Award Nominations Research Articles

Promoting Female Surgeons Through Structured Award Nominations.

Promoting Female Surgeons Through Structured Award Nominations.

STEM Connections: A model for empowering academics to deliver outreach by reducing barriers to engagement

STEM Connections worked with academic staff to develop their skills and confidence to communicate with any audience. Through creating a demonstration of their area of expertise and speaking with school-aged students, the academics hear a range of perspectives and repeatedly practice pitching their presentations. This project aimed to develop staff, engage the public, and work in partnership with local cultural institutions – in this case CV Life. Training has been provided by third-party organisations, by the project team and by the partner institution in both years. Over two years, the project has worked with 23 academic members of staff across 17 different areas of research. Events have been run with 19 schools, either within those schools or at Coventry Transport Museum, reaching a total of 944 students with high-quality interactions. As of January 2024, the online resources have received over 36,000 views. Demonstrations have been used outside of the STEM Connections project for interactions with visitors, VIPs, funding bodies, and also filmed by TV crews for media work. Several staff on the project have mentioned STEM Connections in promotion cases and award nominations. Produced materials have complimented academic teaching and have been used to explain concepts more effectively during lectures. All the project resources and staff involved can be found at www.warwick.ac.uk/stemconnections. The project targeted 5 key elements of outreach that are challenging for academics and may make engagement more difficult for them. This paper reflects on those challenges and how the project worked to reduce the barriers to engagement.

Gender Distribution of Scientific Prizes Is Associated with Naming of Awards after Men, Women or Neutral

Woman scientists have for long been under-represented as recipients of academic prizes. The reasons for this lack of recognition are manifold, including potential gender bias amongst award panels and nomination practices. This dataset of the gender distribution of 8747 recipients of 345 scientific medals and prizes awarded by 11 General Scientific Societies as well as subject-specific societies in the Earth and Environmental Sciences and in Cardiology between 1731 and 2021 explores the magnitude, temporal trends and potential drivers of observed gender imbalances. Our analysis revealed women were particularly underrepresented in awards named after men with awards not named after a person or named after a woman being more frequently awarded to woman scientists. Time-series analysis confirmed persisting trends that are only starting to change since the early 2000s, indicating that a lot remains to be accomplished to achieve true equity. We encourage the scientific community to extend our data and analysis, as they represent important evidence of the recognition of academic achievements towards other under-represented groups and including also nomination information.

The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations

The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations

Two CPR Awards Nominations Deadlines: Mid‐November, and Early Next Month

Time is tight: The deadline for nominations for the written 2023 CPR Awards arrives on Friday, Nov. 17, soon followed by the Dec. 15 deadline for the diversity and leadership awards.

Cinematic journalism: the political economy and ‘emotional truth’ of documentary film

ABSTRACT News organizations in recent years have embraced documentary film. From streaming ventures to Academy Award nominations, newsrooms are producing documentaries to reach new audiences and maintain their relevance in changing media cultures. This study examines documentary’s surging popularity among news outlets and addresses two questions: How does the political economy of media affect filmmakers’ editorial decisions and aesthetic choices? And, how do seemingly commonplace audiovisual and production techniques – such as music, lighting, sound design, and directing – complicate journalistic norms? Drawing on in-depth interviews with journalistic filmmakers (n = 24), the study offers three findings: the political economy of digital media is altering the production and distribution models for documentary, creating ethical dilemmas for filmmakers; the relational dynamics among filmmakers, participants, and audiences significantly inform the ethical frameworks that filmmakers use; and the ‘emotional truth’ of documentary storytelling forces filmmakers to reevaluate their conceptions of objectivity and neutrality. The study illuminates the relationship between documentary and journalism, and details how filmmakers are navigating the increasingly-blurry boundaries between these fields.

What students value in their teachers – an analysis of nominations to a teaching award

Teaching awards have become a way to acknowledge the importance of high-quality teaching for many higher education institutions. The purpose of this study is to investigate which images of the “good educator” emerge in students’ nominations for a teaching award at a Swedish university, and how these images relate to the gender of nominees and nominating students. We want to explore possible bias linked to gender and stereotypical notions of female and male in teaching. All 194 nominations (made in 2018) were analysed and clustered into categories. The results are discussed from a critical theoretical perspective and show qualitative differences regarding the traits and skills used to describe male and female teachers, and that male teachers were nominated more by both male and female students. We believe that becoming aware of possible bias will help decision-makers of teaching awards become more gender sensitive.

HASTI Awards Nominations

Do you know an outstanding science educator? You can nominate that person for one of the HASTI awards. Learn more about each award and how to nominate someone .

Watts Humphrey Award Nominations

Watts Humphrey Award Nominations

Call for 2023 Major Awards Nominations

Call for 2023 Major Awards Nominations

Nominations sought for Akron Section Award

The American Chemical Society Akron Section is accepting nominations for the Akron Section Award, which recognizes outstanding chemistry professionals. Nominees can be working in any branch of chemistry or chemical engineering and should reside within 500 mi (about 805 km) of Akron, Ohio. The award consists of a $1,000 honorarium and an engraved plaque. The awardee will deliver a lecture in person at the University of Akron for a technical audience and an evening lecture at another venue for a general audience. These lectures will take place the second week of November. Nominators should submit curricula vitae with their nominations to Charles M. Kausch, awards chair, at cmkausch@hotmail.com. Nominations are due by Aug. 25.

Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition

An area of immersive storytelling in rapid evolution is that of extended reality. This emergent mode of experience employs spatial mapping, and both plane and object detection to superimpose computer-generated images in the volumetric context of a physical space via a head-mounted display. This in turn produces a unique set of challenges and opportunities for associated audio implementation and aesthetics. Creative development of this audio is often a function of evolving toolsets, and the associated workflow is far from standardized. This paper forms a context for such audio workflow, one that draws from precursor technologies such as audio for games and virtual reality and develops this into an outline taxonomy that is both representative of the state of the art, and forward facing towards evolution of the technology stack. The context is framed through a series of case studies. Between 2019 and 2021, BBC and Oculus TV commissioned Alchemy Immersive and Atlantic Productions to produce virtual reality and mixed reality experiences of several classic documentary series by Sir David Attenborough: Museum Alive, Micro Monsters, First Life VR, Museum Alive AR and Kingdom of Plants. This portfolio received numerous award nominations and prizes, including from the Raindance Festival and a double Emmy. The sound design, audio postproduction and spatial audio for these experiences were implemented by the company 1.618 Digital, and drawing from first-hand-creator involvement, the workflows are deconstructed and explored with reference to tools, technologies, techniques and perception. Such an exposition forms the basis for an analysis of both this and broader creative practice in the field of audio for extended reality, and this is subsequently used to present a speculative vision of audio in the future of immersive storytelling.

Nominations sought for ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Chemical Glycobiology awards

The American Chemical Society Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Chemical Glycobiology is accepting nominations for four awards that recognize the outstanding contributions of investigators to carbohydrate chemistry or glycobiology through education, research, or applications. The nomination deadline for the Melville L. Wolfrom Award, the Derek Horton Award in Industrial Carbohydrate Chemistry, the Horace S. Isbell Award, and the David Y. Gin New Investigator Award is June 17. Please refer to acscarb.org/awards for information on eligibility and the nomination process and to access the 2024 award nomination form. The awards will be presented at ACS Spring 2024 in New Orleans.

Networking in Academic Medicine: Keeping an Eye on Equity.

Networking in Academic Medicine: Keeping an Eye on Equity.

Call for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Award Nominations [Society News

Call for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Award Nominations [Society News

IEEE Women in Technology and Leadership award Nominations

IEEE Women in Technology and Leadership award Nominations

Watts S. Humphrey Software Quality Award Nominations

Watts S. Humphrey Software Quality Award Nominations

Call for nominations for ACS-CEI Award for Incorporation of Sustainability into Chemical Education

The American Chemical Society Committee on Environment and Sustainability (ACS-CEI) seeks third-party and self-nominations for the ACS-CEI Award for Incorporation of Sustainability into Chemical Education. This award recognizes groups or individuals that have made exemplary contributions to the incorporation of sustainability into chemical education for K–12 students and teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, or the general public. Focus areas for the award include green chemistry, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and systems thinking. Awardees will be expected to present invited talks at a selected conference. More information can be found at cenm.ag/acs-cei-award . The nomination deadline is Sept. 30.

Call for nominations for ACS-CEI Award for Incorporation of Sustainability into Chemical Education

Call for nominations for ACS-CEI Award for Incorporation of Sustainability into Chemical Education

LET US DANCE TO LIVE: THE INFLUENCE OF AFRO-POP-MUSIC ON PROMOTION OF THE NORMS OF CYBERCRIME AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN NIGERIA

Music is an integral part of every culture that serves entertainment, cultural transmission, and mood moderation in every society and is enhanced by globalisation and the internet. Beyond these purposes, music has equally been the instrument for transmitting cultural values with high tendencies to positively and negatively affect human behaviour. This study explores how Afro-Pop music promotes the Norms of Cybercrime in Nigeria through the musicians' content, slangs, and personae. The study used cognitive dissonance and constructivism theories to explain how music has influenced youth involvement in Cybercrime. This is an analysis of 25 full songs and 35 other songs with at least one-sentence of cybercrime messages and the use of popular cybercrime slangs. These songs were purposively selected Cybercrime promoting songs that were released between 2007 and 2020. These songs were content-analyzed along with the singers' attributes and achievements in the entertainment world in Nigeria. The study found that contents of cybercrime songs, lifestyle, cybercrime techniques, hard work, resilience and other messages can inspire young people. It also found slangs like Japa, CC, Client, Cashout, and Aza that have become integral parts of daily communication. The majority of these songs were also popular through downloads, award nominations and awards, and others. The study also found that the singers' personalities were worthy of emulation by young individuals in society. As such, music is both functional and dysfunction and a part of the culture inseparable from society members. Therefore, it is crucial for there to be global cooperation in censoring music to reduce its influence on society members, especially the young ones.