Dean’s Early Career Achievement Award

This award recognizes exceptional achievement in research and education by an early-career tenure-stream faculty member in the College of Science.

Award: $1,000

Eligibility

Nominees must be no more than four years beyond the tenure date.

Nominations will be reviewed based on the following areas:

Exceptional achievement in research as evidenced by honors and awards; scholarship being featured in important (to the field or Science) venues; significant publications; significant grant funding record; significant number of patents & inventions; research has strong societal impact; scholarship has strong standing in basic research in Science; or similar examples.
Exceptional achievement in education as evidenced by the building of an inclusive research community which includes mentoring of diverse students and postdocs; nominee has engaged in innovative pedagogies for transformative learning, nominee has developed workshops or courses or curriculum that are in cutting edge research areas, other similar examples.
Equity Impact as evidenced by examples of how the nominee promotes equity, inclusivity, and access. Provide examples.

Nomination letter on letterhead (750 words or fewer)
Biographical sketch (2 pages with content that supports award)
List of Nominee’s most significant publications (8 maximum)
Support letters, one or two (less than 1.3 pages); writers should be outside nominee’s home department and preferably outside OSU

Submit one compiled pdf to [email protected]

Nominations that do not meet the guidelines will be returned to the nominator without review.