This award recognizes a faculty member for their excellence in research through significant discoveries and scholarship. It is intended for scholars who are making an impact in their field and on society, and are acknowledged as a leader in their field.

This award recognizes a team of faculty researchers (3 or more individual scholars) who have collectively made unique and significant contributions through their research collaboration. The award also recognizes innovative approaches to the process of research collaborations by a team of researchers.

This award recognizes a faculty member for their outstanding contributions to arts and humanities. It is intended for faculty who are creating new knowledge and creative works in their discipline that are acknowledged by their peers as meeting the highest standards in their fields. Often the work and its impact on society will have the potential of becoming a gold standard in the field.

Nominated by faculty mentee(s), this award recognizes faculty members for their dedicated and extraordinary efforts to help others succeed in their research careers. This award is intended to recognize mentoring of faculty members, not students or others. For 2023, a special emphasis will be on faculty who mentor underrepresented minorities and women.

This award recognizes contributions by faculty from all academic disciplines who help to improve lives and serve society through their work. The award includes individuals who demonstrate public impact either through public outreach or dissemination of their work, or through direct public partnership and engagement with a particular community. The former includes proactively sharing research or viewpoints on research and policy issues with the public via traditional or new media channels, while the latter means working with a particular community on a community research project designed for positive impact. Methods and approaches should be demonstrated within the planning phase of the research. This award acknowledges that both efforts serve the larger mission of creating and disseminating knowledge across all disciplines for the benefit of the community, the region and the world. Notable characteristics of Public Impact Focused Research include the following: Broad participation and engagement, which includes external stakeholders, experts, university researchers, students, and diverse members of the community—potentially including global partners. Creation or synthesis of new knowledge or understanding, with benefit to the public the central purpose of any public impact project —and often responding to the needs of a particular community. Involvement of researchers from multiple disciplines. Outcomes of such research may be transitioned to commercial or non-profit organizations or to communities for actual deployment in the “real world.”

All nomination packages for the research awards should include the following: Coversheet: Download template. [this includes name, title and school of nominee, name of award, and name, title of nominator; 200 words or less executive summary/abstract] Nomination letter (up to 2 pages): This letter should introduce the nominee to the review committee and provide an assessment of excellence and supporting documentation for consideration by the review committee. One External Letter of Support (up to 2 pages): This letter is optional for all categories except for the Distinguished Researcher Award for which it is required. Nominee’s abbreviated curriculum vitae (2 pages for each CV): For a team nomination a max of three CVs. All documents should be in Calibri, Font size 12. Combined in order listed. File name for PDF should be AwardName.NominatedFacultyLastname.FirstName (e.g. ResearchExcellence.Cole.Meredith) Email completed nomination as a pdf to info@manuscriptscientific.com.