Tippie faculty recognized for outstanding contributions

Tippie faculty make their mark on business and society through their research, teaching, and service. External, institution-level, and collegiate awards recognize the contributions of these outstanding scholars.

Faculty award news

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Tippie researcher named to prestigious Amazon Scholar program

Thursday, June 25, 2026
Emily Campion, associate professor of management and entrepreneurship, has been selected to join Amazon’s prestigious scholarly research program designed to tackle some of the world’s toughest high-impact tech challenges faced by businesses.
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Professor Rong Su receives prestigious honor for academic accomplishments

Monday, April 27, 2026
Rong Su, associate professor of management and entrepreneurship and Mahoney Fellow, has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, one of the highest professional distinctions in psychological science.
Nick Street

Street honored with Regents Award for Faculty Excellence

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Nick Street has been honored by the Iowa Board of Regents with the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence.
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Dain Donelson wins Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award

Monday, May 8, 2023
Tippie Accounting Professor Dain Donelson, along with his three co-authors, has been awarded the 2023 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award by the American Accounting Association.
Beth Livingston

Beth Livingston wins Faculty Communicating Ideas Award

Monday, April 3, 2023
The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research recently announced Associate Professor Beth Livingston will receive the 2023 Faculty Communicating Ideas Award.

Tippie research awards

Early Career Faculty Research Award

This award recognizes a faculty member’s research contributions early in his or her academic career.

2023—Chelsea Galoni (Marketing)

2022—Daniel Newton (M&E)

2021—Andrea Luangrath (Marketing)

2020—Richard Peter (Finance)

2019—Rong Su (M&E)

2018—Qihang Lin (Management Sciences)

2017—Jaron Wilde (Accounting)

2016—Kang Zhao (Management Sciences)

2015—Ning Li (M&O)

2014—Bill Hedgcock (Marketing)

David and Lois Gardner Faculty Award for Mid-Career Excellence

This award recognizes associate professors who have had two years of outstanding research productivity.

2023—Rong Su (Management & Entrepreneurship)

2022—Jaron Wilde (Accounting)

2021—Eean Crawford (M&E)

2020—Scott Asay (Accounting)

2019—Ning Li (M&E)

2018—Yiming Qian (Finance)

2018—Jing “Alice” Wang (Marketing)

Research Impact Award (formerly Senior Faculty Research Award)

This award is open to all faculty levels and recognizes a researcher with a paper or stream of papers that have had an exceptional impact on their field.

2023—Erik Lie (Finance)

2022—Tong Yao (Finance)

2021—Amy Colbert (M&E)

2020—Jen Blackhurst (Business Analytics)

2019—Jon Garfinkel (Finance)

2018—Cathy Cole (Marketing)

2017—Paul Hribar (Accounting)

2017—Greg Stewart (M&O)

2016—Antonio Galvao (Economics)

2016—Michael Mount (M&O)

2015—David Bates (Finance)

2015—Tim Lowe (Management Sciences)

Charles A. Taff Research Excellence Award

Recognizes a distinguished research record in one or more of the following areas: economics, logistics, transportation and distribution, computer science, and information systems.

2023—Kang Zhao (Business Analytics)

2022—Nicholas Yannelis (Economics)

2021—Rabah Amir (Economics)

2020—Patrick Fan (Business Analytics)

Public Scholarship Award

Recognizes excellence in communication about research and scholarship to a general audience directly or via print and electronic media.

2023—Anne Villamil (Economics)

Faculty Career Achievement Award

This award is open to full and emeritus professors and is intended to recognize an exceptional level of research achievement and impact over an academic career.

2023—Gary Gaeth (Marketing)
2023—Johannes Ledolter (Business Analytics)
2022—Dan Collins (Accounting)
2022—Sara Rynes-Weller (M&E)