The Early Career Scholar of the Year Award recognizes assistant professors at the University of Iowa who show excellent promise for making a significant contribution to research, scholarship, or creative activity.
Eligibility
Assistant professors with a 50% or greater faculty appointment at the University of Iowa are eligible.
Deans, associate deans, and departmental executive officers (DEOs) are preferred nominators. Self-nominations are permitted.
Competitive nominees will demonstrate impact through criteria such as:
Superior scholarship as evidenced by recent publications or artistic or creative output.
Receipt of distinguished awards.
Receipt of major external funding.
Record of highly cited, influential publications.
Award categories
We recognize that human knowledge and the capacity for creation — and thus the topics that scholars and academicians choose to understand, study, create, innovate, and critique — are immensely vast and difficult to categorize. We recognize also that individual scholarship may be interdisciplinary, crossing multiple categories.
With those caveats, we accept nominations in three categories. The categories should be interpreted broadly, with the expectation that all University of Iowa scholars can be placed into one of the three categories for award consideration. Nominations in multiple categories are not permitted. Nominators should select the most closely aligned category, recognizing that the fit may not be perfect.
Group 1: Arts, humanities, law, and qualitative social sciences, broadly construed
Group 2: Natural, physical, life, engineering, computational, and mathematical sciences; and quantitative social sciences, broadly construed
Group 3: Health, biomedical, and clinical sciences, broadly construed
Nomination and selection process
Required documents:
Letter of nomination: A letter describing the nominee’s qualifications and accomplishments.
Nominee's curriculum vitae (CV) or NIH biosketch: No more than 10 pages.
Late materials will not be accepted.
Award details
A $1,000 prize and a commemorative gift.
Recognition at the University of Iowa Faculty and Staff Awards Celebration, usually held in May.
Select "Apply" and sign in with your HawkID and password using the blue "University of Iowa Login" button.
For questions or assistance, contact Lauren Galliart at lauren-galliart@uiowa.edu in the Office of the Vice President for Research well before the deadline.