AAAS Early Career Award for International Students in USA

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is inviting
applicants for its Early Career Award. This award is open to applicants from
all over the world.

The aim of the AAAS
Early Career Awards is to promote meaningful dialogue between science and
society.

AAAS is an American
international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting
cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging
scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science
outreach for the betterment of all humanity.

Course
Level: The
AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science, established in
2010, recognizes early-career scientists and engineers who demonstrate
excellence in their contribution to public engagement with science activities.

Study
Subject: This
award is available in the field of Public Engagement with Science

Scholarship
Award: The
value of the award is $5,000.

Numbers of
Scholarships: Not
Known

Scholarship
can be taken in US
A

Eligibility: Applicants must meet the
following area for the Award:

Candidate
must be an individual scientist or engineer. Groups or institutions will
not be considered for this award. AAAS employees are ineligible. One
scientist or engineer will be chosen to receive the award each year.
Candidate
must be a scientist or engineer actively conducting research in any
scientific discipline (including social sciences and medicine). They may
be based in academia, government or industry. Public engagement activities
must be above and beyond job responsibilities.
Candidate
must be “early career,” which is defined as an individual who has been in
his/her current field for less than seven years and is pre-tenure or job
equivalent (typically within 7 years of receiving a PhD). Post-doctoral
fellows are eligible for this award.
Nominees
no longer considered “early career” as defined by this award might be
eligible for the AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science.
Candidate
will have demonstrated excellence in his/her contributions to public
engagement with science activities, with a focus on interactive dialogue
between the individual and a non-scientific, public audience(s).
Types
of public engagement activities might include informal science education,
public outreach, public policy, and/or science communication activities,
such as mass media, public dialogue, radio, TV and film, science cafés,
science fairs, and social and online media.

Nationality:
Applicants
from all over the world are eligible for this award.

College
Admission Requirement

Entrance
Requirement:
Postdoctoral fellows are eligible for this award.

English
Language Requirement:
Applicants from outside the home country will often need to meet specific
English language requirements in order to be able to study there.

How to
Apply: Applicants
can apply via online,

Materials
must be in English
Applicants
will be asked to provide:
Name,
position, institution, professional address, email, and phone of the
candidate
Name,
position, institution, professional address, email, and phone of the
nominator or person writing the letter of support (in the case of
self-nominations)
Candidate
qualifications statement of the public engagement activities that form the
basis for the nomination
This
statement of 500 words should discuss the candidate’s approach to public
engagement. It should emphasize the candidate’s public engagement goal(s),
intended audience(s), and message(s), as well as the level and type of
dialogue achieved with their audiences, evaluation of public engagement
work, and examples of how public engagement has affected the candidate’s
scientific work.
A
letter of support from the nominator (a person who can speak to the
candidate’s public engagement efforts)
This
letter should provide more insight into the candidate’s work and discuss
their accomplishments.
This
letter can be written by a colleague, supervisor or participant.
Up to
two additional letters from different nominators may be submitted (not
required).
At
least two (up to three) representative material samples or other
documentation which illustrate or describe the candidate’s public
engagement contributions
Samples
should exhibit the activities discussed in the statement and further
contribute to the narrative of the nomination, showing different
representations of the breadth of their public engagement.
The
candidate’s curriculum vitae
Limit
CV to five pages, with a specific section highlighting public engagement
activities distinct from work that is required as part of the candidate’s
job.
All
materials submitted become the property of AAAS. Inquiries may be directed
to the Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology via email.