Nominations: 2024 ARIS Awards

The nomination deadline was December 4, 2023. Submissions are no longer being accepted.

Overview

The Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) supports capacity building, advancement of scholarship, partnership growth, and resource curation for higher education researchers and practitioners working to advance the translation of research to the public benefit.

Proposals were due Mon., Dec. 4, 2023. Countdown to deadline

  

ARIS Awards recognize

  • Engaged Knowledge Generation 
    Accomplishing societal impacts through the research activity itself, engaging the public in the research process, participating in knowledge generation.
  • Engaged Knowledge Translation 
    Accomplishing societal impacts through activities that are supported by but are complementary to the research itself. Knowledge translation activities could include research communications, science communications, or educational outreach.

ARIS Awards provide recognition for research that aligns with the goals of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) broader impacts criterion or with other definitions/frameworks for societal impact of research. The ARIS Awards recognize researchers and practitioners undertaking exemplary work in the societal impact of research and higher education. The ARIS Awardees will be honored at the 2024 Summit in April 2024.

Nominees may be

  • individual researchers and practitioners
  • collaborations among individuals
  • a particular research project or program
  • research and education institutions
  • other organizations

Categories

Awards will be presented in the following categories. Pending the number and quality of nominations received in each category, multiple awards may be presented in some categories, while no award may be presented in others.

Awards in this category are for advancing the types of research impacts goals identified by the National Science Foundation and described in the ARIS Guiding Principles 2.0 (PDF). In establishing the broader impacts criterion, NSF noted nine potential types of impact outcomes, which are summarized within ARIS’ Guiding Principles: inclusion, STEM education, science literacy, well-being, STEM workforce development, partnerships, national security, economic competitiveness, and infrastructure. Of course, other impact outcomes are possible. ARIS award winners in this category will be recognized for significantly advancing engagement in and translation of research to public benefit in one or more of these particular areas (or other areas identified by the nominator).

This award recognizes recipients for developing new approaches to and strategies for engagement in and translation of research. Working toward ensuring the societal impact of research and higher education means adopting and developing new research methods and approaches to public service, outreach, and engagement by institutions and organizations. ARIS award winners in this category are recognized for demonstrated leadership in the development and scaling of new policies, processes, and tactics for achieving societal impact, including innovative approaches to engagement, translation, measurement, and other strategic areas.

This ARIS Award honors a body of achievements over time. Individual researchers or practitioners, collaborations, or organizations may have worked over a period of time on undertaking research engagement and translation for impact. Award recipients in this category will be individuals or organizations that have demonstrated such long-term achievement or established a body of work.

Awards in this category are made to practitioners and scholars who demonstrate great promise through their early research impact leadership efforts.

ARIS 2023 Awardees

ARIS 2023 Awardees: Wei Ji Ma, Dennis Schatz, Nalini Nadkarni, Michelle Hall, Michael Mayhew

Benefits/Recognition

ARIS Awardees will be honored at an annual ARIS Broader Impacts Summit Awards Ceremony, and their work will be highlighted. Travel expenses for ARIS awards winners will be covered by ARIS.

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