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Distinguished Research Professor Award Nominations

Published November 4, 2014

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Deadline: Thursday, February 5, 2015, 11:59 p.m.

DATE: August 2014
TO: FSU Faculty
FROM: Garnett Stokes, Interim President
VIA: Gary K. Ostrander, Vice President for Research
RE: Distinguished Research Professor Award, Call for Nominations, 2014 – 2015

Important Dates:

  • Deadline: Thursday, February 5, 2015, 11:59 p.m.
  • Note: There may be earlier deadlines at the department, college or school levels for signing off on these nominations before they are submitted to the CRC.
  • Award notification directly to the PI via email w/attachments is planned for late March, 2015.
  • Awards will be presented by the university president at the Faculty Awards Program, which is generally in the spring.
  • Award Period: Lifetime; $10,000 award is one-time only

Introduction:

Florida State University, with the advice and assistance of the Council on Research and Creativity (CRC), requests nominations for Distinguished Research Professor. This award has been designed to recognize outstanding research and/or creative activity of eligible Florida State University faculty.

Colleges and schools are encouraged to make a sensitive inventory of eligible colleagues and present nomination packets for their very best candidates.

Eligibility:

  • This award is open to well-established full professors who, as of August 2014, have completed at least five years in the rank of Professor at FSU. Faculty who currently hold a named professorship may be nominated for this recognition.
  • A member of the FSU faculty who receives this award will be entitled to use the title, Distinguished Research Professor, throughout subsequent employment at FSU, or until such time as that title is surpassed through receipt of the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Award or the Daisy Parker Flory Award.
  • Faculty already holding an endowed chair, the Robert O. Lawton Award, the Daisy Parker Flory Award, or the Distinguished Research Professor Award are not eligible.

Criteria:

Candidates:

  1. Must be a full-time full professor faculty who, as of August 2014, has completed at least five years in the rank of professor at Florida State University;
  2. The candidate, or letters from a nominator, the department chair, the dean, must show evidence of outstanding scholarly productivity and/or creative activity;
    1. Must show evidence of the candidate’s national and international visibility in endeavors that emphasize research and/or creative activities;
    2. Must show evidence of the candidate’s recognition and honors related to research and/or creative activity; and
    3. Must provide comments on how the candidate’s research informs her/his teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Award:

Recipients of this honor will receive a one-time award of $10,000. Recipients will receive a check with fringe benefits and tax considerations deducted. The awardee’s will be recognized at the annual Faculty Awards Ceremony generally scheduled in the spring. This award does not carry with it a release from regular teaching or service activities.

Examples:

Examples of selected successful proposals are available on our Blackboard site.

Log on to your Blackboard. Click on your Organizations tab to find the FSU Office of Research link. If you find that you are not subscribed to this link, please contact Patrice C. Williams to request subscription.

After entering the FSU Office of Research Blackboard site, you will find the CRC Examples link in the left column.

Submission Process:

The nomination process will be electronic only! All materials are to be prepared for each nominee and will include, in this order:

Nomination Elements:

  1. A letter of nomination, addressed to the DRP Review Committee, from a Florida State University faculty member or administrator, or self-nominating letter addressing the specifics as laid out in Criteria section above and a brief, 2 page CV of the letter’s author is expected.
  2. No more than three EXTERNAL letters (non-FSU), addressed to the DRP Review Committee. Letters must be written no earlier than 18 months prior to the date of this announcement August 2014. It is expected that these external letters will be written from people who have a direct knowledge or research relationship to the nominee; a statement on the qualifications of and a brief 2 page CV of the external letter writers are expected.NOTE: It is required that all external letters be mailed back to the person in the department area who requested the letters so that all letters can be included in the materials that are uploaded to nominate the candidates.
  3. INTERNAL FSU letters addressed to the DRP Review Committee in support of the nomination from the nominee’s dean, director (if applicable), and department chair carry significant weight and are expected;
  4. The nominee’s vita; (NOTE: If extensive lists or photos of projects are vital, such information should be set up in a website linked to this data and referenced at the end of the vita.)
  5. A list of FSU graduate student advisees (present and former);
  6. A list of external contract and grant awards (with dates and amounts); and
  7. A list of invited talks.

NOTE: In those instances where asked to submit multiple letters and short CVs from individuals providing letters regarding the nominee, scan the materials and, using the Adobe Acrobat Professional version software, organize those materials into one document to be uploaded into the CRC system in the appropriate location.

Submissions:

You must use the CRC On-line System to electronically submit your nomination information.

You do not need special training to use the CRC OnLine system. It is only through this process that your nomination will be accessible to reviewers so that evaluations can be recorded and funding recommendations made and perhaps awarded.

The Submission Process

Completely read the instructions in this announcement. Prepare and save the various required elements in a computer. See Submission Process above for specific information required for submission.

At Nomination Submissions follow these simple instructions.

  1. The name of the person in the PROFILE must be the name of the nominee. The other information related to the person in the PROFILE must also reflect information regarding the nominee.
  2. Start the Submit a Nomination process by answering all the questions about the nominee and uploading each of the required elements.
  3. In the CRC On-Line System, you will have an opportunity to submit/store/save your material and update/edit it until the posted deadline for the program.
  4. The nominee will receive an email confirmation of the submission, even in its initial form, providing a login name and password. If you are not the nominee and need to revisit the submission in the CRC System, contact the nominee for a copy of the email or contact the Program Coordinator for that information.
  5. In the CRC system, you will see that each of the ‘elements’ has its own ‘slot’ to be filled with that particular document only-one slot for each nomination element.

NOTE: In those instances where you are asked to submit multiple letters and short CVs from individuals in support of the nominee, scan the materials and, using the Adobe Acrobat Professional version software, organize those materials into one document to be uploaded into the CRC system in the appropriate location.

Materials received after the deadline will not be processed and incomplete materials will not be accepted, so please revisit the existing submission to make certain it is complete before the deadline.

Selection Process:

All departments are urged to nominate their most qualified full professors. The CRC will accept all nominations from each school or college (but preferably no more than one per department) and will recommend up to six candidates to the University President from which up to three DRPs will be selected.

Questions?

Patrice C. Williams
Council on Research and Creativity Coordinator
Office of the Vice President for Research
Florida State University
2022 Westcott North Annex, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1330

Phone 850-645-5751, email

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