Teaching Awards
Over 150 teaching awards with an approximate cash value of $200,000 are offered annually at The University of Texas at Austin. This site includes a brief description of the university-wide, college, school, departmental, and Ex-Student's Association awards and lists of past recipients.
University-Wide Teaching Awards (General Information)
(administered by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost)
- Academy of Distinguished Teachers Award
- William David Blunk Memorial Professorship
- Dad's Association Centennial Teaching Fellowships
- Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship
- Jean Holloway Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Minnie Stevens PIPER Foundation Teaching Award
- President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award
- Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards
- Joe and Bettie Branson Ward Endowed Excellence Award
- Texas Excellence Teaching Awards
- The James W. Vick Texas Excellence Award for Academic Advising
- The Elizabeth Shatto Massey Award for Excellence in Teacher Education
College/School and Departmental Teaching Awards
- Architecture
- Business Administration
- Joe D. Beasley Teaching Excellence Award
- College of Business Administration Foundation Advisory Council Award for Teaching Innovation
- College of Business Administration Foundation Award for Excellence in Education
- Excellence in Education Award
- Fred Moore Assistant Instructor Award for Teaching Excellence
- Hank & Mary Harkins Foundation Teaching Excellence Award
- Jack C. Taylor Teaching Excellence Award
- Trammell College of Business Administration (CBA) Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors
- Fawn and Vijay Mahajan Teaching Excellence Award for Executive Education
- Communication
- Education
- Engineering
- Engineering Foundation Faculty Award (discontinued)
- Engineering Foundation Awards for Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor
- Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award
- Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching
Departmental awards:
- Aerospace Engineering Departmental Teaching Award
- Biomedical Engineering Teaching Excellence Award
- Chemical Engineering Departmental Teaching Award (discontinued)
- Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Departmental Teaching Award
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Teaching Award
- Mechanical Engineering Departmental Teaching Award
- Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Departmental Teaching Award
- Fine Arts
- Graduate Studies
- LBJ School of Public Affairs
- LBJ Foundation Excellence Award (discontinued)
- Liberal Arts
- Liberal Arts Council Teaching Award (discontinued)
- Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellowship
- Maxine Hairston Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Division of Rhetoric and Composition)
- Chad Oliver Plan II Teaching Excellence Award (Plan II Honors Program)
- Harry Ransom Award for Teaching Excellence
- Natural Sciences
- Board of Visitors Teaching Award - Department of Astronomy
- College of Natural Sciences Foundation Advisory Council Teaching Excellence Award
- Department of Chemistry Faraday Fellowship Award for Teaching Excellence
- Department of Chemistry Henze Teaching Excellence Awards
- Department of Chemistry Welch Teaching Awards
- Houston Oil & Minerals Corporation Faculty Excellence Awards
- Carolyn G. & G. Moses Knebel Distinguished Teaching Award
- Department of Mathematics Teaching Award
- The President's Associates Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Mathematics
- The Katherine Ross Richards Centennial Fellowship in Nutrition
- The Elizabeth Tarpley Regents' Fellowship in Textiles and Clothing
- Teaching Excellence in Human Ecology
- Nursing
- Pharmacy
- Social Work
