Internal Awards Review Committee

IARC 2024-2026

Science & Medicine

Engineering

Social Sciences

Arts & Humanities

Previous Review Committees

  • Internal Awards Review Committee: Fall 2022 - Fall 2024

    Terrah Akard
    Associate Professor of Nursing and Medicine, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School

    Sarah Brown-Schmidt
    Professor of Psychology & Human Development

    Wenbiao Chen
    Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

    Larisa DeSantis
    Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

    Martin Egli
    Professor of Biochemistry

    Shane Hutson
    Professor of Physics and Biological Sciences

    Ethan Lee
    Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology

    Shelagh Mulvaney
    Associate Professor of Nursing

    Robert Scherrer
    Professor of Physics

    Ben Spiller
    Associate Professor of Pharmacology

    Malu Jorge
    Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences

    Alex Maier
    Associate Professor of Psychology

    Rebecca Ihrie
    Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology

    Doug Adams
    Distinguished Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

    Robert Bodenheimer
    Professor of Computer Science

    Hiba Baroud
    Littlejohn Dean's Faculty Fellow, Associate Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering

    Audrey Bowden
    Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor's Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

    Benoit Dawant
    Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering

    E. Duco Jansen
    Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Faculty Affairs

    Shihong Lin
    Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

    Jason Valentine
    Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

    Robert Webster
    Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering

    Sharon Weiss
    Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering

    Brent Evans
    Associate Professor of Public Policy & Higher Education

    Larry Isaac
    Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology & Political Economy 

    Noam Lupu
    Associate Professor of Political Science

    Lijun Song
    Associate Professor of Sociology

    Shaul Kelner
    Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies

    Beth Shinn
    Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair, Department of Human & Organizational Development

    Evelyn Patterson
    Associate Professor of Sociology

    Joy Calico
    Professor of Musicology, German Studies

    David Michelson
    Associate Professor of the History of Christianity

    Holly Tucker
    Professor of French & Italian

    Vesna Pavlovic'
    Associate Professor of Art

    Doug Shadle
    Associate Professor of Musicology

    Helmut Smith
    Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History

    Kim Welch
    Associate Professor of History

    Samira Sheikh
    Associate Professor of History

  • Scaling Success Review Committee: 2022

    Douglas Adams


    Daniel F. Flowers Professor; Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Provost; Professor of Mechanical Engineering


    Robert Bodenheimer

    Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering; Director, Scientific Computing Minor Program


    Amy Booth

    Professor of Psychology and Human Development


    Peter Cummings


    Associate Dean for Research; John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering


    Larisa DeSantis


    Associate Professor of Biological Sciences; Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences


    Ellen Goldring


    Executive Associate Dean; Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair, Professor of Education and Leadership


    Shane Hutson


    Professor of Physics and Biological Sciences; Chair, Physics and Astronomy


    Noam Lupu


    Associate Professor of Political Science; Associate Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project


    Velma McBride Murry


    University Professor of Peabody College, Department of Human and Organizational Development; University Professor of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of Health Policy


    Charles Sanders


    Associate Dean for Research; Professor of Biochemistry & Medicine; Aileen M. & Annie Mary Lyle Chair, Cardiovascular Research


    Christopher Vanags


    Director of Research Initiatives, Peabody College; Research Assistant Professor, Earth and Atmospherical Sciences


    Robert Webster


    Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering; Professor of Otolaryngology; Professor of Neurological Surgery; Professor of Urologic Surgery; Professor of Medicine


    Sharon Weiss


    Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Materials Science & Engineering; Professor of Physics; Director of Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering


    Richard Willis


    Senior Associate Dean for the Faculty; Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr., Professor of Accounting


  • Seeding Success Review Committee: Spring 2021 - Spring 2022

    Terrah Foster Akard
    Associate Professor of Nursing and Medicine, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School

    Joshua Caldwell

    Flowers Family Chancellor's Faculty Fellow in Engineering, Associate Professor of Medical Engineering, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Materials Science

    Joy Calico

    Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Musicology

    Wenbiao Chen

    Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

    Brent Evans

    Associate Professor of Leadership, Policy, & Organizations

    Cindy Kam

    Professor; William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair; Director of Research on Individuals, Politics & Society Lab; Professor of Psychology (by courtesy); Professor of Medicine, Health & Society (by courtesy)

    Bennett Landman

    Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Professor of Neurology; Chancellor Faculty Fellow

    Shelagh Mulvaney

    Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Department of Biomedical Informatics

    Ann Richmond

    Professor of Pharmacology, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research

    Kamal Saggi

    Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Frances and John Downing Family Chair, Professor of Economics

    Robert Scherrer 

    Professor of Physics and Astronomy

    Jason Valentine

    Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; Deputy Director, Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE)

    Richard H. Willis

    Senior Associate Dean for the Faculty; Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr.; Professor of Accounting