Questions tagged [awards]
Questions concerning special recognition for particular achievements, usually assessed competitively, within academia.
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Is declining an undergraduate award which causes me discomfort appropriate?
I have been offered an award to be presented to me at my graduation this summer at an English university. The award is not for academic achievement per se. It's for gaining my science degree despite ...
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How to politely decline the university medal?
I have studied in an Australian university and throughout my university studies, I declined all prizes awarded to me. It is not that I have had something against my university but it is due to my own ...
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Share prize money from conference presentation award with co-authors?
I am a PhD student and I recently won a young scientist award and prize money (~500 USD) at a conference for the "best presentation". I did the majority of the work for the presentation, and I was the ...
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Should I share the prize money from a paper award for my graduate work with my former PhD advisor?
I am a postdoc, and with my former Ph.D. adviser have won a paper award which includes a sizable prize (10k+). I am the first author on the paper, and he is the second. The work is entirely mine, but ...
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Will declining a research award be problematic for me, or other people?
I recently received an offer for a research award for early-stage scholars producing outstanding research in my field. I have verified the award and the association are genuine and I have colleagues ...
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Are best-paper awards for conferences rigged/pre-decided?
Recently I had an acceptance from a very good conference in our field. Three out of four reviewers gave excellent comments, while one gave a poor comment.
I was telling my friend that if I had had one ...
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May my distinguished referee award be withdrawn if I inform the editors that I've actually left academia?
I left academia years ago and am self-employed, but haven't stopped refereeing papers for one of the journals I published a few papers in. Now I've been informed by the editors that I've been selected ...
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What should I do with award certificates?
I recently won the "Best Student Paper" award at a moderately significant conference in my field (subfield of CS).
This came with a Trophy and a Certificate.
The trophy I will put in the corner of my ...
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Nominating a professor for a fellowship
I know a professor who is really brilliant, but also very modest. This professor has helped me to progress in life. Now, I want to express my gratitude by nominating him as ACM Fellow. However, I have ...
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Has the Nobel Foundation said anything about the skewed gender ratio in the 2021 Nobel laureates?
For this question I exclude the Nobel Peace prize.
A few years ago there was some talk by the Nobel committees and the Nobel Foundation board to be more inclusive. The committee explicitly called for ...
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Eagle Scout rank on CV?
Q: Should I keep Eagle Scout (the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America) on my CV?
I do not think that this is an appropriate item to include on a CV. ...
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What are the benefits of a poster award?
What are the benefits of poster awards? Is being awarded at a conference really useful for one's career (e.g. when applying for a PhD or a job) or is it just scene? In other words: Can I say that ...
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Difference between grants and awards
The tag grants currently has the description "Academic grants are non-repayable funds disbursed by government, trust, foundation or a society." The tag awards currently has no description.
I am ...
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How do scientists get nominated for society awards? Should I ask someone else to nominate me?
I never get nominated for any award. I was wondering how people get nominated for society awards.
I am a full professor, and I have an h-index of 45. I have more than 11,000 citations, so there isn't ...
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If the poster gets a prize, who gets it, the person presenting it or the first author?
Suppose I have done a collaborative work, where I do 80% of the work. Hence, I am the first author. Now my collaborator goes to a conference to present a poster of that work. In the poster too, my ...
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Awards in which gender identity is a requirement
A friend of mine is considered a minority in her research field, for being female. Recently, her advisor wanted to nominate her paper for an award sponsored by a kind of Women's Engineering Society. ...
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Has a STEM professor ever won an Oscar? [closed]
Has a STEM professor ever been nominated for - or won - an Oscar for their academic research?
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How does a university award honorary doctorate?
Important scholars (e.g. Nobel laureates) regularly receive honorary doctorate from different universities. I know that the Board of Trustees (or a similar board) reviews available nominations and ...
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If I'm key personnel on an NIH grant . . . can I put that on my CV?
I'm a postdoc in the sciences.
My supervisor submitted a grant renewal to the NIH recently and listed me as "key personnel" on it. The renewal received very high marks and is likely to be approved.
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Should I mention an achievement without a proof on my CV?
Several years ago I participated in a conference as a speaker, and my speech was so good it got a third place award for the best speaker.
For many years it was stated on the organizer's website, and I'...
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What should I do if someone else claims an award that I actually won?
I am a PhD student. A few years ago, I won the best paper award at a conference.
However, they didn't post the list of winners on the conference website.
But when I google the name of the conference, ...
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Why do some Universities give honorary degrees?
Most of the question is the title: Why do some Universities give honorary degrees?
E.g. the President of Indonesia, Sukarno, got 26 honorary doctorates, and Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe has ...
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Why are honorary degrees awarded to celebrities?
Chiranjeevi was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Andhra University. He is an actor, so how did he earn an honorary degree if he has not contributed anything to education?
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What is facultyawards.org?
I recently received an unsolicited email from https://facultyawards.org. I tried Google to get a better sense of just what this group intends, but I couldn't find much insight. My question is simply ...
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How are best reviewer awards given (in a computer science conference)?
I have often seen people(postdoc, etc.) listing in their CV or webpage that they were awarded best reviewer for conference X. I have recently been invited to become a reviewer for a conference, which ...
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Why does the Nobel committee not award prize to collaborations?
The 2013 Physics Nobel prize went to François Englebert and Peter Higgs, for their discovery of the Higgs boson. I was wondering why the CERN, as an institution, or the ATLAS collaboration, are not co-...
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Are awards in academia useful?
Is there any research/study that looked at the usefulness of giving awards in academia? By useful I mean weighting the positive and negative effects. I'm interested in three kinds of awards: awards to ...
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Roughly what date do NSF Postdoc Fellowship announcements occur?
I can't find any information about when NSF announces the recipients of their postdoctoral fellowship awards. I'm specifically interested in the one for mathematics. I'd like to use this information ...
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In a conference, when will the decision of best paper (or other award) be made?
I am just curious, do they make the decision before the conference?
Or do they watch the presentation of potential candidates first and then make the decision?
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How to get nominated for awards?
I came to the US with my PhD classmate having similar backgrounds and took postdocs at two different universities. My research output is much better than him, but he has won three awards from ...
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Can a theoretical physicist win a Nobel Prize anymore?
The background: The big news in the science world this week is that, on Thursday, it will be officially announced that LIGO has detected gravitational waves. Some people have even started talking ...
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Should one highlight an article's positions in the journal issue if it is first?
I just had an article published and it was the first article in that issue of the journal. At first, I wondered if that had any significance. I had an article given the cover of a journal before but ...
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Do scientists/researchers only get awards by application/nomination, or can their achievements ever speak for themselves?
For instance, Katalin Karikó, key researcher in mRNA technology in immunology and therapies got a bunch of awards in 2021 as a result of the COVID19 vaccine being developed based on her work.
Did ...
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Nominating a graduate student for a mentorship award
I'm an undergraduate student in CS and I want to nominate my graduate student mentor for a mentorship award at my university.
He has been my mentor for a year and a half and over that time he has ...
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Special professor titles?
I have noticed several special professor titles and I was wondering what are the exact details behind them. For example:
Stan Franklin, W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor
I am ...
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What is Summa cum Laude and how do you get it? (USA)
What is Summa cum Laude and how do you get it (USA)? Is this equivalent to First Class Honors in Australia? What is the equivalent of an Australian University medal in the USA?
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At what point do you remove undergrad / graduate awards and honors from your CV?
Like most academics, my CV gradually gets longer, as each year I add new information. Rarely do I go through and remove information that seems no longer relevant.
I realized today that my CV still ...
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How to list an academic award received multiple times on CV
I was distinguished as 'Best Freshman' when I started university as a freshman. If, as I did, I managed to display an exceptional academic performance, I was re-awarded this distinction (which ...
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Ideal ways of making a call for nominations
We're currently putting out a Call for Nominations for graduate research and historically we've received very few nominations. What are some good strategies to get more nominations. Should we be more ...
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Do prizewinners use prize money for academic purposes?
Suppose Alice wins the Nobel Prize and $1 million. Does the prize money go entirely to personal matters, or is she likely to use some (most/all?) of it for academic pursuits? If the latter, how does ...
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Why are there so many awards in academia in the US compared with academia in France?
I spent a bit of time in France and in the USA. I observed that there are many more awards given to students and academics in the US than there are in France. Is that observation correct, and if so ...
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Prizes and awards: what about travel grants?
I am applying for various postdoc grants at the moment. They all have some section concerning Prizes and Awards. While I understand that this obviously includes things like 'best poster presentation' ...
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Explain award on CV? [duplicate]
I recently received an award. It's relatively prestigious (even internationally), but it's not well-known outside of my discipline, and its name is not very explicit (nor is it in English). Should I ...
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How much should poster/talk prizes be spread at a symposium?
I am one of a group of students organising an institute-wide symposium (by and) for PhD students.
PhD students will be invited to apply to give a short talk (about 8 spaces in total) or to present a ...
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How much of a grad-school dissertation fellowship should I personally keep?
I've recently been awarded a graduate school dissertation fellowship which (unlike many other fellowships) is awarded directly to me personally rather than to my institution. Normally, when ...
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Is it useful to list the exact name of a prize or grant in a resume?
Given that a lot of prizes or grants are specific to a particular university, is there any point in listing the exact name of a prize or grant on one's resume?
For example, if I say that I won "John ...
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Listing Awards on CV as a Group?
I work in a field where a group of about 20 people all have a different role on a project. When a project wins an award in this field, they typically do not list people individually. How can I put ...
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How to write a letter to nominate an awesome Professor for an award?
How to write a letter to nominate an awesome past Professor for an award for work he has done in our university? This professor established a cyber security scholarship program at our engineering ...
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When applying for a PhD is it worth mentioning awards received for achievement in final year high school exams?
I am in the process of applying for a PhD at the univerity where I am currently completing my undergraduate.
The application has a section for awards.
I don't have anything to show for my time as a ...
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How to share credit for an award given to my advisor?
My advisor recently received a pretty major award in our field for a set of four papers that he wrote, and I was a co-author on one of these. He and I both agree that I should receive some sort of ...