Grant Writers Luncheon
Since 1991, Sponsored Programs has hosted an annual luncheon to commend and applaud the efforts of our faculty and staff working with sponsor funded projects. Invitations are extended to faculty and staff members who have either written or participated in a sponsored program activity during the designated academic calendar year. This annual event, heralded as a signature event, celebrates the very best of our faculty, staff, and student talent.
At selected luncheons, the Chancellor has extended to meritorious faculty and staff the Chancellor’s Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success. This award was established by the Chancellor in 2009 and was designed to celebrate and inspire excellence in sponsored program proposal success, an essential component to institutional excellence.
2022 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Dr. Wade Forehand, Dr. John Garner, Dr. Javier Boyas (not pictured)
(College of Health and Human Services)
Health Resources and Health Administration
ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé Health - Community Health Worker Training Program
Award of Distinction
Dr. Raj Vinnakota (College of Arts & Sciences) National Science Foundation Engineering Research Initiative - Thermal Assisted Plasmon - Plasmon Interaction for Active Control of Electron Density Waves at Metal Semiconductor Interfaces - A Roadmap to Novel All-Optical Devices
2021 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Dr. Patrick Holladay (Sorrell College of Business) Department of Agriculture Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education: Exploring Agritourism to Increase Agricultural Sustainability and Resilience in the Municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico
Award of Distinction
Dr. Brian Helms and Jonathan Miller (College of Arts and Sciences) Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Updated surveys and status assessment for Ptychobranchus jonesi, in addition to other federally and state-listed species, in the Pea River Watershed
2020 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Dr. Sharon Everhardt, Dr. Robert Vilardi (College of Arts and Sciences) and Ray White (ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé
Montgomery)
U.S. Department of Education, Title III Strengthening Institutions
Creating a Central Environment to Support Student Success
2019 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Dr. Alvin Diamond and Dr. Michael Woods (College of Arts and Sciences)
National Science Foundation
Alabama's Biodiversity Heritage: Expansion and Promoting Access and Use of a Regionally
Important Botanical Collection
Dr. Ruth Busby and Dr. Cynthia Hicks (College of Education)
US Department of Education
Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS)
2018 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Dr. Govind Menon (College of Arts and Sciences)
US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Center for Manufacturing and Materials Science
2017 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Dr. Chris Boyd and Dr. Xutong Niu (College of Arts and Sciences)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Restore Act Science Program
Living Shoreline Suitability Model Transfer to Selected Water Bodies with the Gulf
of Mexico
A GIS & Remote Sensing Based Approach
Mary Griffin (John W. Schmidt Center for Student Success)
US Department of Education
Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program
Dr. Govind Menon and Dr. Jacqueline Jones (College of Arts and Sciences)
National Science Foundation in partnership with Auburn University
The Greater Alabama Black Belt Region Recruitment and Retention of Minority Students
in STEM
Mark Salmon (Finance and Business Affairs - Physical Plant)
Alabama Department of Economic & Community Affairs
Extension of the existing trail along the perimeter of Janice Hawkins Cultural Arts
Park in ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé
2016 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Tonya Conner, Pamela Wimbish and Cynthia Hicks (College of Education)
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Family Engagement, Project Pre-K to K Literacy
2015 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Buffie Edwards, Debora Pettway, Ronda Westry, Mary Griffin (not pictured)
(John W. Schmidt Center for Student Success)
US Department of Education
Student Support Services
Suzanne Tew-Washburn, Paola Premuda-Conti, Joel Willis, Cozetta Shannon* (not pictured), Latofia Parker (not pictured) (College of Education)
US Department of Education
A Multi-Campus Approach to Training Rehabilitation Counselors for Public Service to
General Caseloads and Consumers Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
A Multi-Campus Approach to Training Rehabilitation Counselors for Public Service to
General Caseloads and Consumers with Mental Illness
*Dr. Cozetta Shannon passed away unexpectedly in 2015 after the submission of the
grant proposals which were honored.
Kim Dove and Sherrie Blackmon (not pictured) (College of Education)
US Department of Education and Alabama Department of Education
Math and Science Partnership
2013 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Dr. Jonathan Harrington and Dr. Terry Anderson (College of Arts and Sciences)
US Department of State & US Embassy in Tbilisi
Georgia Partnership
2011 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Dr. Kewei Yu and Dr. Stephen Landers (College of Arts and Sciences)
Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium
Environmental Chemistry of the BP Oil Spill: Redox Measures, Exploring the Mechanisms
of Nitrate Aided Biodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Under Anaerobic Conditions
& Analysis of Meiofauna from the Northern Gulf of Mexico
2010 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Suzanne Tew Washburn, Mary Ann Templeton, Cozetta Shannon and Emma Peden
(College of Education)
US Department of Education
A Multi Campus Approach to Rehabilitation Counseling Education (Five Years)
2009 Chancellor's Award of Distinction for Sponsored Program Success
Glenda Avery, Teresa Johnson, Bernita Hamilton, Cathy Dunn and Judy Bazzell
(College of Health and Human Services)
US Department of Health and Human Services
Healthy Schools, Healthy Kids, Healthy Families
Sponsored Program Year in Review
This summary is published as part of the recognition of writers at the annual
Sponsored Program Recognition Luncheon.
This report provides a summary of proposals submitted.
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2021-2022)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2020)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2019)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2018)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2017)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2016)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2015)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2014)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2013)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2012)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2011)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2010)
- Sponsored Program Year in Review (2009)