Faculty Research Committee

Eligibility

• Eligibility is open to the Corps of Instruction, as defined by the Board of Regents: Full-time professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, lecturers and teaching personnel with such other titles as may be approved by the Board, shall be the Corps of Instruction. Full-time research and extension personnel and duly certified librarians will be included in the Corps of Instruction on the basis of comparable training. Persons holding adjunct appointments or other honorary titles shall not be considered to be members of the faculty.  Faculty members holding the rank of Chair/Director or above shall not be eligible to compete for these awards.

• Faculty who have won the Excellence in Research Award in the past 10 years are not eligible to compete. This award will not be awarded to a single individual more than 2 times in his or her career.

• Faculty must be employed by Georgia Southern University in a faculty position for a minimum of 3 full contract years prior to nomination for this award.

• Faculty members must be on contract within the Corps of Instruction during the academic year following election. Award recipients will participate in the Focus on Excellence lecture series. Faculty members who leave the University will forfeit the award and stipend and a new faculty recipient selected.

Nominations

Any member of the Georgia Southern faculty or administration may nominate one eligible faculty member for either the Research award or the Discovery and Innovation award.  Self-nominations will not be accepted. Members of the committee may not be nominated nor submit nominations or letters of support for this award.

Nominations must be submitted through the online nomination form located in the Georgia Southern Awards website.

Nomination Window: See the nomination tab on the GS Awards site.

Nomination – See the nomination tab on the GS Awards site.

Applications

Nominated Faculty members must complete an award application providing a history of academic work and samples for committee review.   A  shared workspace will be provided to you to collect your application pieces.  Folders will be pre-loaded.  If you create any new folders in the workspace, you must assign administrative rights to Eleanor Haynes to allow for site management.

Two awards are nominated each fiscal year. Award winners are are presented through the university awards celebration.

• The Excellence Application may  uploaded  to the google drive folder link emailed to each nominee.  Google drive folders will be available to the nominees until 5 pm on the application due date.
• Letters of Support should be either uploaded by the applicant into the folder in the electronic applicant workspace or submitted via email as text or an attachment to irb@georgiasouthern.edu.  The subject line for an email should include FRC letter of support for “your name”.  (Minimum of 1 and maximum of 3 letters per application.)

(Note:  If you or your colleague need to submit a letter of support by U.S. mail; please direct the letter to ATTN: FRC, P.O. Box 8005, Statesboro GA, 30458)

Application Deadline: GS Awards website

AWARDS: (Application forms automatically download for you to complete. These are NOT online forms.)

The faculty award for Excellence in Research recognizes a faculty member for excellence in research and/ or creative scholarly activity.

Research Excellence Award Application (autodownloads)

Research Excellence Award Rubric

The Discovery & Innovation award recognizes those individuals that engage in innovative and original creative scholarly activities, technologies and/ or problem-solving collaboratives.

Discovery and Innovation Award Application (autodownloads)

Discovery and Innovation Award Rubric

Past Recipients

Award in Excellence in Research Award Winners:

University Awards – Academic Year 2022-2023

•Excellence in Research –  Dr. Bettye Apenteng, Department of Health Policy and Community Health, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

• Excellence in Discovery and Innovation – Dr. Rafael Quirino, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Science and Mathematics

University Awards – Academic Year 2021-2022

•Excellence in Research –  Dr. Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Department of Health Policy and Community Health, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

• Excellence in Discovery and Innovation – Dr. John Carroll, Department of Biology, College of Science and Mathematics

University Awards – Academic Year 2020-2021

•Excellence in Research –  Dr. Amanda Glaze, Department of Middle Grades Education & Secondary Education, College of Education

• Excellence in Discovery and Innovation – Dr. Masoud Davari, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing

University Awards – Academic Year 2019-2020

•Excellence in Research –  Dr. Jeffrey Burson, Department of History, College of Arts and Humanities

• Excellence in Discovery and Innovation – Dr. Marshall Ming, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Science and Mathematics

Academic Year 2019-2020

• Dr. John Van Stan, Department of Geology and Geography, College of Science and Mathematics

• Dr. Ji Wu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Science and Mathematics

Academic Year 2018-2019

• Dr. Andrew Hansen, Department of Community Health Behavior, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

• Dr. Mujibur Khan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing

Academic Year 2017-2018

• Dr. Chad Posick, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology

• Dr. Hani Samawi, Professor, Department of Biostatistics

Academic Year 2016-2017

• Dr. Derek Larson, Associate Professor, Department of Art

• Dr. Gulzar Shah, Associate Dean, Academic, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

Academic Year 2015-2016

• Dr. Jian Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology

• Dr. Weihua (Marshall) Ming, Professor, Distinguished Chair, Department of Chemistry

Academic Year 2014-2015

• Dr. Hua Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences

• Dr. Valentin Soloiu, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Academic Year 2013-2014

• Dr. K. Bryant Smalley, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

• Dr. Juan Luque, Assistant Professor, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

Academic Year 2012-2013

• Dr. Lorenza Beati-Ziegler, Professor, Department of Biology

• Mr. Marc Mouldon, Associate Professor, Department of Art

Academic Year 2011-2012

• Dr. Lance McBrayer, Associate Professor, Department of Biology

• Dr. Wen-Ran Zhang, Professor, Department of Computer Science

Academic Year 2010-2011

• Dr. Christopher Cutler, Associate Professor, Department of Biology

• Dr. Samuel Todd, Associate Professor, Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Family and Consumer Science

Academic Year 2009-2010

• Dr. Richard Pacelle, Professor, Department of Political Science

• Dr. Junan Shen, Assistant Professor, Department of Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology

• Dr. Jonathan Geisler – Professor, Department of Geology and Geography (Special award for Research and/or Creative Scholarly Activity during tenure at Georgia Southern University.)

Academic Year 2008-2009

• Dr. Lance Durden, Associate Professor, Department of Biology

• Dr. Karl E.Peace, Professor, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

Academic Year 2007-2008

• Dr. Sophie George, Professor, Department of Biology

• Dr. Xiao-Jun Wang, Professor, Department of Physics