Supporting Teaching Innovation and Educational Impact
The Biggio Center invests in faculty and departmental efforts that improve learning at Auburn. Our grants and awards support creative teaching projects, recognize excellence in instruction, fund immersive learning experiences, and help faculty investigate meaningful questions about student learning.
Each grant and award page includes information about the opportunity, eligibility, timelines, and previous winners. Reviewing previous recipients can help applicants understand the kinds of projects and achievements these programs have supported.
In addition to administering internal funding opportunities, the Biggio Center partners with faculty, academic units, and external organizations to pursue government, corporate, and foundation grants aligned with our expertise in teaching, learning, faculty development, online learning, educational technology, AI, accessibility, immersive learning, and student success.
The Daniel F. Breeden Endowed Grant Program supports teaching and learning projects that directly benefit Auburn instructors, students, and the university’s broader instructional mission.
This opportunity is well suited for faculty seeking support to develop, pilot, assess, or scale a project that improves teaching and learning.
The Departmental Award for Excellence in Education (DAEE) recognizes academic departments that demonstrate a sustained commitment to teaching excellence, student learning, instructional improvement, and educational innovation.
This award is designed for departments that can show meaningful collective work to improve teaching and learning across programs, courses, faculty, or students.
The AUX Immersive Learning Experiences Grant supports improved teaching and learning through immersive virtual experiences, including virtual reality, augmented reality, 360° video, simulation, and related technologies.
Strong AUX proposals begin with a learning challenge. The technology should serve the teaching goal — not the other way around. Shiny headsets are fun, but learning outcomes still get the steering wheel.
The Vivian Ballenger Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence recognized outstanding teaching and honored a lasting commitment to educational excellence at Auburn. The Vivian Ballenger Memorial Award was a one-time recognition awarded in coordination with the College of Sciences and Mathematics. The Award recognized COSAM faculty who demonstrated a transformation in their teaching through the incorporation of active learning strategies, and coincided with the opening of the Academic Classroom and Laboratory Complex.
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, or SoTL, helps faculty systematically investigate questions about teaching, learning, and student success.
This page highlights previous SoTL Mini-Grant awardees and their projects. Faculty can review past awardees for inspiration, potential collaborators, and examples of teaching questions that have been developed into scholarly inquiry.
The Biggio Center has supported targeted travel funding opportunities aligned with strategic teaching and learning priorities, including grants for faculty and staff attending AI-focused higher education events.
These special opportunities may vary from year to year and are often tied to statewide, institutional, or emerging priorities.
Find the Right Opportunity
Explore grant opportunities that support course improvement, instructional innovation, student engagement, and evidence-informed teaching practices.
Learn about awards that celebrate outstanding teaching at the individual, departmental, and institutional levels.
Explore funding for AR, VR, 360° video, simulation, and other immersive learning projects through Auburn’s AUX initiative.
Work with the Biggio Center to identify funding opportunities, develop competitive proposals, and deliver high-quality funded projects.
The Biggio Center partners with Auburn faculty, academic units, institutions, and organizations to pursue government, corporate, and foundation grant funding opportunities aligned with our expertise and services.
Faculty and partners interested in pursuing grant opportunities with the Biggio Center should contact Dr. Katelyn Nelson at biggio@auburn.edu.
