The External Awards & Recognition Program provides LSU faculty and academic leadership with centralized strategic support to identify, apply for, and attain highly prestigious and prestigious pathway external awards. In addition, the program highlights and showcases current recipients of prestigious awards, as identified by the National Research Council, to increase awareness of outstanding faculty accomplishments.
Please see below for information about new features of the program, including our External Awards and Recognition Ceremony and Stipends, application for Course Release program, and a petition to request to add a new award to the LSU Highly Prestigious and Prestigious Pathway Awards listing. Questions? Contact externalawards@lsu.edu
To be held annually in early spring, the Ceremony will honor all recipients of Highly Prestigious and Prestigious Pathway External Awards during the previous calendar year. At the ceremony, recipients will receive a commemorative award and stipend:
Highly Prestigious Award Recipients: $10,000 stipend
Prestigious Pathway Award Recipients: $5,000 stipend
Starting in Spring 2025 we are introducing an application-based Course Release program to provide course release time for faculty who need extensive time to prepare proposals/applications for Highly Prestigious Awards.
We are offering an opportunity to have awards added to the Highly Prestigious and Prestigious Awards listing if it can be demonstrated that the award is highly competitive and brings international/national visibility to the University. Learn more here.
Dr. Gabriela González signing into the National Academy of Sciences.
– Photo: National Academy of Sciences
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More than 200 LSU faculty have received awards and honors classified by the National Research Council as highly prestigious or prestigious.
Department of Environmental Sciences Professor Ed Laws has been named a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Funded research projects highlight the success of LSU's Scholarship First Agenda to advance foundational and applied science to improve lives.
Why It's Important
External awards can provide much deserved acknowledgment for career achievements, contributions to a specialized field of study and innovative research projects. It can increase visibility, learning opportunists, access to resources and scholarly collaboration.
Awards increase your visibility and expand recognition for your work among colleagues and the the community.
Awards broaden learning opportunities through interdisciplinary collaboration, travel, residencies and fellowships.
Awards provide much needed resources, including funding, time and access to members only benefits.
Awards present exciting collaborative opportunities and offer faculty an expanded community of scholars.
Highly prestigious awards, including induction into the National Academies, represent the pinnacle of recognition in academia. The National Research Council denotes the Highly Prestigious Award designation to more than 200 awards, honors, and recognitions across the arts and humanities, physical sciences and engineering, social sciences, and life sciences. In addition to bringing increased visibility and elevating opportunities for faculty recipients, these highly prestigious awards are noted by the AAU as a metric for institutional membership and are important in university rankings.
Prestigious pathway awards include both early career awards for research (e.g., National Science Foundation CAREER Award) as well as career achievement awards (e.g., American Academy for the Advancement of Science Fellow). The prestigious awards in the following list are precedents or “pathways” to highly prestigious awards. We classify any award as a Pathway Award if at least 25% of highly prestigious award winners had previously received that award.
