Several ISRC faculty research affiliates will be among the more than 75 ISU faculty and staff selected to receive university awards; the highest recognitions available to Iowa State employees. The following awardees will be honored at a celebration later this fall.

Asheesh “Danny” Singh, agronomy, and associate dean for research and discovery for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will receive the Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award. The award recognizes a member of the graduate faculty who has demonstrated exceptional mentorship and measurable impact on graduate students, both during their time at Iowa State and beyond graduation. Recipients are selected by members of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.

Lisa Schulte Moore, natural resource ecology and management, will receive the title of Distinguished Professor. The title is Iowa State's highest academic honor. It recognizes a faculty member whose accomplishments in research or creative activities have had a significant impact on their discipline nationally or internationally and who has demonstrated outstanding performance in at least one other area of faculty responsibility (teaching/advising, extension/professional practice or institutional service). Nominees must hold the rank of professor and have served at least five years on the Iowa State faculty.
 

Gustavo Macintosh, biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, will receive the title of University Professor. The title is awarded to a faculty member whose professional work has focused on effecting positive, significant institutional change at the university and has demonstrated outstanding performance in at least one other area of faculty responsibility (research/creative activity, teaching/advising or extension/professional practice). Nominees must hold the rank of professor and have served at least 10 years on the Iowa State faculty.

The Iowa State Soynomics Team will receive the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Interdisciplinary Team Research. Members of the Soynomics team include ISRC affiliates Liang Dong, Fernando Miguez, Daren Mueller, Matt O'Neal, Arti Singh, Asheesh “Danny” Singh and Greg Tylka. Additional members of the team include Aditya Balu,Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Soumik Sarkar and Talukder Jubery.