Honors & awards 2023

Our scientists, including students, are routinely recognized for outstanding work. The list below covers selected awards received in 2023.

Sharon Billings, senior scientist

• Elected to Fellow of the Ecological Society of America

Vadim Karatayev, postdoctoral researcher, Reuman Lab

• KU Postdoctoral Achievement Award, which carries $5,000 in funding; current research is funded by an NSF postdoctoral fellowship. See KU News story on the Research Achievement Awards.

Liz Koziol, assistant research professor

• Women in Soil Science Award, $5,000

• Journal of Applied Ecology 2022 Southwood Prize, Shortlist, Best Paper by an Early Career Researcher

Dan Reuman, senior scientist

• Continuing: Humboldt Research Award (€60,000 prize for international excellence in research)

• Continuing: James S. McDonnell Foundation Complex Systems Scholar

Ben Sikes

• Selected as a 2022–2023 NASA Spaceflight Technology, Applications and Research Fellow. The STAR program is a virtual NASA program for space biosciences training. There were 25 fellows selected for the third cohort (globally).

Jim Thorp, senior scientist

• One of five scientists named 2023 Fellows of the Society for Freshwater Science, his principal science society.