Recipients of Penn State Faculty Scholar Medals

Established in 1980, the award recognizes scholarly or creative excellence represented by a single contribution or a series of contributions around a coherent theme. A committee of peers reviews nominations and selects candidates.

2021: Manuel Llinás, Life and Health Sciences
2021: Chad Hanna, Physical Sciences
2020: Iliana Baums, Life and Health Sciences
2020: Carina Curto, Physical Sciences
2019: Michael Axtell, Life and Health Sciences
2019: Marcos Rigol, Physical Sciences
2018: Bernhard Lüscher, Life and Health Sciences
2017: Christine D. Keating, Life and Health Sciences
2017: Federico Rodríguez Hertz, Physical Sciences
2016: Mauricio Terrones, Physical Sciences
2016: Squire Booker, Life and Health Sciences
2015: John V. Badding, Physical Sciences
2015: Song Tan, Life and Health Sciences
2014: Eric Feigelson, Physical Sciences
2013: Claude dePamphilis, Life and Health Sciences
2012: Eric Post, Life Sciences
2012: Raymond Schaak, Physical Sciences
2011: Blair Hedges, Life Sciences
2011: Martin Bojowald, Physical Sciences
2010: Edward Holmes, Life Sciences
2010: Philip Bevilacqua, Physical Sciences
2009: J. Martin Bollinger, Physical Sciences
2008: Nitin Samarth, Physical Sciences
2007: Ottar Bjørnstad, Entomology, with joint affiliation in Biology and Statistics
2007: David S. Weiss, Physics
2006: B. Franklin Pugh, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
2006: Peter Schiffer, Physics
2004: Renee D. Diehl, Physics
2004: Charles R. Fisher, Biology
2004: Dennis K. J. Lin, Business, with joint affiliation in Statistics
2003: Ayusman Sen, Chemistry
2003: Andrew Stephenson, Biology
2002: John Collins, Physics
2001: Sally M. Assmann, Biology
2001: Xumu Zhang, Chemistry
2000: Vincent Crespi, Physics
2000: Ross Hardison , Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2000: Webb Miller, Biology and Computer Science and Engineering
1999: Gregory Swiatek, Mathematics
1999: Alan Walker, Anthropology and Biology
1998: Wolfgang Ernst, Physics and Chemistry
1998: Jerry Workman, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
1997: Jayanth R. Banavar, Physics
1996: Dmitri Burago, Mathematics
1996: Daniel Cosgrove, Biology
1995: Teh-Hui Kao, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
1995: Alexander Wolszczan, Astronomy & Astrophysics
1994: Andrew G. Ewing, Chemistry
1993: Milton W. Cole, Physics
1992: James B. Anderson, Chemistry
1990: Barbara Garrison, Chemistry
1990: Wesley C. Hymer, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
1989: W. Dale Brownawell, Mathematics
1987: Tien-Tzou Tsong, Physics
1986: Stephen G. Simpson, Mathematics
1985: Nicholas Winograd, Chemistry