2026 Awards & Recognition

Two Awards: Culture Award

Faculty & Staff Eligible

These two awards honor a respective faculty and staff member who exemplify the College of Medicine’s culture by personifying the mission and vision of the college. This award recognizes an individual’s character, as displayed through work, words, actions, and interactions with others.

Two Awards: Leadership Award

Faculty & Staff Eligible

These two awards honor a respective faculty and staff member who influence, motivate, and guide others at the college toward achieving a common goal, exemplifying leadership consistent with the college’s mission, vision, and goals.

Two Awards: Service Award

Faculty & Staff Eligible

These two awards honor a respective faculty and staff member whose actions and activities consistently and regularly exemplify extraordinary contributions and commitment to the department/office, college, or university. Award recipients will have demonstrated service to students, colleagues, and the mission and vision of the college through participation on committees, efforts towards improvement initiatives, or support of workplace operations.

Team Excellence Award

Teams Eligible

This award honors a team whose actions and activities consistently and regularly demonstrate extraordinary contributions and commitment to the college’s mission, vision, and goals.

Statements of support from team leaders are encouraged.

Community Impact Award

Faculty & Staff Eligible

This award recognizes an individual who has extended the work and impact of the college in education, service, or research, further developing or deepening positive and lasting relationships with a given community. This community may be global, national, state, local, or even within the university or college.

Statements of support from the community served are encouraged.

Research/Scholarship Award

Faculty & Staff Eligible

This award honors an individual who has demonstrated excellence or innovation in research or scholarship and whose efforts have set them apart within their academic program or department and contribute to the mission and vision of the college.

Nominee’s CV will be reviewed by the committee.

Clinical Teaching Award

Faculty & Staff Eligible

This award honors an individual who has demonstrated excellence in clinical environments in two or more of the following:

• Employing evidence-based and health justice-centered approach to precepting
• Promoting collaboration and interprofessional practice
• Promoting self-reflection
• Inspiring, guiding, and mentoring students and trainees through independent, critical, and creative thinking
• Serving as a mentor, collaborator, and consultant to other clinical teaching faculty

Special consideration will be given to nominations from nominators who have observed the nominee’s clinical teaching directly.

Teaching Award

Faculty & Staff Eligible

This award honors an individual who has demonstrated excellence in two or more of the following:

• Demonstrating extensive knowledge and mastery of the subject matter
• Enacting innovation in course and curriculum design
• Inspiring, guiding, and mentoring students through independent and creative thinking
• Serving as a mentor, collaborator, and consultant to other faculty and teaching assistants
• Implementing the scholarship of teaching and learning

Special consideration will be given to nominations from nominators who have observed the nominee’s teaching directly.

Mentorship Award

Faculty & Staff Eligible

This award honors an individual who has demonstrated excellence in mentorship and/or sponsorship of faculty, staff, students, trainees, and/or peers. Mentorship can be formal or informal, in any domain (research, teaching, service, leadership, clinical work, professional development, work life balance, etc.). 

Nominations must be from a mentee.

Professional Excellence Award

Faculty & Staff Eligible

This award recognizes a faculty or staff member who exhibits exemplary skills or dedication in the performance of college projects, processes, or systems. Award recipients will have significantly impacted the college through outstanding initiative, exceptional job proficiency, and creative problem solving.