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