Aimee Dietz ASHA Fellow Awarded: 2025 Dr. Aimee Dietz (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Neurology in the Morsani College of Medicine at USF Healt...READ MORE

Alan Hevner DS:E Fellow Awarded: 2025 Alan R. Hevner is a Distinguished University Professor and Eminent Scholar in the School of Information Systems and Management in the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida. He holds the Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Distributed Technology. Dr. Hevner's areas of research inter...READ MORE

Lindsay Peterson The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Fellow Awarded: 2025 Lindsay Peterson, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor in the School of Aging Studies at the University of South Florida's College of Behavioral and Community Sciences. She joined the faculty in 2017 after earning her doctorate from the same department in 2016. Her research centers on improving th...READ MORE

John Murray-Bruce NSF CAREER Award Awarded: 2025 Dr. John Murray-Bruce received both the MEng degree with honours (2012) and the PhD degree (2016) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from Imperial College London, UK. At Imperial College London, he received the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) award in 2012 for best overall...READ MORE

Maya Trotz AEESP Fellow Awarded: 2025 Dr. Maya Trotz is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. Her work fosters convergence research around various natural and built infrastructures with and within coastal communities. She has led projects to increase research experiences for undergraduate...READ MORE

Ana Velez IDSA Fellow Awarded: 2025 Ana Paula Velez, MD, is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease in the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. She completed her medical school studies at CES University Medellin, Colombia, her residency in internal medicine at Hospital Municipal of San Juan, and Or...READ MORE

Joshua Scacco Andrew Carnegie Fellow Awarded: 2025 Joshua M. Scacco (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. Dr. Scacco also is the founding and current Director of the Center for Sustainable Democracy in the College of Arts & Sciences at USF. His research i...READ MORE

Michael Francis AIMBE Fellow Awarded: 2025 Michael Francis, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine in the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. With 100+ patents anchoring dozens of bioengineered products that have helped 100,000+ patients & generated ~$500M in r...READ MORE

James Leahy AIMBE Fellow Awarded: 2025 Dr. James Leahy is professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of South Florida. He is also a faculty member of the Florida Center of Excellence for Drug Discovery and Innovation (CDDI), and he holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Molecular Medicine in the Morsa...READ MORE

Uma Nair SBM Leadership Institute Fellow Awarded: 2025 Uma Nair, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of South Florida. She is a health disparities researcher with a primary focus on reducing cancer-related morbidity and mortality in medically understudied and marginalized populations. A behavioral scientist by tr...READ MORE

Olukemi Akintewe AIMBE Emerging Leader Awarded: 2025 Dr. Olukemi Akintewe is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Medical Engineering and the Director of the First-Year Engineering Program. She holds a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from USF, a Masters in Materials Science & Engineering from the Ohio State University, and a Ba...READ MORE