Eligibility
Full-time faculty members of the college are eligible to be considered for this award. Previous recipients shall be eligible for a second award five years following receipt of their previous award. For example, the winner of the 2020 award would be eligible to receive the 2025 award. There is no limit to the number of times a faculty member may receive the award.
In the case of a repeat winner, the candidate’s accomplishments should show a significant and obvious superiority above the accomplishments of all other candidates and should show significant achievement since the previous award.
Criteria
This award may be given each year to recognize research and productive scholarship accomplishments receiving outside recognition through publication, presentation, funding and/or award. Research includes funded and non-funded projects involving the collection and organization of data which produce insight into and understanding of a defined problem, subject, theme, or area of interest. Productive scholarship includes professional publications and presentations; funded and non-funded research projects; and funded projects involving other scholarly activity. Productive scholarship also includes funded and non-funded projects involving original productions, presentations, arrangements, or exhibitions.
Research and productive scholarship accomplishment will be assessed against the following criteria:
- Research and productive scholarship activities that have been performed over the past five years during which time the candidate has been a faculty member of this College. Specifically, the following will be considered: (a) journal publications; (b) percentage of contribution to these publications; (c) professional presentations; (d) external research grants;
- The importance of the research and scholarship to the discipline, the College, and the University. Specifically, the following will be considered (a) prestige of the journals (e.g., A+, A, etc.); (b) notable contribution to the existing scholarship in terms of paradigm, theory, method, and findings as indicated in the nominee’s statement; (c) notable contribution to the field of industry practice; and
- Indications of creativity in research. Specifically, the following will be considered: innovation in the choice of research subject, creation of research design, use of theory implementation of research process, and/or application as indicated in the statement of significance.
Previous Five Award Winners
- 2024 – Jung-Hwan Kim (RETL)
- 2023 – Cheng (Grace) Yan (SPTE)
- 2022 – Nicholas Watanabe (SPTE)
- 2021 – Stephen Shapiro (SPTE)
- 2020 – Miyoung Jeong (HTMT)
Selection Process
Any college faculty member with evidence of quality research within the previous five years may be nominated or may submit an application for this award. The faculty member should send a short letter of nomination/application to the committee chair by the announced date. The committee chair will meet each candidate to discuss the file to be submitted. Each candidate will submit the required information using the form below.