Nominated Awards for 2025
Review award criteria, nomination guidelines, and general instructions prior to submitting your award nomination. Nominations for the 2025 awards will open in September 2024.
Early Career Awards
Nomination Guidelines
All nominees are expected to maintain the highest professional standards of scientific objectivity, dispassion, and ethical conduct.
Nominees are required to be current APS members in good standing unless being nominated for the Award of Distinction, Lee M. Hutchins Award or Ruth Allen Award.
In general, nominations for any award should specify how the contributions in the current nomination differ from those used as a basis for a previous APS award.
Fellows are not eligible to be nominated for one of the Awards of Excellence except when the new nominations are for accomplishments different from that on which the Fellow nomination was based, and the new accomplishment has occurred after recognition as a Fellow. A period of five years should elapse between recognition as a Fellow and nomination for an award of excellence. The nomination of a Fellow for an award of excellence must specify how the contributions in the current nomination differ from those on which the original Fellow award was based.
Award nominations are considered for three years except for Lee M. Hutchins, Noel T. Keen (presented in even years), and Hewitt nominations that stand for only one year.
Nominations not selected in the first year will be held over. The nominator is highly encouraged to update the cover letter and resubmit a complete nomination package.
If by the third year the nominee is not selected, it is advised to wait three years between the last year of consideration before submitting a new nomination package.
If there are no suitable nominations for an award, the Awards and Honors Committee may decide not to give out the award for that year.
Deceased members are not eligible for any APS award if they died before nomination.
General Instructions
- APS members may nominate one candidate a year for each of the APS nominated awards.
- Nominations should address the activities most relevant to the award, with a clear statement of the impact the nominee has had in their specific area of expertise.
Required Materials for Nomination Packet:
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Nomination Form is a writeable .pdf. Access nominations form to open; complete the form, save to your computer, and then insert the nomination form as your first page of your complete nomination .pdf file for uploading via the online submission form.
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A cover letter with the candidate’s name and the award for which the nomination is made. The letter (not to exceed one page) may provide additional insight into the significance of the contributions that is
not given in the nomination statement or form.
Multiple letters of support should not be provided for a candidate’s nomination. Electronic signatures are accepted.
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A nomination statement not to exceed 1,000 words that highlights the contributions of the candidate and includes the candidate’s name, place of birth, and institutions, with degrees and years granted, as well as current position. The statement should be focused and succinct and document the relevancy and impact of the candidate’s contributions to the advancement of science and plant pathology. This statement is used for the award announcement article published in Phytopathology News.
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A 125-word or less awardee narrative statement that is used for the voiceover at the award ceremoy. Statement to include the following:
Introduce the name efficiently (include the phonetic spelling) and current position and affiliation only.
Focus the remainder of the summary on the MOST important and high-impact contributions of the nominee.
Avoid windy institute names, endowed or honorary titles, previous awards, unfamiliar or obscure acronyms or abbreviations. They are awkward in a spoken statement.
Read the finished nomination summary aloud to a few generalist colleagues and revise accordingly.
5. A curriculum vitae, not to exceed two pages.
6. A complete list of publications. The list should be separated into the following categories, with
most recent publications first. Abstracts and manuscripts not yet accepted should NOT be included.
- Refereed journal articles
- Extension publications
- Books, reviews, and book chapters
- Technical publications (e.g., monographs, reports, symposium papers, proceedings, etc.)
- Popular publications
- Invited presentations
Submit Your Nomination
Nominations for 2025 awards will open September 2024.
The above mentioned materials are to be saved and uploaded via the online nomination form by December 1 of each year. The Awards and Honors Committee will forward their recommendations to APS Council in February. Those receiving awards will be notified by the APS President by late February/early March. Do not e-mail nominations directly to committee members. Nominations must be received via the online submission form for compilation and transmission to the committee.
SUBMIT NOMINATION PACKAGE
