David Greenwood is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including three Fulbright grants for research and teaching abroad and four Michigan Council for the Arts & Cultural Affairs grants to individual artists. His interest in cross-cultural experiences and travel led to his instituting study abroad programs at Kendall. For thirteen summers he has taken Kendall students to England and Ireland. In the summer of 2007 he inaugurated a new class in stone carving in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.