2025-26 Auburn University SEC Faculty Achievement Award nominations open

Members of the campus community are invited and encouraged to submit nominations for the 2025-26 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Faculty Achievement Award.

The award annually recognizes a faculty member from each of the 16 member SEC institutions who demonstrates a record of extraordinary teaching, particularly at the undergraduate level, and outstanding scholarship.

Information on past winners is available online. Auburn awardees are below.

Faculty Achievement Award recipients receive an honorarium from the SEC and become the university’s nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year Award, announced each spring. To qualify for the award, an individual’s scholarly contribution or discoveries must be such that colleagues within the discipline have acknowledged the faculty member nationally or internationally.

Nominations can be submitted through Nov. 14, and must include a nomination letter, a statement of impact, a current CV and a list of scholarly publications. Additional details and limitations on nomination materials can be found on the submission site.

 

Auburn SEC Faculty Achievement Award winners

2025, Sushil Adhikari, College of Agriculture

2024, Skip Bartol, College of Veterinary Medicine

2023, Shiwen Mao, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering 

2022, Karen McNeal, College of Sciences and Mathematics

2021, Mona El-Sheikh, College of Human Sciences            

2020, Doug Martin, College of Veterinary Medicine

2019, Rex Dunham, College of Agriculture

2018, David Ketchen, Raymond J. Harbert College of Business

2017, James Barth, Raymond J. Harbert College of Business

2016, Hanqin Tian, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment

2015, Bruce Tatarchuk, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

2014, Geoffrey Hill, College of Sciences and Mathematics

2013, Pradeep Lall, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

2012, Christopher B. Roberts, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering