Joe and Bettie Branson Ward Endowed Excellence Award Recipients
2025
Allan Cole, Ph.D.
Dean and Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor in Social Work, School of Social Work
2022
Jonathan Pierce, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
2019
Pamela Paxton, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
2016
Megan Alrutz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
2013
Richard R. Neptune, Ph.D.
Professor, J. Mike Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
2010
Michael Marder, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
2007
Namkee G. Choi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
2004
Minette (Meme) Drumwright, Ph.D.
Department of Advertising, College of Communication
2001
Loriene Roy, Ph.D.
Graduate School of Library and Information Science