Faculty Honorific Awards

Jason R. Carter, PhD, Dean of Baylor University’s Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences, has been recognized as a 2024 Fellow of the American Physiological Society (FAPS) inductee. This is the highest honor the American Physiological Society (APS) bestows upon a member, recognizing distinguished leaders who have demonstrated scientific excellence, made significant contributions to physiological sciences and related disciplines, and actively served APS.

Julia Y. Chan, Ph.D., B.S. ’93, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and The Tim and Sharalynn Fenn Family Endowed Chair in Materials Science at Baylor University, is among 37 members of the American Chemical Society named as ACS Fellows for 2024. Around 1% of ACS members – which number more than 200,000 – are recognized as Fellows.

Noted Maya archeologist Julie A Hoggarth, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology at Baylor University, has been elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow, a lifetime honor announced today by the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.

Baylor History Department Chair and Associate Professor, Dr. Julie deGraffenried, was recently named a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Historical Society.

Founded in 1868 and based at University College London, the Royal Historical Society is the UK’s foremost society for historians representing the interests of historical researchers across a wide range of disciplines, from scholars to museum curators to broadcasters to public, community, and family historians. Fellowships are awarded to historians who make significant, impactful research contributions to their fields through their scholarly work, and prospective fellows must be supported by an existing Royal Historical Society Fellow to be considered for the honor.