Provost’s Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring

This award is established to recognize and encourage the individual efforts of Auburn faculty who mentor undergraduate students in research and creative endeavors. The award is designed to honor the practice of mentoring undergraduate research and scholarship, and it is meant to highlight significant commitment to undergraduate scholarship and creative work outside the classroom.

Important Dates: Nominations for the Provost’s Mentor of the Year award are now closed.

More information can be found on the Faculty Awards page.

Recent Awardees:

Christopher Lepczyk

With more than 20 years of research and teaching experience, Lepczyk is an accomplished researcher and productive scholar with 131 refereed journal articles and many book chapters. His publications have been cited over 10,000 times, and he has authored five ISI Highly Cited articles and received two best paper awards from the Ecological Society of America (the Sustainability Award) and the North American Section of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. He has won numerous awards, including the Auburn Author Award and the Gerald and Emily Leischuck Endowed Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching from Auburn University, as well as the Harry Murphy Award for Excellence in Research, the Harry Murphy Award for Excellence in Extension and Outreach and the Harry Murphy Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Advising. Read more.

Dr. Miranda Reed

Committed to developing the next generation of investigators and leaders in pharmaceutical sciences, Dr. Miranda Reed has made a significant impact in students’ lives in her nearly 10 years as a faculty member in the Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy.

Joining the college in 2015, she has mentored more than 60 undergraduate students and chaired or co-chaired 18 graduate students. A professor in the Department of Drug Discovery and Development and a co-founder of the Center for Neuroscience Initiative at Auburn, her research focuses on aging and neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and consequences of prenatal exposure to cannabis. Read more.