Faculty Honors and Awards

Globally recognized for world-class research, we offer students a wide variety of excellent instruction from a growing body of award-winning faculty.

Chancellor's award medal.
7 SEAS faculty, staff receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards
6/24/19
Three faculty and four staff members from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences were among the 25 UB colleagues who have been named recipients of the 2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, the most recipients from UB in recent history.
Aaron Estes.
Estes receives Vanderhoef Faculty Award
6/12/19

Mechanical and aerospace engineering faculty member Aaron Estes has received the Vanderhoef Faculty Award for making the extra effort to coach, mentor, and provide support for students.

Kwang Oh.
Kwang Oh receives Meyerson mentoring award from UB
5/20/19

Kwang Oh is one of three UB faculty members to be named a recipient of the 2019 President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring, UB’s highest honor given for undergraduate mentoring.

Kemper Lewis.
Lewis receives ASME Zwiep Innovation in Education Award
5/6/19

Kemper Lewis is the recipient of the 2019 ASME Donald N. Zwiep Innovation in Education Award, which recognizes those who have demonstrated exemplary contributions to the advancement of mechanical and multidisciplinary project-based engineering education.

Francine Battaglia.
Battaglia named Fellow of ASTFE
4/22/19
Francine Battaglia, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE).
Gang Wu, CBE.
Gang Wu named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics
3/4/19
Gang Wu, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was named a 2018 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, in recognition of his contribution of multiple highly cited papers that ranked in the top 1% in Web of Science.