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Indiana University is proud to recognize and celebrate the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of IU who have earned honors and awards from the university and organizations from around the world. These honors demonstrate the excellence of work in research, teaching, service, and philanthropy, as well as athletic, artistic, performance, and creative endeavors by the recipients.

University Honors and Awards is an initiative by the Office of the President to identify and commemorate the achievements of those affiliated with Indiana University. This website is a public catalogue of that legacy. It is continuously updated as awards are bestowed and more information about awardees becomes available.

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7 IU faculty members named 2024 AAAS Fellows

Thursday, March 27, 2025

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world's largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, has named seven Indiana University faculty members to its 2024 fellows' class, a lifetime honor within the scientific community.

4 faculty members named Distinguished Professors

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Indiana University has named four faculty members as Distinguished Professors, the most prestigious appointment offered to honor faculty whose outstanding scholarship, artistic or literary distinction, or other achievements have won significant recognition by peers.

Teaching and service award honorees

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Indiana University is recognizing seven faculty members and one doctoral student this year for their demonstrated excellence in teaching and service. The 2025 University Teaching and Service Awards honorees represent IU Bloomington, IU Indianapolis, IU South Bend and IU Kokomo.

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IU News

  • WFIU, WTIU and Indiana Public Broadcasting win journalism awards

  • Recipients of Distinguished Faculty Research, Sonneborn and Outstanding Junior Faculty awards named

  • Epitome Award winners announced

  • IU earth scientist’s research into rivers and flooding earns him prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

  • Provost Professors and Herman B Wells Professor named

  • Funding opportunities for community-engaged research

  • Faculty, staff honored at awards ceremony

  • ‘Archiving Airwaves: The Miley Collection’ wins Broadcast Education Association award

  • Bright ideas: Chemist’s fluorescent innovation has potential to disrupt health care, tech industries

  • Action Against Hunger USA CEO to receive inaugural James T. Morris Humanitarian Award at 10th ARW

  • 4 faculty members named Distinguished Professors

  • Brondizio awarded ‘Nobel Prize for the environment,’ honoring decades-long research on the Amazon

  • African Studies Program’s Tavy Aherne receives IU Bloomington 2024 Staff Merit Award

  • Student, staff member recognized for commitment to exemplifying MLK legacy

  • Halina Goldberg’s recent book wins Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America award

  • Two professors awarded 2024 IU South Bend Distinguished Teaching Award

  • Hospitality and tourism management faculty member earns lifetime achievement award

  • $3.1 million awarded to School of Science professor to battle cancer-induced fatigue

  • $1.25 million grant to help IU researcher advance boundary-pushing experimental physics

  • NSF CAREER grant supports study into vegetation’s effect on erosion rates

  • Faculty-founded company awarded $2 million grant for anticancer treatment

  • Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities receives Digital Justice Grant

  • Students honored for outstanding research skills

  • Regional campuses honor students, faculty and staff with Groups Scholars awards

  • 3 faculty awarded IU grants to move inventions toward the marketplace

  • Center for Religion and the Human receives $750,000 from Henry Luce Foundation

  • Poynter Journalism Prize, National Headliner Award recognize Media School professor

  • IU Indianapolis ranks 5th nationwide in Impact Rankings for sustainable development

  • Indiana University honors 2024 Partners in Philanthropy

  • Media School student wins Hearst national writing championship

  • History Museum in South Bend honors Dé Bryant with African American Legacy Award

  • National Academy of Medicine elects Bernice Pescosolido to governing and oversight body

  • Wendy Leutert receives Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

  • IU Bloomington leads the nation in scholarships for critical languages

  • Chemistry professor named Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, awarded $100,000 research grant

  • AAAS welcomes 2 Indiana University faculty as 2023 fellows

  • IU honored with National Historic Chemical Landmark for advancing oral health

  • Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences honored for student diversity efforts

  • Vesna Dimitrieska awarded for advancing world language education in Indiana

  • Cognitive scientist Jennifer Trueblood wins National Academy of Sciences’ Troland Research Award

  • Whitnie Powell earns national recognition

  • IU Bloomington named top producer for Fulbright U.S. Student program for 2023-24

  • Commitment to Holocaust education earns state recognition for IU Bloomington institute

  • Lilly Endowment awards IU $1.5 million to advance science of reading

  • Jacobs School faculty, alumni earn Grammy nominations

  • Physics professor honored for diversifying the field through mentorship

  • As prestigious Marshall Scholar, IU Bloomington alumnus will advance nuclear nonproliferation

  • $840,000 awarded to Language Workshop’s Project GO

  • IU’s online education efforts honored by national association

  • Tserenchunt Legden receives prestigious award from the Mongolian Government

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