Nominations for
Outstanding Research Award
Program Description
Each department or
equivalent academic unit is invited to nominate one candidate for the annual
UW-Whitewater Award for Outstanding Research.
Departments with more than 15 FTE faculty
positions may nominate two candidates. The purpose of this award is to
recognize and honor a single faculty member for making significant advances to
knowledge, technique, or creative
expression in her/his professional field.
All nominees will be honored at a reception sponsored by the Chancellor and the Provost. The recipient of the award will (1) be introduced at the Spring commencement ceremony, (2) receive a certificate and a monetary award, (3) have her/his photograph displayed in the Andersen Library for a year and thereafter in her/his college's hall of fame, and (4) have her/his name added to a plaque displayed in Andersen Library.
Eligibility
To be eligible, nominees must (1)
presently be in at least his/her third year at UW-Whitewater and (2) not be one
of the four most recent recipients of the award.
Selection Criteria
In selecting the recipient of the award, the University Research Council will give special consideration to research produced within the past five years. Further, refereed publications and/or juried exhibits and performances will be given greater weight than other evidence of research. Research, as defined in the Faculty Personnel Rules, is "creative activity evidenced by contributions to the knowledge, works, techniques, or principles, or by demonstrations of one's mastery of the techniques or principles of one's discipline, in media appropriate to it, which are or were available to critical evaluation by one's peers within the discipline".
Nomination Procedures
Nomination material must consist of the following:
- A letter of nomination from the department or equivalent academic unit.
- The letter in support of the applicant should also include the name, address, and phone number of the president of a national research organization in the discipline. This individual may be asked to comment on the quality of the work listed in the nominee's research (e.g., the stature within the profession of journals in which the nominee published).
- The nominator must submit a one-paragraph summary of the nominee's accomplishments, preferably via e-mail to Leslie Meyer at meyerl@uww.edu, for use in the Awards Reception program,
- The nominator must
indicate if he/she or his/her designee will speak at the 3:00 p.m.,
April 8th Awards Reception on behalf of the nominee.
- The nominee's
resume of research activities. The resume should be organized
according to the outline below. Items within each category should be
listed in reverse chronological order. Activities in progress or results
not yet accepted for presentation or publication should be excluded.
- Bibliography of professional publications. (Attach photocopies of title pages of publications and evidence if publications were refereed.)
- Dates, places, and descriptions of professional exhibits and performances. (Attach evidence if exhibits or performances were juried.)
- Author(s), titles, meetings, and dates of papers presented at professional meetings.
- Principal investigator(s), project titles, funding sources, amounts funded, and project periods for grants received.
- Other evidence or
previous recognition of research including fellowships, honors, and
awards. (Give year of each.)
- Letters of
recommendation from two respected scholars. Scholars from on or off
campus writing letters of recommendation should (1) include a paragraph
outlining their own position in the field, (2) discuss the impact of the
nominee's research or artistic work in the field, and (3) limit their
letters to a maximum of three pages.
Nominations, resumes, and
recommendations should be submitted to the Associate Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs, Hyer Hall 420 no later than February 13, 2009. If either the letter of nomination or the resume
is not received by this date, the nominee will not be considered.
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