Nominations are being accepted for Washington University in St. Louis’ annual Faculty Achievement Awards, known as the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award.
The Compton Award is given to a distinguished member of the faculty from one of the six Danforth Campus schools and the Cori Award to a faculty member from the School of Medicine.
All full-time, active Washington University faculty members are eligible to receive the Faculty Achievement Award. Any full-time, active member of the faculty may submit a nomination to the Faculty Achievement Awards Advisory Committee. The nomination packet should include:
- A nomination letter detailing the rationale for the nomination;
- The nominee’s curriculum vitae;
- Three supporting letters from individuals acquainted with the nominee’s contributions as a scholar/researcher and teacher.
The ideal candidates for the Faculty Achievement Award will show excellence in both the research and the service/teaching domains. While outstanding achievement in research and scholarship are weighed most heavily, the awardee must also show a strong record of service to the university and respected accomplishments in teaching, whether that be in the classroom, in mentoring or in other pedagogical capacities.
The deadline to submit nominations is Feb. 14.
Nominations are valid for three years and may be updated by the nominator. Nominations, supporting letters and the considerations of the Advisory Committee will be confidential.
Submit nominations and supporting letters in PDF format to Gerhild S. Williams, PhD, vice provost and associate vice chancellor, at gerhildwilliams@wustl.edu.
The awardees will be announced this spring, and they will receive their awards and give presentations of their scholarly work during a ceremony in December. At the time of these presentations, the awardees each will receive a $5,000 honorarium.
Richard H. Gelberman, MD, a world-renowned expert in hand and wrist microsurgery, and James V. Wertsch, PhD, founding director of one of the most successful and innovative global scholarship programs in the world, received WUSTL’s 2013 Faculty Achievement Awards during a Dec. 7 program.
Gelberman, the Fred C. Reynolds Professor and head of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, received the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award. Wertsch, vice chancellor for international affairs, director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy and the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences, received the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award.
William W. Clark, PhD, chair of the Faculty Senate Council and professor of otolaryngology at the School of Medicine, and Williams, the Barbara Schaps Thomas and David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, co-chair the Advisory Committee.
The committee will review nominations and make recommendations to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, who, with the Faculty Senate Council, established the awards in 1999.
To see a list of the Advisory Committee members, visit here.
To see a list of previous award recipients, visit here.