Competition

* Unless explicitly noted, all times indicated for deadlines are for the appropriate NL timezone (NST or NDT)

Nominators are advised to contact Ellen Steinhauer, Awards and Honours, for information on this program.

The NSERC Donna Strickland Prize for Societal Impact of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research is awarded annually to an individual or team whose outstanding research, conducted in Canada in the natural sciences and engineering, has led to exceptional benefits for Canadian society, environment and/or economy.

Exceptional benefits can be demonstrated in one or more interacting spheres of Canadian life. Examples include:

• Improvements to specific procedures in society (e.g., laws, regulations, protocols)

• Stimulation of new approaches to social issues

• Improvements to quality of life

• Informing public debate

• Improvements to policymaking

• Reduction of waste and pollution

• Protection of species

• Reduction of the impact of pollutants on ecosystems and humans

• Improvements in the sustainable use of resources

• Protection of ecosystems

• Reduction in the impacts of climate change

• Contributions to economic growth and wealth creation

• Introduction of a disruptive technology

• Creation of a new industrial sector

Nomination deadline: November 28 before 8 p.m. (ET). If the deadline falls on a weekend or federal holiday, NSERC must receive your nomination before 8:00 p.m. (ET) the next working day.

Nominators are advised to contact Ellen Steinhauer , Awards and Honours, for information on this program.

The internal selection of candidates to be nominated by the University for prestigious external awards entails the Awards Advisory Committee (AAC) reviewing several times annually, submissions of preliminary nomination materials for certain external awards. Those faculty members whose files have been selected for the preparation of the University nomination for the above award will be contacted by the Office of the Vice-President (Research) for assistance in developing the final nomination package to be submitted to external bodies.

Preliminary nomination materials must be reviewed first by the Office of the Dean of HSS prior to the deadline set by the AAC (see deadline below). Heads or individual faculty members should submit the AAC nomination template document electronically to HSS’s Secretary to the Associate Deans, Savanna Muscat (smuscat@mun.ca). The template can also be obtained from the Grants Facilitators Heather C. O'Brien or Matthew Milner.

See https://www.mun.ca/honours/institutional-awards-committees/ for more information about the internal nomination process.