2023 Outstanding Faculty Awards

The State Council of Higher Education and Dominion Energy announced the recipients of the 2023 Outstanding Faculty Awards on December 20, 2022.

Since 1987, these awards have recognized faculty at Virginia’s institutions of higher learning who exemplify the highest standards of teaching, scholarship and service.

Nominees are selected by the institutions, reviewed by a panel of peers and chosen by a committee of leaders from the public and private sectors. In all, 74 nominations were received this year. This group was narrowed to a field of 24 finalists and then to the 12 recipients.

Recipients come from campuses large and small throughout the Commonwealth and from two- and four-year institutions, private and public. Their fields of expertise range from English to medicine. They have in common, however, the qualities honored by Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Awards: the highest level of scholarship, teaching, mentoring, public service and research.

2023 OFA Recipients include Amanda Gibson

Amanda Kyle Gibson is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s department of biology, where she teaches courses on the dynamics of infectious diseases. She received the university’s highest teaching honor for junior faculty, the Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award, as well as the Society for the Study of Evolution’s Huxley Award for her educational contributions to evolutionary biology. 

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