Faculty Awards and Recognition

Our faculty make extraordinary contributions on campus and in the community every day. The Office of the Provost believes in promoting and celebrating their accomplishments so they know how proud we are to call them Roos. Each spring, UMKC holds a campus-wide event to celebrate our faculty award winners in a wide range of performance areas.

Follow the links to learn more about the awards we offer, as well as how to nominate colleagues for awards in each category.

Faculty awards for research and creativity

Faculty awards for teaching and mentoring

Faculty awards in diversity, engagement, service and leadership

UM System awards

View our past award recipients

The UMKC provost presents a faculty award to winner. The provost wears a light suit jacket. The winner wears a checkered button up shirt.
Professor Berkeley Patton stands for portrait in front of shelf of books and wears a multicolored suit jacket and glasses.
Assistant Professor Dissel stands for portrait at lab wearing a navy blue sweater over a collared shirt and wearing glasses.
Dental instructor and student talk together in dental lab. The person on the left is wearing blue scrubs, mask and glasses and is holding some type of dental device. The other person is also wearing a face mask and wears a black shirt.
Dean of Medicine presents faculty award and stands with the award winner and three others. The honoree wears a colorful floral shirt and stands in the middle holding award.
The UMKC Chancellor presents faculty award to winner. They both wear suit jackets and button up shirts.