Colleagues,
This summer, Texas A&M AgriLife Research established the Director’s Superior Grantsmanship Award to recognize the high achievements of our research faculty members in grant writing—specifically—those who have achieved a superior and sustained level of extramural funding over the past three years. These individuals have consistently developed big, novel ideas and concepts that have convinced funding agencies to invest in them.
The top 2% of AgriLife faculty in securing extramural finding will receive an award of $15,000, and the next 3% will receive $5,000. Only faculty members in good standing whose current retention or hiring agreement does not provide for special IDC distribution are eligible.
Today, I am happy to announce the inaugural recipients of the Director’s Superior Grantsmanship Award. Their names are below, in alphabetical order. For the top 2%, the three-year total grant expenditures and indirect costs ranged from $1,990,247 to $4,115,926. For the next 3%, that range was $1,392,096 to $1,873,622. Please join me in congratulating this accomplished group of scientists.
As we congratulate the award winners, we also celebrate the accomplishments of everyone at AgriLife Research. Thank you for all you do to advance our research enterprise!
Patrick J. Stover, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor, Texas A&M AgriLife
Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Director, Texas A&M AgriLife Research
| Top 2% | ||
| Name | College or Agency Affiliation | Department |
| Henry Bryant | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Agricultural Economics |
| Kranthi Mandadi | AgriLife Research | AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Weslaco |
| Kevin Myles | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Entomology |
| Edwin Price | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Agricultural Economics |
| William Rooney | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Soil and Crop Sciences |
| Ivan Rusyn | College of Veterinary Medicine | Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences |
| James Sacchettini | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| Raghavan Srinivasan | AgriLife Research | AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Temple |
| Next 3% | ||
| Name | College or Agency Affiliation | Department |
| Zachary Adelman | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Entomology |
| Angela Arenas | College of Veterinary Medicine | Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences |
| Muthukumar Bagavathiannan | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Soil and Crop Sciences |
| Scott Dindot | College of Veterinary Medicine | Department of Veterinary Pathobiology |
| Carlos Gonzalez | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology |
| Gabriel Hamer | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Entomology |
| Dirk Hays | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Soil and Crop Sciences |
| John Mullet | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics |
| Weston Porter | College of Veterinary Medicine | Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences |
| Gregory Sword | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Entomology |
| David Threadgill | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Nutrition |
| Linglin Xie | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department of Nutrition |
