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The two 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. It is important to indicate in the nomination materials how the nominee’s work resulted in departmental and/or institutional change in terms of the granting of PhDs to underrepresented students. This can be documented not only with quantitative data, but may also be demonstrated through the student and colleague letters of support.

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.

Requirements

• 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, including scholarship, activism, and community building;
• The candidate’s curriculum vitae (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 list of students mentored with year PhD earned, institution and current employment;
• 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.
• Nominations must be made in English.

Deadline: Usually end of June

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The AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science, recognizes early-career scientists and engineers who demonstrate excellence in their contribution to public engagement with science activities.

Eligibility

• Candidate must be “early career” which is defined as an individual who has completed their terminal degree within seven years of the deadline for nominations.
• Candidate must be an individual scientist or engineer. Groups or institutions will not be considered for this award. AAAS employees are ineligible. One scientist or engineer will be chosen to receive the award each year.
• Candidate must be a scientist or engineer actively conducting research in any scientific discipline (including social sciences and medicine). They may be based in academia, government or industry. Public engagement activities must be above and beyond job responsibilities.
• Candidate will have demonstrated excellence in his/her contributions to public engagement with science activities, with a focus on interactive dialogue between the individual and a non-scientific, public audience(s).
• Types of public engagement activities might include: informal science education, public outreach, public policy, and/or science communication activities, such as mass media, public dialogue, radio, TV and film, science cafés, science fairs, and social and online media.

Requirements

• Name, position, institution, professional address, email, and phone of the candidate
• Name, position, institution, professional address, email, and phone of the nominator or person writing the letter of support (in the case of self-nominations)
• Candidate qualifications statement of the public engagement activities that form the basis for the nomination – This statement of 500 words should discuss the candidate’s approach to public engagement. It should emphasize the candidate’s public engagement goal(s), intended audience(s), and message(s), as well as the level and type of dialogue achieved with their audiences, evaluation of public engagement work, and examples of how public engagement has affected the candidate’s scientific work.
• A letter of support from the nominator (a person who can speak to the candidate’s public engagement efforts) – This letter should provide more insight into the candidate’s work and discuss their accomplishments and can be written by a colleague, supervisor or participant.
• Up to two additional letters from different nominators may be submitted (not required).
• At least two (up to three) representative material samples or other documentation which illustrate or describe the candidate’s public engagement contributions. Samples should exhibit the activities discussed in the statement and further contribute to the narrative of the nomination, showing different representations of the breadth of their public engagement.
• The candidate’s curriculum vitae – Limit CV to five pages, with a specific section highlighting public engagement activities distinct from work that is required as part of the candidate’s job.

Deadline: Usually end of June

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