The Boulder Faculty Assembly Awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work, 2012

The Boulder Faculty Assembly is pleased to announce that up to four (4) awards for excellence in research, scholarly, and creative work will be awarded for spring 2012. Each award will be in the amount of $3,000.

Emphasis will be on work of high quality that does not receive recognition through the usual channels. For instance, nominations for interdisciplinary research, work accomplished with undergraduate students, or an integrated long-term achievement, are particularly invited.

Nomination Instructions

Nominations should not be "recycled" from the past, but rather should be prepared for this award cycle. Nomination packets must contain the following materials in the following order:

1. A cover letter from the person nominating the faculty member. If several people are nominating the faculty member they should jointly prepare one cover letter and cosign it.
2. 3 to 6 supporting letters of evaluation from appropriate colleagues. At least 3 letters must be from colleagues outside of CU. Evaluators must sign their letters of evaluation if at all possible. If a signature is not possible, please include a copy of the email to which the letter of evaluation was attached for confirmation purposes.
3. The candidate's curriculum vitae.
4. Please do not submit samples of published materials

**Other supporting materials such as letters written by students may be included if appropriate but must follow the items on the list above, and should not be addressed to the nominee but to the nominator or to the award selection committee.

About Nominees

• Nominees will be members of the Boulder Campus Faculty Senate.
• Nominations are solicited from departments as well as individual faculty members.
• Nominators are encouraged to visit www.Colorado.edu/BFA/archives/pastawards.html to determine whether potential nominees have received the award previously and are therefore not eligible to be nominated.
• Nominators are advised to present the names of only those colleagues who will be on campus during the spring semester 2012.

The deadline for receipt of complete nomination packets is Wednesday, February 15,  2012.

Nomination packets may be delivered in electronic form as a single "pdf" file, or in paper format. Only complete packets will be accepted. Packets may be delivered to the BFA Excellence Awards Selection Committees in one of the following ways:

• saved on a USB drive or CD and mailed via campus mail to 046 UCB;
  
• saved on a USB drive or CD and sent via U.S. Mail to:
          Boulder Faculty Assembly
          Excellence Awards Selection Committee
          046 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309;
  
• saved on a USB drive or CD and hand-delivered to 914 Broadway room 1B14;
  
• e-mailed (in a single e-mail message) to BFA Coordinator Sierra Swearingen, at sierra.swearingen@colorado.edu;
  or
  
• mailed or delivered in hard copy format to the above address.

A recognition ceremony for award recipients will be held in April, 2012.

The Chancellor's office provides funding for the BFA Excellence Awards.

For more information please contact BFA Coordinator Sierra Swearingen-Todd at sierra.swearingen@colorado.edu or 303-492-6271.