Award Opportunities
- Mentoring Award
- Postdoctoral Scholar Award
- Dependent Care Award
The Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring Award honors faculty who serve as effective advisors, advocates, role models, and colleagues for UC San Diego Postdoctoral Scholars. Postdoctoral scholars are individuals who have recently completed a doctoral degree and, under the oversight of a faculty mentor, continue research training in preparation for a career in academia, industry, government, or the nonprofit sector. Faculty mentors who provide guidance, support, and inspiration to research and career excellence are essential to the success of the postdoctoral scholar. This award recognizes faculty who consistently promote and actively engage in the many forms of mentorship.
Nomination period for 2020 opens on July 6, 2020 and closes on August 3, 2020.
Award finalists will be notified by the end of August 2020.
Finalists will be recognized and honored and the 2020 recipients for these awards will be announced at the virtual Awards Ceremony during Postdoc Appreciation Week on Thursday, September 24, 2020.
The award recognizes faculty who:
A complete application will include:
If you submit the form outside of the current nomination period, your application will not be reviewed.
Nominations will be reviewed by an internal selection committee composed of Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, faculty, representative from the Postdoctoral Association and member of the Office of Postdoctoral and Research Scholar Affairs. Awardees will be selected by the Vice Chancellor for Research based upon recommendation of this committee.
The Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring Award recipient will receive $1000 to directly support mentorship for his/her postdoctoral scholars, an engraved plaque and congratulatory letter from Chancellor Khosla for inclusion in future Academic Review File. Also, the recipient will be honored on additional plaque that will reside in the Office of Postdoctoral and Research Scholar Affairs. Examples of supporting postdoctoral mentorship include, but are not limited to: postdoctoral scholar attendance a at a professional association or society meeting that relates to his/her research interest, postdoctoral scholar enrollment fees in a course that will advance his/her career development, speaker visits that will directly aid in postdoctoral training. This award may not be used for indirect support to postdocs, such as equipment (e.g. desktop/laptop computers) or laboratory supplies.
The principal nominating postdoctoral scholar will receive a cash award of $500 to use towards attendance at a professional association or society meeting that relates to his/her research interest or to enroll in a course that will advance his/her career development. Only UC San Diego postdoctoral scholars with a postdoctoral titlecode are eligible to nominate and receive the cash award.
Awardees will be honored during a virtual Awards Ceremony during Postdoc Appreciation Week on Thursday, September 24, 2020. The mentor and postdoctoral nominator(s) are expected to attend the ceremony.
Check out videos of 2019's Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring Award recipients.
Check out videos of the 2018 Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring Award reciepents.
2015 |
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Jeffrey Esko, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Postdoc Nominator: Chrissa Dwyer , Ph.D. Lucila Ohno-Machado, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Postdoc Nominator: Shuang Wang, Ph.D. |
2014 |
Don Cleveland, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Medicine, and Neurosciences; Postdoc Nominator: Jie Jiang, Ph.D. Nathan Gianneschi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Postdoc Nominator: Angela Blum, Ph.D. JoAnn Trejo, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology; Postdoc Nominator: Terri Stoner, Ph.D. |
2013 |
Pamela Mellon, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine; Postdoc Nominator: Hanne Hoffmann, Ph.D. Victor Nizet, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy; Postdoc Nominator: Andrew Hollands, Ph.D. Michael Sailor, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry; Postdoc Nominator: Alejandra Nieto-Pena, Ph.D. |
2012 |
Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences, Department of Medicine; Postdoc Nominator: Lianne Urada, Ph.D. |