One award is given at the predoctoral/postdoctoral level and one at the junior faculty level.
Recipients receive a $750 travel award to help defray the cost of attending SfN’s annual meeting and a $300 honorarium. The recipient's chapter receives a $2,000 chapter grant to be used to continue the chapter's outreach efforts in the following year. The SfN president presents the awards at a lecture at the SfN annual meeting. When awarded to a group at the pre/postdoctoral level, each individual receives a $300 honorarium and the chapter should either appoint one person to receive the $750 travel award or determine how to split it among the members.
Submit all materials using SfN's award nomination site. Include the following:
- One nomination letter submitted by the chapter representative. If a group of individuals is being nominated for the pre/postdoctoral award, the distinct roles of each individual must be clearly described in this letter.
- Current CV
- Nominator and nominee should answer the questions enclosed in the forms below and submit via SfN’s nomination site.
Nominations for the 2015 award are due by Wednesday, June 3.
Eligibility:
- Must demonstrate outstanding contributions to outreach and science education activities for SfN or its local chapters.
- Readiness to take leadership roles designing and/or executing chapter outreach efforts the following year is required (must be documented in Annual Chapter Report).
- Nomination must be by an active chapter that has submitted an annual Chapter Report within the past year. See chapter guidelines for information about chapter requirements.
- Current predoctoral/postdoctoral students only. A group of up to four predoctoral/postdoctoral students in cases where cooperation was essential for the success of the activity is allowed.
- Junior faculty nominees must be scientists within 10 years of receiving an advanced degree.
- Each chapter may only submit one nomination per category per year.
- Nominee may not be a recipient of another SfN travel award in the same year.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and-Funding/Individual-Prizes-and-Fellowships/Science-Education-and-Outreach/Next-Generation-Award