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The CUR Biology Division Mentor Awards honor biology mentors for their sustained efforts in supervising undergraduate research (UGR) students. Individuals may either be self-nominated or nominated by someone else. Nominators must be CUR Institutional/Institutional-Enhanced members or individual CUR members of the Biology Division. Nominations by the mentor's research students are also accepted. Faculty mentoring interdisciplinary projects are eligible as long as such projects involve a major biological component. Awards will be made in three categories: Early Career, Mid-Career, and Advanced Career.
Nomination Process, Application Process, and Deadlines For nominations made by students:
For Colleague and Self Nominations: The completed application materials outlined below were required by April 15, 2023.
Required Application Materials. The following application materials are required to be submitted by all mentor nominees. The deadline for submission of these materials was April 15, 2023:
Submit all information above in a single PDF file that includes: institutional profile survey information, nomination letter, nominee CV, and two student letters to this form by April 15, 2023.
Submit Application Materials
Jacqueline Jones, PhD Troy University 2022 Biology Division Faculty Mentor Award (Early Career)
Shannon Hinsa-Leasure, PhD Grinnell College 2022 Biology Division Faculty Mentor Award (Mid Career)
Clark Lindgren, PhD Grinnell College 2022 Biology Division Faculty Mentor Award (Advanced Career)
• Misty Thomas (assistant professor, North Carolina A&T State University, early-career awardee) • Mark Emerson (associate professor, The City College of New York, CUNY, early-career awardee) • Maryann Herman (associate professor, St. John Fisher College, mid-career awardee)
• Anne Brown (assistant professor, Virginia Tech, early-career awardee) • Christopher Lassiter (professor of biology and director of undergraduate research, Roanoke College, mid-career awardee) • Terry Hill (professor, Rhodes College, advanced-career awardee)
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