The winners of the 2012 annual SUPD Mentoring Awards are (in alphabetical order):

Mentoring Award

As we all acknowledge, our postdoc training, and overall postdoc-experience is vastly shaped by the mentoring of our Faculty Advisors. Good mentoring skills is hard to master; and good mentoring is demanding and not often directly rewarded. As, SUPD, we would like to honor such mentors by acknowledging their significant contributions to the lives of their mentees. Thus, if your Faculty Advisor is such a mentor, honor her/his inputs by nominating him/her. Postdoc Jurors will review the nominations and judge based on a selection of criteria. The awardees will be notified by September 12th and be acknowledged to the Stanford community during the Symposium, on September 20th.

This is a unique opportunity to thank your Advisor so don't miss it!

Looking forward to receiving your applications.

Important Date

Submissions are due by 6pm – September 7th, 2012.
Notifications of the awardees will be done by Wednesday September 12th, 2012.
Award Ceremony will be held during the Symposium on Thursday September 20th, 2012; the winners will be presented with a nominal gift .

Nomination Package

1. Cover page with:

• Name of the Faculty Advisor nominated
  
• The number of undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs currently working in the laboratory of the Faculty Advisor
  
• Department
  
• School
  
• Name and email contact of the primary postdoc submitting the nomination
  
• Name and email contacts of the postdocs supporting this nomination
  

2. One-page description on how your Faculty Advisor is the one of the greatest mentors in Stanford (Single space, 12-Font size, Times New Roman). Emphasize the significance of the role your advisor played on your postdoc experience at Stanford (scientific achievements, professional development, mastering necessary skills for work-life balancing, etc.).

* Collective nominations (1 nomination signed by multiple postdocs) from the same lab are encouraged.

Please compile all material in the following order into one  .pdf file; include your last name in the file name and specify the subject line as “Mentoring Award Nomination”. Please note that all elements are mandatory; and incomplete applications will be excluded from the selection.

Please compile all material in the following order into one .pdf file and send them to this email address: supdbox@gmail.com; include your last name in the file name and email to X-address, specifying the subject line as “Mentoring Awards Application”. Please note that all elements are mandatory; and incomplete applications will be excluded from the selection.

Eligibility Criteria:

All current Stanford postdocs can nominate.

Under no circumstance will the SUPG Symposium committee disclose any scoring or ranking information regarding the applications/nominations.

The applications/nominations for the Best Postdoctoral Research, and Mentoring Awards are now closed.