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2012 Young Investigator Awards Nominations Now Open
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Young Investigator Awards in Cognitive Neuroscience for the 2012 year. The submission deadline for these awards is November 23, 2011. All nominations must be submitted online--please see below for details.
About the YIA Awards
The aim of the awards is to recognize the outstanding contributions by scientists early in their careers. Two awardees, one male and one female, will be named by the Awards Committee, and will be honored at CNS's 19th annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois in 2012. Each award includes $500 US to be used by the awardees toward travel costs to the meeting, or for any other purpose.
Eligibility
For the 2012 awards, the nominee MUST be:
- Working in any area of cognitive neuroscience (broadly defined).
- No more than 10 years from the receipt of their doctoral degree as of January 1, 2012.
- Nominated by another individual (no self nominations will be accepted).
- In attendance at the 2012 meeting to accept the award in person and must agree to give a special lecture.
Consideration will be given to applicants who have taken an institutionally approved childbearing or parental leave (2 year limit).
Documentation from the appropriate department head, university or institutional official is required with the application in order for eligibility to be determined based on time since receiving the doctoral degree. Also, the residency years for M.D.’s and clinical internship year for Clinical Psychology Ph.D.’s will not be counted against the 10 year limit.
Submitting a Nomination
Before submitting a nomination, please collect the required materials, including:
- Contact information for the nominee
- A PDF or Word Document of the nominee's CV
- A short (max 600) word statement of the nominee's research program
- A PDF or Word Document of a significant publication representative of the nominee's work
- Bibliographic citations for the publication above AND 4 additional representative publications
- A nomination statement from the primary referee (you)
- Contact information for a second referee
- A PDF or Word Document of a nomination statement from the second referee
Once you have collected this information, visit this page and click the "create a nomination" button:
2012 Young Investigator Awards Nominations
ONLINE SUBMISSIONS WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED.
Submission deadline: November 23, 2011
19th Annual Meeting
