Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award

Two Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Awards are presented each year in honor of outstanding research or creative activity of national or international significance conducted by individual full-time faculty members at the University of Nebraska. Faculty members receiving the ORCA have sustained records of excellent accomplishment in their respective fields.

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2008 Award Winners

Dr. Fred Luthans, Ph.D., George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Luthans, who has long brought a sense of energy and passion to his work, is known as the founding father of the field of Organizational Behavior, the largest division in the National Academy of Management as well as a core area taught in every business school in the world. A true pioneer in his field, Dr. Luthans is one of the very first scholars to apply behavioral science to the management of human resources in the workplace.

His book, "Organizational Behavior," now in its 11th edition, is generally considered the first text in the field. More recently, Dr. Luthans has been applying positive psychology to the workplace – in what he calls positive organizational behavior and psychological capital – which focuses on building human strengths at work rather than only managing weaknesses. Dr. Luthans also boasts a steady stream of top-tier publications, and has been named among the Top Five published authors of the prestigious Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review.

Dr. Luthans was presented with the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award (ORCA), recognizing individual faculty members for research and creative activity of international or national significance. He was selected by a committee of outstanding peers.



Dr. Vadim Gladyshev, Ph.D., Charles Bessey Professor, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Director of the Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Gladyshev has documented, sustained and amassed an astounding record of distinguished achievements in research and discovery in the general areas of experimental biochemistry, computational biology and biomedical redox biology at UNL. He has rapidly become one of the most widely and highly recognized experts in the world on the biochemical and bioinformatics analysis of selenocysteine-containing proteins, new knowledge that has implications in the areas of human health, developmental biology and aging. Few scientists, in such a brief span of time, have had this kind of dramatic impact on our understanding of genetic organization.

Dr. Gladyshev also serves as Director of the Redox Biology Center, which enriches all of the scientific research effort throughout the university. Further, he has had incredible success in securing highly competitive federal funding in support of his multi-faceted research program, including a recent $10.8 million competitive renewal of the Redox Biology Center’s federal funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Gladyshev was presented with the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award (ORCA), recognizing individual faculty members for research and creative activity of international or national significance. He was selected by a committee of outstanding peers.