AWARDS

BMES Diversity Award

The BMES Diversity Award honors an individual, project, organization, or institution for outstanding contributions to improving gender and racial diversity in biomedical engineering. The award is given for a broad range of activities, including research, education, and service that improves diversity in biomedical engineering industry and/or academia. The award seeks to recognize lifetime achievements as well as innovative and/or high impact activities. 

The awardee or a representative of the project, organization, or institution will deliver a plenary lecture at the BMES Annual Meeting and publish the text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. An important purpose of the lecture is to offer a vision of the challenges and opportunities to achieving greater diversity in biomedical engineering.

BMES Diversity Awards Recipients:

2011 - Cato Laurencin, PhD
2010 - Gilda A. Barabino, PhD
2009 - Sheldon Weinbaum, PhD

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Conditions:
  1. A nomination letter is required, (PDF Format submission will be accepted), which should address the following:
    - What are the objectives of the nominee’s work?
    - Provide examples of how the work conforms to and supports the goals of increasing diversity in biomedical engineering.
    - Provide a detailed description of the nominee’s work.
    - Describe the community served by the work including background/history and evolution if appropriate.
    - What has been the impact of the work?
    - What are the nominee’s plans to continue the work?
  2. The nomination letter must be from a BMES member in good standing; however, nominees need not be BMES members. Self-nominations from BMES members are strongly encouraged.
  3. The awardee or a representative from the project, organization, or institution is expected to accept the award in person at the BMES Annual Meeting. 

This award consists of $1,000 check, a plaque, a complimentary registration for the BMES Annual Meeting, and travel expenses up to $1,000.

Email your submission including nomination form, CV/Resumeal letters of support by May 31st to regina@bmes.org.