AAAS Mentor Awards
The two categories of the AAAS Mentor Awards (Lifetime Mentor Award and Mentor Award) both honor individuals who during their careers demonstrate extraordinary leadership to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering fields and careers. These groups include: women of all racial or ethnic groups; African American, Native American, and Hispanic men; and people with disabilities.
Both awards recognize an individual who has mentored and guided significant numbers of students from underrepresented groups to the completion of doctoral studies or who has impacted the climate of a department, college, or institution to significantly increase the diversity of students pursuing and completing doctoral studies.
Such commitment and extraordinary effort may be demonstrated by:
- the number and diversity of students mentored;
- assisting students to present and publish their work, to find financial aid, and to provide career guidance;
- providing psychological support, encouragement, and essential strategies for life in the scholarly community;
- continued interest in the individual’s professional advancement
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Categories
Lifetime Mentor Award: A prize of $5,000 will be awarded. This individual will have served in the role of mentor for 25 or more years.
Mentor Award: A prize of $5,000 will be awarded. This individual will have served in the role of mentor for less than 25 years.
Both award category recipients receive: A monetary prize, a commemorative plaque, complimentary registration, and reimbursement for reasonable travel and hotel expenses to attend the AAAS Annual Meeting.
Eligibility
The award is open to all regardless of nationality or citizenship. Nominees must be living at the time of their nomination.
Nomination Procedures
You should provide:
- Category of award (Lifetime Mentor Award or Mentor Award)
- Position, institution, professional address, phone and fax, and home address, phone, and e-mail of the candidate;
- Name, position, institution, professional address, phone, fax, and e-mail of the nominator;
- a summary of the actions that form the basis for the nomination (about 250 words);
- a letter of nomination that enumerates the ways in which the person reflects the purpose of this award;
- the candidate’s vita (3-page maximum);
- the total number of students the candidate mentored at the bachelor’s or master’s level who went on to the doctoral level at other institutions, and the total number of underrepresented students the candidate mentored at the doctoral level;
- a maximum of five supporting letters from students and three supporting letters from colleagues representative of the different spheres in which the candidate has demonstrated effort, results, and commitment. Letters of nominations for candidates who are not direct doctoral mentors must indicate how the nominee mentored graduate students before and during the graduate school years.
All materials become the property of AAAS.
Submit
If you would like to apply for this award you must return a completed application form. These are available from AAAS (see address below).
Alternatively you may download an Acrobat version (97k) of the form and print it out yourself. Please note that the Adobe Acrobat Reader program must be installed on your computer to do this.
If you have a specific question and have been unable to find the answer on this Web site please get in touch with us at the address below.
Please submit all information to:
Mentor Awards Coordinator
AAAS Education & Human Resources Programs
1200 New York Avenue, NW Room 650
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-326-6670
Fax: 202-371-9849
E-mail: ygeorge@aaas.org
Past Recipients
You can read lists of past recipients of the Mentor Award and the Lifetime Mentor Award.
DEADLINES
All materials must be received by 31 July.
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