Awards Newsletter Fall 2021

Welcome!
Greetings, all!

With the start of the new academic year, the Awards and Outreach Committee want to make you aware of awards and the process surrounding awards nominations.
All complete nominations can be sent to Dana Maltby. Please make sure you follow the instructions for nomination materials exactly. In this email, please also note the due date of the award. The awards committee will then review nominations. For applications that do not require nominations, please let Dana Maltby know once an application has been submitted. Include the name of the award and the deadline.
Good luck!
Dana Maltby (Editor), Richard Chappell, Jessi Cisewski Kehe, and Vivak Patel

September Deadlines

Tags: Junior Faculty, Nomination
Sloan Research Fellowship
The Sloan Research Fellowship seeks to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.

Nomination packet due September 15th
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Tags: Junior Faculty
DARPA Young Faculty Award
The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions, emphasizing those without prior DARPA funding, and expose them to DoD needs and DARPA’s program development process.

Executive summary due mid-September
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Tags: Senior Faculty, Junior Faculty, Academic Staff, Administrative Staff, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
UW-Madison Outstanding Women of Color Awards
The UW–Madison Outstanding Women of Color Awards acknowledge and honor women of color among UW-Madison faculty, staff, students (undergraduate or post-baccalaureate) and in the Greater Madison community, who have made outstanding contributions in one or more of the following areas: social justice, activism, and advocacy on behalf of disadvantaged, marginalized populations; community service; scholarly research, writing, speaking and/or teaching on race, ethnicity, and indigeneity in U.S. society; community building on- or off-campus, to create an inclusive and respectful environment for all.

Nomination packets are due September 13, 2021.
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October Deadlines

Tags: PhD Students
Lester R Curtin Award
The Lester R. Curtin Award was established to help promising young health statisticians get the skills and training they need to make significant contributions in their area of study. The award was created to honor the memory of Lester, or “Randy,” and his long career of working tirelessly to teach and mentor his colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. The award will provide 1,000 USD for general registration and travel support in addition to up to 400 USD toward CE course registration offered at the ASA Conference on Statistical Practice, which takes place every February.

Applications are due October 15.
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Tags: Junior Faculty
Google Research Scholar
The Research Scholar program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career faculty.

Applications open in October.
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Tags: Academic Staff
UW-System Regents Diversity Awards
The purpose of this award is to recognize institutional change agents who have established a successful record in fostering greater access and success for students who are members of historically underrepresented populations (including African American, Native American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian American, and Southeast Asian), first-generation and/or economically disadvantaged.

Nomination packet is due October 15.
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November Deadlines

Tags: PhD Candidates
Two Sigma PhD Fellowship
Two Sigma is excited to offer PhD fellowship programs supporting doctoral students who are expanding frontiers in a STEM field such as statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, physics, and finance/econometrics. Applications are assessed based on students’ research proposals, publications, and letters of recommendation from professors.

Nomination packets are (typically) due in November.
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Tags: PhD Candidates
Capstone PhD Teaching Award
Recognizes TA’s who have performed as outstanding teachers through their UW-Madison tenure.

Nomination packets are due mid-November
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Tags: PhD Students
Early Excellence in Teaching
Award recognizes outstanding and inspirational performance on the part of TA’s with fewer than four semesters of teaching experience.

Nomination packets are due mid-November
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Tags: PhD Students, PhD Candidates
Exceptional Service Award
Recognizes TA’s who perform exceptional service related to the educational mission of their department and our university (volunteerism, committee work, mentoring, etc.) in addition to the regular duties.

Nomination packets are due mid-November
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Tags: PhD Students, PhD Candidates
Innovation in Teaching Award
Recognizes TA’s who bring extraordinary creativity to their work and have developed or adapted teaching methods or techniques in new and innovative ways.
Nomination packets are due mid-November
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Tags: Senior Faculty
Vilas Associates Award
The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance. All tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date are eligible to apply.

Applications are due November 13
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Tags: Undergraduate Students
Goldwater Scholarship
The $7,500 per year scholarships recognize promising undergraduates who plan to pursue a PhD or MD/PhD followed by a research career in engineering, mathematics or the natural sciences.

Application deadline is iin November. Students must apply through the University’s student awards office.
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Tags: Administrative Staff
University Staff Excellence Award
Awards recognize outstanding performance, service and/or contributions by L&S University Staff members.

Nomination packets are due in November
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December Deadlines

Tags: Undergraduate Students, MSDS Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, PhD Candidates
American Statistical Association Student Paper
The winners of best paper competitions earn travel awards to ASA-sponsored conferences. Requires JSM registration. See each ASA section websites for details.

Submissions are due December 15
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Tags: Junior Faculty
Peter Gavin Hall IMS Prize
This prize recognizes early career research accomplishments and research promise in statistics broadly construed.

Nomination packets are due December 1
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Tags: Junior Faculty
Tweedie New Researcher Award
This award provides funds for travel to present the “Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture” at the IMS New Researchers Conference.

Nomination packets are due December 1
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