Saint Louis University manages a variety of programs to celebrate the successes of SLU faculty, staff, and students who are engaged in research and scholarship. Information on these programs and recent winners can be found below.
Grant Winner and Staff Awards
This program, which dates back to 1976, celebrates research excellence and recognizes success in publications or pieces and grant submissions from the previous year. Saint Louis University's Office of the Vice President for Research issues multiple awards each year to recognize outstanding work by SLU faculty, students, and research administrators. Staff Awards recognize the staff leaders in our research administration who support faculty research endeavors.
2024 Grant Winners, Faculty, Graduate Student and Research Staff Awards
Graduate Student Awards
- Stella Hoft, M.D./Ph.D. candidate, molecular microbiology and immunology: National Institutes of Health National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, F30 Predoctoral Dual Degree Fellows Award
- Reagan McGuffee, M.D./Ph.D. candidate, biochemistry and molecular biology: National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, F30 Predoctoral Dual Degree Fellows Award
Research Administrator Award
- Anne Miller, M.A., Research Innovation Group: Stalwart leadership of OVPR’s Research Innovation Group
Infrastructure Award
- Ellen Barnidge, Ph.D., associate professor, behavioral science and health equity: Health Resources and Services Administration award to renovate the Wool Center
Faculty Innovation Award
- Tim Randolph, Ph.D., professor, clinical health sciences: Named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for developing more accessible diagnostics for sickle cell disease
Top Foundation Award
- Rachel McBride Lindsey, Ph.D., assistant professor, theological studies, and Pauline Lee, Ph.D., associate professor, theological studies: Lived Religion in the Digital Age funded by The Henry Luce Foundation Award
Teaching and Service Award
- Gary Ritter, Ph.D., dean and professor – School of Education: U.S. Department of Education Supporting Effective Educator Development Program, P2B: Paraprofessional to Bachelor’s Degree
Research Impact and Collaboration Award
- Jeffrey Scherrer, Ph.D., vice chair for research and professor, family and community medicine, professor, psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience, and Richard Grucza, Ph.D., professor, family and community medicine and health outcomes research: National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program, Trans America Consortium of the Health Care Systems Research Network
Faculty Research Award
- Jenna Gorlewicz, Ph.D., associate dean of research and innovation, School of Science and Engineering, associate professor, mechanical engineering: National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator Program, Track H: Addressing the Fragmented Information Access Problem - A Community-Driven, AI-Powered Platform for Inclusive, Multimodal Content Creation
Grant Winners Through the Decades
Scholarly Works Awards
Since 2017, Saint Louis University's Scholarly Works Awards program has recognized faculty’s work from the past calendar year. These awards carry a cash prize. Any SLU faculty member may nominate their own work or a colleague’s work for a Scholarly Works Award at the junior or senior faculty levels in the following categories: book (in English), book (in a language other than English), nonbook scholarly publication, creative works and public works.
Nominations for the 2025 Scholarly Works Awards are open. Previous winners are listed below.
2024 Scholarly Works Awards
Public Works
- Junior Faculty Winner: Michael Sinha, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., assistant professor, health law studies: "CBD: The Gordian Knot of Pot," (with Grace M. Peterson), Health Affairs Forefront
- Senior Faculty Winner: Bradley Bailey, Ph.D., associate professor, visual and performing arts: "Sound Moves: Where Music Meets Chess"
- Honorable Mention: Karla Scott, Ph.D., professor, communication: "A primer to talk about race & dialogue across identity divisions," Dialogue, Diversity & Dharma
Creative Works
- Senior Faculty Winner: Lucy Cashion, M.F.A., associate professor, visual and performing arts: "The Brechtfast Club"
Nonbooks (Articles)
- Honorable Mention: Cameron Anglum, Ph.D., assistant professor, educational studies: “Separate and Unequal in St. Louis? Strengths and Limitations of School-Level Funding Data Using a QuantCrit Framework,” Urban Education
- Honorable Mention: Joshua Guyer, Ph.D., assistant professor, psychology – SLU-Madrid): “Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Junior Faculty Winner: Stephen Blake, Ph.D., assistant professor, biology: "Megaherbivores modify forest structure and increase carbon stocks through multiple pathways," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Honorable Mention: Marvin Meyers, Ph.D., associate professor, chemistry: "Structure Activity Relationship Studies of the Aryl Acetamide Triazolopyridazines Against Cryptosporidium Parvum Reveals Remarkable Role of Fluorine," Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
- Senior Faculty Winner: Elizabeth Hasenmueller, Ph.D., associate professor, earth and atmospheric sciences: "Cave sediment sequesters anthropogenic microparticles (including microplastics and modified cellulose) in subsurface environments," Science of the Total Environment
- Honorable Mention: Suzanne Mahon, DNSc, professor emerita, hematology and oncology: "Laboratory Selection in Germline Genetic Testing: Laboratory Science Matters," Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
- Honorable Mention: Erica Salter, Ph.D., associate professor, health care ethics, Pediatrics: "Pediatric decision making: Consensus Recommendations," Pediatrics
- Joint Junior and Senior Winners: Sofia Origanti, Ph.D., associate professor, biology, and Edwin Antony, Ph.D., professor, biochemistry and molecular biology: "An Aurora B-RPA signaling axis secures chromosome segregation fidelity," Nature Communications
Books
- Junior Faculty Winner: Fabien Montcher, Ph.D., assistant professor, history: "Mercenaries of Knowledge: Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics," Cambridge University Press
- Senior Faculty Winner: Amy Wright, Ph.D., associate professor, "Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now," Vanderbilt University Press
- Senior Faculty Winner: Brian Yothers, Ph.D., professor, English: "Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now," Camden House/Boydell & Brewer
Internal Award Recipients
Saint Louis University has several internal award programs designed to foster research and scholarly activities, stimulate the quest for external support, and promote SLU as an excellent teaching and research institution. These include the Health Research Grant Program, the Beaumont Scholarship Research Award, the President's Research Fund, the Scholarship Opportunity Fund and Spark Microgrants. More information on these awards, including lists of the most recent recipients, can be found below.