Career Research Excellence
- 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, 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
Best Research Paper
- 2011-12: Elizabeth Mueller and Sarah Dooling, School of Architecture, for "Sustainability and vulnerability: integrating equity into plans for central city redevelopment" (Journal of Urbanism Vol. 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)
- 1999-00: 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
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