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Provost Award for Exemplary Faculty Service

Integral to faculty governance and excellence at Northwestern, faculty service is deserving of formal recognition. The Office of the Provost seeks nominations of faculty members who provide outstanding service to Northwestern or significant contributions to their unit. These faculty are exemplars of academic good citizenship.

Read more about the most recent recipients of the Provost Award for Exemplary Faculty Service in the University announcement

AWARD AND NominATION INFORMATIONPast Recipients

Please direct questions to the Director of Academic Initiatives Jordan Hughes.

2025 Recipient

H Steven (Hank) Seifert

H Steven (Hank) Seifert

John Edward Porter Professor of Biomedical Research in the Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School or Medicine

Hank Seifert has been a member of Feinberg faculty for 36 years. His research studying the evolution of infectious agents of health concern, in particular microbes such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae, has earned him honors and accolades in his field, in which he is seen as a leader.

During his career, which he has spent entirely at Northwestern, Seifert has trained 18 Ph.D. students and 18 post-doctoral students and served on Ph.D. thesis committees for over 75 students. He was named Feinberg’s 2011 Mentor of the Year thanks to his drive to support young faculty as they built their research programs. Seifert was also the director of the Feinberg Integrated Graduate Program (now the Driscol Graduate Program), Northwestern’s second-largest Ph.D. program.

As associate dean of student and postdoctoral affairs at The Graduate School, Seifert made it his mission to amplify recognition of post-doctoral students for their contributions in research and build upon training experiences of post-docs at Northwestern.

Seifert has additionally taken on challenging service roles including engaged membership in the Faculty Senate and University Senate Executive Committee, working on committees that rewrote the faculty handbook, the research committee and faculty rights and responsibilities committee.