, Ernest and Virginia Cockrell Chair in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, director of the Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) in the Institute for Computational and Engineering Sciences (ICES), Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- 2015-16: Thomas J.R. Hughes, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering
- 2014-15: Andrew B. Whinston, Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management, McCombs School of Business
- 2013-14: Luis Caffarelli, Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences
- 2012-13: Sharon Vaughn, Department of Special Education, College of Education
- 2011-12: Steven Weinberg, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
- 2010-11: Patrick Olivelle, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
- 2009-10: Toyin Falola, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
- 2008-09: J. Tinsley Oden, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
- 2007-08: Ian W. Dalziel, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
- 2006-07: Nicholas A. Peppas, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
- 2005-06: Alan H. Cowley, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences
- 2004-05: David L. Lambert, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
- 2003-04: James C. Browne, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences
- 2002-03: William Roger Louis, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
- 2001-02: William W. Cooper, Department of Management Science and Information Systems, McCombs School of Business
- 2000-01: Allen J. Bard, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences
- 1999-2000: Bernth Lindfors, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
- 1998-99: Roderick Hart, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication, and J.M. White, Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences
- 1997-98: Thomas Cable, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, and John Roueche, Department of Educational Administration, College of Education
- 1996-97: Wilson Geisler, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, and Harry Swinney, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
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Creative Endeavor Award
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- 2022-23: Kate Catterall, Associate Professor, School of Design and Creative Technologies, College of Fine Arts, for her film Drawing the Ring of Steel. The one-day theatrical event in Belfast commemorated the 30-year ethno-nationalist conflict known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, specifically focusing on the 2.2-mile security cordon of 12-foot-tall steel, concrete and barbed wire barricades that encircled Belfast.
- 2021-22: Raj Patel, Research Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, for his film The Ants And The Grasshopper. Filmed over 10 years, this documentary project weaves together themes of race, gender, internationalism, and power. In its making, the project attempted to decolonize the documentary form, with narration, filming destinations and editing choices driven by the main Malawian character. Combining research and creative choice in product and process, the film has broken new ground, as evinced by its wide success.
- 2019-20: Charles O. Anderson, Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts; the John L Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, College of Liberal Arts, for extraordinary creative achievement and scholarship in 2019, which includes his work as Artistic Director of DANCE THEATRE X, and his acclaimed (Re) current Unrest, his work as adjudicator at the Korea National International Dance Competition.
- 2018-19: KJ Sanchez, Associate Professor at the Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts, for her three world premieres at three different renown venues: (dis)placed at the Guthrie Theatre, Grandma’s Empanadas at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati King at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, as well as her directorial role in Quixote Nuevo, and the world premiere of Knyum
- 2017-18: Peter LaSalle, Susan Taylor McDaniel Regents Professor in Creative Writing #2 Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, for his book "Sleeping Mask: Fictions"
- 2016-17: Nancy Schiesari, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication, for her war-time documentary "Canine Soldiers"
- 2015-16: Susan E. Mickey, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts; and Dean H. Young, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
- 2014-15: Elizabeth McCracken, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, for "Thunderstruck & Other Stories"
- 2013-14: Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, School of Architecture, for "Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry: 16th Century Ribbed Vaults in Mixteca, Mexico" and Kirk E. Lynn, Department of Theatre and Dance, for his acclaimed plays, both with his theatre collective the Rude Mechanicals and as a solo writer, produced across America and abroad
- 2012-13: Andrew Shea, Department of Radio-TV-Film, Moody College of Communication, for "Portrait of Wally"
- 2011-12: Andrew Garrison, Department of Radio-TV-Film, Moody College of Communication
- 2010-11: Steven Dietz, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
- 2009-10: Teresa Hubbard, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
- 2008-09: Michelle Habeck, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
- 2007-08: Michael Smith, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
- 2006-07: Troy Brauntuch, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
- 2005-06: Jerry Junkin, School of Music, College of Fine Arts
- 2004-05: Yacov Sharir, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
- 2003-04: John Yancey, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
- 2002-03: Anton Nel, School of Music, College of Fine Arts
- 2001-02: Kevin Puts, School of Music, College of Fine Arts
- 2000-01: Adam Holzman, School of Music, College of Fine Arts
- 1999-00: Thana Lauhakaikul, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
- 1998-99: Michael Ray Charles, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
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Research Paper Excellence Award
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- 2022-23: Dmitry Kireev, Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, for his paper, “Continuous cuffless monitoring of arterial blood pressure via graphene bioimpedance tattoos"
- 2021-22: Maria Croyle, Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Glaxo Wellcome Professor, College of Pharmacy, for her paper, “Novel technology for storage and distribution of live vaccines and other biological medicines at ambient temperature"
- 2019-20: Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor in the Division of Pharmacology & Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, and in the Institute for Cellular & Molecular Biology, and Institute for Neuroscience, College of Natural Sciences, for his paper SLC30A10 transporter in the digestive system regulates brain manganese under basal conditions while brain SLC30A10 protects against neurotoxicity
- 2018-19: Yuebing Zheng, Assistant Professor at the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, for his paper "Opto-Thermoelectric Nanotweezers"
- 2017-18: Jacob Wegmann, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, for his paper: "Measuring Informal Housing Production in California Cities"
- 2016-17: Abigail Aiken, LBJ School of Public Affairs, for her paper "Requests for Abortion in Latin America Related to Concern about Zika Virus Exposure"
- 2015-16: Steven M. Phelps, Department of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences, for "Sexual fidelity trade-offs promote regulatory variation in the prairie vole brain"
- 2014-15: Maria A. Croyle, College of Pharmacy, for “A Single Dose Respiratory Recombinant Adenovirus-Based Vaccine Provides Long-Term Protection for Non-Human Primates from Lethal Ebola Infection” (Mol. Pharmaceutics, 2015, 12 (8), pp 2712–2731)
- 2013-14: Rachel Rawlins, School of Architecture, for "Planning for Fracking on the Barnett Shale: Urban Air Pollution, Improving Health Based Regulation, and the Role of Local Governments” (Virginia Environmental Law Journal Vol. 31 (2013) 226-306)
- 2012-13: Marilyn Armour, School of Social Work, for "Assessing the Impact of the Ultimate Penal Sanction on Homicide Survivors: A Two State Comparison" (Marquette Law Review, co-authored with Mark Umbreit, University of Minnesota)
- 2011-12: Elizabeth Mueller and Sarah Dooling, School of Architecture, for "Sustainability and vulnerability: integrating equity into plans for central city redevelopment" (Journal of UrbanismVol. 4, No. 3, Nov. 2011)
- 2010-11: Barbara McArthur and Fritz Benedict, McDonald Observatory, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences, for "New Observational Constraints on the Upsilon Andromedae System with Data from the Hubble Space Telescope and Hobby-Eberly Telescope" (The Astrophysical Journal, June 1, 2010)
- 2009-10: Marie Monfils, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, for "Extinction-Reconsolidation Boundaries: Key to Persistent Attenuation of Fear Memories" (Science 324, 951 (2009))
- 2008-09: Julian Vasquez Heilig, Department of Educational Administration, College of Education, for "Accountability Texas-Style: The Progress and Learning of Urban Minority Students in a High-Stakes Testing Context" (Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2008 30: 75)
- 2007-08: Andrea Gore, College of Pharmacy, and David Crews, Section of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences, for "Transgenerational epigenetic imprints on mate preference" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104: 5942-5946)
- 2006-07: Benny D. Freeman, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, for "Plasticization-Enhanced Hydrogen Purification using Polymeric Membranes" (Science 311, 639 (2006))
- 2005-06: Roger Bonnecaze, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, for "Simulation of Fluid Flow in the Step and Flash Print Lithography Process" (Microelectronic Engineering 82 (2005) 60-70)
- 2004-05: Inderjit Dhillon, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences, and Joydeep Ghosh, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, for "Clustering with Bregman Divergences" (Journal of Machine Learning Research 6 (2005) 1705-1749)
- 2003-04: Nicholas A. Peppas, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, for "Novel Complexation Hydrogels for Oral Peptide Delivery: In vitro Evaluation of their Cytocompatibility and Insulin-Transport Enhancing Effects Using Caco-2 Cell Monolayers" (Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 2003 Nov 1;67(2):609-17)
- 2002-03: George Georgiou, Biomedical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, and Brent Iverson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, for "Protection Against Anthrax Toxin by Recombinant Antibody Fragments Correlates with Antigen Affinity" (Nature Biotechnology 2002 Jun;20(6):597-601)
- 2001-02: Doug Burger and Stephen Keckler, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences, for "A Design Space Evaluation of Grid Processor Architectures" (Appears in the Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture)
- 2000-01: Alan M. Lambowitz, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural Sciences, for “Group II Introns Designed to Insert Therapeutically Relevant DNA Target Sites in Human Cells” (Science 21 July 2000: Vol. 289 no. 5478 pp. 452-457)
- 1999-2000: Robert E. Wyatt, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences, for “Quantum Wave Packet Dynamics with Trajectories” (Physical Review Letters, Vol. 82, Number 26, June, 1999)
- 1998-99: Robert C. Duncan, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences, for "Global Seismic Oscillations in Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters" (Astrophysical Journal Letters v.498, p.L45) and Joy Penticuff, School of Nursing, for "Defining Futility in Neonatal Intensive Care" (The Nursing Clinics of North America 1998 Jun ;33 (2):339-52)
- 1997-98: Brian Leiter, School of Law, for "Nietzsche and the Morality Critics" (Ethics, Vol. 107, No. 2 (Jan., 1997), pp. 250-285) and Ian Dalziel, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, for "Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic Geography and Tectonics: Review, Hypothesis, Environmental Speculation" (Geological Society of America Bulletin, Dec., 1998, v. 110, no. 12, p. 1615-1620)
- 1996-97: William Cochran, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences, and E.B. Cullingford, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, for "British Romans and Irish Carthaginians: Anticolonial Metaphor in Heaney, Friel, and McGuinness" (Modern Language Association, Mar., 1996, Vol. 111, No. 2, pp. 222-239)