Wenqi (Vince) Liu NSF CAREER Award Awarded: 2024 Dr. Wenqi "Vince" Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, with an affiliation in the Department of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering at the University of South Florida. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Shandong University in 2013, then pursued his Ph.D. at the...READ MORE

Richard Heller SIVB Distinguished Scientist Award Awarded: 2024 Richard Heller, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Engineering at the University of South Florida. Heller is recognized as a pioneer in developing efficient delivery systems for plasmid DNA and chemotherapeutics, and the leading expert in gene electrotransfer. He demonstrated that plasmid DNA can be del...READ MORE

Alan Hevner ERCIS Fellow Awarded: 2024 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

Rafael Carrion AUA Steven K. Wilson Award for Excellence in Prosthetic Urology Awarded: 2024 Rafael Carrion, M.D. is a Professor and Chair for the Department of Urology in the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida (USF). He is on staff at Tampa General Hospital, Advent Health Tampa, the James A. Haley Veterans Administration Hospital, and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Cente...READ MORE

Sara Flory AIESEP Fellow Awarded: 2024 Sara Barnard Flory is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. She is the program coordinator for the undergraduate Physical Education Teacher Education program, and the co-coordinator of the Teacher Education doctoral program in the College of Education. Dr. Flory earned her Ph.D....READ MORE

Ukamaka Oruche FNINR Ambassador Awarded: 2024 Ukamaka M. Oruche, PHD, RN, PHMCNS-BC, FAAN is the Gordon Keller, Senior Associate Dean of Research and Director of the PhD Program at USF College of Nursing. Dr. Oruche has established and sustained an impactful program of research focused on the mental health care of children, especially those wit...READ MORE

Jennifer Cainas AAA J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize Awarded: 2024 Dr. Jennifer Cainas is an associate dean and a professor of instruction in accounting and has been teaching at the University of South Florida for over 18 years. During her teaching career, she has taught and mentored over 20,000 business students who have gone on to have successful careers in accou...READ MORE

Lingling Fan Energy Systems Integration Group Excellence Award Awarded: 2024 Dr. Lingling Fan is a professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida (Tampa FL). She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Southeast University (Nanjing, China) in 1994 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering...READ MORE

Kevin Sneed, Ph.D. ASHP Award of Excellence Awarded: 2024 Dr. Kevin Sneed is professor and founding Dean of the University of South Florida Taneja College of Pharmacy, and Senior Associate Vice-President for USF Health. His research and clinical interests include advanced pharmacological treatment of patients with cardio-metabolic disorders, examining heal...READ MORE

James Stock RLA Reverse Logistics Education Award Awarded: 2024 Dr. James R. Stock is Distinguished University Professor and Monica Wooden Endowed Professor of Supply Chain Management in the USF Muma College of Business. In 2016-17, he also served as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finlan...READ MORE