Awards and Honors for H. Ted Davis
| 1958-59 | General Motors Scholar |
| 1959 | American Chemical Society Outstanding Senior Award |
| 1959-62 | National Science Foundation Fellowship |
| 1962-63 | National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 1967-69 | Sloan Foundation Fellow |
| 1969-70 | Guggenheim Fellow |
| 1982 | Lacey Lecturership, California Institute of Technology |
| 1982 | Reilly Lecturer, Notre Dame University |
| 1983 | Soap and Detergent Association Distinguished Paper Award |
| 1984 | C-I-L Inc. Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, University of Calgary |
| 1984 | Pi Beta Tau Eminent Engineer |
| 1985 | Phi Beta Kappa, Furman University |
| 1987 | Kurt Wohl Distinguished Lecturer, University of Delaware |
| 1988 | Donald Katz Distinguished Lecturer, University of Michigan |
| 1988 | National Academy of Engineering |
| 1989 | George Taylor Distinguished Service Award, University of Minnesota |
| 1990 | Louis T.Pirkey Centennial Lecturership, University of Texas at Austin |
| 1990 | Kelly Distinguished Lecturer, Purdue University |
| 1990 | AIChE Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chern. Eng. Literature |
| 1991 | Juan O. Gonzalez Lecturer Award, University of South Florida |
| 1991 | New York Academy of Sciences |
| 1992 | Freeport-McMoRan Lecturer, Tulane University |
| 1995 | Julian C. Smith Lecturership, Cornell University |
| 1995 | Bickerman Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University |
| 1997 | Invited Lecturer, International Symposium Honoring Professor M.M. Sharma, University of Bombay, India |
| 1997 | Regents Professor, University of Minnesota |
| 1998 | Distinguished Engineer, Minnesota Federation of Engineering Societies |
| 1998 | Israel Pollak Distinguished Lecture Series, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| 2001 | Amundson Lectures, Universidad de Guadalajara |
| 2004 | Tekne Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 2005 | Humboldt Research Achievement Award |