Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award

Application Deadline: Monday, Aug. 18, 2008

Rita Balice-Gordon (l) and Judy Illes (r) present the 2007 Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award to Huda Akil.

Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award

Background
The Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award was established in 2000, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Women in Neuroscience, predecessor to the Committee on Women in Neuroscience (C-WIN). The award recognizes an individual with outstanding career achievements in neuroscience who has also significantly promoted the professional advancement of women in neuroscience.

The award includes complimentary SfN annual meeting registration and a monetary prize of $5,000.

Eligibility
Eligible candidates are evaluated by the following criteria:

• Sustained exceptional achievements in neuroscience as evidenced by publications, inventions, and/or awards
• Served the profession through C-WIN, SfN, and/or related organizations
• Recognized at national or international levels as a scientist, educator, businessperson, or administrator in neuroscience
• Demonstrated a high degree of imagination, innovation, and initiative in the pursuit of neuroscience
• Exhibited an unusual dedication to facilitating the mentoring and entry of young women into neuroscience or to the advancement of women in neuroscience

Nominations must be made or endorsed by an SfN member.  If the nominator is not an SfN member, the nomination package must include a letter of endorsement from a current Society member.  Due to potential conflicts of interest, members of the Achievement Awards Selection Committee cannot serve as nominators.  Nominees do not have to be SfN members. Self-nomination is not permitted.

Application Instructions
Nomination packages are reviewed by the Achievement Awards Selection Committee. Incomplete packages are not considered.  Nomination packages must include: 

• SfN awards & prizes cover form (PDF)
• Curriculum Vitae, including a list of students and postdoctoral fellows who have been mentored
• Minimum of one, but a maximum of three, letters of recommendation 
• Summary of key research accomplishments (two-page maximum)
• Summary of mentoring, leadership, and service (two-page maximum)

Submit all required materials as attachments (PDFs preferred) in a single e-mail to awardsandprizes@sfn.org.  Subject line should read "Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award."  Questions can be directed to the same e-mail address.

DEADLINE EXTENSION: The deadline for receipt of nomination materials is Monday, Aug. 18, 2008.

Award Presentation 

The award recipient is notified in August. The award will be presented before a Presidential Special Lecture at the Society's 38th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, November 15-19, 2008.

Past Recipients

• Huda Akil, PhD (2007)
• Ann Kelley, PhD (2006)
• Susan Leeman, PhD (2005)
• Martha Gillette, PhD (2004)
• Bernice Grafstein, PhD (2003)
• Eve Marder, PhD (2002)
• Leslie Ungerleider, PhD (2001)
• Mary Bartlett Bunge, PhD (2000)