Scholarly Awards and Prizes

Opportunities and Support

Overview

• Scholarly Awards and Prizes • Part of Ohio State’s strategic plan • Increase membership in National Academies • Increase awards from professional associations • It’s about more than the Nobel Prize

Office of Research Why ?

• Enhances prestige at various levels: • Individual • Department • University • Part of Ohio State’s strategic research plan, Excellence to Eminence • Financial Incentives • Amounts vary by discipline • $10,000 - $1 million 3

Office of Research Why ?

• New opportunities for faculty • Success begets success • Ohio State has established internal recognition programs • Distinguished University Professor • President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service • Distinguished Scholar Award • Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching • Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer 4

Office of Research How?

• Hired Graduate Assistant • Research awards • General and targeted outreach • Create networks across campus • Benchmark peer institutions • Track award nominations

Office of Research Benchmarking Best Practices

• Criteria for outreach – mix of public and private institutions: • Size • Scope • Land-Grant • External prize winners • Contacted 17 leaders in Academic Affairs

Office of Research Benchmarking Best Practices

• Conducted phone interviews with Vice Provosts for Faculty Affairs • How do you: • Identify which prizes to pursue? • Market external prizes? • Track nominations? • Provide support on nominations?

Office of Research Benchmarking Best Practices

• Findings • Motivation varied by school • Driven by resources • Monetary prize value • Tracking difficult at large schools • Only one school runs a central nomination process • Institution with the most prizes

Office of Research Benchmarking Best Practices

• Recommendations for Ohio State • Continue with centralized/decentralized structure • Encourage departments to create awards committees • Show of support from the top university officials • Create annual nomination goals for each department 9 Office of Research Finding Awards

• NRC: “Highly Prestigious Awards” • 89 multi-disciplinary awards • National Academies • Honorary Societies • Prestigious Fellowships • 1400 smaller awards broken down by field • Associations • Early Career

Office of Research Finding Awards

• Academic Analytics “Honorific Awards” • List of 3,000 Scholarly Prizes • Multi-disciplinary • Grouped by prestige – length of duration for renewal indicates prestige • Based on sponsor, NRC ranking, monetary value • i.e. – Nobel is 50 year renewal • i.e. – Lasker is 30 year renewal

Office of Research Dept .of Earth Sciences

12 13 Finding Awards

• Ohio State uses combination of both lists and other sources • External database searches • Awards materials sent to university leadership • Monetary Threshold • $250,000 + (varies by discipline) • Deserving Faculty • Department Chair suggestions/recommendations

Office of Research Outreach at Ohio State

• Marketing prizes • Bi-monthly email with limited submissions • Targeted emails to departments • Individual Meetings • Awards Committee Chairs • Department Chairs • College Deans • Group Meetings • Council of Deans • Entire Departments, including Deans and CROs

Office of Research Outreach at Ohio State

Sponsor Prize Title American Academy of Arts and Member, Founders Award, et al. Sciences American Association for the Fellow Advancement of Science Franklin Institute Benjamin Franklin Prize, et al.

National Academy of Science Member, et al.

National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award Tel Aviv University Dan David Prize U.S. Patent and Trademark Office National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Office of Research How Do We Win?

• Success begets success. Highly prestigious winners have track record of success: • Lasker Basic Medical Research • Howard Hughes Medical Investigator • American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

Office of Research Lonnie Thompson

• Distinguished University Professor, Department of Earth Sciences

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h Y3zz7JsADk

Office of Research Lonnie Thompson Awards Timeline

• 2002: Heineken Prize (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) • 2005: National Academy of Science Membership • 2005: Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement • 2007: National Medal of Science • 2008: Dan David Prize • 2011: Franklin Medal

Office of Research Ann Hamilton

• Distinguished University Professor, Department of Art • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fJ4umqXGjM

Office of Research Ann Hamilton Awards Timeline

• 1989: Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship • 1993: MacArthur Fellowship • 1993: National Endowment of the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship • 2008: Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities • 2009: American Academy of Arts & Sciences Membership

Office of Research How Do We Win?

• Nominate for smaller awards • Pathway to highly prestigious • Persistence • Have to nominate multiple times • Particularly with National Academies

Office of Research How Do We Win?

• Identify potential nominees • Ohio State internal award winners • Rising young faculty • Utilize resources to understand the process • Previous winners/nominees • Internal and external Academy Members

Office of Research Office of Academic Affairs and Office of Research Services • Identify and distribute opportunities • Provide support during nomination process • Hellman Fellowship • Coaching nominee for interviews • World Food Prize • Editing nomination forms

Office of Research Office of Academic Affairs and Office of Research Services • Collaborate with department’s awards committee to identify faculty • Serve as sponsor liaison • Prince of Asturias Foundation • Identify potential nominees • Provide data on faculty productivity • H-Index

Office of Research Case Study: Neuroscience

• August: Meet with Awards Committee Chair • September: Awards Chair decides to nominate for NAS Pradel Research Award • October: Meet with entire department • October: Contact NAS to clarify guidelines • November: Nomination Submitted 26 Office of Research Pros/Cons

• Pros: • Cold outreach results in nomination • Pradel Research Award • Prince of Asturias Award • Institutional Knowledge • World Food Prize • Nominated same researcher multiple times – realized previous nominations were too technical • Individual Support Yields Rewards • Hellman Fellowship for Science and Technology Policy • Worked with Doctoral Candidate on writing CV, interview skills • One of two finalists • Important but not urgent

Office of Research Pros/Cons

• Cons • Important but not urgent • Definition of “Honorific Award” is highly subjective • Varies by discipline • Don’t want to downplay what is and is not significant • Confidentiality • Faculty find out and decline nomination – happened twice • Pushback from departments • “We can handle it…” • Faculty decline nomination • “We can handle it…”

Office of Research Outcomes

• 54 prize nominations in 2011-2012 • 68 prize nominations in 2012-2013 • Total of 61 winners • 4: National Academies Members • 34: AAAS Fellows • 7: NSF CAREER • 3: American Physical Society Fellows

Office of Research Questions?

• Jeff Agnoli, 614-292-6269 • [email protected]

• Abigail Bell, 614-292-8268 • [email protected]

Office of Research