LSU External Awards & Recognition Program
Supporting Faculty Excellence Through National Recognition
The External Awards & Recognition Program provides LSU faculty and academic leadership with centralized strategic support to identify, apply for, and attain external awards at the national level. While all national awards are valued, LSU particularly encourages the pursuit of highly prestigious and prestigious pathway awards as identified by the National Research Council. In addition, the program showcases current recipients of all national/international external awards, including recipients of highly prestigious and prestigious pathway awards, to increase awareness of outstanding faculty accomplishments.
We want to hear about your involvement with all awards of national distinction! Please
submit all national-level award nominations and/or selections here.
Links for Faculty Members
Dr. Gabriela González signing into the National Academy of Sciences.
– Photo: National Academy of Sciences
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More than 200 LSU faculty have received awards and honors classified by the National Research Council as highly prestigious or prestigious.
Highly prestigious awards are awards designated as such by the National Research Council (NRC). There are over 200 awards designated on the NRC's list of highly prestigious awards. A university's highly prestigious award count is a key metric for national university rankings. The Office of Academic Affairs is currently supporting recipients of highly prestigious awards with a $10,000 stipend.*
A Prestigious Pathway award is defined by LSU as any national/international award that is a statistically significant precedent or "pathway" to a highly prestigious award. We classify an award as a prestigious pathway award if at least 25% of highly prestigious award winners previously received that award. The list will be updated annually so it will be based on current data. The Office of Academic Affairs is currently supporting recipients of prestigious pathway awards with a $5,000 stipend.*
*Funding for stipends is contingent upon fiscal availability and subject to change based on budgetary constraints.
Boyd Professor awarded Blaise Pascal Medal, named European Academy of Sciences member, and selected to speak at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians — the first LSU faculty member to do so since 1970.
LSU Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Chair Marybeth Lima was recently inducted as a Fellow into the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). Lima has been a member of ASABE for 27 years and has served on a number of ASABE award committees.
LSU Craft and Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Assistant Professor Olufemi “Femi” Olorode recently received a $500,000 NSF CAREER Award for his cutting-edge energy research that will improve hydrogen gas storage in solid hydrate structures.
LSU Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Chris Marvel recently received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, which recognizes early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
LSU Chemistry Professor Les Butler has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the fields of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray interferometry imaging.
John A. Pojman Sr., the William and Patricia Senn, Jr., Distinguished Professor and Chair of the LSU Department of Chemistry, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).