A Distinguished Research Professorship is awarded to a member of the faculty who has made outstanding contributions to the University through Research. Upon retirement, a Distinguished Research Professor will be named Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus/a. Recipients are honoured at Convocation. Nomination Deadline: Friday, March 1, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
The nominee must agree to have their name put forward for this award.
This is the name of the person (faculty member or graduate student holding a teaching assistantshiip) that you wish to nominate.
The Awards Committee ranks nominations based on the extent to which the nominee meets the nomination criteria. The Distinguished Research Professor will have demonstrated scholarly achievement by sustained publication or other recognized and accepted demonstrations of sustained authoritative contributions to scholarship. Such achievement fulfils the following requirements:
Any current or emeritus tenure-stream faculty member is welcome to nominate a colleague from any department or Faculty at York.
Personal information in connection with this form is collected under the authority of The York University Act, 1965 and will be used for the purpose of adjudicating the York University President’s Research Excellence Award. If you have any questions about the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by York University, please contact the Secretary of the Senate Committee on Awards. Nominators, nominees and those writing letters of reference should be aware that material included in nomination files will be treated as private and confidential except in the case of recipients where it may be quoted and/or summarized in the following forms: citations delivered at convocation; Senate reports; newspaper articles; and other publications.