- Author: Kathleen P Nolan
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has established a new prize, the “NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences”, to be presented annually beginning in 2017 with an award of $100,000.
The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences will recognize research by a mid-career scientist at a U.S. institution who has made an extraordinary contribution to agriculture or to the understanding of the biology of a species fundamentally important to agriculture or food production. The prize may also be shared by two or more scientists who collaborated closely on the discovery or accomplishment to be recognized.
For the purpose of the prize, areas of science with applications to agriculture include plant and animal sciences, microbiology, nutrition and food science, soil science, entomology, veterinary medicine, and agricultural economics.
Nominations for the inaugural prize will be accepted online until 8:59 PM PST on Monday,October 3, 2016, at www.nasonline.org/awards-food-and-agriculture. Self-nominations will not be accepted.
The prize is being endowed through generous gifts from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
If you have any questions, please contact UCANR OCG at 530-750-1276 or by email at ocg@ucanr.edu.
Thank you.
Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)