The Office of the Vice President for Research will award eight research faculty members from across the University of Michigan for their leadership and significant contributions in fields ranging from environmental health sciences and natural products chemistry to computer systems and plasma physics.
Lanbo Xiao, Grace Noppert and Nishil Talati will receive the Research Faculty Recognition Award, and Jaclyn Goodrich, Igor Sokolov and Ashu Tripathi will receive the Research Faculty Achievement Award.
This year’s awardees also include Jessica Anand and Matthew Schipper, who have received the newly established Research Faculty Mentor Award, for those who have demonstrated a consistent commitment to providing guidance and fostering academic and career growth for other faculty members, fellows or students.
The awardees will be recognized at the president’s Faculty Awards event this fall.