Faculty Scholar Lecturer Award

Award Description

The Faculty Scholar Lecturer Award, established in 1998, is a faculty-administered award sponsored by the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. It is designed to honor an outstanding faculty member for research that resulted in publication in a refereed journal, a book, a juried show, an invited performance, or other research work in their field. The person selected for this honor will receive an honorarium of $500 and a budget of $500 for expenses, and a framed certificate that recognizes this accomplishment. The person selected will deliver a lecture or an appropriate presentation to the University community through Faculty Commons via the Faculty Research Symposium.

Criteria and Eligibility

• Full-time tenure-track faculty
• High-quality, high-impact scholarly or creative research with meaningful impact on faculty member’s field of study 

Nomination Procedures

A selection committee composed of faculty will review nomination packets. Nominations by students, colleagues, department heads and deans are encouraged. Only accomplishments during the previous academic year including Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and Summer 2023 will be considered for this award.  Nominators should inform nominees that they are being nominated and may solicit their assistance in preparing nomination materials.   

Required Nomination Documents

The nomination packet for this award will consist of the following, compiled into one single PDF file in the order indicated. *Please contact Faculty Commons if you need assistance compiling documentation into a PDF file. 

1. One official Letter of Nomination by the nominator(s) advocating the basis for the nomination (relating nominee’s research/creative activity to the criteria for the award)
2. Up to three additional Letters of Support from internal or external colleagues to complement the Letter of Nomination—*No more than three additional Letters of Support will be considered.
3. Nominee’s curriculum vitae (abbreviated and concise, no more than five pages)—*Contact the nominee’s departmental Administrative Assistant to acquire a CV.
4. Supporting documentation may include copies of recent peer-reviewed journal publications, books, exhibits, recordings, journal proceedings, performances, conference papers/presentations, patents, or software. *Only supporting documentation from the previous year will be considered.

Nomination Deadline

All nominations must be submitted electronically via the Faculty Awards nomination form, linked below, no later than 4:30 PM CST on Friday, February 16, 2024.