The Faculty Senate Council and the Chancellor have established the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award.
The Compton Award is given to a distinguished member of the faculty from one of the six Danforth Campus Schools and the Cori Award to a faculty member from the School of Medicine.
Recipients of the Faculty Achievement Awards are selected according to the following criteria
- Outstanding achievement in research and scholarship;
- Recognized prominence within the community of scholars;
- Service and dedication for the betterment of Washington University;
- Respected accomplishments in teaching.
The awardees are announced in the spring of each year. In the fall, both recipients are asked to give an address summarizing his/her outstanding scholarly work. At the time of these presentations, the awardees each receive a $5,000 honorarium.
| 2024 | Fred Ssewamala |
| 2023 | Lori Setton |
| 2022 | Adia Harvey Wingfield |
| 2021 | Jean Allman |
| 2020 | Adrienne D. Davis |
| 2019 | Fiona B. Marshall |
| 2018 | Sarah C. R. Elgin |
| 2017 | Leila N. Sadat |
| 2016 | Deanna M. Barch |
| 2015 | Paul Michael Lützeler |
| 2014 | David A. Balota |
| 2013 | James V. Wertsch |
| 2012 | Nancy L. Morrow-Howell |
| 2011 | Erik Trinkaus |
| 2010 | Gary J. Miller |
| 2009 | Enola K. Proctor |
| 2008 | Henry L. Roediger, III |
| 2007 | Carl M. Bender |
| 2006 | Michael W. Sherraden |
| 2005 | Stephen H. Legomsky |
| 2004 | Jonathan S. Turner |
| 2003 | Lee Epstein |
| 2002 | Barbara A. Schaal |
| 2001 | Raymond E. Arvidson |
| 2000 | Patty Jo Watson |
| 1999 | Gerald L. Early |
| 2024 | Christina Gurnett |
| 2023 | William G. Powderly |
| 2022 | John P. Atkinson |
| 2021 | Lila Solnica-Krezel |
| 2020 | Joan L. Luby |
| 2019 | Gary D. Stormo |
| 2018 | Samuel I. Achilefu |
| 2017 | David C. Van Essen |
| 2016 | Timothy J. Ley |
| 2015 | David M. Holtzman |
| 2014 | Steven L. Teitelbaum |
| 2013 | Richard H. Gelberman |
| 2012 | Robert P. Mecham |
| 2011 | Wayne M. Yokoyama |
| 2010 | John C. Morris |
| 2009 | Jeffrey I. Gordon |
| 2008 | Robert D. Schreiber |
| 2007 | Helen Piwnica-Worms |
| 2006 | Emil R. Unanue |
| 2005 | Alison Goate |
| 2004 | Philip D. Stahl |
| 2003 | Eugene M. Johnson, Jr. |
| 2002 | Stuart A. Kornfeld |
| 2001 | Robert H. Waterston |
| 2000 | Carl Frieden |
| 1999 | Marcus E. Raichle |
Faculty Achievement Awards Advisory Committee
Committee Members:
Professor Dennis Barbour (co-chair)
Chair, Faculty Senate Council
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, McKelvey School of Engineering
Professor Kia Caldwell (co-chair)
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity
Professor, African & African American Studies, Arts & Sciences
Professor Sanjoy Baruah Computer Science & Engineering, McKelvey School of Engineering
Professor Gerald L. Early, Department of African and African American Studies, Arts & Sciences
Professor Richard Frankel, Olin Business School
Professor Daniel E. Goldberg, Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine
Professor Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff, School of Law
Professor Lora Iannotti, Brown School
Professor Bradley L. Jolliff, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Arts & Sciences
Professor Eric P. Mumford, Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Professor Allison Ogden, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, School of Medicine
Professor Linda J. Richards, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine
Yongseok Shin, Department of Economics, Arts & Sciences