The Distinguished Professor Award recognizes outstanding scholarly and creative accomplishments and is the highest permanent recognition attainable by faculty at Ohio University. Most of the awardees have come from the College of Arts & Sciences:
2024 Sarah E. Wyatt, Ph.D., Environmental & Plant Biology
2019 Steven W. Evans, Ph.D., Psychology
2018 Susan Burgess, Ph.D., Political Science
2016 Alexander Govorov, Ph.D., Physics & Astronomy
2014 Christopher France, Ph.D., Psychology
2013 Thomas Carpenter, Ph.D., Classics
2011 Mark Halliday, Ph.D., English
2009 Peter Jung, Ph.D., Physics
2008 R. Damian Nance, Ph.D., Geological Sciences
2006 Tadeusz Malinski, Ph.D., Dr. H.C.M., Biochemistry
2005 David A. Drabold, Ph.D., Physics
2004 Gar W. Rothwell, Ph.D., Botany
2003 Alexander Arhangelskii, Ph.D., Mathematics
2002 Kenneth A. Holroyd, Ph.D., Psychology
2001 Steve Grimes, Ph.D., Physics
1999 Surender K. Jain, Ph.D., Mathematics
1998 Robert J. DeMott, Ph.D., English