Global Impact Awards

This award seeks to recognize alumni whose highly distinguished careers have featured significant work outside the United States that has resulted in outstanding contributions to their communities or professions in global contexts, and/or who have exemplified ideals of global citizenship through the promotion of inter-cultural communication and mutual understanding, international peace and security, or responsible and sustainable international development.

This award seeks to recognize UK faculty who advance UK’s role as an impactful, globally engaged research university through a demonstrated  commitment to global engagement through research, scholarship, and creative activities, as evidenced by well-established and ongoing records of international activities, and taking into account the diversity of scholarly production, and the varied traditions of collaboration, publication and grantsmanship that characterize the faculty of a comprehensive, research-intensive university.  

This award seeks to recognize UK faculty who demonstrate a commitment to global engagement and excellence in teaching through facilitating education abroad programs.

This award seeks to recognize UK faculty who demonstrate a commitment to global engagement through activities and leadership in internationalizing the curriculum, with well-established and ongoing records of incorporating significant global perspectives and intercultural components to educational activities taking place on the UK campus.

This award seeks to recognize UK non-academic staff who demonstrate outstanding commitment, support and service to international students, staff, or visiting scholars/researchers at UK, and/or to UK students, faculty and staff engaging in education abroad activities.

This award seeks to recognize organizations active in Kentucky that show exceptional commitment to promoting global awareness and cultural diversity in the Commonwealth, and have positive impact on the global engagement efforts of the University of Kentucky, our students, faculty, and staff. This may include charitable organizations and NGOs, public or private corporations, as well as local and state government agencies. The Community Partner Global Impact Award is also open to individuals who show exceptional commitment to promoting global awareness and cultural diversity in the Commonwealth, and have positive impact on the global engagement efforts of the University of Kentucky, our students, faculty, and staff. 

• Alumni Global Impact Award: Ambassador Christine Elder (B.A., Germanic Language and Literature, 1989
• Community Partner Global Impact Award: Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM), Lexington
• Distinguished Faculty Achievements in International Research and Scholarship: Youling Xiong (Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
• Distinguished Faculty Achievements in Education Abroad: Rosie Lanphere (Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion, College of Education
• Distinguished Faculty Achievements in Internationalizing the Curriculum: David Fahringer (Department of Physician Assistant Studies, College of Health Sciences
• Distinguished Staff Achievements in Campus Internationalization: Megan Koshurba, Director of International Undergraduate Students (China and South Asia) for the College of Arts and Sciences

• Alumni Global Impact Award: Dr. William H. Jansen, B.A., Anthropology, 1971
• Community Partner Global Impact Award: Kiwanis Club of Lexington
• Distinguished Faculty Achievements in International Research and Scholarship: Dr. Nikiforos ("Nick") Stamatiadis, Professor, Civil Engineering
• Distinguished Faculty Achievements in Education Abroad: Dr. Beth Barnes, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Integrated Strategic Communication
• Distinguished Faculty Achievements in Internationalizing the Curriculum: Dr. Ann Kingsolver, Professor of Anthropology, Director of Appalachian Studies
• Distinguished Staff Achievements in Campus Internationalization: Ms. Summer Eglinski, Director of Gatton Global Initiatives in the Gatton College of Business and Economics

• Alumni Global Impact Award: Mosoka Fallah, Ph.D., Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, 2011
• Distinguished Faculty Achievement in International Research and Scholarship: Sherali Zeadally, associate professor, School of Information Sciences, College of Communication and Information 
• Distinguished Faculty Achievement in Education Abroad: Larry Grabau, professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment 
• Distinguished Faculty Achievement in Internationalizing the Curriculum: Sharon Brennan, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
• Distinguished Staff Achievement in Campus Internationalization: Patricia Bond, Senior Assistant Dean, Office of Graduate Admissions & Recruitment, The Graduate School

• Distinguished Faculty Achievement in International Research and Scholarship: Srimati Basu, professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
• Distinguished Faculty Achievement in International Research and Scholarship: Jeffrey Seay, associate professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
• Distinguished Faculty Achievement in Education Abroad: Patricia Hyjer Dyk, associate professor and director of graduate studies, Department of Community and Leadership Development, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment 
• Distinguished Faculty Achievement in Internationalizing the Curriculum: Melody Ryan, professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, College of Pharmacy 
• Distinguished Staff Achievement in Campus Internationalization: Patricia Whitlow, director of Nationally Competitive Awards