3.  Private Sector

4. State, National, and International Agencies

5.  At Nominee’s Institution, Agency, or Place of Employment

6. Community and Other

General guidelines.

The Awards CV format serves as a template for organizing the summary of the nominee’s biographical and professional information. Content is more important than format; but the proposed template ensures information required by the judging panel is provided (using an alternate format, however, will not disqualify the nomination).

Applicable information in SECTION 1 is required for all awards. Information in sections 2-5 or individual items within these sections, may or may not be required for the specific award and/or may or may not pertain to your specific nominee; where optional, these items should be included only if you feel they would strengthen the nomination.  See the accompanying table for award-specific minimal requirements.

Remember that the complete nomination, including letters of recommendation and other supporting materials must be submitted electronically to the Entomological Foundation and MUST NOT exceed a total of 20 pages.  NOTE:  Any nomination that exceeds the 20-page limit or is not in electronic format will NOT be forwarded to the judging panel for consideration. 

SECTION 1.                 BACKGROUND INFORMATION (required for ALL nominations).

1.  Name.

2.  Affiliation  Place of work or other appropriate affiliation.

3.  Current Professional Title

4.  Appointment Split  For academic positions, list percent of appointment dedicated to all

  relevant categories: research, teaching, extension, administration.

5.  Contact Information. Provide mailing address, email address, phone number.

6.  Educational Background.  List degrees, institutions, and dates received.

7.  Relevant Employment.  Include employer, location, nominee’s title, and dates of employment.

8.  Memberships and Affiliations. Relevant professional memberships and additional affiliations (such as adjunct faculty status).

9.  Awards and Honors. Title of award, bestowing agency, date. Do not list grants or contracts here. Significant elected positions may be listed here.

SECTION 2                RESEARCH

1.  Research Publications.  Include refereed publications, review articles, books written or edited, book chapters, technical reports, and appropriate non-refereed publications. Do not list abstracts. Note that publications relating to teaching and extension should not be provided here, but should be listed in the corresponding sections below.

2.  Research Support. List grants, gifts, and contracts. Include project titles, sources of funds, amounts, dates, and nominee’s roles as PI (e.g. primary, secondary, minor, etc.). Grants primarily for teaching or extension activities are best listed in the appropriate sections below.

3.  Number of Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Associates Trained. For those with academic appointments. Do not provide names of students, only the numbers. These may be distinguished as Masters, Doctoral, Postdoctoral.

4.  Research Talks and Posters Presented.  List invited presentations (seminars, symposia, etc.) and submitted presentations (e.g. at professional meetings, conferences, etc.). Extension presentations should be summarized in the Extension/Outreach section below.

5.  Patents.  Provide patent title, number, and date, and additional relevant information.

SECTION 3                TEACHING

1.  Formal Courses. List formal lecture courses and seminar courses where nominee has had primary responsibility. Include course title, normal average enrollment, and the years taught. Also include experimental courses developed by the nominee.

2.  Other Teaching Activities. List or summarize whatever is appropriate, e.g. undergraduate fellows trained, non-thesis graduate students, guest lectures, etc.

3.  Teaching Improvement Grants.  Include project titles, sources of funds, amounts, and dates.

4.  Publications Relevant to Teaching. Include peer reviewed papers, textbooks, and other pertinent publications.

5.  Teaching Evaluations.  Briefly describe the evaluation process and summarize the results.

SECTION 4                EXTENSION/OUTREACH

Outreach information may be provided for those nominees without a formal Extension appointment.

1.  Extension Publications.  List formally-published bulletins, fact sheets, compendia, manuals, etc. Mimeographed (departmental) publications may also be listed. Also list (or provide summary data for) articles for newsletters, trade journals, conference and workshop proceedings, etc.

2.  Additional Extension Educational Products.  Provide pertinent information on slide sets, videos, PowerPoint presentations, CDs, software, websites, or other forms of extension information delivery developed for circulation or accessible to clientele. Also include information on newsletters developed and coordinated.

3.  Presentations at Extension Meetings, Workshops, and Field Days.  Summarize information on numbers of presentations and contacts.

4.  Mass Media Contact. Summarize information pertaining to newspaper, radio, TV.

5.  Extension Support.  Provide information on grants and gifts received by the nominee in support of the extension program. Include project titles, sources of funds, amounts, dates, and the nominee’s roles as project director.

6.  Evaluation of Extension Programs.  If available, provide summaries of quantitative or qualitative evaluations of the nominee’s extension presentations or educational products.

SECTION 5                SERVICE

1.  Professional Societies.  Include offices held, committee service, symposia coordinated, manuscripts reviewed, etc. Distinguish between elected, appointed, and volunteer service.

2.  Organizations.  List service to public or private organizations other than professional societies.

3.  Private Sector. Provide information on service activities for the private sector that stem from the nominee’s professional appointment.

4.  State, National, and International Agencies.  List service to governmental and affiliated agencies such as USDA, WHO, EPA, NSF, NIH, state departments of agriculture or health, etc.

5.  At Nominee’s Institution, Agency, or Place of Employment.  List service relating to the professional appointment.

6.  Community and Other.  List significant service activities in the community or for organizations and agencies not related to the nominee’s professional appointment.