The Intramural Funding Program is committed to the advancing knowledge through basic and applied research, enriching society through creative initiatives, and recognizing that scholarly activity can take different forms across disciplines. Comprised of two competitive grant programs - The Creative Work and Social Impact Scholarship (CWSIS) and The Research Support Program (RSP) - it supports projects expected to result in appropriate scholarly products that will secure external funding and increase the national recognition of the awardees, their programs, and the university.
Please be advised that the Intramural Funding Program is on hiatus for the 2025-2026 cycle.
For additional assistance with funding prospecting, please contact Laura Cauthen (334-844-7910) with Proposal Services and Faculty Support for a consultation.
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The Creative Work and Social Impact Scholarship (CWSIS) funding program supports scholarship in areas of Design and the Arts, Humanities, Social Impact Scholarship, and Interdisciplinary Research with strong potential to enhance program and university rankings and bring greater visibility and recognition to our faculty and institution. Investing in CWSIS supports the university’s strategic plan by elevating scholarly impact, investing in outstanding people who advance the university’s mission, and providing an exceptional student experience.
Please be advised that the CWSIS funding program is on hiatus for the 2025-2026 cycle.
For additional assistance with funding prospecting, please contact Laura Cauthen (334-844-7910) with Proposal Services and Faculty Support for a consultation.
The Research Support Program (RSP) is a strategically focused investment strategy that provides seed funding to promote promising and impactful new lines of research for early-stage investigators, faculty needing to strengthen their funding portfolios or faculty pivoting to a new research area. The program emphasizes the growth of interdisciplinary teams to build the foundations of science, to overcome scientific and societal challenges, and to promote and enhance the quality of life and well-being of individuals, groups, and communities. The RSP places a strong emphasis on building capacity for research efforts with the potential to attract and sustain extramural funding.
Please be advised that the RSP funding program is on hiatus for the 2025-2026 cycle.
For additional assistance with funding prospecting, please contact Laura Cauthen (334-844-7910) with Proposal Services and Faculty Support for a consultation.
Past Awardees
Georges Fares, College of Human Sciences, "Bridging Eras: Merging Technology and Tradition in the Study of Bernini's Works for the Purpose of Cultural Engagement."
Allie McCreary, College of Forestry, Wildlife & Environment, "Climate Change Resiliency Along the Gulf Coast: How Tourism Providers Perceive Impacts & Adaptation Strategies."
Xavier Vendrell, College of Architecture, Design & Construction, "Site, Construction, Users, My Favorite Movies, and Other Circumstances: Xavier Vendrell, Architect."
Heidi Hausse, College of Liberal Arts, History, “Engineering History: An Experimental Approach to Recovering the Lived Experience of a Sixteenth-Century Amputee.”
Eden McLean, College of Liberal Arts, “The Limits of Fascism: Luigi Molina and the Struggle for Fascist Hegemony in an Italian Borderland, 1923-1944.”
Beverley Rilett, Auburn University Libraries, “19th Century Lit, 21st Century Tech: Interdisciplinary Partnerships for a Digital Humanities Initiative”
James (Rusty) Smith, College of Architecture, Design, & Construction, “Optimizing Integration and Adoption of Healthy Building Materials in the Design of Energy Efficient, Resilient Single-Family Building Envelope Assemblies”
Junshan Liu, College of Architecture, Design and Construction, “Digitally Preserving and Re-presenting Alabama’s Rosenwald Schools”
Alicia Powers, College of Human Sciences, “A clinical-community pediatric wellness initiative to manage and prevent cardiometabolic diseases in children with limited resources in Alabama”
RSP Awardees
Elizabeth Covington, Harrison College of Pharmacy, “Pharmacist-led Transitions of Care Intervention to Address Infectious Disease Tests Pending at Discharge (TPAD)”
Wellison Diniz, College of Agriculture, “Epigenetic Mechanisms of Paternal Effects on Offspring Spermatic Programming”
Emily Graff, College of Veterinary Medicine, “Phosphoprotein Enriched in Astrocytes 15kDa (PEA15) in Peripheral and Brain Metabolism”
Huan He, College of Mathematics & Science, “Bridge: Bias-Reducing Inference Using Deep Generative Evidence”
Janet Jock, College of Liberal Arts, “Elements of Participatory Development Driving Program Success”
Wen Luo, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, “5X Additive-Manufacturing and In-situ Monitoring of Fiber-Metal Laminates with Enhanced Thermal & Electrical Conductivity”
Jia Wu, College of Human Sciences, “Healthcare Apparel Innovation Functional Textile-based Sensor System Development Using Writable Bioink Technology”
James Gillespie, College of Veterinary Medicine, “Development of Bacteriophage Nano/Microparticles for Nasal Delivery of Species-specific Immunocontraceptives”
Suhasini Gururaja, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, "Integrated Manufacturing for 'Tuned' Microstructures for Targeted Enhanced Lightweight Structural Performance and Autonomous Damage Sensing (IMADS)."
Junshan Lin, College of Sciences & Mathematics, "Computation-assisted Optical Imaging towards Sub-Nanometer Super-resolution."
Binita Mahato, College of Liberal Arts, "Urban Resilience and Social Vulnerability: The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change Impacts in Mobile, Alabama."
Yaoqi Zhang, College of Forestry, Wildlife & Environment, "Tree Shade on Summertime Electricity Consumption."
Henry Baker, College of Veterinary Medicine, “A Nanoplasmonic Biosensor for Rapid Antemortem Detection of Rabies Infection.”
Sarit Dhar, College of Sciences & Mathematics, “High temperature ion implantation for Gallium Oxide power electronics."
Stephen Erath, College of Human Sciences, “Predicting Adolescent Reception of Parental Support: Matches and Mismatches Between Provided and Desired Support.”
Aime Johnson, College of Veterinary Medicine, “Viral Vectored Contraceptive GnRH Vaccine for Cat Population Control.”
Christopher Kieslich, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, “Data-enabled mesoscale simulations of virus capsid self-assembly.”
Daniel Kroeger, College of Veterinary Medicine, “Reducing levels of beta-amyloid (Aβ) and tau by stimulating natural sleep circuits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.”
Lana Narine, College of Forestry, Wildlife & Environment, “Enhancing The Ability to Detect Forest Changes from Hurricane Disturbance Using Multitemporal Spaceborne Lidar and Imagery.”
Jake Nelson, College of Sciences & Mathematics, “Evaluating community resilience through preparedness behavior using large-scale human mobility data.”
Tanzeel Rehman, College of Agriculture, “Data-Driven High-Throughput Blueberry Drought Tolerant Phenotyping for Sustainable Production Under Changing Climate.”
Heather Alexander, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, “Estimating carbon storage, fuel loading, and fire behavior consequences in hurricane-impacted, fire-dependent forests of the southeastern U.S.”
Symone Alexander, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, “Decoding Diffusion in Dietary Fiber Networks”
Joseph Bardeen, College of Liberal Arts, “Testing a Single-Session Attention Bias Modification Program for Individuals with PTSD and Maladaptive Behavioral Phenotypes of Threat Processing”
Ming Chen, College of Sciences & Mathematics, “Exploring the Radical Chemistry of Organoboron Compounds”
Siyuan Dai, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, “Isotopic van der Waals engineering for phononic light-matter interactions”
Kelly Krawczyk, College of Liberal Arts, “Measuring the Impact of Civil Society on Political Participation in Liberia”
Marcelo Kuroda, College of Sciences & Mathematics, “DNA-Enabled High-Density Storage in Two-dimensional Channel Devices”
Austin Robinson, College of Education, “Can Ketone Supplementation Attenuate the Adverse Cardiorenal Consequences of High Dietary Salt in Human Participants?”
Selim Sukhtaiev, College of Sciences & Mathematics, “Population dynamics in complex media”
Brian Albanese, College of Liberal Arts, “Neurobehavioral sensitivity to negative reinforcement in suicide”
Benjamin Bush, College of Architecture, Design and Construction, “EX4C: Next Generation Blood and Vaccine Transport for Combat, Austere and Challenging Environments”
Nathaniel Hardy, College of Agriculture, “The Evolution of Virulence in Xylella fastidiosa”
Amal Khalil Kaddoumi, Harrison School of Pharmacy, “Amylin role in Alzheimer’s disease”
Peng Li, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, “Probing Novel Quantum Phases in van der Waals Magnet Fe5GeTe2”
Panagiotis Mistriotis, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, “Bioengineering tools to uncover the mechanisms of human mesenchymal stem cell migration”
Kristina Neely, College of Education, “Inhibitory Motor Control in Adults with ADHD”
Janna Willoughby, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, “How do environmental and genetic effects interact to determine individual fitness?”
