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Faculty Affairs facilitates the identification of potential nominees, connects applicants to resources for external awards, and celebrates the achievements of our faculty.
Wendy K. Smith, the Dana L. Johnson Professor of Management in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, is the 2025 recipient of the Francis Alison Award. This is the University's highest faculty honor.
Smith studies how leaders manage complex challenges. Her research has demonstrated the strategic advantages of getting comfortable with tension and embracing the power of paradox, using what seems contradictory, disconnected — unbelievable even — to find innovative and productive opportunities in business and many other life applications. Her 2022 book Both/And Thinking, written with collaborator Marianne Lewis, draws on decades of research to offer insight and practical tools for effectively embracing paradoxes.
Faculty are recognized with the honor of a named professorship in recognition of excellence and achievements in scholarship, teaching and service. The University is grateful to the many donors and supporters who have invested in faculty achievement by creating named professorships.
The Faculty Senate Excellence Awards were created to honor and encourage faculty excellence at UD. Faculty members are nominated by their students, colleagues, and chairs and these nominations are supported by chairs, deans, and engaged community partners.
Selected by the Senate’s Committee on Student and Faculty Honors, awardees are honored for their outstanding research, scholarship, teaching, creative output, mentoring, advising and service.
Faculty Senate Excellence Award winners are recognized at December and May Faculty Senate Meetings, and at the Faculty Awards Ceremony in the Fall.
Awardees:
- Excellence in Teaching
- Excellence in Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring
- Mid-Career Excellence in Scholarship
- Scholarly Community Engagement
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The Fulbright Program provides an opportunity for faculty, staff, students and scholars to study, teach, exchange ideas, conduct research and at host locations across the globe. The University of Delaware is considered a top producer of Fulbright Scholars due to the large number of students, faculty and staff who are awarded grants by Fulbright to pursue their academic interests around the world.
This coming year, there will be four UD Faculty who will be studying and contributing across the globe. The faculty Fulbright Awardees for 2026 are Gonzalo Arce, Holly Michael, Deb Jaisi, and Stephanie Raible.
Learn more about Faculty Fulbright at UD.