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TRAINEE CORNER

WE WANT TO Call for Nominations

HEAR FROM YOU. . .
MENTORING EXCELLENCE

As your voice within SFRBM, the Trainee Council wants to ensure that The SFRBM Mentoring Excellence Award will recognize outstanding

you are being heard. Whether it’s an interesting article or an idea for the mentorship provided by a current member of the SFRBM. The award

Society, our electronic doors are always open.
recipient could be a junior, mid-career or senior principal investigator,

who will be nominated by trainees of the SFRBM.
There are now multiple, easy routes for sharing that interesting article,

or to network with, the Trainee Council, other SFRBM trainees and The award would include:

SFRBM faculty. With active Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as
• $500 cash award

an SFRBM blog, your contributions can reach the entire Society with
• Waived registration to the SFRBM’s 22nd Annual Meeting
the click of a button. Simply email your contribution to SFRBMSocial@
in Boston, MA
carneycommunications.com, visit the Blog and Content Submissions

Page http://carneycommunications.com/sfrbm, post directly to the • Plaque presented at the Closing Banquet

Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine Facebook page, or tweet
ELIGIBILITY

to @SFRBM.
All principal investigator members of the SFRBM who have mentored at

One of the best ways for Trainee Council to advocate for junior members least 2 trainees into successful career transitions. Current members of

of the Society is to know them. If you have speciic requests, ideas or the SFRBM Council are not eligible for this award. This award is given

suggestions and wish to contact the Trainee Council and its members once in a lifetime.

directly, we would love to hear from you at traineecouncil@sfrbm.org.
EVALUATION
Members of the Trainee Council are also active on Facebook, Twitter,

LinkedIn, and ResearchGate.
Up to 5 letters of recommendation from current or past trainees who

remain at the trainee level at the time of nomination and a complete

mentor activity form are required to be considered for the award. The

letters of nomination must provide concise detail on how the mentor

excels in the categories outlined above. Scoring will be favored to

those mentors with a high level of training students vs. postdocs due to

the commitment involved.

Completed submissions should be received by SFRBM no later than

August 31, 2015. Emailed submissions are required and can be sent to

info@sfrbm.org.

Please visit http://www.sfrbm.org/sections/resources/mentoringaward

for eligibility and criteria details.

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