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Nominate an Outstanding Postdoc Researcher and Mentor

By Duke Today Staff

Each year, DUPA and the Office of Postdoctoral Services present awards to the Outstanding Postdoc Mentor and Outstanding Postdoc at Duke. These awards are meant to acknowledge not only research achievements, but to honor contributions in mentoring, service, and teaching.

The Outstanding Postdoc Mentor Award recognizes that a good mentor serves not only as a teacher, but as an adviser, advocate and role model to postdocs throughout their professional training. The awards are meant to promote a culture of mentoring at Duke.

Deadline for nominations is Wednesday, Sept. 5. Click here to nominate a postdoc mentor.

The Outstanding Postdoc Award recognizes that postdocs are crucial to the research mission of Duke. This award honors those postdocs who are not only skilled researchers, but who serve as advisers, advocates and role models for other postdoctoral scholars and students at Duke.

Deadline for Nominations is Wednesday, Sept. 5. Click here to nominate a postdoc researcher.

Awards to one postdoc mentor and up to three outstanding postdoc researchers will be awarded at the second annual Postdococtoberfest, which is scheduled for Oct. 5. The winners will receive plaques and $200 gift certificates to Magnolia Grill. All nominees will receive a congratulatory letter from the Office of Postdoctoral Services and the Duke University Postdoctoral Association.

To read about last year's award winners, click here.