Faculty External Honors
Life Sciences
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| Name & Hyperlink | NRC Status | Agency Name | Estimated Deadline Month | Description | Sub-field |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Amory Prize | Highly Prestigious | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Continuous | This prize recognizes major contributions to reproductive biology. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers | Highly Prestigious | Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation | Continuous | This Fellowship for experienced researchers allows you to carry out long-term research in Germany. | Multi-disciplinary |
| ADSA Award of Honor | Highly Prestigious | American Dairy Science Association | January | To recognize unusually outstanding and consistent contributions to the welfare of the Association or distinguished service to the Association. | Animal Sciences |
| Lasker Bloomberg Public Service Award | Highly Prestigious | Lasker Foundation | February | Awarded for improving the public??s understanding of medical research, public health, or healthcare; providing financial support for initiatives to enhance public health and/or medical research; serving as a spokesperson for medical research or public health; providing outstanding public health practice. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Adolph E Gude, Jr Award | Highly Prestigious | American Society of Plant Biologists | February | Awarded to a scientist or lay person in recognition of outstanding service to the science of plant biology. | Plant Sciences |
| Charles Albert Shull Award | Highly Prestigious | American Society of Plant Biologists | February | Recognizes outstanding investigations in the field of plant biology by a member who is generally under forty-five years of age. | Plant Sciences |
| Hall of Fame Award | Highly Prestigious | American Society for Horticultural Science | February | Honors distinguished persons who have made extraordinary contributions to horticulture. | Plant Sciences |
| Martin Gibbs Medal | Highly Prestigious | American Society of Plant Biologists | February | Presented to an individual who has pioneered advances that have served to establish new directions of investigation in the plant sciences. | Plant Sciences |
| The Stephen Hales Prize | Highly Prestigious | American Society of Plant Biologists | February | Awarded to a scientist/member who has served the science of plant biology in some noteworthy manner. | Plant Sciences |
| The Morrison Award | Highly Prestigious | American Society of Animal Science | March | The purpose of this award is to stimulate research excellence of direct importance to livestock production. | Animal Sciences |
| Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize | Highly Prestigious | Society for the Study of Evolution | March | Recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding young evolutionary biologist. | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| ESA Founders' Memorial Award | Highly Prestigious | Entomological Society of America | March | Presented to a current ESA member and have a record of accomplishment in entomology. | Entomology |
| Judson Daland Prize | Highly Prestigious | American Philosophical Society | March | Recognizes outstanding achievement in patient-oriented research. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Aldo Leopold Memorial Award | Highly Prestigious | Wildlife Society, The | May | Recognizes distinguished service to wildlife conservation. | Animal Sciences |
| Donald B Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience | Highly Prestigious | Society for Neuroscience | May | Recognizes a young neuroscientist's outstanding PhD thesis in the general area of behavioral neuroscience. | Neuroscience and Neurobiology |
| ASBMB-Merck Award | Highly Prestigious | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | June | Recognizes outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Howard Hughes Medical Investigator/ Alumni Investigator | Highly Prestigious | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | June | HHMI Investigators are widely known for their scientific discoveries, their innovation, and their success in pushing the bounds of knowledge in biomedical research. | Biology, Integrated Biology, Integrated Biomedical Sciences |
| Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award | Highly Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | Rewards fundamental research of unusual merit in microbiology or immunology by an individual who has not reached his/her 45th birthday. | Microbiology |
| Ralph W Gerard Prize in Neuroscience | Highly Prestigious | Society for Neuroscience | June | Honors an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to neuroscience throughout his or her career. | Neuroscience and Neurobiology |
| C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy | Highly Prestigious | American Association of Anatomists | August | Recognizes investigators who have made important contributions to the field of comparative neuroanatomy and have demonstrated remarkable promise of future accomplishments. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Stockholm Water Prize | Highly Prestigious | Stockholm Water Foundation | September | Honors women, men and organizations whose work contributes to the conservation and protection of water resources, and to the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants. | Multi-disciplinary |
| NAS Award in the Evolution of Earth and Life | Highly Prestigious | National Academy of Science | October | Recognizes meritorious work in zoology or paleontology published no earlier than the last presentation of the medal. | Animal Sciences |
| Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics | Highly Prestigious | National Academy of Science | October | Recognizes outstanding contributions made to the field of biophysics. | Biology, Integrated Biology, Integrated Biomedical Sciences |
| NAS Award in Molecular Biology | Highly Prestigious | National Academy of Science | October | Recognizes a recent notable discovery by a young scientist (no older than 45) who is a citizen of the United States. | Biology, Integrated Biology, Integrated Biomedical Sciences |
| Selman A Waksman Award in Microbiology | Highly Prestigious | National Academy of Science | October | Recognizes a major advance in the field of microbiology. | Microbiology |
| Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal | Highly Prestigious | National Academy of Science | October | Awarded every two years for outstanding research in the medical sciences. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Richard Lounsbery Award | Highly Prestigious | National Academy of Science | October | Recognizes extraordinary scientific achievement in biology and medicine. | Multi-disciplinary |
| NAS Award in the Neurosciences | Highly Prestigious | National Academy of Science | October | Recognizes extraordinary contributions to the progress of the neuroscience fields, including neurochemistry, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, developmental neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and behavioral and clinical neuroscience. | Neuroscience and Neurobiology |
| Established Professional/Walter B Cannon Award Lecture | Highly Prestigious | American Physiological Society | October | Recognizes original and outstanding accomplishments in the field of physiology. | Physiology |
| Cyrus Hall McCormick Jerome Case Gold Medal Award | Highly Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Honors exceptional and meritorious engineering achievement in agriculture that has resulted in new concepts, products, processes or methods that advanced the development of agriculture. | Plant Sciences |
| John Deere Gold Medal | Highly Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizing distinguished achievement in the application of science and art to the soil, this award honors engineering ways and means for improved manipulation, use and conservation of soil and water resources. | Plant Sciences |
| William Skinner Cooper Award | Highly Prestigious | Ecological Society of America | November | Honors an outstanding contributor to the fields of geobotany and/or physiographic ecology. | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Mead Johnson Award | Highly Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Given to an investigator for a single outstanding piece of nutrition research or a series of papers on the same subject accomplished within 10 years of postgraduate training. | Nutrition |
| Osborne and Mendel Award | Highly Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Given for outstanding recent basic research accomplishments in nutrition. | Nutrition |
| Award of Distinction | Highly Prestigious | American Phyto- pathological Society | November | Recognizes exceptional contributions to plant pathology. | Plant Sciences |
| Nicholas Appert Award | Highly Prestigious | Institute of Food Technologists | December | Honors an IFT member or nonmember for contributions to the field of food technology. | Food Science |
| Early Career Professional Awards/Arthur C Guyton Awards for Excellence in Integrative Physiology | Highly Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Supports an investigator with an academic rank no higher than Assistant Professor who is pursuing research that utilizes quantitative and integrative approaches and feedback control system theory for the study of physiological functions. | Physiology |
| Outstanding Choices Article | Prestigious | Agricultural and Applied Economics Association | Continuous | Choices provides current coverage on economic implications of food, farm, resource or rural community issues directed toward a broad audience. | Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| Fritz Lipmann Lectureship | Prestigious | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Continuous | Awarded every other year for conceptual advances in biochemistry, bioenergetics or molecular biology. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| MBoC Paper of the Year | Prestigious | American Society for Cell Biology | Continuous | Chosen by MBoC Associate Editors, the first author of the paper judged to be the best of the year, from June to May. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Abraham J Gitlitz Memorial Lectureship | Prestigious | Association of Clinical Scientists | Continuous | The lectures commemnorate Dr. Gitlitz's accomplishments as a clinician, researcher, teacher, and administrator. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Claude P Brown Memorial Lectureship | Prestigious | Association of Clinical Scientists | Continuous | The lectures commemorate Dr. Brown's futerhance of clinical science. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Clinical Scientist of the Year | Prestigious | Association of Clinical Scientists | Continuous | Presented to a member who has made outstanding contributions to clinical science in research, teaching, and service. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Diploma of Honor | Prestigious | Association of Clinical Scientists | Continuous | Recognizes sustained, salient, and meritorious contributions to clinical science and its professional advancement. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Young Clinical Scientist Award | Prestigious | Association of Clinical Scientists | Continuous | Recognizes exceptional zeal for research in clinical science. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award | Prestigious | Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation | Continuous | Award winners are invited to spend a period of up to one year cooperating on a long-term research project with specialist colleagues at one of the Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards | Prestigious | Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation | Continuous | Award winners are honoured for their outstanding research record and invited to spend a period of up to one year cooperating on a long-term research project with specialist colleagues at a research institution in Germany. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers | Prestigious | Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation | Continuous | A Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers allows you to carry out long-term research (6-24 months) in Germany. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Karl Spencer Lashley Award | Prestigious | American Philosophical Society | Continuous | The award is to be made in recognition of work on the integrative neuroscience of behavior. | Neuroscience and Neurobiology |
| Margaret Dullea Simko Award for Excellence at a Clinical Poster Session | Prestigious | American Dietetic Association | Continuous | Recognizes quality poster sessions at FNCE?? and encourages high quality poster session admissions in the future. | Nutrition |
| Central Nervous System Section Awards/Joseph Erlanger Distinguished Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | Continuous | The recipient is chosen by the Section as a representative of the best within the discipline. | Physiology |
| G. Edgar Folk Senior Physiologists Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | Continuous | Presented to senior physiologists, 70 years or older, who no longer have grant funds available to them. | Physiology |
| Teaching Section Awards/Claude Bernard Distinguished Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | Continuous | Presented to an established investigator with a history of excellence in education who is making outstanding contributions to teaching and learning. | Physiology |
| Edgar T Wherry Award | Prestigious | Botanical Society of America | Continuous | Given for the best paper presented during the contributed papers session of the Pteridological Section. | Plant Sciences |
| Edward Tuckerman Award | Prestigious | American Bryological and Lichenological Society | Continuous | Honors the most outstanding lichenological paper published each year in The Bryologist. | Plant Sciences |
| Fruit Publication | Prestigious | American Society for Horticultural Science | Continuous | Recognizes the author(s) of the outstanding paper in the designated area, published in the previous year's issues of The Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, HortScience, or HortTechnology. | Plant Sciences |
| Henry Allan Gleason Award | Prestigious | Botanical Society of America | Continuous | Recognizes an outstanding recent publication in the field of plant taxonomy, plant ecology, or plant geography. | Plant Sciences |
| Luigi Provasoli Award | Prestigious | Phycological Society of America | Continuous | Presented annually to the author(s) of the three, or fewer, outstanding papers published in the Journal of Phycology during the previous calendar year. | Plant Sciences |
| Margaret Menzel Award | Prestigious | Botanical Society of America | Continuous | Awarded for the outstanding paper presented in the contributed papers sessions of the annual meetings. | Plant Sciences |
| Vegetable Publication Award | Prestigious | American Society for Horticultural Science | Continuous | Recognizes the author(s) of the outstanding paper in the designated area, published in the previous year's issues of The Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, HortScience, or HortTechnology. | Plant Sciences |
| William Starling Sullivant Award | Prestigious | American Bryological and Lichenological Society | Continuous | Recognizes the best bryological paper published each year in The Bryologist. | Plant Sciences |
| American Feed Industry Association Award | Prestigious | American Dairy Science Association | January | The purpose of this award is to stimulate research in dairy cattle nutrition. | Animal Sciences |
| Cargill Animal Nutrition Young Scientist Award | Prestigious | American Dairy Science Association | January | The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding research by young dairy production scientists during the first 10 years of their professional career. | Animal Sciences |
| J. L. Lush Award in Animal Breeding | Prestigious | American Dairy Science Association | January | Recognizes outstanding research in animal breeding. | Animal Sciences |
| Zinpro Award for Excellence in Dairy Science | Prestigious | American Dairy Science Association | January | Recognizes outstanding research in dairy production or manufacturing contributing to improvement or care of dairy cattle, development and improvement of processes, products, equipment, methods, handling, and sanitation. | Animal Sciences |
| Zoetis Physiology Award | Prestigious | American Dairy Science Association | January | Recognizes outstanding research in dairy cattle physiology. | Animal Sciences |
| Young Bioenergeticist Award | Prestigious | Biophysical Society | January | Given to outstanding graduate students and postdocs. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Akira Okubo Prize | Prestigious | Society for Mathematical Biology | January | Honors a living scientist for outstanding and innovative theoretical work, for establishing superb conceptual ideas, for solving tough theoretical problems, and/or for uniting theory and data to advance a biological subject. | Biology, Integrated Biology, Integrated Biomedical Sciences |
| AAA Young Anatomist Publication Award | Prestigious | American Association of Anatomists | January | Recognizse the best publication by an early-career anatomist in each of the society's three journals-- Anatomical Sciences Education, Developmental Dynamics, or The Anatomical Record. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| ADSA Foundation Scholar Award (Dairy Foods, Production) | Prestigious | American Dairy Science Association | January | Recognizes young scholars (one from the Dairy Foods Division and one from the Production Division) and their potential in research and educational leadership and to identify critical issues affecting the future of the dairy industry. | Dairy Science |
| International Dairy Foods Association Research Award in Dairy Foods Processing | Prestigious | American Dairy Science Association | January | Recognizes individuals whose research findings have allowed dairy foods processors to develop new products, to make a significant improvement in the quality, safety, or processing efficiency of dairy foods. | Dairy Science |
| Nutrition Professionals, Inc Applied Dairy Nutrition Award | Prestigious | American Dairy Science Association | January | Recognizes outstanding achievement in research, teaching, extension, and/or industry in applied dairy nutrition. | Dairy Science |
| West Agro, Inc award | Prestigious | American Dairy Science Association | January | Recognizes outstanding research of milk quality as affected by control of mastitis, management of milking, and practices in production of milk. | Dairy Science |
| Award of Excellence | Prestigious | Phycological Society of America | January | Honors scientists for a record of sustained scholarly activity, including teaching and service, who have had a major impact on the field of phycology. | Plant Sciences |
| Publication of Enduring Quality Award | Prestigious | Agricultural and Applied Economics Association | February | The Publication of Enduring Quality Award is granted to encourage excellence in publications in fields consistent with the AAEA Vision Statement. | Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| Quality of Research Discovery Award | Prestigious | Agricultural and Applied Economics Association | February | The Quality of Research Discovery Award is granted to encourage excellent publications in fields consistent with the AAEA Vision Statement. | Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Prestigious | Society for In Vitro Biology | February | Recognizes outstanding late-career scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of in vitro biology and/or in the development of novel technologies that have advanced in vitro biology. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Young Scientist Award | Prestigious | Society for In Vitro Biology | February | Recognizes outstanding early-career scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of in vitro biology and/or in the development of novel technologies that have advanced in vitro biology. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Abbott Nutrition Award in Women's Health | Prestigious | American Dietetic Association | February | Recognizes dietitians who make significant contributions to the importance of nutrition in women??s health. | Nutrition |
| Edna and Robert Langholz International Nutrition Award | Prestigious | American Dietetic Association | February | Recognizes an individual for his or her outstanding contribution to the field of nutrition and to help increase the stature and image of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics worldwide. | Nutrition |
| Elaine R. Monsen Award for Outstanding Research Literature | Prestigious | American Dietetic Association | February | Recognizes an outstanding body of research literature in the field of dietetics, food and nutrition. | Nutrition |
| Mary P Huddleson Memorial Award | Prestigious | American Dietetic Association | February | Recognizes an outstanding article published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics during the previous year. | Nutrition |
| Cardiovascular Section Awards/Berne Distinguished Lectureship | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | February | Presented to an emerging leader in cardiovascular research whose current research is particularly stimulating. | Physiology |
| Cardiovascular Section Awards/Carl J Wiggers Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | February | Presented to a scientist who is a Fellow of the Cardiovascular Section, who has made outstanding contributions to cardiovascular research throughout their career. | Physiology |
| Comparative and Evolutionary Section Awards/August Krogh Distinguished Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | February | Awarded to a distinguished scientist who has made major and meritorious contributions to the scientific areas represented by the APS Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section. | Physiology |
| Renal Section Awards/Carl W Gottschalk Distinguished Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | February | Recognizes a world-renown, distinguished scientist and engaging speaker who has made major contributions to understanding physiological processes through state-of-the-art research. | Physiology |
| Renal Section Awards/Young Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | February | Recognizes an outstanding young investigator pursuing research in renal physiology, pathophysiology or hypertension. | Physiology |
| Alexopoulos Prize | Prestigious | Mycological Society of America | February | Awarded annually to an outstanding mycologist early in their career. | Plant Sciences |
| Charles F Kettering Award for Excellence in Photosynthesis | Prestigious | American Society of Plant Biologists | February | Recognizes excellence in the field of photosynthesis. | Plant Sciences |
| Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award | Prestigious | American Society of Plant Biologists | February | Awarded for meritorious work in plant biology. | Plant Sciences |
| Cross-Commodity Publication Award | Prestigious | American Society for Horticultural Science | February | Recognizes the author(s) of the outstanding paper in the designated area, published in the previous year's issues of The Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, HortScience, or HortTechnology. | Plant Sciences |
| Dennis Robert Hoagland Award | Prestigious | American Society of Plant Biologists | February | Awarded for outstanding plant research in support of agriculture. | Plant Sciences |
| Distinguished Mycologist Award | Prestigious | Mycological Society of America | February | Awarded annually to an individual who has established an outstanding mycological career. | Plant Sciences |
| Early Career Award | Prestigious | American Society of Plant Biologists | February | Recognizes outstanding research by scientists at the beginnings of their careers. | Plant Sciences |
| Fellow of ASPB | Prestigious | American Society of Plant Biologists | February | Granted in recognition of distinguished and long-term contributions to plant biology and service to the Society by current members. | Plant Sciences |
| Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology | Prestigious | American Society of Plant Biologists | February | Awarded to a plant scientist whose work both illuminates the present and suggests paths to enlighten the future. | Plant Sciences |
| MSA Fellows | Prestigious | Mycological Society of America | February | Awarded annually to an outstanding member of the society for extended service and contributions to mycology in teaching and research. | Plant Sciences |
| Outstanding International Horticulturist | Prestigious | American Society for Horticultural Science | February | Recognizes an international horticulturist who has made an outstanding and valuable contribution to international horticultural science, education, research and/or outreach for a period of 10 or more years. | Plant Sciences |
| Outstanding Researcher | Prestigious | American Society for Horticultural Science | February | Recognizes a horticultural crops scientist who has had an outstanding record in research on one or more horticultural crops and in one or more areas of horticultural research for a period of 10 or more years. | Plant Sciences |
| LR Ahuja Ag Systems Modeling Award | Prestigious | Soil Science Society of America | March | This award is presented to a soil scientist, agronomist, or crop scientist in recognition of recent (last 5-7 years) distinguished contributions and their demonstrated impact. | Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| American Egg Board Research Award | Prestigious | Poultry Science Association | March | Given to increase the interest in research pertaining to egg science technology or marketing that has a bearing on egg or spent hen utilization. | Animal Sciences |
| American Feed Industry Association Award in nonruminant Nutrition Research | Prestigious | American Society of Animal Science | March | The purpose of this award is to stimulate research excellence in the nutrition of nonruminant animals. | Animal Sciences |
| American Feed Industry Association Award in Ruminant Nutrition Research | Prestigious | American Society of Animal Science | March | The purpose of this award is to stimulate research excellence in the nutrition of ruminant animals. | Animal Sciences |
| American Feed Industry Association Poultry Nutrition Research Award | Prestigious | Poultry Science Association | March | This award is given for distinctive work demonstrating sound research in poultry nutrition in the last 10 years. | Animal Sciences |
| Animal Growth and Development Award | Prestigious | American Society of Animal Science | March | The purpose of this award is to stimulate research excellence in animal growth and development. | Animal Sciences |
| Animal Management Award | Prestigious | American Society of Animal Science | March | The purpose of this award is to stimulate research excellence in biological or production management and to recognize those who have made significant contributions to production management. | Animal Sciences |
| Animal Physiology and Endocrinology Award | Prestigious | American Society of Animal Science | March | The purpose of this award is to stimulate research excellence in physiology and endocrinology. | Animal Sciences |
| C Hart Merriam Award for Outstanding Research Contributions to the Science of Mammalogy | Prestigious | American Society of Mammalogists | March | This award is given in recognition of outstanding research in mammalogy. | Animal Sciences |
| Corbin Companion Animal Biology Award | Prestigious | American Society of Animal Science | March | The purpose of this awrad is to recognize and stimulate research and/or teaching excellence in companion animal biology. | Animal Sciences |
| Evonik Degussa Award for Achievement in Poultry Science | Prestigious | Poultry Science Association | March | Given as an achievement award, i.e., for distinctive contributions to poultry science advancement, covering a period of not more than seven years preceding the annual award. | Animal Sciences |
| Fitch Award for Excellence in Herpetology | Prestigious | American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | March | Awarded to an individual for long-term excellence in the study of amphibian and/or reptile biology, based principally on the quality of the awardee's research. | Animal Sciences |
| Maple Leaf Farms Duck Research Award | Prestigious | Poultry Science Association | March | The Maple Leaf Farms Duck Research Award is given to stimulate and reward research with ducks and improve the knowledge base of science as applied to commercial duck production. | Animal Sciences |
| Meats Research Award | Prestigious | American Society of Animal Science | March | The purpose of this award is to stimulate research excellence in meat science. | Animal Sciences |
| National Chicken Council Broiler Research Award | Prestigious | Poultry Science Association | March | Given for distinctive research work that has a strong economic impact on the broiler industry. | Animal Sciences |
| PSA Early Achievement Award for Extension | Prestigious | Poultry Science Association | March | Recognizes achievements of PSA members in the early stages of their careers in poultry-related extension work. | Animal Sciences |
| PSA Early Achievement Award for Industry | Prestigious | Poultry Science Association | March | This award is given to recognize the achievements of PSA members in the early stages of their careers in poultry-related industry work. | Animal Sciences |
| Robert H Gibbs, Jr Memorial Award | Prestigious | American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | March | Awarded for "an outstanding body of published work in systematic ichthyology". | Animal Sciences |
| Robert K Johnson Award | Prestigious | American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | March | Recognizes members who perform exceptional service to the society. | Animal Sciences |
| The Rockefeller Prentice Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics | Prestigious | American Society of Animal Science | March | The purpose of this award is to stimulate research excellence in breeding and genetics. | Animal Sciences |
| Wildlife Publication Awards | Prestigious | Wildlife Society, The | March | Recognizes excellence in scientific literature of wildlife biology and management issued within the last three years. | Animal Sciences |
| Fellow | Prestigious | Entomological Society of America | March | Honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to entomology and thereby highlight their career accomplishments to inspire all entomologist. | Entomology |
| Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award | Prestigious | Gerontological Society of America, The | March | Given to a member of the Society in recognition of outstanding and sustained contribution to geriatric nursing research. | Gerontology |
| M Powell Lawton Award | Prestigious | Gerontological Society of America, The | March | Recognizes outstanding contributions from applied gerontological research that have benefited older people and their care. | Gerontology |
| Maxwell A Pollack Award for Productive Aging | Prestigious | Gerontological Society of America, The | March | Recognizes an individual whose research, scholarship or practice has generated new or improved policies or practices related to healthy aging. | Gerontology |
| Nathan Shock New Investigator Award | Prestigious | Gerontological Society of America, The | March | Given annually for innovative and influential publications by an early career professional. | Gerontology |
| Early Career Contributions in Research Award | Prestigious | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | March | Recognizes significant scientific accomplishments by individuals beyond the dissertation and within 5 years of receiving their doctoral degree or other terminal degree. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Honors of the Association | Prestigious | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | March | Recognizes members for their distinguished contributions to the discipline of communication sciences and disorders and is the highest honor the Association bestows. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Joseph T Freeman Award | Prestigious | Gerontological Society of America, The | March | Awarded to a prominent physician in the field of aging, both in research and practice. | Multi-disciplinary |
| M Powell Lawton Award | Prestigious | Gerontological Society of America, The | March | Recognizes outstanding contributions from applied gerontological research that have benefited older people and their care. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Maxwell A Pollack Award for Productive Aging | Prestigious | Gerontological Society of America, The | March | Recognizes instances of practice informed by research and analysis, research that directly improved policy or practice, and distinction in bridging the worlds of research and practice. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Robert W Kleemeier Award | Prestigious | Gerontological Society of America, The | March | Awarded annually to a member in recognition for outstanding research in the field of gerontology. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Environmental and Exercise Section Awards/Edward F Adolph Distinguished Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | March | Recognizes an eminent research scholar who has made meritorious contributions to the areas of environmental, exercise, thermal, or applied physiology and is an outstanding public speaker. | Physiology |
| Environmental and Exercise Section Awards/Honor Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | March | Recognizes a member of the EEP Section who is 60 years of age or older and has made significant research contributions to the scientific advancement of environmental, exercise, thermal, or applied physiology. | Physiology |
| Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Section Awards/Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | March | Honors a world-renowned, distinguished investigator who has made major contributions toward a better understanding of some aspect of autonomic regulation in normal and/or disease states. | Physiology |
| Respiration Section Awards/Julius H Comroe, Jr Distinguished Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | March | Awarded to an outstanding contributor to the disciplinary areas of physiology represented by the Respiration Section. | Physiology |
| ASA Early Career Professional Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agronomy | March | Recognizes individuals who have made an outstanding contribution in agronomy within seven years of completing their final degree. | Plant Sciences |
| ASA Fellow | Prestigious | American Society of Agronomy | March | Fellow is the highest recognition bestowed by the American Society of Agronomy. | Plant Sciences |
| Asa Gray award | Prestigious | American Society of Plant Taxonomists, The | March | Recognizes an individual for outstanding accomplishments pertinent to the goals of the Society. | Plant Sciences |
| Barrington Moore Memorial Award in Biological Science | Prestigious | Society of American Foresters | March | Recognizes outstanding achievement in biological research leading to the advancement of forestry. | Plant Sciences |
| Carl Sprengel Agronomic Research Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agronomy | March | Made for major research accomplishments resulting from basic or applied research in agronomy. | Plant Sciences |
| Crop Science Research Award | Prestigious | Crop Science Society of America | March | Recognizes outstanding research contributions in crop science. | Plant Sciences |
| CSSA Fellow | Prestigious | Crop Science Society of America | March | Fellow is the highest recognition bestowed by the Crop Science Society of America. | Plant Sciences |
| Darbaker Prize | Prestigious | Botanical Society of America | March | Presented for meritorious work in the study of microscopic algae, based on papers published by the nominee during the last two full calendar years. | Plant Sciences |
| Environmental Quality Research Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agronomy | March | Recognizes contributions that have enhanced the basic understanding of environmental sciences in relation to agriculture, or demonstrated sound and effective management practices for maintaining or improving the quality of soil, water, and air resources. | Plant Sciences |
| Frank N Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources | Prestigious | Crop Science Society of America | March | Recognizes distinctive service to the National Plant Germplasm System. | Plant Sciences |
| Fred V Grau Turfgrass Science Award | Prestigious | Crop Science Society of America | March | Recognizes significant career contributions in turfgrass science during the most recent 15 years. | Plant Sciences |
| Gifford Pinchot Medal | Prestigious | Society of American Foresters | March | Recognizes outstanding contributions by a forestry professional in the administration, practice, and professional development of North American Forestry. | Plant Sciences |
| Presidential Field Forester Award | Prestigious | Society of American Foresters | March | Recognizes foresters who have dedicated their professional careers to the application of forestry on the ground using sound, scientific methods and adaptive management strategies. | Plant Sciences |
| SAF Award in Forest Science | Prestigious | Society of American Foresters | March | Recognizes distinguished individual research in any branch of the quantitative, managerial, and/or social sciences leading to the advancement of forestry. | Plant Sciences |
| Seed Science Award | Prestigious | Crop Science Society of America | March | Presented in recognition of distinctive service towards understanding and promotion of seed science and technology. | Plant Sciences |
| Werner L Nelson Award for Diagnosis of Yield-Limiting Factors | Prestigious | American Society of Agronomy | March | The focus of this award is on leadership and accomplishments. | Plant Sciences |
| Edward T Laroe III Award | Prestigious | Society for Conservation Biology | March | Given to an individual who has been a leader in translating principles of conservation biology into real-world conservation. | Public Health |
| President's Award | Prestigious | Society of Systematic Biologists | April | Given to a person who has made outstanding and sustained contributions to the field over the course of many years. | Biology, Integrated Biology, Integrated Biomedical Sciences |
| Gerald W Prescott Award | Prestigious | Phycological Society of America | April | Recognizes scholarly work in English in the form of a published book or monograph devoted to phycology published in the previous years. | Plant Sciences |
| Jeanette Siron Pelton Award | Prestigious | Botanical Society of America | April | Given in recognition of sustained and creative contributions in plant morphology. | Plant Sciences |
| Jim McDonough Award | Prestigious | Wildlife Society, The | May | Recognizes significant contribution to the wildlife profession by being an active member/participant of The Wildlife Society. | Animal Sciences |
| Anatrace Membrane Protein Award | Prestigious | Biophysical Society | May | Recognizes an outstanding investigator who has made a significant contribution to the field of membrane protein research. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Avanti Award in Lipids | Prestigious | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Fellow of the Biophysical Society | Prestigious | Biophysical Society | May | This award honors the Society's distinguished members who have demonstrated sustained scientific excellence. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Founders Award | Prestigious | Biophysical Society | May | Given to scientists for outstanding achievement in any area of biophysics. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Herbert A. Sober Lectureship | Prestigious | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Recognizes outstanding biochemical and molecular biological research, with particular emphasis on development of methods and techniques to aid in research. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Herbert Tabor Award and Lectureship | Prestigious | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Given for excellence in biological chemistry and molecular biology and contributions to the community of scientists. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award | Prestigious | Biophysical Society | May | Given to a woman who holds very high promise or has achieved prominence while developing the early stages of a career in biophysical research within the purview and interest of the Biophysical Society. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Michael and Kate Barany Award for Young Investigators | Prestigious | Biophysical Society | May | Recognizes an outstanding contribution to biophysics by a person who has not achieved the rank of full professor at the time of nomination. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Sir Bernard Katz Award for Excellence in Research in Exocytosis and Endocytosis | Prestigious | Biophysical Society | May | Recognizes an investigator who has made a substantial contribution to the understanding of exocytosis and endocytosis | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| William C. Rose Award | Prestigious | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Recognizes outstanding contributions to biochemical and molecular biological research and a demonstrated commitment to the training of younger scientists. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| E. B. Wilson Medal | Prestigious | American Society for Cell Biology | May | Awarded to an individual who has demonstrated significant and far-reaching contributions to cell biology over a lifetime in science. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| E. E. Just Lecture | Prestigious | American Society for Cell Biology | May | Recognize outstanding scientific achievement by an underrepresented minority scientist. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Early Career Life Scientist Award | Prestigious | American Society for Cell Biology | May | Given to an outstanding scientist who has served as an independent investigator for no more than seven years. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research | Prestigious | American Society for Cell Biology | May | Awarded to a woman in an early stage of her career (within 7 years of appointment) who is making exceptional scientific contributions to cell biology, is developing a strong independent research program, and exhibits the potential for continuing at a high level of scientific endeavor and leadership. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| WICB Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Research | Prestigious | American Society for Cell Biology | May | Awarded to a woman at the mid-career level (7-15 years in an independent position) who has demonstrated a track record of exceptional scientific contributions to cell biology and/or has effectively translated cell biology across disciplines, and who exemplifies a high level of scientific endeavor and leadership. | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Cottrell Scholar Awards | Prestigious | Research Corporation | May | Honors and helps to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their potential for academic leadership. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience | Prestigious | Society for Neuroscience | May | Recognizes two young neuroscientists for outstanding research and educational pursuit in an international setting. | Neuroscience and Neurobiology |
| Young Investigator Award | Prestigious | Society for Neuroscience | May | Recognizes the outstanding achievements and contributions by a young neuroscientist who has demonstrated scholarly independence. | Neuroscience and Neurobiology |
| Endocrinology and Metabolism Section Awards/Solomon A Berson Distinguished Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | May | Presented to a distinguished scientist for his/her outstanding contributions to the areas of Endocrinology and Metabolism. | Physiology |
| APHA Award for Excellence | Prestigious | American Public Health Association | May | Given each year to a living individual in recognition of his/her exceptionally meritorious contribution to the improvement of health of the people. | Public Health |
| Executive Director Citation | Prestigious | American Public Health Association | May | Presented to an APHA member for that member's exceptional distinguished service to the Association. | Public Health |
| Gustav O Lienhard Award | Prestigious | National Academy of Medicine | May | Recognizes individuals for outstanding achievement in improving health care services in the United States. | Public Health |
| Jay S Drotman Memorial Award | Prestigious | American Public Health Association | May | Recognizes the career of a promising young public health professional or student. | Public Health |
| Presidential Citation | Prestigious | American Public Health Association | May | Presented to a person or organization in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of public health or the public health profession. | Public Health |
| Sedgwick Memorial Medal | Prestigious | American Public Health Association | May | Recognizes outstanding accomplishments in the field of public health. | Public Health |
| Entomological Foundation Award for Excellence in Integrated Pest Management | Prestigious | Entomological Society of America | June | Recognizes outstanding contributions that relate directly to Integrated Pest Management. | Entomology |
| ESA Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry, and Toxicology | Prestigious | Entomological Society of America | June | Recognizes innovative research in the areas of insect physiology, biochemistry, and toxicology in the broad sense. | Entomology |
| Thomas Say Award | Prestigious | Entomological Society of America | June | Acknowledges significant and outstanding work in the fields of insect systematics, morphology, or evolution. | Entomology |
| ASM Award in Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology | Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | Honors a distinguished scientist in clinical or diagnostic immunology for outstanding contributions to those fields. | Microbiology |
| ASM Lifetime Achievement Award | Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | ASM's premier award for sustained contributions to the microbiological sciences. | Microbiology |
| ASM Scherago-Rubin Award for Clinical Microbiology | Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | Recognizes an outstanding bench-level clinical microbiologist involved in routine diagnostic work that has distinguished her- or himself by excellent performance. | Microbiology |
| BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology | Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | Honors a distinguished clinical microbiologist for outstanding research accomplishments leading to or forming the foundation for important applications in clinical microbiology. | Microbiology |
| DuPont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology | Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | Recognizes distinguished achievement in research and development in applied (non-clinical) and environmental microbiology. | Microbiology |
| ICAAC Antimicrobial Research Award | Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | ASM's premier award honoring outstanding accomplishment in antimicrobial research. | Microbiology |
| ICAAC Young Investigator Awards | Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | Recognizes early career scientists for research excellence and potential in microbiology and infectious disease. | Microbiology |
| Merck Irving S Sigal Memorial Awards | Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | Recognizes excellence in basic research in medical microbiology and infectious diseases. | Microbiology |
| USFCC/J Roger Porter Award | Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | Recognizes outstanding efforts by a scientist who has demonstrated the importance of microbial biodiversity through sustained curatorial or stewardship activities for a major resource used by the scientific community. | Microbiology |
| Young Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Society for Microbiology | June | Honors outstanding laboratory research in clinical microbiology or antimicrobial agents and is intended to further the career development of a young clinical scientist and promote awareness of clinical microbiology as a caree | Microbiology |
| Jacob P Waletzky Memorial Award for Innovative Research in Drug Addiction and Alcoholism | Prestigious | Society for Neuroscience | June | Given to a young scientist whose independent research has led to significant conceptual and empirical contributions to the understanding of drug addiction. | Neuroscience and Neurobiology |
| Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award | Prestigious | Society for Neuroscience | June | Recognizes an individual with outstanding career achievements in neuroscience who has also significantly promoted the professional advancement of women in neuroscience. | Neuroscience and Neurobiology |
| Entomological Foundation Recognition Award in Urban Entomology | Prestigious | Entomological Society of America | July | Recognizes outstanding research, teaching, outreach/extension and service contributions in the fields of medical, urban, and veterinary entomology. | Entomology |
| ESA Recognition Award in Entomology | Prestigious | Entomological Society of America | July | Recognizes entomologists who are making significant contributions to agriculture. | Entomology |
| Health Sciences Research Award | Prestigious | Gerontological Society of America, The | July | Given to a new investigator in the Health Sciences Section. | Gerontology |
| ACR Gold Medal Award | Prestigious | American College of Radiology | July | Awarded for distinguished and extraordinary service to the American College of Radiology or to the discipline of radiology. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | Prestigious | National Science Foundation | July | Supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section/Ernest H Starling Distinguished Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | July | Awarded annually to an APS member recognized for exceptional contributions and lifelong dedication to Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis research. | Physiology |
| Henry Gray Scientific Achievement Award | Prestigious | American Association for Anatomy | August | Recognizes unique and meritorious contributions to and achievements in anatomical sciences by a distinguished AAA member. ?ÿ?ÿ | Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) | Prestigious | Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation | August | Provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Grants | Prestigious | Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation | August | The foundation welcomes proposals that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Young Investigator Program Award | Prestigious | Office of Naval Research | August | Support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track appointment and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Bernard B Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism | Prestigious | American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | September | Recognizes outstanding original research contributions in drug metabolism and disposition, particularly those having a major impact on future research in the field. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Ebert Prize | Prestigious | American Pharmacists Association | September | The award is for the best essay or written communication containing original investigation of a medicinal substance in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Goodman and Gilman Award in Receptor Pharmacology | Prestigious | American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | September | Recognizes outstanding research in pharmacology of biological receptors. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| John J Abel Award in Pharmacology | Prestigious | American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | September | Stimulates fundamental research in pharmacology and experimental therapeutics by young investigators. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Julius Axelrod Award | Prestigious | American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | September | Presented for significant contributions to understanding the biochemical mechanisms underlying the pharmacological actions of drugs and for contributions to mentoring other pharmacologists. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| P B Dews Award for Research in Behavioral Pharmacology | Prestigious | American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | September | Recognizes outstanding lifetime achievements in research, teaching, and professional service in the field of Behavioral Pharmacology. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Paul M Vanhoutte Distinguished Lectureship in Vascular Pharmacology | Prestigious | American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | September | Honors Dr. Vanhoutte??s lifelong scientific contributions to our better understanding and appreciation of the importance of endothelial cells and vascular smooth muscle function in health and disease. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Pharmacia-ASPET Award for Experimental Therapeutics | Prestigious | American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | September | Recognizes and stimulates outstanding research in pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, basic laboratory or clinical research that has had, or potentially will have, a major impact on the pharmacological treatment of disease. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences | Prestigious | American Pharmacists Association | September | Recognizes outstanding, meritorious achievement in any of the pharmaceutical sciences. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Richard Okita Early Career Award in Drug Metabolism and Disposition | Prestigious | American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | September | Recognizes excellent original research by early career investigators in the area of drug metabolism and disposition. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Takeru Higuchi Research Prize | Prestigious | American Pharmacists Association | September | Recognizes the highest accomplishments in pharmaceutical sciences and is international in scope and stature. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Early Career Outstanding Scientist | Prestigious | Weed Science Society of America | September | This award is for young scientists who have demonstrated originality and creativity have made a notable contribution to weed science and have potential for continued excellence. | Plant Sciences |
| Outstanding Research Award | Prestigious | Weed Science Society of America | September | This award is for members of the WSSA who have conducted creative and innovative research with a significant impact on the scientific concepts or practices of weed science. | Plant Sciences |
| Fellow | Prestigious | Agricultural and Applied Economics Association | October | Recognizes continuous contribution to the advancement of agricultural or applied economics. | Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| Gregorio Weber Award for Excellence in Fluorescence Theory and Applications | Prestigious | Biophysical Society | October | Recognizes distinguished investigators who have significant and original contributions to the advancement and applications of fluorescence techniques. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Membrane Biophysics Kenneth S. Cole Award | Prestigious | Biophysical Society | October | Given to one or more investigators in the field of membrane biophysics, in recognition of their research achievements as well as their potential for future contributions. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal | Prestigious | National Academy of Science | October | Recognizes excellence in published research on marine or freshwater algae. | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| International Food Engineering Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizes food engineering professionals from all parts of the world, who have made significant engineering contributions in research, development or design of food processes significant to the food industry; and in outstanding leadership, management or education to advance the food engineering profession. | Food Science |
| Kishida International Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizes outstanding contributions to engineering, mechanization and technology related programs of education, research, development, consultation or technology transfer that have resulted in improved food production, living conditions and/or education for people living outside the United States. | Food Science |
| Gairdner Award | Prestigious | Gairdner Foundation, The | October | Recognizes outstanding biomedical scientists who have made original contributions to medicine with the goal of contributing through research to increased understanding of human biology and disease. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Early Career Professional Awards/Bowditch Award Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | October | Awarded to a regular member for original and outstanding accomplishments in the field of physiology. | Physiology |
| ADS/Hancor Soil and Water Engineering Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Honors and recognizes a member of ASABE who has performed noteworthy contributions to the advancement of soil and water engineering. | Plant Sciences |
| Award for the Advancement of Surface Irrigation | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizes and publicizes those efforts that enhance the acceptance and efficient use of surface irrigation methods. | Plant Sciences |
| G.B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Honors engineering practices resulting in the enhancement of techniques or technology for countryside development, or plans, programs or other leadership activities which promote the development of the countryside. | Plant Sciences |
| Heermann Sprinkler Irrigation Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizes engineering excellence in the design, evaluation, operation or management of sprinkler irrigation systems that effectively conserve our valuable resources. | Plant Sciences |
| Mayfield Cotton Engineering Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizes outstanding engineering contributions to the cotton industry. | Plant Sciences |
| New Holland Young Researcher Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizes members under 40 years of age, for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the profession and to stimulate professional achievement. | Plant Sciences |
| Rain Bird Engineering Concept of the Year Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizes an engineer or engineering team for a unique contribution to developing or advancing a new engineering concept. | Plant Sciences |
| SMV Technologies Ergonomics, Safety and Health Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizes outstanding contributions which advance agricultural and biological safety and health. | Plant Sciences |
| Sunkist Young Designer Award | Prestigious | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizes members under 40, for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the profession and to stimulate professional achievement. | Plant Sciences |
| William Brewster Memorial Award | Prestigious | American Ornithologists' Union | November | Given annually to the author or co-authors of an exceptional body of work on birds of the Western Hemisphere. | Animal Sciences |
| Eminent Ecologist Award | Prestigious | Ecological Society of America | November | Given to a senior ecologist in recognition of an outstanding body of ecological work or of sustained ecological contributions of extraordinary merit. | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| George Mercer Award | Prestigious | Ecological Society of America | November | Given for an outstanding ecological research paper published by a younger researcher. | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Robert H MacArthur Award | Prestigious | Ecological Society of America | November | Given to an established ecologist in mid-career for meritorious contributions to ecology. | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Sustainability Science Award | Prestigious | Ecological Society of America | November | Given to the authors of a scholarly work that makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science of ecosystem and regional sustainability through the integration of ecological and social sciences. | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases | Prestigious | Burroughs Wellcome Fund | November | Supports accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between human and microbial biology, shedding light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters. | Immunology and Infectious Disease |
| ASN Fellow | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | ASN members who have had distinguished careers in the field of nutrition and are at least 65 years of age are eligible for nomination. | Nutrition |
| Bio-Serv Award in Experimental Animal Nutrition | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Awarded for meritorious research in nutrition accomplished by an investigator within 10 years of postgraduate training. | Nutrition |
| David Kritchevsky Career Achievement Award | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Recognizes a career devoted to promoting interaction among, support for, and assistance of outstanding nutrition researchers in governmental, private, and academic sectors resulting in the application of fundamental knowledge to delivery of better nutrition products and information to the public. | Nutrition |
| E.V. Mccollum Award | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Given to a clinical investigator who is perceived as a major creative force, actively generating new concepts in nutrition and personally seeing to the execution of studies testing the validity of these concepts. | Nutrition |
| ELR Stokstad Award | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Recognizes outstanding fundamental research in nutrition, with preference to scientists at relatively early stages in their careers. | Nutrition |
| Kellogg Prize for International Nutrition Lectureship | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Honors lifetime achievements in international nutrition research to benefit populations in non-industrialized countries. | Nutrition |
| Norman Kretchmer Memorial Award in Nutrition and Development | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Given to a young investigator for a substantial body of independent research in the field of nutrition and development with potential relevance to improving child health. | Nutrition |
| Peter J Reeds Memorial Young Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Given for outstanding research in macronutrient metabolism accomplished within 5 years of receiving a Ph.D. degree or completing residency training. | Nutrition |
| Pfizer Consumer Healthcare Nutritional Sciences Award | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Given for recent investigative contributions of contemporary significance to the | Nutrition |
| Robert H Herman Memorial Award | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Given to a clinical investigator whose research work has contributed importantly to the advancement of clinical nutrition, particularly the biochemical and metabolic aspects of human nutrition. | Nutrition |
| Vernon R Young International Award for Amino Acid Research | Prestigious | American Society for Nutrition | November | Given to an investigator within 10 years of postgraduate training for a single outstanding piece of research or for a series of papers in a related area of amino acid metabolism. | Nutrition |
| Cardiovascular Section Awards/Clinical Science Young Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes an outstanding junior investigator involved in cardiovascular research, with a focus on translational science and medicine. | Physiology |
| Cardiovascular Section Awards/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes outstanding investigators in the early stages of their career who have made meritorious contributions to the scientific areas represented by the Cardiovascular Section of the APS. | Physiology |
| Cardiovascular Section Awards/Research Recognition Awards | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Encourages submission of abstracts to the Experimental Biology meetings from junior investigators (i.e., doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows). | Physiology |
| Central Nervous System Section Awards/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career. | Physiology |
| Central Nervous System Section Awards/Research Recognition Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes meritorious research by young investigators, who participate in the Experimental Biology meeting. | Physiology |
| Early Career Professional Awards/Giles F Filley Memorial Awards for Excellence in Respiratory Physiology and Medicine | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes excellence in respiratory physiology and medicine. | Physiology |
| Endocrinology and Metabolism Section Awards/Mead Johnson Research Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes the graduate student, resident or postdoctoral fellow who presents the best abstract for research in the area of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Experimental Biology Meeting. | Physiology |
| Endocrinology and Metabolism Section Awards/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career. | Physiology |
| Endocrinology and Metabolism Section Awards/Virendra B Mahesh Award of Excellence in Endocrinology | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Presented to the graduate student or postdoctoral fellow submitting the best abstract to the Experimental Biology meeting in the area of Endocrinology and Metabolism. | Physiology |
| Environmental and Exercise Section Awards/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career who has made meritorious contributions to the areas of environmental, exercise, thermal or applied physiology. | Physiology |
| Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Section Awards/Michael J Brody Young Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes a promising young investigator who has made a significant research contribution to the understanding of neural control and autonomic regulation. | Physiology |
| Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Section Awards/Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation (NCAR) Research Recognition Awards | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Provides travel support to to present meritorious research at the annual Experimental Biology Meeting. | Physiology |
| Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Section Awards/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her independent career. | Physiology |
| Renal Section Awards/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his or her career. | Physiology |
| Renal Section Awards/Research Recognition Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes the meritorious research by young investigators/junior faculty who attend the American Physiological Society??s annual meeting at Experimental Biology (EB). | Physiology |
| Renal Section Awards/Robert W Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement in renal physiological research by a living scientist. | Physiology |
| Respiration Section Awards/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of their career. | Physiology |
| Respiration Section Awards/Research Recognition Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes outstanding research by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who submitted their abstract to a Respiration Section topic category at the American Physiological Society??s annual meeting at Experimental Biology (EB). | Physiology |
| The Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section CANTROL Environmental Systems New Investigator Research Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes a postdoctoral fellow/assistant professor (or equivalent) for outstanding research in environmental, exercise, thermal, or applied physiology that involves investigations in different environmental conditions. | Physiology |
| Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | November | Recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career. | Physiology |
| Fellow | Prestigious | American Phyto- pathological Society | November | Recognizes distinguished contributions to plant pathology or to The American Phytopathological Society. | Plant Sciences |
| Lee M Hutchins Award | Prestigious | American Phyto- pathological Society | November | Awarded to the author or authors of published research on basic or applied aspects of diseases of perennial fruit plants. | Plant Sciences |
| Noel T Keen Award for Research in Molecular Plant Pathology | Prestigious | American Phyto- pathological Society | November | Recognizes APS members for research excellence in molecular plant pathology. | Plant Sciences |
| Ruth Allen Award | Prestigious | American Phyto- pathological Society | November | Honors individuals who have made an outstanding, innovative research contribution that has changed, or has the potential to change, the direction of research in any field of plant pathology. | Plant Sciences |
| William Boright Hewitt and Maybelle Ellen Ball Hewitt Award | Prestigious | American Phyto- pathological Society | November | Recognizes a scientist within 7 years of the Ph.D. who has made an outstanding, innovative contribution directed towards the control of plant disease. | Plant Sciences |
| Robert Wood Johnson Policy Fellowship | Prestigious | National Academy of Medicine | November | Fellows spend a year in the nation??s capital to participate in the policy process at the federal level and accelerate their careers as leaders in health policy. | Public Health |
| Elliott Coues Award | Prestigious | American Ornithologists' Union | December | Recognizes outstanding and innovative contributions to ornithological research, with no limitation with respect to geographic area, sub-discipline(s) of ornithology, or the time course over which the work was done. | Animal Sciences |
| Harry R Painton Award | Prestigious | Cooper Ornithological Society | December | This award is presented to the author of an outstanding paper published in the two preceding years in The Condor: Ornithological Applications. | Animal Sciences |
| Katma Award | Prestigious | Cooper Ornithological Society | December | Given to author(s) of a publication that offers unconventional ideas or innovative approaches in the study of birds. | Animal Sciences |
| Loye and Alden Miller Award | Prestigious | Cooper Ornithological Society | December | Given annually for lifetime achievement in ornithological research. | Animal Sciences |
| Ned K Johnson Young Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Ornithologists' Union | December | Recognizes outstanding and promising work by a researcher early in their career. | Animal Sciences |
| Babcock-Hart Award | Prestigious | Institute of Food Technologists | December | Awarded for food technology contributions that resulted in improves public health through nutrition or more-nutritious food. | Food Science |
| Bernard L Oser Ingredient Safety Award | Prestigious | Institute of Food Technologists | December | Awarded for contributions to food ingredient safety evaluation or regulation. | Food Science |
| Bor S Luh International Award | Prestigious | Institute of Food Technologists | December | Honors an IFT member or an institution whose outstanding efforts in the field of food technology resulted in the international exchange of ideas, better international understanding, and/or the practical, successful transfer of food technology to an economically depressed area. | Food Science |
| Marcel Loncin Research Prize | Prestigious | Institute of Food Technologists | December | Awards research funding for basic chemistry, physics, or engineering research applied to food processing. | Food Science |
| Research and Development Award | Prestigious | Institute of Food Technologists | December | Awarded for a significant research and development contribution to the understanding of food science, food technology, or nutrition. | Food Science |
| Samuel Cate Prescott Award | Prestigious | Institute of Food Technologists | December | Awarded for outstanding research in food science and technology. | Food Science |
| Stephen S Chang Award for Lipid Or Flavor Science | Prestigious | Institute of Food Technologists | December | Awarded for significant contributions to lipid or flavor science. | Food Science |
| Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize | Prestigious | Society for Neuroscience | December | Honors scientists for major discoveries that have advanced the understanding of the nervous system. | Neuroscience and Neurobiology |
| Drug Discovery, Drug Development and Regulatory Affairs Young Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | December | Young pharmacologists are encouraged to submit abstracts of research related to the processes of drug discovery, development and regulatory affairs. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Paul R Dawson Biotechnology Award | Prestigious | American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy | December | Recognizes an active scientist within the ranks of pharmacy education as a leaders in the broad range of research related to health services delivery directly affecting patient outcomes, including basic, clinical, translational and health services research. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Volwiler Research Achievement Award | Prestigious | American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy | December | Recognize an individual within the ranks of pharmacy education recognized by his or her peers as one of the leading research workers in a given area of the pharmaceutical and clinical sciences, pharmacy practice and the social and administrative sciences, and for outstanding contributions to the respective disciplines. | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health |
| Cell and Molecular Physiology Section Awards/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career. | Physiology |
| Cell and Molecular Physiology Section Awards/Postdoctoral Research Recognition Awards | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Awarded to candidates for work performed while in their first through fifth postdoctoral year or medical residency. | Physiology |
| Comparative and Evolutionary Section Awards/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career. | Physiology |
| Comparative and Evolutionary Section Awards/Research Recognition Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Recognizes meritorious comparative and evolutionary physiology research by young investigators who participate in the EB Meeting. | Physiology |
| Early Career Professional Awards/Lazaro J Mandel Young Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Supports an individual demonstrating outstanding promise based on their research program in epithelial or renal physiology. | Physiology |
| Early Career Professional Awards/Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Given annually to an individual demonstrating outstanding promise based on their research program in the physiological sciences. | Physiology |
| Established Professional/Orr E Reynolds Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Presented for the best historical article submitted by a member of the Society. | Physiology |
| Gastrointestinal and Liver Section Awards/ Distinguished Research Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Recognizes an outstanding investigator who is internationally recognized for his/her contribution to research in areas represented by the Section. | Physiology |
| Gastrointestinal and Liver Section Awards/Horace W Davenport Distinguished Lecture | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement in gastrointestinal and liver physiological research. | Physiology |
| Gastrointestinal and Liver Section Awards/New Investigator Award | Prestigious | American Physiological Society | December | Recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career. | Physiology |
| Best Paper Award | Prestigious | Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine | TBD | Awarded for the best research article published each year in Experimental Biology and Medicine. | Biology, Integrated Biology, Integrated Biomedical Sciences |
| IOM Anniversary Fellowship-American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation | Prestigious | National Academy of Education | TBD | The Institute of Medicine (IOM) offers a number of fellowship opportunities for health professionals. | Internal Medicine |
| Ornamentals Publication | Prestigious | American Society for Horticultural Science | TBD | Recognizes the author(s) of the outstanding paper in the designated area, published in the previous year's issues of The Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, HortScience, or HortTechnology. | Plant Sciences |
| Presidential Award | - | Johnson & Johnson | Continuous | This award is for the best paper published in The American Naturalist during the calendar year preceding the President's term of office. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Extension Publication Award | - | American Society for Horticultural Science | Continuous | Recognizes the author(s) of the outstanding paper in the designated area, published in the previous year's issues of The Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, HortScience, or HortTechnology. | Plant Sciences |
| Superior Paper Award | - | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | Continuous | Articles published by ASABE in its three peer-reviewed journals during the preceeding year are eligible for the Superior Paper Awards. | Plant Sciences |
| Educational Aids Blue Ribbon Awards | - | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | January | Promotes excellence in informational materials which contribute to the understanding of agricultural and biological engineering subjects outside of the traditional classroom setting. | Plant Sciences |
| Excellence in Education Award | - | American Society of Plant Biologists | January | Recognizes excellence in teaching, leadership in curricular development, or authorship of effective teaching materials in the science of plant biology. | Plant Sciences |
| Bayer-Snoeyenbos New Investigator Award | - | American Association of Avian Pathologists | February | Given to a member or associate member of AAAP whose career as an independent investigator in poultry medicine began less than 7 years ago and who during this time has made meritorious research contributions to the avian field. | Animal Sciences |
| Bruce W Calnek Applied Poultry Research Achievement Award | - | American Association of Avian Pathologists | February | Given to a member of AAAP who has made outstanding research contributions resulting directly or indirectly in a measurable, practical impact on the control of one or more important diseases of poultry. | Animal Sciences |
| Lasher-Bottorff Award | - | American Association of Avian Pathologists | February | The C.A. Bottorff Award is given to recognize an avian diagnostician/technical service veterinarian who has contributed significantly to the poultry health program in North America in the past 10 years. | Animal Sciences |
| Phibro Animal Health Excellence in Poultry Research Award | - | American Association of Avian Pathologists | February | Presented to a member of the AAAP for sustained excellence in research in poultry disease and health over a period of 20 years or more. | Animal Sciences |
| Special Service Award | - | American Association of Avian Pathologists | February | Awarded to a person who has made outstanding contributions within the field of avian medicine. | Animal Sciences |
| XIIth International Veterinary Congress Prize | - | American Educational Studies Association | February | Recognizes outstanding global service by a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association. | Animal Sciences |
| Dr. Paul Janssen Award For Biomedical Research | - | Johnson & Johnson | February | Awarded to the most passionate and creative scientist or group of scientists in basic or clinical research, whose achievements have made or have strong potential to make a measurable impact on human health. | Biology, Integrated Biology, Integrated Biomedical Sciences |
| Hall of Fame Awards | - | US Department of Agriculture | February | Recognizes contributions to NIFA and the Land-grant University system and support of USDA Strategic Goals and our nation’s food, agriculture, natural resource, and human sciences enterprise. | Multi-disciplinary |
| ASHS Fellow | - | American Society for Horticultural Science | February | Recognizes truly outstanding contributions to horticulture and the Society. | Plant Sciences |
| Outstanding Graduate Educator | - | American Society for Horticultural Science | February | Recognizes an educator who has had a distinguished and outstanding graduate education teaching career in horticultural science for a period of 10 or more years. | Plant Sciences |
| Outstanding Undergraduate Educator | - | American Society for Horticultural Science | February | Recognizes an educator who has had a distinguished and outstanding undergraduate education teaching career in horticultural science for a period of 10 or more years. | Plant Sciences |
| Carl R Sullivan Fishery Conservation Award | - | American Fisheries Society | March | This award is presented to an individual or organization, professional or nonprofessional, for outstanding contributions to the conservation of fishery resources. | Animal Sciences |
| Novus International Inc Teaching Award | - | Poultry Science Association | March | Recognizes that excellence in teaching is basic to the future welfare of the poultry industry. | Animal Sciences |
| Phibro Poultry Science Extension Award | - | Poultry Science Association | March | Given to a member for conducting an outstanding program of work in the area of poultry extension and outreach during a 5-year period. | Animal Sciences |
| International Crop Science Award | - | Crop Science Society of America | March | The focus of this award is on creativity and innovation in bringing about specific changes in practices, products, and/or programs in the crops area at the international level. | Plant Sciences |
| Charles Thom Awardees | - | Poetry Society of America | April | Honors researchers for their exceptional merit in industrial microbiology and biotechnology, and their independent of thought and originality that added appreciably to scientific knowledge. | Microbiology |
| Fellow | - | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | April | A Fellow is a member of unusual professional distinction, with outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in, or related to, the field of agricultural, food, or biological systems engineering. | Plant Sciences |
| Cesar Kleberg Award for Excellence in Applied Wildlife Research | - | Wildlife Society, The | May | Recognizes those who have distinguished themselves in applied wildlife research and is focused on those whose body of work, in both inquiry and discovery, has resulted in application of management and conservation ??on the ground.? | Animal Sciences |
| Delano Award for Computational Biosciences | - | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Given to a scientist for the most accessible and innovative development or application of computer technology to enhance research in the life sciences at the molecular level. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| ASBMB Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education | - | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Given to a scientist who encourages effective teaching and learning of biochemistry and molecular biology through their own teaching, leadership in education, writing, educational research, mentoring or public enlightenment. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Alice and C. C. Wang Award | - | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Recognizes established investigators who are making seminal contributions to the field of molecular parasitology. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science | - | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Awarded to an established scientist for outstanding accomplishments in basic biomedical research. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Earl and Thressa Stadtman Young Scholar Award | - | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Awarded to a scientist with 10 years or less of postdoctoral experience. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry | - | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Recognizes scientists at all stages of their careers that have made substantial advances in understanding biological chemistry using innovative physical approaches. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Sciene Award | - | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Honors an outstanding scientist who has shown a strong commitment to the encouragement of under-represented minorities to enter the scientific enterprise and/or to the effective mentorship of those within it. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid | - | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | May | Recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of lipids by young investigators. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| AAPS Pharmaceutical Research Meritorious Manuscript Award | - | American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) | May | Recognizes outstanding achievement in the pharmaceutical sciences as demonstrated by the author(s) in the quality and originality of a manuscript published in Pharmaceutical Research. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Distinguished Educator Award-Academic | - | American Association of Equine Practitioners | June | To be awarded to an individual educator who by his or her actions and commitment has demonstrated a significant impact on the development and training of equine practitioners. | Animal Sciences |
| E P Pope Award | - | American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians | June | The E.P. Pope Award provides the highest acknowledgement those members who have made noteworthy contributions to the AAVLD, and advanced the implementation and recognition of the specialty of veterinary diagnostic medicine. | Animal Sciences |
| ESA Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension | - | Entomological Society of America | June | Recognizes outstanding contributions to extension entomology. | Entomology |
| ASM Award for Education | - | American Society for Microbiology | July | Recognizes general excellence in microbiology education. | Microbiology |
| Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists | - | American Association for the Advancement of Science, The | July | Awarded annually to four young scientists for outstanding life science research for which he/she earned a doctoral degree in the previous two years. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Tyler Prize | - | University of Southern California | July | Awarded for environmental science, health and energy conferring great benefit upon humanity. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Supelco AOCS Research Award | - | American Oil Chemists' Society | August | Recognizes outstanding original research in fats, oils, lipid chemistry, or biochemistry. | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology |
| AAVMC Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award | - | American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) | October | Awarded annually to a faculty member who was selected by a committee of their AAVMC peers. | Animal Sciences |
| Iverson Bell Award | - | American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) | October | Given in memory and recognition of Dr. Iverson Bell's outstanding leadership and contributions in the promotion of diversity in veterinary medical education. | Animal Sciences |
| American Academy of Microbiology Fellow | - | American Society for Microbiology | October | Fellows are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. | Microbiology |
| Alliance Scholars | - | Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE America) | October | Encourages and facilitates research/creative activities which will enrich the depth and scope of health, leisure, sport, dance and related activities. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) | - | Burroughs Wellcome Fund | October | Recognizes physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. | Multi-disciplinary |
| Larry W. Turner Young Extension Professional Award | - | American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers | October | Recognizes excellence in personal character and outstanding achievement. | Plant Sciences |
| Distinguished Service Citation | - | Ecological Society of America | November | The Distinguished Service Citation is given to recognize long and distinguished volunteer service to the ESA, to the larger scientific community, and to the larger purpose of ecology in the public welfare. | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Fellow | - | Ecological Society of America | November | ESA designates as Fellows of the Society certain members who have made outstanding contributions to the wide range of fields served by ESA. | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Coagulation Research Grant | - | American Family Therapy Academy | November | Provides $20,000 for established investigators and for students/trainees to do innovative coagulation / hematology research. | Internal Medicine |
| Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Fellowships | - | Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection | November | The fellowship program seeks a balance between historical research and investigations of current practice, between inquiries at the scale of the garden and those addressing larger landscapes. | Plant Sciences |
| Elizabeth Fleming Stier Award | - | Institute of Food Technologists | December | Honors an IFT member for pursuit of humanitarian ideals and unselfish dedication that have resulted in significant contributions to the well-being of the food industry, academia, students, or the general public. | Food Science |
| William V Cruess Award | - | Institute of Food Technologists | December | Awarded for achieving excellence in teaching food science and technology. | Food Science |
| ASM Distinguished Lecturers and Waksman Foundation Lecturers | - | American Society for Microbiology | December | ASMDL Lecturers are chosen through a competitive nomination process, and only the most distinguished lecturers and researchers are chosen to participate. | Microbiology |
| Howard Dunne Memorial Award | - | American Association of Swine Veterinarians | TBD | Given annually to an AASV member who has made a significant contribution and rendered outstanding service to the AASV and the swine industry. | Animal Sciences |