* Frank Marra: businessman, engineer, chairman of The Plastics Academy, received International Award for Business Management from Society of Plastics Engineers and Distinguished Service Award from the Society of the Plastics Industry

He was awarded Asian American Engineer of the Year Distinguished Science and Technology Award, CIE-USA, National Engineers Foundation 2007.

He won the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta Gold Medal in 1976 and was the first recipient of the University of Calgary Distinguished Alumni Award ( 1985 ).

* National Society of Black Engineers Distinguished National Scientist Award ( 1979 );

There are approximately 113 student run clubs, including: Sports Shooting, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers ( SASE ), Merced Pre-Law Society, Business Society, National Society of Black Engineers ( NSBE ), American Women Making A Difference, Black Student Union ( BSU ), Society of Women Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Math Society, Amnesty International, American Medical Student Association, Chinese Student Association, Circle K International, Hermanas Unidas de UCM, Korean American Coalition, Hmong Student Association ( HSA ), Nikkei Student Union ( NSU ), Dance Coalition, Distinguished Ladies, Student Transfer Outreach and Mentor Program, Democrats at UC Merced, Bobcat Band, HHM ( Hip Hop Movement ), Society of Freethinkers, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Martial Arts Club, Muslim Student Association, NORML, Persian Student Association of UC Merced ( PSAUCM ), Pilipino American Alliance ( PAA ), Republicans at UC Merced, South Asian Student Association, Taekwondo ( TKD ), The Other Child, Rotaract, rock climbing, and bakery clubs.

He also received the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers ' Anthony F. Lucas Medal in 1948, and the American Petroleum Institute's Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in 1954.

Overmyer was awarded the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal in 1969 for duties with the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program ; awarded the Marine Corps Meritorious Service Medal in 1978 for duties as the Chief Chase Pilot and support crewman for the Shuttle Approach and Landing Test Program ; received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from Baldwin Wallace College, December 1982 ; awarded the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School Distinguished Engineers Award, January 1983 ; the Distinguished Flying Cross ( 1983 ); and the NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1983 ).

* The National Society of Black Engineers Distinguished National Scientist Award ( 1979 )

* 1964 Received Distinguished Services Award from the Institute of Electrical Communication Engineers of Japan

* 2000-Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Communication ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Professional Communication Society ) ( or IEEE PCS )

He is a registered professional engineer in Texas, a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

* Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers ( 2008 )

* Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty ( The Society of Petroleum Engineers ) in recognition for outstanding contributions in the field of petroleum engineering education, 1984

The lab is home to ten IBM Fellows, ten IBM Distinguished Engineers, nine IBM Master Inventors and seventeen members of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Cassidy received the Distinguished Service Medal for his service as Chief of Engineers.

He was also a member of the Board of Distinguished Consultants for the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers and the Advisory Counsel of the Patent, Trade Mark, and Copyright Foundation.

* Janko Herak ( editor ), Distinguished Croatian Scientists in America, Part Two, ISBN 953-97325-1-4

He has been a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and he is Honorary President of the World Cultural Council, a member of the World Federation of Scientists and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.

* In 1991, Powell was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, which " honors the achievements of outstanding individuals in U. S. society who have succeeded in spite of adversity and of encouraging young people to pursue their dreams through higher education.

Additionally, the Distinguished Alumni Series brings alumni back to the community to present their work and reflect on how their experiences at SAIC have shaped them.

Since 1947, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans has bestowed an annual award on " outstanding individuals in our society who have succeeded in the face of adversity " and scholarships " to encourage young people to pursue their dreams with determination and perseverance ".

Clayton County has twenty-two elementary and five middle schools that have been deemed by the Georgia Department of Education as Distinguished Schools.

It is this level of dedication, and desire to serve, that has caused Chilantakoba Lodge to produce three Lodge Chiefs who have later gone on to receive the Distinguished Service Award, the highest award for service to the Order.

Each of its public primary schools have been honored as a California Distinguished School and the United States National Blue Ribbon School.

General Donovan is the only person to have received the four highest awards in the United States: The Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the National Security Medal.

Other honors have included: The New York State Senate Liberty Award, the Golden Star Leadership Award, Los Angeles, California ; Special Achievement Award, Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Office, City of New York ; Man of the Year Award, Honor Legion, Police Department – City of New York ; Man of the Year Award, Detective ’ s Endowment Association, Police Department – City of New York ; Man of the Year Award, Brooklyn Law School, LELSA ; 2 Distinguished Service Awards, U. S. Department of Homeland Security ; DEA Administrator's Award, U. S. Department of Justice, DEA ; Distinguished Person of the Year, NYC Correction Captains Association ; Distinguished Service Award, New York Shields ; Distinguished Service Award, New York City Retired Detective's Association ; Dedication and Commitment Award, NYC Correction Officer ’ s Association and the President ’ s Appreciation Award, NYC Correction Guardians Association.

Since 2001 the association has also been awarding a Distinguished Alumni Award to alumni who have made immense contributions in the fields of Academic / Research, Social Sciences, Engineering & Public Administration, Corporate Development / Entrepreneurship and Service to the Society.

The Galaxy Series and Distinguished Speaker Series have brought noted entertainers and speakers to the college, including 2005 U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.

Major citations have included the APA Distinguished Contributions to Knowledge Award ( Norman Frederiksen, 1984 ), the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award ( Frederic Lord, 1988 ); the AERA E. F. Lindquist Award ( William Turnbull, 1981 ; Frederic Lord, 1988 ; Samuel Messick, 1994 ; Paul Holland, 2000 ; Wendy Yen, 2008 ); the NCME Career Contributions to Educational Measurement Award ( Frederic Lord, 1990 ; Paul Holland, 2004 ; Neil Dorans, 2010 ); and the Jean Piaget Society's Lifetime Achievement Award ( Irving Sigel, 2002 ); among many other awards.

Forty-eight faculty members have been awarded the SUNY Chancellor ’ s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and eight have been honored as SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors.

He earned the Distinguished Service Medal and was considered to have had a successful career at that time, especially in light of his promotions during peace time.

provides for a 10 % increase in retired pay for enlisted personnel who have retired with more than 20 years of service if they have been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

He currently works at Texas A & M University, United States, as a Distinguished Professor where he holds the College of Engineering Endowed Chair in Computer Science.

Completely missing out on the warfront left him depressed and bitter for a time, despite being given the Distinguished Service Medal for his work at home.

Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition which consists of himself and his graduate students, forming the " Fluid Analogies Research Group " ( FARG ).

Generals of the Army Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower are tied for the record of the greatest number of awards received of the Army Distinguished Service Medal at five each.

The reverse of the medal has the inscription " For Distinguished Service " at the top in raised letters, and within the pentagon the inscription " From The Secretary of Defense To ," all in raised letters.

He enlisted in the Army during World War I after graduating college, and again in World War II at the peak of his career, when he directed 11 documentary war films for the U. S. government's Why We Fight series, winning an Academy Award for one and a Distinguished Service Medal when the war ended.

Kieckhefer Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.

* The Cato Institute named its lower level auditorium after Hayek, who had been a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Cato during his later years.

When he retired from Virginia in 1994, he became Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University until 2000.

The institute would create The Jack F. Kemp Library to house Kemp's papers ; establish the Jack F. Kemp Distinguished Visiting Chair ; and fund annual public lectures and conferences at the School.

He is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, a Distinguished Fellow and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of New Mexico, and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at the University of Southern California.

In 2003 he became a Distinguished Professor at Georgia Tech, where he led the Georgia Tech Information Security Center.

On 26 July 2011, Myers was inducted into the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Distinguished Alumni in a ceremony at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, officiated by Lt. Gen. Allen G. Peck, Commander, Air University.

The Silver Star is awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States not justifying one of the two higher ranking valor decorations – the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, and the Air Force Cross awards for extraordinary heroism or the Medal of Honor, the highest ranking military award, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.

Since 2002 Smale is a Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago ; starting August 1, 2009, he is also a Distinguished University Professor at the City University of Hong Kong.

In 1985, CNLS initiated the Stanislaw M. Ulam Distinguished Scholar program, which provides a prestigious annual award that enables a noted scientist to spend a year carrying out research at Los Alamos.

Distinguished humanists might sneer at him as " a garrulous sophist "; but from this time his ambition was not only to be the greatest scientific authority in Germany but also the champion of the papacy and of the traditional church order.

After the outbreak of the First World War, he served in the Tank Corps as a tank commander in France, and was awarded both the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) ( on 18 February 1918, for his actions at the Battle of Cambrai ), and the Croix de Chevalier of the Légion d ' honneur.