Honors of the Academy
Every uBA recipient, by year. Read the citation, the laureate’s response and the Academy’s finding.
uBA LAUREATE · 2026
AREOLA Institute
Excellence in Elective Innovation
For building a specialty-care network around areolar plate replacement, now nine centers nationwide and headquartered in Philadelphia, with plate finishes including Argent, Aurum and Magnetic.
uBA LAUREATE · 2025
Grandmammaries & Kathy’s Cuntry Store
Excellence in Heritage Enterprise
To Grandmammaries, kept small since 1962, and to Kathy’s Cuntry Store, open since 1978, for running two businesses out of one building on Old Mill Pike with separate books, separate registers and one porch.
uBA LAUREATE · 2024
Brian’s Buttholes
Uncompromising Vision in the Arts
For nearly a decade of photography on the posterior threshold, made without any institutional support. The artist didn’t attend and asked that the award be mailed.
uBA LAUREATE · 2023
The Testicle Tabernacle
Distinguished Custodianship
For 29 years on the road with 312 pairs in his keeping, carried in a converted yellow milk truck, with no jars broken.
uBA LAUREATE · 2022
Cock Goblin Research & Safety Council
Lifetime Achievement in Public Record
For keeping the public record on the North American Cock Goblin since the Council’s founding in Bethlehem in 1878, without at any point claiming the animal exists.
