Submit nominations for Faculty Distinguished Research Award and Innovator of the Year

It’s that point once more! The Workplace of Analysis and Expertise Administration is accepting nominations for the School Distinguished Researcher Award and for Innovator of the 12 months. Awardees will likely be acknowledged throughout Innovation Week 2024, which is about to happen Oct. 28 by means of Nov. 1. 

To appoint somebody for a School Distinguished Analysis Award, e-mail supplies per the under outlines to Jennifer Capretta, government director of operations, at [email protected] by July 31. Incomplete nomination packages is not going to be reviewed.

To appoint somebody for Innovator of the 12 months, full this type by Aug. 23. 

Concerning the School Distinguished Analysis Award

The School Distinguished Analysis Award was created to acknowledge the excellent analysis and scholarly contributions of the college at Case Western Reserve College to their fields of examine and to the analysis fame of the establishment. It’s anticipated that not more than 4 School Distinguished Analysis Awards will likely be named in anyone 12 months. The president, provost and vp for analysis will current the award yearly to members of the college analysis group to acknowledge their excellent contributions to information creation, scholarship and/or inventive creativity of their areas of experience. Awardees will likely be anticipated to have established excellent nationwide and worldwide reputations for his or her scholarly or inventive contributions.

Description of the Award

The award is meant to acknowledge excellent achievement within the space of experience of the college member. The award will include a plaque and a financial award of $10,000 offered as discretionary funds to additional help analysis.

Eligibility

The School Distinguished Analysis Award will likely be open to all lively, full-time members of the college school, together with division chairs and people in different administrative positions. All disciplines practiced at CWRU are eligible, together with these (just like the humanities and the performing arts) that don’t primarily focus their scholarly or inventive manufacturing within the publication of journal articles.

Choice Standards

The award is given to people who’ve made a major contribution to scholarship or inventive creativity. This contribution may very well be a long-term, cumulative contribution or a single, notably insightful concept, experiment, software or interpretation. All analysis, scholarly, and inventive contributions will likely be thought of, however an emphasis will likely be positioned on work undertaken whereas employed at CWRU. It’s anticipated that not more than 4 awards will likely be made yearly.

Nomination Procedures

Annually, the senior vp for analysis will problem a name for nominations. The deans of the faculties/school will likely be chargeable for candidate nomination inside their colleges/school. Every faculty/school could submit two new or up to date nominations annually. Deans are strongly inspired to think about fairness and inclusion when selecting nominees. Colleges with greater than 100 tenured and tenure-track school members could submit a further nomination for every extra 100 tenured and tenure-track school members. The choice committee additionally could rethink nominees from earlier years.

A whole nomination package deal should embody:

1. A letter signed by the dean of the college/school indicating why the person is being nominated, summarizing the candidate’s analysis and scholarly or inventive achievements, commenting on the letters of help, and outlining the nationwide and worldwide significance of the candidate’s work. The importance of different main analysis honors and awards acquired by the candidate (if any) needs to be mentioned.
2. A present curriculum vitae of the candidate. It’s strongly most popular that nominees not be told of their nominations in order that the award generally is a shock. Please attempt to get hold of the CV with out telling the candidate in regards to the nomination.
3. Three letters of help from students within the candidate’s self-discipline, commenting on the significance and influence of the candidate’s work nationally and internationally. These letters needs to be from school exterior the applicant’s house division.

A variety committee chaired by the Affiliate President for Analysis shall select the award recipients. The committee shall embody earlier recipients of the School Distinguished Analysis Award.