Award Submissions Deadline: January 15

AWARD RULES

• Any member of the Association may submit a nomination for the AsMA awards by following the rules below.
• Award recipients are selected by vote of the Awards Committee: each committee member reviews the nomination forms and ranks the candidates based on the significance of the accomplishments cited, their relevance to the specific award, and the timeliness of the nomination. The committee chairperson does not vote and is not eligible for an award during his/her tenure. The Chair breaks ties based upon all known factors surrounding the award nomination.
• Committee members may receive awards during service on the committee, but they cannot vote on the award they are in competition for—the Chair votes in their place. Traditionally, the preferential voting method has been used. It is an Association policy that committee membership broadly represents both the disciplines of Association membership and the constituent organizations which are part of the Association, and that committee members rotate every 3-5 years.

Rules:

• Self-nomination is not allowed. Deceased members may be nominated.
• The nominee must be a current member of the Association by Feb. 1 in the year in which the award may be given, with the sole exception that the Sidney D. Leverett, Jr., Environmental Science Award is open to non-members. Nominator must also be a current member of the Association when submitting the award nomination.
• Nominations for multiple AsMA Awards for the same individual must be separate in content and contain unique and specific material supporting each of the Award nominations. Nominators may nominate the same individual for no more than two (2) awards per year and each nomination must be unique and clearly support the award criteria.
• Employees of a company sponsoring an award are eligible to receive the award.
• Nominations for the Tuttle Award must cite a specific paper printed in Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. The award will be given to the first author, with co-authors that are AsMA members receiving co-author recognition.
• Nominations for the Leverett Environmental Science Award may be awarded for a cited paper printed in Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, or it can be awarded for activities conducted in support of aerospace systems operations.  If awarded for a cited paper in Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, the award will be given to the first author, with co-authors that are AsMA members receiving co-author recognition.
• An individual can only receive one award in any one year. The same individual may receive an award more than once, so long as five years have elapsed between the last time that award was won by that same awardee. The exception is the Bauer Award, as this award is only given once to an individual.
• Nominations are good for three years from the original award nomination except the Julian E. Ward memorial Award - see specific guidelines in the award description below). They may be updated. If substantial material has changed for the same award within that three-year cycle—a new nomination should be submitted.
•  Any auxiliary biographical material in electronic or hard copy attachments must be limited to 3 typed pages and will be retained in Association files.
• Nominations received after Jan. 15th will be considered for awards to be presented at the annual meeting in the next calendar year.