The Vanderbilt Eye Institute is set to open in the spring.
Nominations are being sought for both the 2008 Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching and the 2008 Faculty Research Awards.
Award recipients will be announced at the Spring Faculty Meeting on April 23, 2008.
The deadline for nominations for the Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching is Dec. 31. The nomination package should be sent to the School of Medicine’s Office of the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Light Hall, Room 320, and should include a nominating letter, CV of the candidate and three to four supporting letters.
The seven categories of teaching to be recognized are:
• Mentoring graduate and/or medical students in the research setting;
• Mentoring postdoctoral fellows and/or residents in the research setting;
• Teaching medical or graduate students, or practicing physicians in the lecture setting;
• Teaching medical or graduate students, or practicing physicians in a small group setting;
• Teaching medical students, residents, and/or fellows in the clinical setting;
• Innovation in educational programming that has proven to be effective;
• Contributions to Continuing Medical Education.
The deadline for nominations for the 2008 Faculty Research Awards is Jan. 18, 2008.
The nomination package should include a nominating letter, CV of the candidate and three manuscripts representing the candidate's most significant work.
Please indicate clearly the award category for which you intend to nominate the individual. Nominations should be sent as an electronic PDF file to Andrea Baruchin, Ph.D. at andrea.baruchin@vanderbilt.edu.
There are seven research awards, and it has been proposed that an eighth award, for multi-investigator teams, be added. To optimize the pool of nominees for each award, the awards will be split into two groups which will be offered in alternating years.
The awards for 2008 will be:
• Stanley Cohen Faculty Research Award — for research bringing diverse disciplines, such as chemistry or physics, to solve biology's most important fundamental problems;
• Charles R. Park Faculty Research Award — for basic research findings that reveal insights into physiology and pathophysiology;
• Grant W. Liddle Faculty Research Award — for excellence in clinical research
• John H. Exton Research Award — for research leading to innovative biological concepts.