Festschrift. Papers in Honor of Roland G. Tharp. (2005)

Grawemeyer Award, 1993
Rousing minds to life: Teaching and learning in social context. Tharp, R. G. & Gallimore, R. (1989, New York: Cambridge University Press).

Grawemeyer Award Home Page
Grawemeyer Citation for Rousing Minds to Life

Shunzo Sakamaki Extraordinary Lecturer, University of Hawaii Summer School, 1992. "Life on the Border: Between the 'Two Cultures"

American Film Magazine Award, Hawaii International Film Festival, 1990.

Significant Professional Contribution Award
Hawaii Psychological Association, 1987

Silver Monitor Award
International Television Association (Honolulu); (for Information Video Documentary), 1985

Tharp, R. G. (Producer, Writer, Director). Scenes from the Life. (Video). Honolulu, Contemporary Museum, Purchase, 1981.

Runner-up, Impact Poetry Book Award, 1979.

Sou'wester Prize in Poetry, Winter, 1974. Last Things.

Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching, University of Hawaii, 1970.

Arizona Quarterly Prize for fiction, 1964. Bald She Walks Among the Peacocks.

Ida and Charles Freeman Short Story Award, 1964 (Awarded by Voices at Wayne State University) Cat-House.

Avery Hopwood Award, Major, in Poetry, 1961 (Awarded by University of Michigan) Poems.

Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry, 1960 (Awarded by Middlebury College).

Grand Prize, Atlantic Monthly National Contest, (Essay) 1956. Romanesque Sculpture: A Study in the Hideous.

Claire Raymer Greenwood Award, Poetry, 1954, 1955, 1956 (Awarded by the University of Houston).