Faculty Awards and Honors

Distinguished Faculty Rank programs demonstrate the State University’s pride and gratitude for the consummate professionalism, the groundbreaking scholarship, the exceptional instruction and the breadth and significance of service contributions of its faculty. The awards provide SUNY-wide recognition in the categories below:

• Distinguished Professorship
• Distinguished Service Professorship
• Distinguished Teaching Professorship

The SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence are System-level honors conferred to acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence. Through these awards, SUNY publicly proclaims its pride in the accomplishment and personal dedication of its instructional faculty, librarians and professional staff across its campuses. The awards provide SUNY-wide recognition in the categories below:

• Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
• Excellence in Faculty Service
• Excellence in Teaching

The UB Distinguished Professor recognizes full professors who have achieved true distinction and who are recognized as national and international leaders in their fields.

The UB Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement honors outstanding professional achievement that has been focused on a particular body of work over a number of years.

The UB Exceptional Scholar Award for Young Investigators celebrates a recent superior achievement of a scholar in his/her field of study. Such an achievement will have distinguished the recipient as an up-and-coming scholar, as well as earned the individual acclaim for his/her work.

The UB Teaching Innovation Award recognizes faculty members who have contributed significantly to engaging students with new methods and approaches to teaching that have enhanced student-learning outcomes.

For guidelines and deadlines, please visit the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs.