Faculty Awards | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Lifetime Service Award

In 2025, the Graduate School introduced the Lifetime Service Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize a faculty or staff member who has demonstrated exceptional and sustained service to the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences over the course of their career. This award honors an individual whose legacy of leadership, mentorship, and institutional impact has profoundly shaped the school’s mission and community.

Year
Faculty Member
2025 Dr. Clinton MacDonald
2025 Dr. Daniel Hardy

Outstanding Research and Student Mentor Award

Introduced in 2019, this award recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in both biomedical research and the mentorship of students. Honorees are individuals whose research is innovative and impactful, and who actively invest in the academic and professional development of their trainees.

Year
Faculty Member
2025 Dr. Bhutia
2024 Dr. Cuello
2023 Dr. Jansen
2022 Dr. Pruitt
2021 Dr. Urbatsch
2020 Dr. Bergeson
2019 Dr. Bergeson

Outstanding Teaching Award

The Graduate School introduced its first teaching awards in 2020, with individual awards presented across five programs. In 2025, these were consolidated into a single Outstanding Teaching Award, which continues to honor a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in teaching and a strong commitment to student learning within the GSBS curriculum.

Year
Program
Faculty Member
2024 Biotechnology Dr. Bergeson
2024 Biomedical Sciences Dr. Palle
2024 Pharmaceutical Sciences Dr. Ahmed
2024 Graduate Medical Education Sciences Dr. Villalobos
2023 Biotechnology Dr. Palle
2023 Biomedical Sciences Dr. Thomas
2023 Pharmaceutical Sciences Dr. Wood
2023 Graduate Medical Education Sciences Dr. Dufour
2022 Biotechnology Dr. La-Beck
2022 Biomedical Sciences Dr. Tripathi
2022 Pharmaceutical Sciences Dr. Al-Ahmed
2022 Public Health Dr. Appiah
2022 Graduate Medical Education Sciences Mr. Hewetson
2021 Biotechnology Dr. Urbatsch
2021 Biomedical Sciences Dr. Urbatsch
2021 Public Health Dr. St. John
2021 Graduate Medical Education Sciences Dr. Kaur
2020 Biotechnology Dr. Sutton
2020 Biomedical Sciences Dr. Hardy
2020 Pharmaceutical Sciences Dr. Wood
2020 Public Health Dr. Queen
2020 Graduate Medical Education Sciences Dr. Pelley