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Award Resources

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Awards recognize excellence while creating opportunities to advance your research, scholarship and career. Explore the resources below to find opportunities and strengthen your award applications and nominations.

How can awards benefit you?

Visible.

Awards increase your visibility and provide wider recognition for you and your department.

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Awards provide needed resources, including: funding, time, and access to new professional communities.

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Awards offer development opportunities, such as: residencies, travel, and collaboration.

Networking.

Awards can present exciting collaborative opportunities and help you expand your networks outside of UB.

Resources

Advice for Letter Writers

Advice on how to write an impactful nomination letter.

Securing Strong Letters of Support

How to ensure your supporting letters are as strong as possible. 

Tips for Early Career Faculty

Tips on identifying and pursuing awards as junior faculty. 

Steps to Be Award Ready

Thinking ahead to future award opportunities.

Equity in Recognition & Awards Efforts

Best practices for combatting bias in the awards nomination process.

Awards Opportunities by Department

Find a collection of disciplinary awards sorted by department and discipline. The awards listed are those that faculty from similiar departments nationwide have received. 

Early Career Award Opportunities

Review the sampling of awards that are available to early career scholars (broadly defined), as well as our awards spotlight.

Travel Fellowships

Explore a list of international fellowships that are available to all faculty, as well as our travel awards spotlight.