Award Recipients Recognized Many awards help defray expenses associated with attending SfN's annual meeting. Above, Dr. Timothy McClintock (far left), chair of the Membership & Chapters Committee, presents the 2007 Next Generation Award to (left to right) Hirofumi Watari, Dr. Jonathan Ting, Bryan White, and Dr. Kyle Frantz.

Categories
SfN sponsors and supports career advancement opportunities in the following areas:

• Fellowships
• Travel
• Achievement
• Education and Outreach
• Diversity

See fellowships, awards & prizes deadlines.

Fellowships
Training programs for neuroscience students:

• Neuroscience Scholars Program - Three-year fellowship for under-represented minorities providing travel assistance, mentoring, enrichment opportunities, and SfN membership benefits.

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Travel
Financial assistance for travels costs associated with SfN's annual meeting and other neuroscience-related meetings:

• Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Awards - Financial support for students and postdoctoral fellows presenting abstracts at SfN's annual meeting.
• Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Chapters Travel Awards - Stipend covering annual meeting travel expenses for students nominated by local SfN chapters.
• Next Generation Award - Recognizes a predoctoral or postdoctoral trainee and junior faculty member nominated by SfN chapter for outstanding contributions to outreach efforts; Helps offset annual meeting travel expenses; also includes recognition for chapter.
• SfN-IBRO International Travel Awards
  Travel expense coverage for young neuroscientists from low-income countries attending SfN's annual meeting.
• Science Journalism Student Award - Helps science journalism students cover costs associated with attending the annual meeting.
• Childcare Supplement Award - Helps defray the cost of childcare services used by members while attending the annual meeting.

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Achievement
Accolades recognizing scientific achievement in various branches of the neuroscience field:

• Julius Axelrod Prize - Honors a scientist with achievements in neuropharmacology or a related area and exemplary efforts mentoring young scientists.
• Career Development Award - Recognizes achievement and promise in neuroscience.
• Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience - Given for recognition of outstanding contributions to neuroscience research; Requires nomination by colleagues.
• Patricia Goldman-Rakic Hall of Honor - Recognizes a deceased neuroscientist with outstanding career achievements who promoted the advancement of women in neuroscience.
• Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize - Honors distinguished work in the field of the brain, nervous system and the spinal cord.
• Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience - Recognizes a young scientist who has demonstrated international collaboration based on the best science; allows young neuroscientists to pursue education and research at a center of excellence in their field.
• Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience - Recognizes meritorious research in behavioral neuroscience; presented for outstanding Ph.D. thesis in behavioral neuroscience.
• Louise Hanson Marshall Special Recognition Award - Recognizes an individual for significant contributions to promoting the professional advancement of women and to the field of neuroscience through teaching, public advocacy, and organizational leadership.
• Research Awards for Innovation in Neuroscience (RAIN) - Honors innovative research advancing novel ideas with potential to generate significant breakthroughs in neuroscience.
• Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award - Recognizes an individual with outstanding career achievements in neuroscience who has also significantly promoted the professional advancement of women in neuroscience.
• Young Investigator Award - Recognizes outstanding achievements of a young neuroscientist who has received an advanced professional degree within the past 10 years.
• Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award for Innovative Research in Drug Addiction and Alcoholism - Recognizes a scientist who has researched or plans to research substance abuse and the nervous system. Presented to scientists who have received a Ph.D. or M.D. within the past 15 years.
• Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
  Supported by the Swartz Foundation
  Honors an individual whose activities over a period of time have produced a significant cumulative contribution to theoretical models or computational methods in neuroscience, or who has made a noteworthy particular advance over the past several years in theoretical or computational neuroscience.

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Education and Outreach
Awards recognizing individuals who increase neuroscience awareness through teaching:

• Science Educator Award - Presented to an outstanding neuroscientist who has made significant contributions to educating the public about neuroscience.
• Next Generation Award - Recognizes a predoctoral or postdoctoral trainee and junior faculty member nominated by SfN chapter for outstanding contributions to outreach efforts; Helps offset annual meeting travel expenses; also includes recognition for chapter.

Diversity
Opportunities designed to expand participation of scientists with diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds: 

• Neuroscience Scholars Program - Three-year fellowship for under-represented minorities providing travel assistance, mentoring, enrichment opportunities, and SfN membership benefits.

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