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Faculty Achievement Awards

SEC Faculty Achievement Awards recognize the work of world-renowned faculty members with outstanding records in teaching, research and scholarship. 

All recipients of the SEC Faculty Achievement Award receive an honorarium from the SEC. The top recipient will be named SEC Professor of the Year, and is honored during the annual SEC awards dinner and recognized in conjunction with the SEC Symposium. Winners of individual university awards and the overall honoree are announced in May. 

The Office of the Provost will invite academic deans to nominate an individual from their college for the SECU Faculty Achievement Award. The Provost will determine the winner and submit the name of the USC recipient to the SEC. To be eligible for the award, a faculty member shall: 

  1. Be a teacher/scholar 
  2. Have achieved the rank of professor 
  3. Have a record of extraordinary teaching 
  4. Have an outstanding record of scholarship that is recognized nationally and/or internationally 
  5. Not be a past SEC Faculty Achievement award winner 

For further information regarding the Faculty Achievement Award, please contact the Office of the Provost at PROVACAF@mailbox.sc.edu.

Past Recipients

Past Recipients SEC Faculty Achievement
Year Recipient College, School or Department

2026 

Jane Roberts 

Psychology 

2025 

Ken D. Shimizu 

Chemistry and Biochemistry 

2024 

Tammy Richardson 

Biological Sciences 

2023

Robert Ployhart

Management 

2022 

Jeffery Twiss 

Biological Sciences 

2021

Mark Weist 

Psychology 

2020 

Gail Barnes 

Music 

2019

Xiaoming Li

Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior

2018 

Julius Fridriksson 

Communication Sciences and Disorder 

2017 

David Shields 

English 

2016

Claudia Benitez-Nelson

Marine Science

2015

Marina Lomazov

Music

2014

Kenneth Reifsnider

Mechanical Engineering

2013 

Susan Cutter 

Geography 

2012 

Scott Price 

Music