Awards

NEW Early Career Outstanding Scientist Award

      Your Executive Board has inaugurated a NEW IOBC NRS award, and YOU know someone who should be nominated for the Early Career Outstanding Scientist Award.  In 2012, IOBC NRS will accept nominations for a new Early Career Outstanding Scientist Award.  Nominees should be
no more than 10 years post PhD and have made significant contributions to the field of biological control through research, teaching, and/or extension/outreach. Nominees must have spent most of their career in the Nearctic Region and be a current IOBC member.
      Nomination narratives are restricted to one page in length and should contain a thorough but concise summary of the principal contributions of the nominee.  The nominator should include the names and current contact information of both nominator and nominee on a separate page. 
A copy of the nominee’s CV, which provides the nominee’s professional record (i.e., employment affiliations), list of prior awards, description of biological control related activities (in paragraph form), publications list, and extramural grant record, (no page limit) should also be included.

Please submit nominations or questions electronically by 15 June:
IOBC NRS President, Doug Landis,  LandisD@msu.edu

Distinguished Scientist Award

      Nominees must have spent most of their career in the Nearctic Region, and have made significant contributions to biological control, but need not be members of IOBC. Nomination narratives are restricted to one page in length and should contain a thorough but concise summary of the principle contributions of the nominee. The nominator should include the names and current contact information of both nominator and nominee on a separate page. A copy of the nominee’s CV (no page limit) should also be included that provides the nominee’s professional record (i.e., employment affiliations), list of prior awards, description of biological control related activities (in paragraph form), publications lists, and extramural grant record. READ MORE >>

Two Awards for Outstanding Graduate Students in Biological Control

      The IOBC-NRS sponsors two Outstanding Graduate Student Awards for students whose contributions are likely to shape the future of the discipline of biological control - one each for PhD (the Robert J. O’Neil Outstanding PhD in Biological Control Award) and MS students. The recipients will be recognized at the IOBC-NRS Informal Conference held at the Annual Entomological Society of America meeting and each will receive a cash award ($300 for PhD and $200 for MS). The PhD winner presents the lead talk in the IOBC-NRS symposium.  READ MORE >>