IUP has selected one of their professors as the Distinguished University Professor for the 2025-26 school year.
Dr. Daniel Alex Heckert, IUP professor of sociology, has been given the honor. The Distinguished University Professor is a faculty member who shows excellence in all areas of teaching, research, scholarly activities, and service. Dr. Heckert joined IUP in 1992 as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and was promoted to full professor in 2000. He began work as a research fellow at IUP’s Mid-Atlantic Research and Training Institute in 1998; in 2021, he was named director of the institute.
Dr. Heckert says he is honored to receive the award, and says it is a testimony to the quality of HIS mentors that helped guide him, as well as the quality of his colleagues.
