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2009-2010 Distinguished Scholar Award

Nomination deadline by 5 p.m. November 2, 2009
in the Office for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship (OARS, 102 Roudebush Hall)

CONTENTS

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

MEMORANDUM

To: All Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty
From: Committee on Faculty Research (CFR)
Date: August 1, 2009
Subject: Distinguished Scholar Awards

On behalf of the Committee on Faculty Research (CFR), we wish to remind you of the Miami University Distinguished Scholar Awards, designed to honor faculty who have demonstrated a sustained level of excellence in research or other creative activity. The awards are made annually under the auspices of the Committee on Faculty Research (CFR).

The program guidelines that provide information, eligibility criteria, and nomination procedures for the Miami University Distinguished Scholar awards are available in pdf format. The CFR hopes that you will give serious consideration to nominating a worthy colleague for this honor.

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GUIDELINES

Miami University Awards for Distinguished Scholarship

The Miami University Distinguished Scholar Award honors faculty whose sustained excellence in research or other creative activity has brought them prominence in their fields.

The following Distinguished Scholar Awards may be made:

  • one in the humanities and fine arts,
  • one in the applied and natural sciences,
  • one in business, education, and social sciences.

All three of these awards will be conferred on faculty members with a substantial and continuing record of outstanding scholarly or creative work.

  • one award will be for a faculty member, selected from the university at large, who has demonstrated great potential in research or artistry and achieved some standing in the field.

Candidates for this latter award must have received their highest degree no more than eight years before the time of nomination.

Except in the case of junior faculty, the award will not ordinarily be given to the same person more frequently than every ten years.

Any faculty member may nominate or renominate any other regular tenured or tenure track faculty member for a Distinguished Scholar Award.

Nominations should be inclusive with respect to the faculty member's accomplishments, but special consideration will be given to the nominee's record in research and creative activities while at Miami.

The nomination letters are important in the evaluation process and should include:

  1. a perspective on the contribution of the candidate to his/her field that is understandable to the non-specialist; and
  2. information on the importance/ impact of the candidate's contribution on the national/ international level (also understandable to a non-specialist).

The deadline for submitting nominations November 3, 2009. Nominations will be reviewed, and awards decided, by the Committee on Faculty Research (CFR).

Each recipient of a Distinguished Scholar Award will receive a grant of $2,000 for the pursuit of further research or creative endeavor. All persons selected for this award will be honored publicly.

Nominations will be solicited annually by the CFR. Each nomination should include:

  • the original completed nomination form (signed by both nominators),
  • a SEPARATE letter of nomination from EACH of the nominating Miami faculty members
  • current curriculum vitae of the nominee.

Nomination letters should speak to and document the nominee's standing in the field, highlighting particularly acclaimed works and any professional recognitions, honors, and leadership roles.

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Distinguished Scholar Awardees

2008-2009
Christopher A. Makaroff, Chemistry & Biochemistry
James N. Creech, French & Italian
Robert A. Applebaum, Sociology & Gerontology
Michelle D. Boone, Zoology

2007-2008
Paul B. Larson, Mathematics & Statistics
Patrick J. Haney, Polticial Science
James T. Oris, Zoology

2006-2007
Hailiang Dong, Geology
Tao Jiang, Mathematics and Statistics

2005-2006
John Z. Kiss, Botany
Hongcai Zhou, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Margaret Ziolkowski, German, Russian and East Asian Languages

2004-2005
James A. Cox, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Stephen Tuck, Classics
Robert Weinberg, Physical Education Health & Sport Studies
Judith Zinnser, History

2003-2004
Ann L. Rypstra, Zoology
Garold L. Stasser, Psychology
Jane Butler Kahle, Teacher Education
Katia Del-Rio Tsonis, Zoology

2002-2003
Gary A. Lorigan, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Yildirim Dilek, Geology

2001-2002
Allen R. McConnell, Psychology
Britton J. Harwood, English
Gilbert Gordon, Chemistry & Biochemistry
John M. Rothgeb, Political Science

2000-2001
A. John Bailer, Mathematics and Statistics
Narcisse Randrianantoanina, Mathematics and Statistics
Susan R. Ewing, Art
William B. Stiles, Psychology

1999-2000
Doris Bergen, Educational Psychology
Michael W. Crowder, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Sheldon I. Guttman, Zoology
Susan J. Morgan, English