Award-winning Professors Help Drive Tier One Efforts We are pleased to list the following University of Houston faculty with distinction based on fellowships, prizes and awards recognized by the Association of American Universities (AAU) and/or Top American Research Universities (TARU), used to determine Tier One status; UH’s own faculty awards, such as the Esther Farfel Award, the highest award accorded a UH faculty member; the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and Professorship and University Professorship; the M.D. Anderson Professorship and the John and Rebecca Moores Professor Program. Below are the UH professors who have received these prestigious honors. * Neal Amundson C.W. “Paul” Chu Jan-Åke Gustafsson Dan Luss James Symons John H. Lienhard Fazle Hussain Surendra P. Shah Kaspar Willam Fellowships, prizes and awards recognized by the Association of American Universities (AAU) and/or Top American Research Universities (TARU) Rigoberto Advincula Metin Akay Thomas Albright Kevin Bassler Eric Bittner Elizabeth Bollinger Huxel Stanko Brankovic David Brenner Chengzhi Cai Shankar Chellam Xiaoping Cong Steven Deyle Richard Dole Stuart E. Dryer Donald Foss George Fox Edgar Gabriel Karolos Grigoriadis Arnold Guloy P. Shiv Halasyamani Zhu Han John Hart William Hawes Stephan Hillerbrand David Hoffman Scott Imberman Karl Kadish Nicolas Kanellos Donald Kouri Ramanan Krishnamoorti Demetrio Labate Barbara Rose Lange T. Randall Lee Aibing Li Carl Lindahl Vassiliy Lubchenko Martin Melosi David Mikics John Miller Raymond Nimmer Julian Olivares Carlos Ordonez Howard Pollack Susan Rasmussen John W. Roberts Susan Scarrow Frederik Schiff Gangbing Song Jeffrey Sposato Donna Stokes Landon Storrs Randolph Thummel Ricardo Vilalta Roy Weinstein Cameron White Jody Williams Stephen ZamoraFaculty With Distinction
Professor Emeritus – Chemical Engineering and Mathematics
• National Academy of Engineering
• National Academy of Sciences
Professor – Physics
• National Academy of Sciences
Professor – Biology and Biochemistry, Chemistry
• National Academy of Sciences
Professor – Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• National Academy of Engineering
Professor Emeritus – Civil Engineering
• National Academy of Engineering
Professor Emeritus – Mechanical Engineering
• National Academy of Engineering
Professor – Mechanical Engineering
• National Academy of Engineering
Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering
• National Academy of Engineering
Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering
• National Academy of Engineering
Professor – Chemistry
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 1999
Professor – Biomedical Engineering
• American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (AAU) – 2010
Professor – Chemistry
• Sloan Research Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1982
Professor – Physics
• Sloan Research Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 2001
Professor – Chemistry
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 1999
• Guggenheim Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 2007
Professor – Architecture
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 1998
Assistant Professor – Electrical and Computer Engineering
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2010
Visiting Assistant Professor – Modern and Classical Languages
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2006
Kevin Burke
Professor – Geology
• American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (AAU) – 2004
Associate Professor – Chemistry
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2004
Professor – Civil and Environmental Engineering
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2002
Associate Professor – History
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2008
• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellows (TARU) – 2009
Olafs Daugulis
Associate Professor – Chemistry
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2007
• Sloan Research Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 2007
Associate Professor – History
• American Antiquarian Society Fellowships (AAU) – 2009
Professor – Law
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 1999
Professor – Biology and Biochemistry
• American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (AAU) – 2009
Professor – Psychology
• American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (AAU) – 1985
Professor – Biology and Biochemistry
• American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (AAU) – 1995
Robert Fox
Professor – Biology and Biochemistry
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators (TARU) – 1987
Assistant Professor – Computer Science
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2009
Professor – Mechanical Engineering
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 1997
Associate Professor – Chemistry
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 1998
Associate Professor – Chemistry
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2001
• Beckman Young Investigators (TARU) – 2002
Assistant Professor – Electrical and Computer Engineering
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2010
Professor – History
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellows (TARU) – 1974
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1991
Professor – Communication
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2001
Assistant Professor – Art
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2004
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2005
Professor – Chemistry
• Sloan Research Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1992
Assistant Professor – Economics
• National Academy of Education (AAU) – 2010
Professor – Chemistry
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 1980
Ioannis Kakadiaris
Professor – Computer Science
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2000
Professor – Hispanic Literature
• American Antiquarian Society (AAU) – 1999
Professor – Chemistry
• Sloan Research Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1972
• Guggenheim Fellow (AAU, TARU) – 1978
Professor – Chemical Engineering
• NSF Career Award (TARU) – 1999
Associate Professor – Mathematics
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2008
Associate Professor – Music
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2007
Professor – Chemistry
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 1995
Associate Professor – Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2006
Professor – English
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2004
Assistant Professor – Chemistry
• Beckman Young Investigators (TARU) – 2008
• NSF Career Award (TARU) – 2010
Professor – History
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1980
• National Humanities Center Fellows (TARU) – 1982
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1988
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2001
Professor – English
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2004
Professor – Physics
• Sloan Research Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1987
Professor – Law
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2006
Professor – Hispanic Studies
• Ford Foundation Fellowships (AAU) – 1985
• American Philosophical Society (AAU) – 1992
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 2000
Associate Professor – Physics
• Guggenheim Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1989
B. Montgomery Pettitt
Professor – Chemistry
• Sloan Research Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1989
• American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (AAU) – 2008
Professor – Music
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 2003
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 2010
Professor – Anthropology
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2001
Professor – English
• Guggenheim Fellowship (AAU, TARU) – 1994
Professor – Political Science
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1993
Associate Professor – Communication
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 2008
Professor – Mechanical Engineering
• NSF Career Award (TARU) – 2002
Associate Professor – Music
• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellows (TARU) – 2003
Associate Professor – Physics
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2003
Associate Professor – History
• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellows (TARU) – 2006
Professor – Chemistry
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 1990
Associate Professor – Computer Science
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2005
Research Professor – Physics
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 1959
• Guggenheim Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 1969
Professor – Curriculum and Instruction
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 1999
Visiting Professor – Social Work
• Nobel Prize (AAU) – 1997
Lois Parkinson Zamora
Professor – English
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellows (TARU) – 1981
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) - 1982
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows (AAU, TARU) – 2001
Professor – Law
• Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) – 1982
Rong Zheng 2009 – 2010 2008 – 2009 2007 – 2008 2006 – 2007 2005 – 2006 2004 – 2005 2003 – 2004 2002 – 2003 2001 – 2002 2000 – 2001 1999 – 2000 1998 – 1999 1997 – 1998 1996 – 1997 1995 – 1996 1994 – 1995 1992 – 1993 1991 – 1992 1990 – 1991 1989 – 1990 1988 – 1989 1987 – 1988 1986 – 1987 1985 – 1986 1984 – 1985 1983 – 1984 1982 – 1983 1981 – 1982 1980 – 1981 1979 – 1980 1978 – 1979 HUGH ROY AND LILLIE CRANZ CULLEN DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY CHAIR Vermuri Balakotaiah Demetre J. Economou David J. Francis Roland Glowinski Paul R. Gregory Fazle Hussain Lennart Johnsson Donald Kouri T. Randall Lee Gordon L. Paul B. Montgomery Pettitt Surendra P. Shah Abbey H. Simon Robert R. Stewart Arthur B. Weglein HUGH ROY AND LILLIE CRANZ CULLEN DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSHIP Suncica Canic Jack M. Fletcher Robert J. Schwartz John C. Wolfe HUGH ROY AND LILLIE CRANZ CULLEN UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSHIP Abdeldjelil Belarbi Wei-Kan Chu Clifford Dacso David Dow Richard Evans Alex Ignatiev James Kirby Martin Martin Melosi Stuart Ostrow Ramesh Shrestha Su Su Wang Scott R. Gilbertson Edward Hungerford Ramanan Krishnamoorti Yuri Kuznetsov Roy Ruffin Venkat Selvamanickam JOHN AND REBECCA MOORES PROFESSOR PROGRAM Harold E. Bedell Eric Bittner Vincent M. Donnelly Stuart E. Dryer Arnold Eskin George Edward Fox H. Jerome Freiberg Laura J. Frishman Dan Graur H. Julia Hannay John Hart Ronald S. Harwerth W. Lawrence Hogue W. Robert Houston Thomas T. C. Hsu Basheer Khumawala Yuen-Sum Lau Thomas F. O’Brien Vern I. Paulsen Larry Pinsky Howard Pollack Gael Stack Randolph Thummel Shiao-Chun Tu Richard Willson Lois Parkinson Zamora
Assistant Professor – Computer Science
• NSF Career Awards (TARU) – 2006
Stuart A. Long
Demetre J. Economou
David J. Francis
Fazle Hussain
Barbara Lee Keyfitz
Martin Melosi
Allan Jacobson
Arnold Eskin
Roland Glowinski
Michael Olivas
C. W. “Paul” Chu
Mark Rothstein
James Gibson
Martin Golubitsky
James Symons
Nicolás Kanellos
1993 – 1994
Simon Moss
J. Wayne Rabalais
Sidney Berger
John H. Lienhard
Cynthia MacDonald
Abraham E. Dukler
John M. Ivancevich
Robert Hazelwood
Juan Oró
Neal Amundson
Dan Luss
Fredell Lack
Donald Kouri
Gertrud B. Pickar
Richard Evans
Ralph Becker
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Psychology
Mathematics
Economics
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Science
Chemistry
Chemistry
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Civil and Environmental Engineering
Music
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Mathematics
Psychology
Biology and Biochemistry
Kaspar Willam
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Electrical and Computing Engineering
Theater
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Physics
Life Sciences Technology
Law
Psychology
Physics
Karl Kadish
Chemistry
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History
Theater
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Chemistry
Physics (chair)
Chemical Engineering
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Economics
Mechanical Engineering
Optometry
Chemistry
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Biology and Biochemistry
Biology and Biochemistry
Biology and Biochemistry
Curriculum and Instruction
Optometry
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Psychology
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Optometry
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Curriculum and Instruction
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