The ENAR Dionne Price Early Career PIONEER Award in Biostatistics is established to honor the legacy of Dr. Dionne L. Price, a pioneering statistician and the first African American president of the American Statistical Association. This award recognizes early-career professionals who have demonstrated exceptional innovation in mentoring, dedicated service to the biostatistics community, and significant impact in their field.
Eligibility
- <10 years after the last degree (no field/subject requirement). Eligibility may be extended for each child born or adopted for up to 12 months, documented illness, national service, or other dependent care.
- ENAR member for past 3 years without a gap.
Award Criteria
Service to the broader scientific community related to statistics/biostatistics/data science
- Within an organization or professional society.
- Activities that demonstrate leadership.
Mentoring, teaching, and elevating others. Examples include:
- Outreach to new groups of critical thinkers.
- Sustained relationships with mentees through education, job training, and/or support (could include early career colleagues, undergraduates/master’s students, students from non-statistics fields, or colleagues from non-statistics fields).
- Teaching statistics in an accessible way.
Creating blogs or other avenues for sharing statistics with new audiences. Innovative contributions could have societal impact. Examples include:
- Projects demonstrating community engagement.
- Establishments of collaborations/partnerships.
- Development of new methods/software/tools that are widely used by diverse fields and are publicly available.
Submission Requirements
To apply, candidates should submit CV and self-nomination letter (should address award criteria and be limited to 3 pages). Applicants may also submit one letter of support from a mentee (this is optional and failure to include the mentee letter will not be viewed as a negative).
The award will be presented at the ENAR 2025 Spring Meeting Presidential Invited Address, Recognition and Awards meeting on Monday, March 24, 2025, in New Orleans. It is expected that the awardee will accept the award in person. The winner will receive $1,000.
Nominations should be submitted via this form and are due by January 31, 2025.
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