Rate My Professor André Franco

Franco has garnered notable recognition, including the International Presidential Fellowship at Colorado State University in 2017, the Fischer Faculty Fellowship at Indiana University in 2026, and a 2026 Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award. In 2026, he received a $737,000 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture for the project 'Integrating soil animals into the soil health framework to foster multifunctionality in regenerative agroecosystems,' which examines invertebrate contributions to soil health metrics across Midwest agroecosystems. His influential publications include 'Global distribution of earthworm diversity' in Science (2019), 'Drought suppresses soil predators and promotes root herbivores in mesic, but not in xeric grasslands' in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019), 'Soil quality indexing strategies for evaluating sugarcane expansion in Brazil' in PLOS ONE (2016), and 'Loss of soil (macro)fauna due to the expansion of Brazilian sugarcane acreage' in Science of the Total Environment (2016). These works have advanced knowledge on soil biodiversity, sustainable land management, and carbon dynamics, informing practices for agriculture, conservation, and climate resilience.