IADR Dianne Rekow Mentoring in Science Award

The application package includes the following (one application should be submitted by the Mentor):

• a letter of support from the mentor’s department chair or dean (1 page maximum).
• an outline of the mentoring plan for the mentee and a description of how the award will affect future research to be conducted by the mentee and how it will foster career development for the mentee (maximum 2 pages). 
• a personal statement from the mentor indicating why the mentee should be considered for the award. (maximum 1 page).
• mentor’s NIH-style biosketch
• mentee’s NIH-style biosketch
• a brief research plan accompanied by budget and budget justification demonstrating how the $10,000 to the mentor/mentee institution will be spent (maximum 2 pages) (eligible expenses include mentee stipend, related experimental costs such as equipment fees and research supplies and travelling expenses to the IADR General Session).
   

Review and selection criteria are determined by executive members of the IADR WISN, and the IADR award selection policy. A special review committee will be made up of IADR members and executive members of the IADR WISN.

The funds will be awarded once per year to the mentor/mentee institution for the following eligible expenses: mentee’s one full year of stipends, related experimental costs such as equipment fees and research supplies and travelling expenses to the IADR General Session & Exhibition.

It is expected that the mentor and mentee will attend the IADR General Session & Exhibition to attend the IADR WISN Business Meeting to receive the award.

• Mentor must be a woman scientist within 10 years of their last academic degree and who has been active as a researcher (with output of publications during this period of time).
• Mentor must be an IADR member and WISN member at the time of application.
• Mentee must be an IADR member at the time of submission and a graduate student (MSc, PhD, or Postdoctoral fellow) at the time of application submission.