
2025 Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Awards
The Achievement Awards are given annually to honor outstanding scholars and to recognize exceptional research achievement and impact on advancing knowledge, innovation, or creativity in science, engineering, health, arts, humanities, education, and other academic fields of study.
The awards include:
- Hall of Fame Award
- Spirit of Tulane Award
- Innovation Award
- Entrepreneurship Award
- IP Innovator Award
- Galaxy Award
- Excellence in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Award
- Student/Trainee Research Mentoring Award
- Convergence Award
- Rising Star Award
- Funding Awards (2) - nominations are not accepted for these awards
- Publication Award (3) - nominations are not accepted for these awards
- Citation Award - nominations are not accepted for these awards
2025 AWARD CRITERIA AWARD CHECKLIST NOMINATION FORM
The event honoring the 2024 Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Award nominees and awardees was held Friday, November 1, 2024.
Award Presenters and Emcee
Award Presenters and Emcee

Mike Fitts, JD
President

Jessica Shedd, MA
Assistant Provost for Assessment and Institutional Research

M. A. "Tonette" Krousel-Wood, MD
Associate Provost for Health Sciences

Giovanni Piedimonte, MD
Vice President for Research

Robin Forman, PhD
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Kimberly Gramm, PhD
David and Marion Mussafer Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer

Lindsay Cronk, MLIS
Dean of Libraries

Meg Farris
Emcee
WWL-TV Reporter
2024 Research Hall of Fame Award
2024 Research Hall of Fame Award

This prestigious lifetime achievement award recognizes a nationally and internationally renowned scholar/investigator who has made substantial contributions to advancing knowledge over his/her/their academic career. The awards were presented by Mike Fitts, President.
Jeffrey Tasker, PhD
Catherine and Hunter Pierson Chair in Neuroscience, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, School of Science and Engineering
Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD
William Hamilton Watkins Professor, Director, Center for Emerging Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
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2024 Spirit of Tulane Research Award
This award recognizes outstanding achievement during the prior calendar year of a scholar/investigator whose work embodies Tulane's motto: Non sibi, sed suis (Not for oneself, but for one's own) while enhancing the research mission through education, creative expression, mentorship and collaborative effort to advance knowledge.


Karissa Haugeberg, PhD
Associate Professor and Eva-Lou Joffrion Edwards Newcomb Professorship in History
Department of History
School of Liberal Arts
2024 Innovation Award
This award recognizes a scholar/investigator who develops novel ideas, approaches and insights through his/her/their interdisciplinary scholarship to address clinical, public health or societal challenges.

Kyle Straub, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
School of Science and Engineering

Eric Dumonteil, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Tropical Medicine
Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
2024 Entrepreneurship Award
This award is given to the individual faculty member whose contribution to entrepreneurship is reflected in a record of sustained entrepreneurship and new venture creation.

Tony Hu, PhD
Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Biotechnology Innovation
Director, Center for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
School of Medicine
2024 IP Innovator Award
This award recognizes the faculty member who develops new patentable intellectural property that leads to or is expected to lead to a licensable technology or commercialization event.

Lisa Morici, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
School of Medicine
James McLachlan, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
School of Medicine
2024 Galaxy Award
This award recognizes substantial achievement of a scholar/investigator who has a strong five-year history of funding and of enhancing Tulane's research mission through scholarship, education, mentorship and collaborative efforts.

Ronald Veazey, DVM, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine
School of Medicine
Chair, Division of Comparative Pathology
Tulane National Primate Research Center
2024 Provost's Award for Excellence in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
This award recognizes a scholar for excellence in research that addresses societal inequalities and promotes social change. Some indicators of excellence include extramural support of related research and dissemination of findings through high-quality peer-reviewed publications and national or international presentations that address societal inequities and promote social change.

Carla Laroche, JD, MPP
Associate Professor and Felder-Fayard Early Career Professor of Law
School of Law
2024 Funding Awards
These awards recognize a) the scholar/investigator in the STEM fields who has been awarded the largest combined dollar amount of funding for direct costs during the prior calendar year; and b) the/scholar/investigator in the non-STEM fields who has been awarded the largest combined dollar amount of funding for direct costs during the prior calendar year.
STEM

Emily Harville, PhD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
NON-STEM

Hazel Woods, PhD
Professor of Practice
Associate Director, Education Programs
School of Professional Advancement
2024 Convergence Award
This award recognizes a Tulane scholar or team of schoolars who successfully collaborate across schools, units and departments to surpass traditional academic disciplines and further the research mission.

Byron Mouton, MArch
Senior Professor of Practice and Michael G. Lacey Professor in Architecture
Director of URBANbuild
School of Architecture

Frédéric Sourgens, JD, PhD
James McCulloch Chair in Energy Law
Director, Tulane Energy Law Center
School of Law
2024 Student/Trainee Research Mentoring Award
This award recognizes an exceptional research mentor.

Sarah Lindsey, PhD
Associate Professor and Dr. Barbara S. Beckman Professorship in Pharmacology
Department of Pharmacology
School of Medicine
2024 Rising Star Award
This award recognizes the works of an assistant professor, within five years of appointment to Tulane, who demonstrates exceptional growth and impact in one or more research areas.

Sönke Dangendorf, PhD
David and Jane Flowerree Assistant Professor
Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering
School of Science and Engineering
2024 Citation Award
This award recognizes the Tulane author of the peer-reviewed article with the highest number of citations during the prior calendar year. The recipient must be the corresponding author and Tulane must be the corresponding institution.

Lu Qi, MD, PhD
Professor and Interim Chair and HCA Regents Distinguished Chair
Director, Tulane University Obesity Research Center
Department of Epidemiology
Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
JAMA Internal Medicine
April 1, 2023
2024 Publication Awards
This award is designed to honor scholars and investigators at Tulane University for their exceptional contributions to academic literature by acknowledging the best journal article published in the preceding calendar year and the best book published within 24 months of the award selection date, which occurs annually in August. These awards recognize significant contributions to the scholarly record at the intersection of impact, merit and relevance.
Journal Article

Sönke Dangendorf, PhD
David and Jane Flowerree Assistant Professor
Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering
School of Science and Engineering
Nature Communications
April 10, 2023
Book

Jesmyn Ward, MFA
Professor and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Department of English
School of Liberal Arts
Scribner, October 2023
*Thomas Albrecht, Professor and Chair, Department of English, accepting on behalf of Jesmyn Ward.