CSE’s 2022 Awards and Honors

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Each year, CSE recognizes excellence by leaders in the field of science communication and acknowledges the exceptional accomplishments and contributions of its members by presenting a series of awards to recipients selected by its Awards and Honors Committee. On May 3, 2022, Carissa Gilman, CSE past president (2020–2021), on behalf of the Awards and Honors Committee Chair and CSE past president (2019–2020), will announce the awardees during a celebratory luncheon at the 2022 Annual Meeting in Phoenix. The Awards and Honors luncheon is a longstanding CSE tradition that sadly had to be transitioned to a virtual awards presentation in 2020 and 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. CSE is delighted to rekindle this tradition in 2022! Certificates of Appreciation The Certificate of Appreciation is given to CSE members who have made a laudable contribution to CSE. This year we honor two deserving recipients. Patty Baskin and Leslie Neistadt, Mentorship Committee Co-Chairs Patty has been a devoted CSE volunteer for many years and has served in many capacities, including as the 2016–2017 President. One of her notable contributions to CSE during that time was a proposal to launch the CSE Mentorship Program. Patty’s vision codified CSE’s long history of informal networking and peer-to-peer learning into a structured career development resource for members. According to Patty: “At the same time that I was serving as CSE President in 2017, I was helping to set up a mentorship program in my own organization where I saw the value in helping earlier career […]