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Previous Recipients

2007: Janice M. Bahr

Nomination Form

SSR Trainee Mentoring Award

This award recognizes an SSR member who as a mentor has had significant impact on Trainees within the SSR. The Trainee Mentoring Award will be presented each year at the SSR Annual Meeting to an SSR member who has consistently demonstrated a measure of support and guidance to Trainees that far exceeds the basic responsibilities required of an academic advisor. An individual may receive this award only once.

Award Criteria

  1. Outstanding service as a mentor: the nominee has exceeded the basic roles of an academic advisor, becoming a mentor to those with whom they interact.
  2. Knowledge of the discipline: the nominee has demonstrated a comprehensive knowledge of and passion for reproductive biology and its implications in the broader world of scientific research, which significantly intellectual interactions with trainees.
  3. Scope of mentorship: the mentoring may be concentrated in the classroom, laboratory, or in the field. The number of trainees who have been mentored by the nominated individual will be considered, with special attention given to mentorship of trainees who have subsequently made an impact in reproductive biology.
  4. Other activities: selfless service as a teacher and trusted mentor to undergraduate, graduate and/or post-doctoral trainees in reproductive physiology; instruction inside or out of the classroom with a passion that is passed on to those they mentor; evidence that the nominee has significantly enhanced the careers and potential for success in advisees. 

Selection Process

Candidates will be nominated by Regular and/or Trainee members of SSR who were significantly affected by the nominee.

Nominations must include three letters of reference demonstrating why this candidate is an outstanding mentor and a one-page objective summary highlighting the candidate’s contributions to trainees in SSR. The Nomnation Form may be downloaded from the link at left.

The Chair of the Awards Committee will receive the nomination packets and distribute them to the members of the Awards Committee, who shall then review the packets and vote on the nominees. 

The award will be presented at the SSR Annual Meeting by a member of the Trainee Affairs Committee.