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The University of Nebraska system recognizes outstanding faculty, staff, and community leaders with the President's Excellence Awards.

The university's most prestigious awards for teaching, research and engagement recognize individual faculty members and one academic department whose work has had a significant impact on students, the university and the state.

The President's Excellence Awards include:

Faculty IP Innovation and Commercialization Award (FIPICA)
Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA)
Innovation, Development, and Engagement Award (IDEA)
Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award (ORCA)
University-wide Departmental Teaching Award (UDTA)
Innovations in Student Success Award (ISSA)


Faculty IP Innovation and Commercialization Award (FIPICA)

This award honors members of the University of Nebraska faculty who have developed and nurtured new intellectual property from concept to licensing/startup business.

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Nominations must be submitted electronically by January 10, 2025.


Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA)

The Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award honors members of the University of Nebraska faculty who have developed meritorious and sustained records of excellence in teaching and creativity related to teaching.

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Nominations must be submitted electronically by January 10, 2025.

Past UNO Recipients

Year Recipient Unit
2024 Phani Tej Adidam Marketing and Entrepreneurship
2023 Betty Love Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
2021 Ramazan Kılınç Political Science
2019 William Mahoney Interdisciplinary Informatics
2018 Tammie Kennedy English
2016 Neal Grandgenett Teacher Education
2013 Peter Wolcott Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis
2011 Jonna Holland Marketing
2008 Donna Dufner Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis
2006 Karen Dwyer Communication
2004 Lisa Kelly-Vance Psychology
2002 William Blizek Philosophy and Religion
1994 Kris Berg Health, Physical Education & Recreation
1992 Diane Gillespie Goodrich Program

Innovation, Development, and Engagement Award (IDEA)

The Innovation, Development, and Engagement Award honors members of the University of Nebraska faculty who have extended their academic expertise beyond the boundaries of the University in ways that have enriched the broader community.

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Nominations must be submitted electronically by January 10, 2025.

Past UNO Recipients

Year Recipient Unit
2021 Christine Cutucache Biology
2020 Sajda Qureshi Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis
2018 Nikolaos Stergiou Biomechanics
2016 Elliott Ostler Educational Leadership

Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award (ORCA)

The Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award honors members of the University of Nebraska faculty who have conducted outstanding research or creative activity of national/international significance.

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Nominations must be submitted electronically by January 10, 2025.

Past UNO Recipients

Year Recipient Unit
2021 Nikolaos Stergiou Biomechanics
2017 Roni Reiter-Palmon Psychology
2016 Bruce Johansen Communication
2011 Gert Jan deVreede Interdisciplinary Informatics
2002 Jeffrey French Psychology
1999 Cassia Spohn Criminal Justice
1981 Harry Duncan Fine Arts

University-wide Departmental Teaching Award (UDTA)

The University-wide Departmental Teaching Award honors a department/unit at the University of Nebraska which has outstanding esprit de corps in its dedication to the education of students at the undergraduate, graduate, or professional levels.

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Nominations must be submitted electronically by Januar 10, 2025.

Past UNO Recipients

Year Unit
2021 Department of Management
2020 Teacher Education Department
2016 Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
2011 Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis
2009 School of Communication
2005 School of Social Work
1995 Goodrich Scholarship Program

Innovations in Student Success Award (ISSA)

The Innovations in Student Success Award (ISSA) honors a faculty led or faculty-involved team effort that has made a unique and significant contribution to improving undergraduate six-year graduation rates.

ISSA honors specific and successful innovations designed to improve retention and graduation rates among students the unit serves in a major, within a school, within a college, or throughout a campus.

View the specific criteria

Nominations must be submitted electronically by January 10, 2025.



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