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Call for Nominations: Materials Research Society Von Hippel Award
April 01, 2012 Nomination Deadline November 28, 2012 Award Presentation - 2012 MRS Fall Meeting
About the Award
The Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society's highest honor, recognizes those qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers — brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional scientific disciplines.
Award Package
The Von Hippel Award includes a $10,000 cash prize, honorary membership in MRS, and a unique trophy — a mounted ruby laser crystal symbolizing the many-faceted nature of materials research. The award is presented annually at the MRS Fall Meeting where the recipient is invited to speak at the Awards Ceremony. The recipient will have registration fees and reasonable travel expenses paid in order to attend the meeting.
Nomination Information
Nominations for the Von Hippel Award will be accepted from January 1 through April 1.
Please direct questions to info@mrs.org.
Materials Research Society 506 Keystone Drive Warrendale, PA 15086-7537 Get directions via Mapquest
Phone: 724-779-3003 Fax: 724-779-8313
Call for Nominations: Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award
2013 Nomination Deadline: October 01, 2012
To recognize outstanding, interdisciplinary scientific work in materials research by a young scientist or engineer. The award recipient must also show exceptional promise as a developing leader in the materials area.
The annual award consists of a $5,000 cash prize, a presentation trophy, and a certificate. Meeting registration fee and reasonable travel expenses to attend the Materials Research Society meeting at which the award is presented will be reimbursed. Nomination Information
Nominations for the Outstanding Young Investigator Award will be accepted through October 1
Materials Research Society 506 Keystone Drive Warrendale, PA 15086-7537
Call for Nominations: Materials Research Society Mid-Career Researcher Award
Purpose
The Mid-Career Researcher Award recognizes exceptional achievements in materials research made by mid-career professionals. It is intended to honor an individual who is between the ages of 40 and 52 at the time of nomination. Exceptions may be made for an interruption in career progression due to family or military service. The award recipient must also demonstrate notable leadership in the materials area.
The Award
The annual award consists of a $5,000 cash prize, a presentation trophy, and a certificate. Meeting registration fee, transportation and hotel expenses to attend the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting at which the award is presented will be reimbursed.
Nominations for the Mid-Career Researcher Award will be accepted through October 1.
The Mid-Career Researcher Award is made possible through an endowment established by Aldrich Materials Science.
Call for Nominations: Materials Theory Award
The Materials Theory Award recognizes exceptional advances made by materials theory to the fundamental understanding of the structure and behavior of materials. This Award is intended to honor both those who have pioneered the development of a new theoretical approach and those who have used existing approaches to provide significant new insight into materials behavior.
MRS acknowledges the generosity of Dr. Toh-Ming Lu and Dr. Gwo-Ching Wang in endowing the Materials Theory Award.
The annual award consists of a $5,000 cash prize, a presentation trophy, and a certificate. Meeting registration fee, transportation and hotel expenses to attend the Materials Research Society Meeting at which the award is presented will be reimbursed.
Nominations for the Materials Theory Award will be accepted through April 1.
Materials Research Society 506 Keystone Drive Warrendale, PA 15086-7537 Phone: 724-779-3003 Fax: 724-779-8313
Call for Nominations: Innovation in Materials Characterization Award
To honor an outstanding advance in materials characterization that notably increases the knowledge of the structure, composition, in situ behavior under outside stimulus, electronic, mechanical, or chemical behavior, or other characterization feature, of materials. It is not limited to the method of characterization or the class of material observed. Impact of the advance on materials research will be the primary consideration in making the award. Nominations for this award may be made for scientists and engineers in all areas of materials research.
The annual award consists of a $5,000 cash prize, a presentation trophy, and a certificate. The award is presented annually at the MRS Spring Meeting. Meeting registration fee and transportation and hotel expenses to attend the meeting at which the award is presented will be reimbursed.
Endowers
The Innovation in Materials Characterization Award has been endowed by Dr. Toh-Ming Lu and Dr. Gwo-Ching Wang
Nominations for the Innovation in Materials Characterization Award will be accepted through October 1.
Please direct all other questions to info@mrs.org.
Call for Nominations: Materials Research Society David Turnbull Lectureship
Important Dates
January 01, 2012 Nomination Period Begins April 01, 2012 Nomination Deadline November 28, 2012 Award Presentation - 2012 MRS Fall Meeting
The David Turnbull Lectureship is awarded to recognize the career contribution of a scientist to fundamental understanding of the science of materials through experimental and/or theoretical research. In the spirit of the life work of David Turnbull, writing and lecturing also can be factors in the selection process. The recipient will give a technical lecture of broad appeal at a designated session of the MRS Fall Meeting, and he/she will work with the MRS Bulletin staff in preparing an appropriate article for the Bulletin. In addition, the recipient will receive a travel alowance for speaking engagements throughout the year.
The Turnbull Lecturer will receive a $5,000 honorarium and a citation plaque. The registration fee and reasonable travel expenses to the MRS meeting at which the Turnbull Lecture is given will be reimbursed. The David Turnbull Lectureship is intended to support and enrich the materials research community, while honoring the accomplishments of an outstanding researcher and communicator.
Nominations for the David Turnbull Lectureship will be accepted through April 1.
Call for Nominations: Materials Research Society Medal
The MRS Medal is intended to offer public and professional recognition of an exceptional achievement in materials research in the past ten years. A Medal will be awarded for a major advance or series of closely related advances that is expected to have a major impact on the progress of the relevant materials field.
Each Medal will consist of a $5,000 cash prize, an engraved and mounted Medal, and a citation certificate. The registration fee and reasonable travel expenses to the MRS Meeting where the award presentation is made will be reimbursed.
Administration
The MRS Medal program is managed by the Medal Subcommittee of the MRS Awards Committee. The subcommittee is responsible for soliciting and evaluating nominations annually and recommending nominees to the MRS Board for final approval.
Rules and Eligibility
Nomination for the MRS Medal is open to scientists and engineers who have, within the past ten years, been responsible for a major advance, or series of closely related advances, in any materials-related field of research. The impact of their materials research upon the relevant materials field will be a primary consideration in making the awards. The Medal may recognize such impact within a larger traditional field or in a more specialized or developing field. Preference will generally be given to nominations for work which has not previously received appropriate award recognition. Please note that the MRS Medal is intended to highlight a specific, high-impact achievement or a series of closely related achievements in contrast to other awards whose criteria may often be based on accumulated lifetime achievements.
A nominee need not be a member of the Materials Research Society. Current members of the MRS Medal Award Subcommittee, MRS Board members and previous MRS Medal recipients are not eligible. The selection of the Medal winners must be approved by the MRS Board based upon recommendation from the Awards Committee; the decision of the Board is final. Medals will not be awarded in absentia except in extraordinary circumstances. A Medal will normally be awarded to one individual for a cited achievement. However, the Medal may be awarded for a cited achievement attributable to two or three individuals. In that case, each recipient will receive a personal medal trophy, registration, and travel support. The cash award will be divided equally. Nominations remain active for three years. Updates may be made by resubmitting all components (updated and original).
Nomination Package Requirements
Completed Nomination Summary Form
Proposed Citation (<60 words). Summarize the achievements upon which the nomination is based, avoiding flowery descriptors.
Nominator Statement (2-pages maximum), supporting the candidate's suitability for the award with particular reference to:
the specific, crisply defined, recent research achievement which is proposed for recognition the impact of the achievement within the relevant materials field, and its effect on other sciences, and the innovative and perceptive quality of the candidate's work
Curriculum Vitae of the nominee (2-pages maximum)
List of candidate's 10 most relevant publications with proper citation, titles and including a citation analysis (1-page maximum).
Letters of support from two established scientists familiar with the nominee's qualifications and area of research. Each letter must be two-pages or less and should make specific reference to the three criteria in item 3 above. The letters must be on letterhead and include the signature of the supporter.
The entire nomination package must not exceed 10 pages. The final complete nomination package as a Word or PDF document must be in the following order:
Completed Nomination Form, including Proposed Citation Statement by Nominator (2-pages maximum) Curriculum Vitae (2-pages maximum) List of publications and citation analysis (1-page maximum) Two Letters of Support (each letter 2-pages maximum
Nominations remain active for three years. Updates may be made by resubmitting all components (updated and original).
Submission Procedure and Deadline
The full nomination must be compiled as a single file document in Word or PDF format with a maximum of 10 pages. Incomplete nominations will not be accepted. It is the responsibility of the nominator to ensure legibility of the PDF or Word document. Send the file via email to awardsprogram@mrs.org by April 1.
Call for Nominations: 2012 John and Martha Morris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Modern Chemistry or the History of the Chemical Industry
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry solicits nominations for the 2012 John and Martha Morris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Modern Chemistry or the History of the Chemical Industry. This award honours the memory of John and Martha Morris, the late parents of Peter Morris, the editor of Ambix, who has contributed the endowment for this award.
The Morris Award is administered by a sub-committee on behalf of SHAC.
The recipient chosen to receive the Morris Award will be expected to deliver a lecture at a meeting of SHAC, where the awardee will be presented with an appropriate framed photograph, picture or document and the sum of £300. The award is international in scope, and nominations are invited from anywhere in the world.
The first Morris Award was given to Professor Raymond Stokes (University of Glasgow) for his path-breaking work on the German chemical industry.
A complete nomination consists of
* a complete curriculum vitae for the nominee, including biographical data, educational background, awards, honours, list of publications, and other service to the profession;
* a letter of nomination summarising the nominee's achievements in the field of history of modern chemistry and/or the history of the chemical industry and citing unique contributions that merit this award; and
* two or more seconding letters.
Only complete nominations will be considered for the award and the nomination documents must be submitted in electronic form.
All nomination materials should be submitted by e-mail to Peter Morris at peter.morris@nmsi.ac.uk and a separate email which indicates that the material has been submitted should be sent to the same address (a precaution in case of incomplete transmission of documents) for arrival no later than 1 May 2012.
Belinda Michaelides Unit Secretary (and Secretary to Professor Pietro Corsi, History Faculty) Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine 45-47 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE Tel: +44 (0)1865 274600 Fax: +44 (0)1865 274605 Email: belinda.michaelides@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/
Chemical Heritage Foundation 2012-2013 Long and Short Term Fellowships
Applicants must submit the online application form and the following mandatory materials combined into one .pdf attachment by February 15, 2012:
a cover letter introducing yourself and your research project a copy of your CV (3 pages or less) a description of your project (less than 1,500 words)
Generous pre- and postdoctoral fellowships are available for research on the history of chemistry, broadly construed. Fellowships are available for periods of 2 to 9 months and will be spent in residence at CHF in Philadelphia. Travel grants are available for shorter research projects.
Projects funded in the past range from the history of Arabic alchemy and agricultural improvement to nanotechnology, pharmaceutical industry, and trans fats. Research proposals detailing the importance of CHF’s wide-ranging collections for the proposed project will be considered with particular care.
CHF offers several long-term fellowships for scholars studying the history and sociology of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries. Long-term fellows are in residence at CHF for the entire academic year (September–May). All long-term fellows are provided with a private office, a computer, and a direct telephone line.
There are two kinds of long-term fellowships: one for postdoctoral scholars and one for Ph.D. candidates at the dissertation stage.
Postdoctoral fellowships
Applicants for postdoctoral fellowships must have their Ph.D. in hand before the July prior to the start of the fellowship. Postdoctoral fellowship stipends are $43,000 paid in biweekly installments. A $2,000 research allowance is provided in addition to the stipend.
Dissertation fellowships
Applicants for dissertation fellowships must be graduate students whose Ph.D. dissertations have been accepted by their respective university departments. Dissertation fellowship stipends are $25,000 paid in biweekly installments. A $1,000 research allowance is provided in addition to the stipend.
Short-Term Fellowships
CHF offers several short-term fellowships for researchers studying the history and sociology of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries. Short-term fellows are in residence at CHF for periods ranging from two to four months, according to their allocated fellowship.
The short-term fellowship year begins in September and ends the following August. Short-term fellows are allocated a carrel in the Othmer Library’s reading room. Wireless Internet access is available in the reading room.
CHF Short-Term Fellowships
Short-term fellowships are available to researchers whose work requires use of the collections housed at CHF. Stipends are $3,000 per month. No additional research or travel allowances are available.
Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellowship
The Société Fellowship is a special short-term fellowship for individuals whose work benefits public understanding of the heritage of the chemical industries. Applications are encouraged for multimedia projects, popular book and magazine publications, and Web-based projects. Applicants must specify how the outcome of their proposed projects will reach a broad audience. Only one Société Fellowship is available per year.
Société Fellows are in residence at CHF for three months during a given academic year or during the following summer. The stipend for the three months is $10,000 paid in biweekly installments. No additional funds are available for research or travel. There may be an opportunity for the Société Fellow to present work at a regular Société meeting in New York City.
This fellowship is supported by an annual gift from the Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section). Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot Scholarship
The Ullyot Scholarship aims to advance the public understanding of the importance of chemistry and related sciences to the public welfare by supporting graduate or postdoctoral research into the history of chemistry and related sciences. Applications are encouraged for educational media and Web-based projects as well as popular book and magazine publications. Applicants must specify how the outcome of their proposed projects will reach a broad audience. Only one Ullyot Scholarship is available per year.
Ullyot Scholars are in residence at CHF for two months during a given academic year or during the following summer. The stipend for the two months is $6,000 paid in biweekly installments. No additional funds are available for research or travel.
The Ullyot Scholarship is made possible through the generosity of Glenn E. and Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot.
If you have any questions, simply e-mail fellowships@chemheritage.org or travelgrants@chemheritage.org.
Call for Applications: Caltech's Amgen Scholars Program
Application, Recommendations, and Proposal Deadline: February 15, 2012
Caltech's Amgen Scholars program provides students the opportunity to conduct research in biology, chemistry, and bio-technical related fields under the guidance of seasoned research mentors. The program offers students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. a great opportunity to experience the research process.
Amgen Scholarships may be offered in the following fields: biochemistry • bioengineering • bioinformatics • chemical and biomolecular engineering • biopsychology • biotechnology • chemistry • immunology • medical pharmacology • microbiology • molecular genetics • molecular medicine • molecular pharmacology • molecular, cell, and developmental biology • neurobiology • neuroscience • pathology • physiological psychology • physiological science • statistics • toxicology
The Amgen Scholars program is modeled on the grant-seeking process:
Students collaborate with potential mentors to define and develop a project Applicants write research proposals for their projects A faculty committee reviews the proposals and recommends awards Students carry out the work over a 10-week period in the summer, mid-June to late August At the conclusion of the program, they submit a technical paper and give an oral presentation at Seminar Day, a symposium modeled on a professional technical meeting
Eligibility Statement Amgen Scholars must
Be sophomores (with at least 4 quarters or 3 semesters of college course work), juniors, or non-graduating seniors attending 4-year colleges or universities in the U.S., Puerto Rico, or other U.S. territories Have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.2 Not be under any disciplinary sanction Be U.S. citizens or permanent residents Have an interest in pursuing a Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.
Students who have been an Amgen Scholar, at any U.S. site, are not eligible. Please consider applying through the Caltech SURF program.
Requirements Upon receiving an Amgen Scholarship, students sign an agreement to fulfill the following requirements:
To conduct their research from June 18 - August 24, 2012 To devote full effort to conducting the Amgen Scholars project (Scholars are strongly discouraged from taking courses or holding a job) To submit two progress reports signed by their mentors To attend the mid-summer Amgen Scholars conference To submit an abstract of their project To submit a written technical report approved by the mentor To give an oral presentation on one of the scheduled seminar day symposia To attend weekly Amgen Scholar meetings To fully participate in Amgen Scholar assessment efforts To abide by Caltech's Honor Code
Compensation Students receive a $5,500 stipend for the ten-week period. For information on payroll tax issues, please contact sfp@caltech.edu and we will forward your question to the Amgen Scholars payroll coordinator.
Stipend payments will be distributed in equal installments near the first business day in July and August.
Students will also receive a $1500 room and $1200 board allowance, and non-Caltech students will receive reimbursements for their travel to and from Pasadena.
Funding Amgen Scholar stipends are funded from a generous grant from the Amgen Foundation. Mentors pay all research-related costs and provide space.
Amgen Scholar Summer Activities To enrich the research experience, Amgen Scholars may participate in the following activities:
Amgen Scholars weekly lunch meetings to bring participants together for discussions, special programs, and to meet faculty Weekly seminars by Caltech faculty—lunch is provided A professional development series on developing a research career, graduate school admissions, and other topics of interest to future researchers Social and cultural activities Weekly small student-faculty dinners Special field trips
Housing Non-Caltech Amgen Scholars will live in Caltech housing during the ten-week summer period, and they can move into rooms on the first day of the summer program.
General Inquiries amgenscholars@caltech.edu 626.395.2885
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