The 2006 Mentor Award - Call for Nominations

<<...Must we therefore abandon any attempt to instruct and educate about the process of scientific research? Shall we leave the beginner to its own devices, confused and abandoned, struggling without guidance or advice along a path strewn with difficulties and dangers? Definitely not.>>

Santiago Ramón y Cayal, "Advice for a Young Investigator", 1898.


The SIT Committee is now calling for nominations for the 2006 Excellence in Mentoring Award, now at its fourth edition. Letters should be sent to the Committee's email address sit@radres.org by Friday, March 31, 2006. The SIT Committee will evaluate all the letters received and will announce the name of the winner on April 24, 2006. The winner of the 2006 Excellence in Mentoring Award will be presented at the Business Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Annual Meeting of the RRS (5-8 November 2006).

The inaugural Excellence in Mentoring Award was assigned in Brisbane to Cameron Koch, professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2003, pictured here to the left). Other mentors who were nominated in 2003 were Mark Dewhirst (Duke), William McBride (UCLA), Klaus-Rudiger Trott (St. Bartholomew's Hospital, UK), Rodney Withers (UCLA) , and John Zimbrick (Purdue). His interview was published in RRS News and may be read here.





In 2004, the Award was assigned in St. Louis, Missouri, to William Dewey (portrayed here to the left at the Failla reception in Reno, 2002, with Joel Bedford and Jack Little), professor at University of California, San Francisco. The runner-ups were Joel Bedford (Colorado State), Mark Dewhirst (Duke), Lora Green (Loma Linda), Michael Sevilla (Oakland), and Thomas Winters (NIH).
Read the full story and view photographs of William Dewey here





At its third year, the 2005 Excellence in Mentoring Award was assigned in Denver, Colorado, to Jack Little, professor at Harvard Medical School (portrayed to the left with his wife Francoise and his Failla Award Medal). As a sign of the increasing popularity of the Excellence in Mentoring Award, the list of other nominees got much longer in 2005 and the Committee received 80 letters of nomination, to include Joel Bedford (CSU), Fredrick Domann (Univ. of Iowa), Michael Fry (Oak Ridge NL), Amato Giaccia (Stanford), Kathy Held (Mass. Gen. H.), Jae Ho Kim (Henry Ford Hosp), Michael Robbins (Wake Forest), Klaus-Rudiger Trott (St. Bartholomew's Hospital, UK), and Susan Wallace (Univ. of Vermont).
We will provide a link to the full story as it will become available on RRS News

We look forward to receiving your nominations and wish you the very best of luck for your 2006 nominee!

The SIT Committee of the Radiation Research Society