APS Mentor Award Nominations

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Deadline for the 2026 Awards: October 1, 2024

The APS Mentor Award honors the importance of mentoring in our field as well as the dedication and impact of individuals with a distinguished record of teaching, advising, and encouraging students and colleagues. The nominee must be an APS member.

To nominate a candidate for the APS Mentor Award, please include the following materials:

  • Question responses about the nominee’s mentoring record, each in 150 words or fewer. Please note that these seven questions will be answered in a separate field of the nomination form:
    • Commitment to mentoring as a core component of their career
    • Impact of the nominee’s mentoring efforts
    • Originality/innovation of this nominee’s mentoring
    • Integration between mentoring and scientific pursuits in this nominee’s career
    • Ability and willingness to advise students with diverse interests and backgrounds
    • Overall impact of the nominee’s mentees in the field
    • Concrete examples of their extraordinary mentoring
  • List of PhDs and postdoc mentees (or others) with a very brief (i.e. one paragraph) description of their accomplishments
  • Two to Five additional 1-2-page electronic letters of support from mentees, one of whom must be an APS Member. Please do not submit more than five letters of support.
  • Complete electronic curriculum vitae of the candidate. (PDF preferred)
Nomination letter
List of PhDs and Postdoc mentees (or others) with a very brief (i.e. one paragraph) description of their accomplishments
CV of the nominee
At least two letters of support from mentees, one of whom must be an APS Member

Please consider the diverse and international nature of our field in nominating colleagues. Nominations of members of underrepresented groups in psychological science are encouraged.

Questions? Email awards@psychologicalscience.org.