The Wachovia Environmental Research Award is designed to recognize faculty or graduate students actively engaged in high-quality environmental research related to the southern Appalachians.
Deadlines
Nomination by Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Materials by Monday, February 17, 2025
Email Nominations to: Dr. Ross Gosky with SUBJECT LINE: Wachovia Research Award
Application Information
- The recipient will be selected in February and will be honored at the Graduate School awards reception in the Spring.
- The monetary award of $800 (if sufficient funding is generated by the endowment) will be administered in the Graduate School as an expense account.
- The funding may be used for any non-salary expense related to performing environmental research, including purchase of equipment and supplies, and travel for data collection or dissemination.
- The recipient must spend the funds by May 15 in the year awarded.
Eligibility
- Faculty members or graduate students must have completed or made significant progress on a research project producing knowledge of the natural environment and/or human interaction with the natural environment.
- Such knowledge generally should be grounded in the disciplines eligible for consideration for National Science Foundation research awards.
Application Process
The application must include a letter from the nominator. Two additional (optional) letters may be included from the department chair and/or faculty colleagues who are familiar with the current or proposed project and who can also speak to the environmental impact of the research.
The application must:
- Describe the project for which the funds will be used, including the impact of the project and plans for dissemination of results
- Succinctly list the research / creative accomplishments from the last five years
Selection Criteria
- Significant contributions to environmental research with particular application to the Southern Appalachian Region.
- Environmental research is defined as research that produces knowledge of the natural environment and/or human interaction with the natural environment. Such knowledge generally should be grounded in the disciplines eligible for consideration for National Science Foundation research awards.
Donor
Wachovia Bank of North Carolina
Past Recipients
- 2022-2023: Dr. Derek Martin, Geography & Planning
- 2021-2022: Dr. James Sherman, Physics & Astronomy
- 2020-2021: Not given
- 2019-2020: Ms. Sarah Hill (student), Biology
- 2018-2019: Dr. John Whitehead, Economics
- 2017-2018: Dr. Michael Madritch, Biology
- 2016-2017: Dr. Jim Sherman, Physics & Astronomy
- 2015-2016: Dr. Baker Perry, Geography & Planning
- 2014-2015: Not given
- 2013: Dr. Chris Badurek, Geography & Planning
- 2012: Dr. Chuanhui Gu, Geology
- 2011: Dr. Lynn Siefferman, Biology
- 2010: Dr. Brett Taubman, Chemistry
- 2009: Dr. Saskia van de Gevel, Geography and Planning
- 2008: Not given
- 2007: Dr. Shea Tuberty, Biology
- 2006: Dr. Carol Babyak, Chemistry; Mr. Jeremy Chandler Ferrell (student), Technology
- 2005: Dr. Melany Fisk, Biology
- 2004: Dr. Tim Silver, History
- 2003: Not given
- 2002: Dr. Zack Murrell, Biology
- 2001: Not given
- 2000: Dr. Garry Cooper, Geography & Planning
- 1999: Dr. Peter T. Soulé, Geography & Planning
- 1998: Dr. Neal G. Lineback, Geography & Planning
- 1997: Dr. Dennis M. Scanlin, Technology
- 1996: Dr. Timothy H. Silver, History
- 1995: Dr. Matthew Rowe, Biology
- 1994: Not given
- 1993: Not given
- 1992: Dr. Howie Neufeld, Biology