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