Excellence Awards for Assistant Professors
“Excellence Awards” for Assistant Professors or Assistant Curators is a one-time allocation of $5,000 in support of research. The award can be used to fund travel, equipment, books, graduate student stipends, and other research-related expenses. It may not be used as salary.
Academic deans are invited to submit the number of nominations indicated below:
| Agricultural and Life Sciences - 2 | Liberal Arts and Sciences - 2 |
| Dentistry - 1 | HHP - 1 |
| Education - 1 | Veterinary Medicine - 1 |
| Law - 1 | FLMNH - 1 |
| Engineering - 1 | Business Administration - 1 |
| Arts - 1 | Nursing - 1 |
| Medicine - 2 | PHHP - 1 |
| Pharmacy - 1 | DCP - 1 |
| Journalism and Communications - 1 |
TOTAL NOMINEES – 20
TOTAL AWARDS – 10
ELIGIBILITY: Nominees must currently hold the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or Assistant Curator. Nominees may NOT be in the final year of their tenure-probationary period, nor currently under evaluation for tenure. An individual who has received the award also is not eligible.
NOMINATION PACKET: (1) Nomination letter by the dean; (2) Nominee’s abbreviated CV of no more than 2 pages (including most recent accomplishments); (3) Nominee’s statement of no more than 2 pages describing current research projects.
The nomination packets should be submitted in electronic form to PVFA@aa.ufl.edu, by April 7, 2025. Nominations submitted by this deadline will be reviewed by a committee of faculty which will recommend awards to the Provost.
Spring 2025 Winners
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Evans, Austin |
CLAS |
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Hampson, Christopher |
Law |
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Jarquin, Diego |
IFAS |
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Kim, Sarah |
Pharmacy |
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Laitano, Orlando |
HHP |
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Martins, Samuel |
IFAS |
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Mobley, Erin |
Medicine |
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Porras, Ana Maria |
Engineering |
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Shin, Jinnie |
Education |
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Valenta, Kim |
CLAS |
Spring 2024 Winners
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Bartley, Emily |
Dentistry |
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Berry, Meredith |
HHP |
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Farahmandi, Farimah |
Engineering |
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Guo, Jingchuan "Serena" |
Pharmacy |
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LeFebvre, Michelle |
FLMNH |
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Li, Yixuan |
Business |
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Pozzi, Federico |
PHHP |
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Silva, Carlos |
IFAS |
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Silveri, Rachel |
Arts |
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Yue, Feng |
IFAS |
Spring 2023 Winners
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Wang, Yan |
PHHP |
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Kim, Jeongim |
IFAS |
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Jain, Piyush |
Engineering |
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Huo, Heqiang "Alfred" |
IFAS |
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Terry, Ellen |
Nursing |
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Mickle, Aaron |
Vet Med |
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Maki, Kathrin "Katie" |
Education |
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Wang, Zheng |
HHP |
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Subalusky, Amanda |
Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Ennes, Megan |
FLMNH |
Spring 2022 Winners
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Prokop, Stefan |
Medicine |
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Booker, Staja |
Nursing |
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Bisinotto, Rafael |
Veterinary Medicine |
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Hammond, Andrew |
Law |
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Hale, Matthew |
Engineering |
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Wang, Yan |
Design, Construction and Planning |
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Strauss, Sarah |
IFAS |
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Reisinger, Alexander "AJ" |
IFAS |
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Scaglione, Nichole |
Health & Human Performance |
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Williams, Amy |
CLAS |
Spring 2021 Winners
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Alli, Abdel |
Medicine |
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Boissoneault, Jeff |
Public Health & Health Professions |
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Bowden, John |
Veterinary Medicine |
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Chakrabarty, Paramita |
Medicine |
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de Lartigue, Guillaume "Will" |
Pharmacy |
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Majure, Lucas C. |
Florida Museum of Natural History |
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Phelps, Edward |
Engineering |
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Resende, Marcio |
IFAS |
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Smuder, Ashley |
Health & Human Performance |
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Torrey, Paul |
CLAS |
Spring 2020 Winners
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Dean, Natalie |
Public Health & Health Professions
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Bartos, Imre |
Liberal Arts & Sciences |
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Hibbitts, David |
Engineering |
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Lo-Ciganic, Weihsuan "Jenny" |
Pharmacy |
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Ryan, Terence |
Health & Human Performance |
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Scheffers, Brett |
CALS/IFAS |
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Reznikov, Leah |
Veterinary Medicine |
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Alpert, Jordan |
Journalism and Communications |
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Bryant, Andrew |
Medicine |
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Bromfield, John |
CALS/IFAS |
Spring 2019 Winners
| de Kloet, Annette | Medicine |
| Dinculescu, Astra | Medicine |
| Grenning, Alex | Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Peñagaricano, Francisco | CALS/IFAS |
| Rashidi, Parisa | Engineering |
| Ross, Kathryn | Public Health and Health Professions |
| Smith, Steven | Pharmacy |
| Splett, Joni | Education |
| Toth, Zsolt | Dentistry |
| Wang, Yu | CALS/IFAS |
Spring 2018 Winners
| Forte, Domenic | Engineering |
| Goss, Erica | IFAS |
| Guryanova, Olga | Medicine |
| Ortagus, Justin | Education |
| Osborne, Todd | IFAS |
| Qiu, Liangfei | Business |
| Tran, David | Medicine |
| Waddell, Frank | Journalism and Communications |
| Wei, Yu-Jung | Pharmacy |
| Williams, Trent | Arts |
Spring 2017 Winners
| Bozia, Eleni | Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Brooks, Samantha | CALs/IFAS |
| Carillo, Daniel | CALS/IFAS |
| Fedele, David | Public Health and Health Professions |
| Fisher, Carla | Journalism and Communications |
| Gage, Nicholas | Education |
| Gunduz, Aysegul | Engineering |
| Nguyen, Chuong | Veterinary Medicine |
| Sibille, Kimberly | Medicine |
| Wang, Eric | Medicine |
Spring 2016 Winners
| Allen, Josephine | Engineering |
| Julcr, Jiri | CALS/IFAS |
| Munoz, Patricio | CALS/IFAS |
| Ebner, Natalie | Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Lichstein, Jeremy | Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Burke, Sara | Medicine |
| Rodriguez, E | Medicine |
| Srinivasan, R | Design, Construction and Planning |
| Aguirre, Jose | Veterinary Medicine |
| Lanaj, Klodiana | Business |