University Research Council Distinguished Career Award

Overview

Distinguished Career awards are awarded by NMSU’s University Research Council. Two awards to faculty, staff, or teams, where their terminal degrees or traineeship appointments (such as post-doctoral or appointment) have been awarded or are over within the previous 6 years (in the case of teams, all members must meet this criteria). Each individual or creative team award winner receives a monetary prize. Examples of scholarly and creative activity considered are:

• Outstanding original research achievements as evidenced by the significance of the research in advancing knowledge in the field of study; publications in peer-reviewed, refereed journals; peer-citations of published works; success in attracting outside funding as principal investigator; nature of outside funding (i.e. prestige and level of national competition for the awards); scholarly books; chapters in scholarly books; monographs;
• Outstanding creative achievements such as performances, books, exhibits, textbooks, electronic media or other achievements that obtained significant recognition from colleagues in and outside NMSU;
• Outstanding technical achievements evidenced by external awards for creative scholarly activities, patents, invited talks/performances, conference presentations, consulting activity, etc.