Celebrating our faculty: 2024 Acorn Awardees
The Purdue University Office of Research held its annual Seeds for Success Acorn Award Ceremony (Nov. 13) to honor faculty recipients, including 18 College of Education faculty and staff, eight of whom are first-time recipients of the award.
The annual Seed for Success Acorn Award ceremony recognizes Purdue principal investigators (PIs) and co-PIs who secured research awards of $1 million or more for a single proposal in fiscal year 2024. First-time awardees will receive an engraved Acorn Award, and previous Acorn Award recipients will receive a commemorative challenge coin.
The 2024 list of grants and their teams are listed below, with current Education faculty recipients in bold. Those marked with an asterisk* are first-time Acorn Award recipients and will receive an engraved award. Acorn Award recipients from previous years will receive a commemorative challenge coin.
Jenna Rickus, Inna Abramova*, Jasmine Begeske, Helen Bentley, Nancy Boes*, Françoise Brosseau-Lapré*, Mary Ann Cahill*, Virak Chan, Sarah Eason, Jennifer Finders, Kharon Grimmet, Teresa Hogg*, Breanya Hogue*, Angela Holtsclaw, Holly Hullinger*, Melanie Kuhn*, Chenell Loudermill, Kathleen Martin*, Catherine McBride*, Carolyn McCormick, Trish Morita-Mullaney, Isabel Nunez*, Grace Pigozzi*, Megan Purcell*, David Purpura, Jennifer Renn, Brenda Sarmiento Quezada*, Ofelia Schepers*, Elizabeth Schlesinger-Devlin*, Jennifer Smith*, Christy Wessel Powell, Wayne Wright. Purdue University Science of Reading Implementation Grant. Lilly Endowment, Inc. $1,500,000.00.
Kevin Gibson, Felica Ahasteen-Bryant, Jacqueline McDermott, Kenneth Ridgway, Patrick Zollner, Stephanie Masta. The Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. $1,533,358.00.
Lori Hoagland, Luiz Fernando Brito, G. Jonathon Day*, Walter Leon-Salas, Maria Bello Bravo*, Gary Burniske, Rosa Cossio, Sarah Renkert*, Jennifer Richardson, Adel Sayedahmed*, Jon Schoonmaker. UNSA NEXUS-PH III. Universidad Nacional de San Agustin. $3,973,663.00.
Tamara Moore, Kerrie Douglas, Selcen Siddika Guzey, Morgan Hynes, Greg Strimel*. SCALE K-12 Silicon Crossroads ME Commons. U.S. Department of Defense. $2,500,00.00.
Congratulations to all of our Boilermaker Educator faculty recipients!
A full list of award recipients is available at the awards webpage.
Sources: Wayne E. Wright, wewright@purdue.edu; “Celebrate Purdue’s leading researchers at the Seed for Success Acorn Awards ceremony Nov. 13” (Purdue Today, Nov. 1, 2024)