For the Glory
Throughout my association with Indiana University Bloomington, I have always taken great pride in the campus’s place as an academic leader. The scholarship and accomplishments among members of the faculty and staff is to be admired and celebrated. To that end, this series will highlight the achievements of our colleagues.
When one of us earns recognition, it reflects positively upon that person, their home unit, the campus, and all of Indiana University. We all benefit from the success of our colleagues, and For the Glory provides us a place to celebrate achievements that place IUB among the top public universities in higher education.
-David A. Reingold, Chancellor
Distinguished Professors
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Please join me in congratulating five IU Bloomington faculty members recently named Distinguished Professor appointees for 2026: Curtis Bonk, Halina Goldberg, Andrea Hohmann, Jay Lennon, and Gerardo Ortiz.
Sarah Commodore 
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
Please join me in congratulating Sarah Commodore, assistant professor of environmental and occupational health in the School of Public Health-Bloomington, on receiving a $2,167,000 award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study the respiratory health impacts of in utero exposure to Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS, or vape) products on children.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Please join me in congratulating Brian Yanites, Robert R. Shrock Professor of Surficial and Sedimentary Geology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, on receiving a $15 million award from the National Science Foundation to fund the Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH).
Brad Fulton
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Please join me in congratulating Brad Fulton, associate professor of nonprofit management in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, on receiving a $5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to oversee research for one of its National Storytelling Initiative projects, as well as for receiving the 2025 RGK-ARNOVA President's Award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) for his research on philanthropic redlining.
Michael Wasserman
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Please join me in congratulating Michael Wasserman, associate professor of anthropology and human biology, on receiving a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to trace pesticide exposure in people, wildlife, and the environment in Uganda.
Pete KollbaumÂ
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Please join me in congratulating Pete Kollbaum, professor and associate dean for research at the School of Optometry, on receiving $442,000 in funding from CooperVision, one of the world’s largest contact lens manufacturers with which he has partnered for nearly twenty years.
Julia Kelson
Wednesday, December 03, 2025
Please join me in congratulating Julia Kelson, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving the Young Scientist Award—known as the Donath Medal—from the Geological Society of America for her research on paleoclimate, carbon cycling, and stable isotope geochemistry.
Jeremy Siek
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Please join me in congratulating Jeremy Siek, professor of computer science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, on receiving a $449,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to protect data privacy in software.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Please join me in congratulating Philip Shushkov, assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving a $700,000 National Science Foundation award for his project, “CAREER: Non-equilibrium Quantum Dynamics of Molecular Qubit Ensembles.”
Monica Nesbitt
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
Please join me in congratulating Monica Nesbitt, assistant professor of linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving a $666,000 National Science Foundation grant to create the first digital atlas of African American Language (AAL).
Amar Flood
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Please join me in congratulating Amar Flood, professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for his innovative work involving cyanostar molecules—ring-shaped molecules that bind well to charged particles.
David Crandall
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Please join me in congratulating David Crandall, Luddy Professor of Computer Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, on receiving a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the development of a depth estimation method to reconstruct 3D images.
Roger Innes
Wednesday, September 03, 2025
Please join me in congratulating Roger Innes, Distinguished Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, on his election to the National Academy of Sciences as a member of its 2025 cohort for his “distinguished and ongoing achievements in original research.”
