Recruiting Request for Awards Selection Committee Members

Recruiting awards selection committee members once annually, for all internal awards, gives college leadership an opportunity to ensure inclusive participation in this important service by faculty.
 
As you RECRUIT and CONFIRM new faculty service commitments for university internal awards, please keep in mind the following:
 

Expectations & Instructions

Deadline: Please complete this full process by 12 p.m. noon on October 13, 2021.
 

1. Take into account the Faculty Affairs resources and records of past guidelines, recipients, and committee service for each award.
2. Using the college-specific selection committee recruiting request below, identify and secure commitments from the appropriate people in your college. 
   • Endeavor to identify committee members other than those who have recently served on these committees.
   • Do not ask any single person to serve on more than one committee in a year.
   • Avoid recruiting only recent recipients of awards to serve on these committees.
   • If all selection committee openings are filled with previous winners this would likely result in more biased, and less inclusive, visions for who can win the award.
   • Put forward committee members who are appropriate to serve on each specific award committee, with respect to the eligibility criteria and timeline provided.
   • Communicate the value you place on this service for the college.
3. Contact each committee member to secure their availability and commitment to serve before entering their name in the Qualtrics form.
   • ​​If we encounter committee members named by you who indicate they did not agree to serve, we will return to you to rectify the situation and secure a firm commitment.
4. Once you have commitments for all the committee seats assigned to your college, use the Qualtrics form to submit the information of your newly appointed committee members for award selection. 
   • You may exit from and return to the survey, and the web browser will automatically save your progress. If you need to pause in entering your committee member information, simply bookmark the form URL,  and navigate back to that page in the same web browser to access the form where you left it. 
   • You will be required to enter information for all fields in a given section before you may move on to the next section, but you may navigate back to change an entry in a previous section if needed.
   • You will see a summary of your response entries to review just before you submit. Please verify all entries AND be sure to click “submit” to complete the process.
   • After submission, a copy of your responses will be emailed to the contact entered in the first section of the form. If you do not receive an emailed copy of responses, your form has not been submitted.
   • Form submission deadline: October 13, 2021, 12 p.m.

 
If you have any questions, please reach out accordingly:
Heather Wilkinson, h-wilkinson@tamu.edu        Questions concerning committee composition
Jeana Guillory, jguillory@tamu.edu                       Questions concerning form submission and other logistics

 

College of Science 

College-Specific 2021-2022 Committee Recruiting Request

 

Need	Award Name	Recruiting Criteria	Availability Requirements
1 faculty member	Association of Former Students DAA    Graduate Mentoring Award	Exemplifies excellence   in graduate mentoring   Is NOT a department head,   dean, System member    director, president or vice ​  president	January review of candidates Late January/early February committee meeting Two consecutive years, 2022 and 2023
1 faculty member	Association of Former Students DAA   Teaching Award	Exemplifies excellence   in teaching   Is NOT a department head,   dean, System member    director, president or vice ​  president	January review of candidates Late January/early February committee meeting Two consecutive years, 2022 and 2023
1 graduate   faculty member	Association of Former Students   Graduate Student Award	Exemplifies excellence   in graduate teaching	January review of candidates Late January/early February committee meeting Two consecutive years, 2022 and 2023
1 faculty member	Chancellor's Academy of   Teacher Educators (CATE)	Exemplifies excellence in   teaching future teachers;    preferably a CATE member	Late October review of candidates Late October/early November committee meeting
1 tenured   full professor	Eminent Scholar Award	Eminent in his or her   own right	Late July/early August review of candidates Late August committee meeting Two consecutive years, 2022 and 2023
1 tenured   full professor	Regents Professor	Accomplished tenured   full professor	Late April review of candidates Late April/early May committee meeting
1 faculty member	SEC Travel Grant	Tenured associate or full professor	Late March/early April review of candidates April committee meeting
1 tenured   full professor	University Professorship (UP)	Tenured full professor   Holds an endowed chair   or professorship	January review of candidates Late January/early February committee meeting

 
 

Continuing in Committee Service

N/A
 

Recently Provided Committee Service

 

College Representative	Department	Award Committee
Derya Akleman	Statistics	AFS Graduate Student Award
William Bassichis	Physics & Astronomy	Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence
Deborah Bell-Pedersen	Biology	University Professorship
David Bergbreiter	Chemistry	Regents Professor
George Berkolaiko	Mathematics	SEC Travel
Harold Boas	Mathematics	Association DAA - Graduate Mentoring Subcommittee
Larry Brown	Chemistry	Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence
Larry Brown	Chemistry	University Professorships for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
Alan Dabney	Statistics	University Professorships for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
Marcetta Darensbour	Chemistry	Eminent Scholar Award
Jennifer Dulin	Biology	SEC Travel
Kim Dunbar	Chemistry	Eminent Scholar Award
Tatiana Erukhimova	Physics & Astronomy	Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence
Francois Gabbai	Chemistry	Association DAA - Research Subcommittee
Richard Gomer	Biology	Eminent Scholar Award
Christian Hilty	Chemistry	Association Graduate Student Award
Jennifer Holle	Office of the Dean	Association DAA – Administration Subcommittee
Peter Howard	Mathematics	Association Graduate Student Award
Olga Kocharovskaya	Physics & Astronomy	Association DAA - Administration Subcommittee
Arne Lekven	Biology	Association Graduate Student Award
Michael Nippe	Chemistry	Association Graduate Student Award
James Pennington	Chemistry	University Professorships for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
Vickie Williamson	Chemistry	University Professorships for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
Renyi Zhang	Chemistry	University Professorships