2024 CANR Excellence in Research Awards Sponsored by AgBioResearch

The CANR Excellence in Research Award program recognizes the outstanding contributions of CANR researchers to the research mission of Michigan State University (MSU).  In particular, the awards focus on the impact that their achievements have had on academic and/or external stakeholder communities.  This program is also intended to support the nomination of CANR faculty for further MSU, national, and international recognitions.

Types of Awards (Eligibility):

  1. Early Career Researcher Award: Individuals with less than 5 years of service and research experience at MSU/CANR (not including graduate research or post doc).
  2. Established (Mid-Career) Researcher Award: Individuals with 5 to 15 years of service and research experience at MSU/CANR (not including graduate research or post doc).
  3. Research Fellow (Career) Award: Individuals with 15 or more years of research experience (not including graduate research or post doc), and with >10 years of service at MSU/CANR.
  4. Impact Award (Co-Sponsored by ABR and MSUE): Research project (individual or team collaboration) that has made an outstanding impact in the external stakeholder community.

Individuals nominated for these awards must be current CANR faculty (tenure system or fixed term) or academic specialists that have a majority of their academic appointment within CANR.

Ideal candidates for the CANR Excellence in Research Awards will have:

  • Evidence of dedication to research through experimentation and discovery and implementation of innovative techniques that contribute to research scholarship.
  • Evidence of excellence in research as demonstrated by the impact of their scholarly outputs (e.g., peer-reviewed publications, competitive grant funding, conference presentations, and awards).
  • Evidence of excellence in research as demonstrated by academic impact (e.g., citations, Google Scholar H-index, innovative research methods, other relevant metrics); impact on other scholars (e.g., establishment of teams, training of individuals in impactful positions); and/or impact in external stakeholder communities (e.g., changes in policy or behavior/practice, quantified benefits such as economic, social, and environmental).

Faculty and staff are encouraged to submit nominations (including self-nominations) that document the criteria above. Please note that nominators must work with nominees in the preparation of the application package. Each academic unit is limited to one nomination per award type per year, with nominations submitted by department or unit chairs.

Please submit your application packet as a single PDF file to abr.director@msu.edu. Nominations are due by February 2, 2024.

Award recipients will be recognized each year at the ANR Awards Program, and recipients will also receive a monetary prize.  Note that if a team receives the Impact Award, the monetary prize will be given to the lead to be distributed among the team members. Fellow, Established, and Early Career Researcher Award recipients may only receive each award once.  The award review committee will strongly favor those nominations for individuals that have not previously received major MSU recognitions for their research, such as William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award and University Distinguished Professor.

Required application materials include:

Completed documents will be submitted electronically by department or unit chairs.

You do not need an ABR or Extension appointment to be nominated for an award.

AgBioResearch

Programs

Researcher Resources

Office of Research Support

News & Publications

Michigan State University
  • Spartans Will.
  • © Michigan State University

MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer, committed to achieving excellence through a diverse workforce and inclusive culture that encourages all people to reach their full potential.

Michigan State University Extension programs and materials are open to all without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, religion, age, height, weight, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status, family status or veteran status. Issued in furtherance of MSU Extension work, acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Quentin Tyler, Director, MSU Extension, East Lansing, MI 48824. This information is for educational purposes only. Reference to commercial products or trade names does not imply endorsement by MSU Extension or bias against those not mentioned.

The 4-H Name and Emblem have special protections from Congress, protected by code 18 USC 707.

We comply with the Federal Trade Commission 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).