[Botanygraduatestudents] PLEASE nominate your students for 2021 Plant Biology graduate student awards

[Bpschair]

Nomination deadline extended to Tuesday May 25.

Send nominations to Mariella (mariella.valdivia at ucr.edu<mailto:mariella.valdivia at ucr.edu>)

Thanks, patty

On May 12, 2021, at 3:38 PM, Bpschair <bpschair at ucr.edu<mailto:bpschair at ucr.edu>> wrote:

Please submit nominations to Mariella (mariella.valdivia at ucr.edu<mailto:mariella.valdivia at ucr.edu>) by 5 pm May 21.

On May 5, 2021, at 4:36 PM, Bpschair <bpschair at ucr.edu<mailto:bpschair at ucr.edu>> wrote:

Dear BPSC Faculty and Graduate students,

It's time for nominations to the BPSC Awards Committee for our two prestigious graduate student awards.

1. The 28th Annual Graduate Student Achievement Award is made possible from the proceeds of the Botany and Plant Sciences Graduate Student Endowment Fund.  This award was created by the efforts and generosity of Professor Tim Close and his wife Sheila.  Since its establishment, this fund has accumulated value due to additional contributions of numerous faculty donors and several businesses. The goal of this award is to encourage, facilitate, and recognize graduate student achievements and creativity.  Students must be in the Plant Biology Graduate Program to be eligible and selection criteria considered in choosing a recipient in the Plant Biology graduate program involve "evidence of creativity and ambition.”  The endowment provides this explanation:  "For example, a painting related to the research subject and displayed in an art gallery would be a creative example, as would an app related to the research for a smartphone. Starting a business or taking on a leadership position for an organization outside of UCR and related to the research would be ambitious, or gathering wild germplasm from a center of diversity to establish or expand a collection. Having a publication from performing technical tasks under the explicit direction of a Major Professor who is corresponding author would be neither creative nor ambitious. These statements of criteria are just for calibration; of course each applicant will have a unique portfolio.”  This endowment also provides funds for graduate student travel.

2.  The WW Thomson Graduate Student Achievement Award in Honor of Bill Thomson.  Professor Thomson was a Professor of Cell Biology in BPSC.  Upon his retirement in 1999, the department established a fund in his name. Several faculty members, including Professor Thomson, have been generous donors to the endowment that funds this award.  The criteria considered in choosing a recipient for this award are “Academic excellence and achievement in research.”
The Awards Committee welcomes nomination letters for one or both awards that are limited to a single page. Previous winners of one award are eligible for the other award. Please email nominations to Mariella Valdivia (mariella.valdivia at ucr.edu<mailto:mariella.valdivia at ucr.edu>) no later than 5 pm, May 21, 2021. Mariella will collect nominations and forward them to the Awards committee.  Letters exceeding the one page requirement will be returned without consideration.
Awards will be announced at the BPSC Awards ceremony on Wed, Jun 2, which will take place at the end of the Celebrating Diversity in Botany<https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/celebratingdiversityinbotany/home?authuser=0> symposium.  Additional details of the symposium will be coming soon.


Patricia Springer
Professor and Chair, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
University of California
Riverside, CA  92521

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