National Awards

National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

Key Deadlines

  • April 4, 2011 - Submission of revised documents for re-nominated candidates due
  • April 25, 2011 - New nominations due
  • May 23, 2011 - References for new nominations due
  • July 29, 2011 - Member Comment forms due
  • January 30, 2012 - Completed ballots due

Principal awards of the National Academy of Engineering include:

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)

There are seven prizes awarded by AAAS. With the exception of the Sarton Fellowship, nominations are accepted from Academy Fellows only. Applications for the Sarton Fellowship are solicited through the appropriate publications.

Academy Prizes

  • The Scholar-Patriot Award
  • The Founders Award
  • The Amory Prize
  • The Emerson-Thoreau Medal
  • The Award for Humanistic Studies
  • The Rumford Prize
  • The Talcott Parsons Prize

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Approximate deadline for nomination materials to be received.

  • AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize - September 1
  • AAAS Award for International Scientific Cooperation - September 1
  • AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology - August 15
  • AAAS Mentor Awards - July 31
  • AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award - September 1
  • AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards - August 1

Co-Sponsored AAAS Prizes

  • Newcomb Cleveland Prize - June 30
  • AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books - Nomination opens April '09
  • Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology - June 15
  • GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists - August 1
  • AAAS Leadership in Science Education Prize for High School Teachers - April 24

Institute of Medicine (IOM)

Up to 65 regular members and five foreign associates are elected to the Institute of Medicine each year. Only Institute of Medicine members may nominate individuals for election to membership and the nomination material is available only to members. The annual nomination cycle begins early November and closes early February. The election takes place in late summer with new members announced in conjunction with the IOM Annual Meeting in October.

National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

Nominations typically accepted until September 15.

  • Alexander Agassiz Medal (Oceanography)
  • Arctowski Medal (solar physics)
  • John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (physics)
  • Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics
  • Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal (medical sciences)
  • National Academy of Sciences Award in Aeronautical Engineering
  • National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research * (numerical methods), for citizens of the USA, preferably under the age of 35.
  • National Academy of Sciences Award for Molecular Biology *

For citizens of the USA age 45 and younger.

  • National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences
  • National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing (geosciences)
  • National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal
  • Troland Research Awards * (psychology: two awards)

For researchers age 40 and younger.

  • G.K. Warren Prize (fluviatile geology)
  • James Craig Watson Medal (astronomy)

President's National Medal of Technology and Innovation

January Call for Nominations The deadline to nominate submissions is approximately May 29.Letters of recommendation must be received by the close of business (5:00 p.m. EST) on the due date.

National Medal of Science

Nominations typically accepted through early November.

Please contact Chanda Doxie at 647-7020 or cdoxie@umich.edu with questions pertaining to information on this page.  Thank you.