Selection Criteria and Eligibility
Sponsored by Burroughs Wellcome Fund, this award recognizes outstanding achievement by an early stage life scientist from an underrepresented minority group. Individuals eligible for nomination are U.S.A. Citizens or Permanent Residents of the U.S.A. from an ethnic minority group recognized as being underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, are members of one or more of the societies of FASEB and are at a relatively early career stage, defined as not more than six years after completion of postdoctoral training. Nominations recognize an individual who has contributed significantly to a scientific discipline in addition to service and mentoring via local and national leadership leading to improving and expanding opportunities for minorities in the scientific workforce and academia.
Applications are encouraged from individuals from comprehensive research universities or non-academic entities.
Nomination Procedures
Please use this form as a checklist and post PDFs of all required information on the FASEB Diversity Award website.
Documents should be ready and available for posting and be in PDF format only.
- Completed cover nomination form with all requested information.
- One nomination letter, setting forth in detail the outstanding contributions made by the nominee to his/her area of scholarship, leadership and mentorship in expanding diversity in educational and career missions and other service to the profession.
- One full curriculum vitae including all publications, presentations, grant awards and history of trainees. Nominator should check the nominee’s CV for all the required information.
- One copy of two
reprints representing the nominee's most significant research
- At least two and no more than five additional letters of support, one of which must come from the nominee's Chairperson and/or institutional official and describe in depth the individual's achievements to date and potential for career success. The nomination and Chair's letter may be the same, but at least two letters are required in the nomination packet. Additional letters may be from any combination of colleagues, professional society officers or mentors.
Award Lecture
The awardee will be required to present the FASEB Diversity Award Lecture as part of the FASEB Diversity Program activities at the Experimental Biology 2009 meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The award includes a $10,000 unrestricted research grant funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, meeting registration and travel expenses for the Experimental Biology 2009 meeting and a plaque in recognition of the award. No indirect costs are associated with this award.
Post Complete Nomination packets (PDFs only) here
Deadline: May
30, 2008
Candidates must be members of a FASEB member society.
FASEB Diversity Award
FASEB Career Resources & MARC Program Office
9650 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20814-3998
Telephone: 301-634-7021, E-mail: diversityaward@faseb.org
~ Self-nominations will not be accepted. Incomplete or late packets will be disqualified. No paper Submission accepted. ~
