Vol. 59, No. 4 | November 2014
 

Call for Nominations



CAREER AWARDS


Submission Deadline: December 5th, 2014.

The Animal Behavior Society has a series of Career Awards that include the following:

Distinguished Animal Behaviorist: outstanding lifetime achievement in animal behavior
Exemplar Award: major long-term contribution to animal behavior
Outstanding New Investigator: outstanding contribution by a new investigator
Quest Award: outstanding seminal contribution
Exceptional Service Award: sustained service contributions to the Animal Behavior Society
Penny Bernstein Distinguished Teaching Award: distinguished contributions in teaching animal behavior to undergraduates.

Previous winners can be found here: http://animalbehaviorsociety.org/grants-and-awards/career-awards-1

All members of the society are encouraged to prepare and submit nominations for these awards. To aid the Selection Committee and to help codify the procedures involved, the following items must be submitted for a nomination: (1) a letter of nomination indicating the award for which the nominee is being proposed. It should provide details on the reasons the nominee should be considered for that award; (2) a curriculum vitae of the nominee; and (3) additional supporting letters from colleagues solicited by the nominator. These materials should be submitted online and additional instructions are available at http://awards.animalbehaviorsociety.org. Please note that the award submission deadline this year is December 5, 2014.

Nominations should be submitted online and additional information is available at http://awards.animalbehaviorsociety.org.



PENNY BERNSTEIN DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD


Submission Deadline: December 5th, 2014.

History of the Award: The Distinguished Teaching Award is one of the annual Animal Behavior Society career awards that recognize contributions to the field of animal behavior.  Since the first recipient, Jane Brockman (1995), distinguished recipients have included among others, Gail Michener (2000), John Alcock (2007), and Bill Eberhard (2009). In 2013, the Society changed the name of the award to the Penny Bernstein Distinguished Teaching Award, in recognition of the contributions made to animal behavior education by the late Penny Bernstein.

Award Criteria: Nominees must be ABS members who are not current officers or committee chairs.  They must have a sustained record of excellent teaching in the classroom or informal education setting (e.g., zoos, aquaria, museums, 4-H programs, research labs, field stations, environmental centers). They should have a reputation among peers and students for excellence in educating people about animal behavior.

Please consider nominating a colleague whose educational accomplishments you admire! It is easy to know about our colleagues’ research by reading publications; it is much more difficult to know about their teaching excellence. Please take this opportunity to recognize colleagues who have demonstrated a sustained record of highly effective and innovative teaching.

Persons wishing to make a nomination should complete the online submission form, along with a one-page letter providing evidence to support the nomination, and include names of at least two additional peer reviewers and two current or former students or program participants. Names of Department chairs, directors, supervisors, or colleagues may be helpful if you are not at the same institution as the nominee. Please note that self-nomination is permitted.

The Education Committee will solicit supporting materials from the nominee and the peer and student reviewers suggested by the nominator, and will review all materials received to select the awardee. If you would like to re-nominate an individual for the award, please submit a letter indicating that you are doing so and provide any additional information you feel might be helpful. You may also provide names of additional peer or student reviewers.

The recipient of this award receives recognition, a plaque from the Society, and the opportunity to organize an education-related event at an annual meeting.

Nominations should be submitted online and additional information is available at http://awards.animalbehaviorsociety.org.


 

 
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