Last Week for Nominations
If you were teaching a course this past semester, congratulations on making it through finals! If not, we hope you have been simply enjoying some spring weather. This quick post is a reminder that the nomination deadline for two awards being offered in 2018 by TSHS is only one week away -- Monday May 15
Did your mentee write a good statistics education paper recently? The annual Young Investigator Award recognizes a young TSHS member who shows promise as a statistics educator or in conducting statistics education research in the health sciences. Young investigator is defined as (i) a current graduate student, OR (ii) a recent graduate who has received his/her terminal degree no more than 7 years ago and who is in position with rank below Associate Professor and does not hold tenure (or equivalent classification). It's easy to nominate them, just send:
Nomination letter certifying that the nominee meets eligibility criteria (1 page)
Copy of the nominee's curriculum vitae, with education research highlighted
PDF of a published paper on the topic of statistics education, with the nominee as first author
Is there a teacher you know who is really doing great things? The annual Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes a TSHS member who is an outstanding statistics educator and mentor in the health sciences. It's easy to nominate them, just send:
Nomination letter summarizing the nominee's teaching/training and mentoring record in the health sciences (1 page)
Copy of the nominee's curriculum vitae
Statement of the nominee's philosophy of teaching (1 page)
One letter of reference summarizing his/her teaching/training and mentoring accomplishments (1 page)
Send nomination materials to*:
More information, including past recipients, award review criteria, and monetary award amounts, can be found on the TSHS website.
* Note (6/18/18): The official TSHS email is tshs.asa@gmail.com If you have used any other section email addresses, please update them accordingly as those will be discontinued.