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October 2007
Graduate School and Women's Center
Distinguished Women Scholars Awards
To: Faculty members, Deans, Department Heads/Chairs
From: Myrna Smith, Director of Faculty Research and Graduate Fellowships, Graduate School
Peg Lonnquist, Interim Director, Office for University Women
Subject: Distinguished Women
Scholars Award Nomination Invitation for 2008
Deadlines:
Nominations to College
Deans: Friday, January 18, 2008
Final nominations from College Deans to the Graduate School: Monday,
January 28, 2008
It is with great pleasure
that we announce the Distinguished Women Scholars Awards competition,
supported collaboratively by the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School
and the Office for University Women.
Established in 2001, this program awards one person per year in each of
the following areas:
- Sciences and Engineering
- Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts
Program Purpose and Description
This program
has been established to acknowledge and honor the accomplishments
of distinguished women scholars at the University of Minnesota.
The focus of this award is the scholarship of distinguished women.
However, faculty of either gender who have performed distinguished
scholarly work that specifically deals with availing new opportunities
for advancement of the scholarly status of women may also be nominated.
The two awards will be presented at a ceremony to be held at the
Annual Celebration for Women sponsored by the Office
for University Women on April 24, 2008, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
in the McNamara Alumni Center Memorial Hall. Each scholar will
be awarded $2,000 to be used for research, scholarly or artistic
activities.
Eligibility
Eligibility is limited to tenured faculty who have been at the University of Minnesota for at least five years. While we anticipate that the majority of nominees will be at the rank of full professor, we recognize that there may be exceptional cases among those who have achieved prominence at earlier stages of their career. Having obtained other distinguished awards or recognition (e.g., McKnight or Regents Professorships) is not a disqualifier.
Nomination Procedure
While nominations should ordinarily be made by the department
chair/head or a standing departmental nomination committee and
forwarded to the collegiate dean, direct nominations by the deans
are also acceptable. Individual faculty may not nominate themselves for this award.
- Nomination dossiers are prepared by department chairs/heads or college deans.
- Nomination dossiers are submitted
to the nominee’s College Deans by Friday, January 18,
2008 .
- The Deans review and write letters of endorsement for the
nominees they wish to select.
- The nomination dossiers including the Deans' endorsement letters
should be submitted to the Graduate School Selection Committee
by Monday, January 28, 2008.
Nominations sent directly to the Graduate School instead of to the respective College Dean’s office will be returned to the nominator.
Review and Selection Criteria
A committee composed of distinguished faculty from different disciplines across the university will review nominations. Selection criteria in order of importance to the committee are:
- Quality of the nominee’s scholarly or creative achievements, with emphasis on originality, imagination and innovation.
- Impact on the field.
- National and international scholarly reputation.
- Distinction in undergraduate and graduate education.
- Contributions to the university, profession and the wider community.
Nominations should be addressed as follows:
Office of the Dean of the Graduate School
Research Support Services
420 JohH
101 Pleasant Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Attn: Distinguished Women Scholars Award Committee
For questions, please contact facgrant@umn.edu  or 612-625-2356. We look forward to receiving your nominations.
List
of Past
Distinguished Women Scholar Awardees
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