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Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowships in Biological Sciences 2002
Physiologists Are Great Teachers! (Your chance to reward the best!)

Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases
    Each year McGill University confers the Louis and Artur Lucian Award for outstanding research in the field of circulatory diseases. The purpose of this Award is to honor an outstanding scientific investigator or group of investigators whose contribution to knowledge in the field of circulatory diseases is deemed worthy of special recognition.
    The successful recipient is invited to spend a short period of time at McGill to have interchanges with members of the McGill community and to give a formal Lucian Lecture.
    It is hoped that through this Award, collaborative research in the field of circulatory diseases can be established between McGill University and research centers elsewhere in Canada, the United States and other countries of the world. 
    The awardee or awardees receive $50,000 (Can.) as a prize. 
    The Louis and Artur Lucian Award was established in 1978 under the will of the late Olga Leibovici through a bequest to McGill University to honor the donor's two brothers. 
    A Committee of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine chooses the investigators to be honored by this Award. The Committee is assisted in its task by an international panel of Consultants who are distinguished scientists in the field of medicine, pathology, physiology, pharmacology and surgery.
    The Award will be conferred upon the individual or individuals nominated, who in the opinion of the Award Committee, have made the most outstanding contribution towards research in the field of circulatory diseases. The Award Committee recognizes no geographical limitations and nominations are invited without distinction as to gender or nationality. Preference will be given to work done in the recent past.
    In addition to the nomination form, available on the internet (see below), proposers should submit the following information on prospective recipients:
1. A summary, preferably less than 500 words, of the research on which this nomination is based and its significance in the field of circulatory diseases.
2. A brief biographical sketch of the nominee.
3. A complete listing of the nominee's publications.
4. An indication of up to ten of the nominee's most significant publications related to the research.
5. An outline of the proposed research and/or academic activities to be carried out at McGill and the names of potential McGill correspondents and host laboratories.
For information on the deadline and requests of nomination forms, please check the following website: http://www.mcgill.ca/LucianAward 
You may also contact:
Dr. René P. Michel, Secretary, The Louis and Artur Lucian Award Committee, McGill University, Department of Pathology, 3775 University Street
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4; Tel.: 514-398-7192, Ext. 00502, Fax: 514-398-7446, Email: rene.michel@mcgill.ca


Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowships in Biological Sciences 2002
    Administered by the National Research Council, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will award at least 80 five-year fellowships for full-time study toward a PhD or an ScD degree in the biological sciences.
Eligibility 
    The fellowships are intended for students who have completed less than one year of graduate study toward an MS, a PhD, or an ScD degree in the biological sciences. Students who hold or are pursuing medical or dental degrees (MD, DO, DVM, DDS) may also be eligible to apply for fellowship support for study toward a PhD or an ScD. 
    The program is open to both US citizens and foreign citizens. Students with US citizenship may take the fellowship abroad. Non-US citizens must study in the United States.
    Fields of Study: biochemistry, bioinformatics, biophysics, biostatistics, cell biology, developmental biology, epidemiology, genetics, immunology, mathematical and computational biology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, pharmacology, physiology, structural biology, virology. Fellowship Award 
    The award consists of an annual stipend of $21,000, an annual fellow’s allowance of $2,500, and an annual institutional allowance of $13,500. 
Application Deadline: November 13, 2001
 How to Apply
    This international fellowship competition is administered by the National Research Council. Applicants are expected to apply via the Web. The program announcement, instructions, and sample application materials will become available in mid August. 
    For additional information, contact Hughes Predoctoral Fellowships, The Fellowship Office, National Research Council, Tel.: 202-334-2872, Email: infofell@nas.edu. 
    The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, an Equal Opportunity Employer, welcomes applications from all qualified candidates and encourages women and members of minority groups to apply.


Physiologists Are Great Teachers! (Your chance to reward the best!)
    The Teaching Section of the American Physiological Society invites you to take the initiative to nominate a fellow physiology educator for the Tenth Annual Arthur C. Guyton Physiology Teacher of the Year Award.
    Nominees must be full-time faculty members of accredited colleges or universities and members of the American Physiological Society. The Selection Committee will look for independent evidence of: 1) excellence in classroom teaching over a number of years at the undergraduate, graduate, or professional levels; 2) commitment to the improvement of physiology teaching within the candidate’s own institution; and 3) contributions to physiology education at the local community, national or international levels.
    Each nominee must be nominated by a member of APS. The nominator is responsible for completing the application materials and forwarding six (6) copies of the application materials listed below to the Chairman of the Award Selection committee, postmarked no later than Friday December 7, 2001. 
1. A letter from the nominator.
2. Letters of support from three other colleagues familiar with the nominee’s contributions to physiology education. If possible, one letter should be from the nominee’s chairperson. One letter must be from a colleague outside of the nominee’s institution.
3. Letters of support from up to five current and/or former students.
4. Scores on standard student evaluations (with normative data if possible).
5. Details of all teaching honors received (i.e. Golden Apple, Teacher of the Year, etc.).
6. Evidence of education-related activities outside the classroom for which the nominee has received national or international reputation. This could include (but is not limited to): 

    The person selected will receive the award during the APS business meeting at the April 2002 annual meeting of the American Physiological Society (Experimental Biology 2002, April 20-24 in New Orleans, LA). The Arthur C. Guyton Physiology Teacher of the Year will receive a framed, inscribed certificate, an honorarium of $1,000 and expenses of up to $600 to attend the meeting. The awardee is requested to write an essay on his/her philosophy of education for publication in The Physiologist.
The Chairman of the Guyton Award Selection Committee is Daniel Richardson, Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, MS 508 UKMC, Lexington, KY 40537-0298. Tel.: 859-323-5649, Fax: 859- 323-1070, Email: drichar@uky.edu

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