BHHS Awards

Nominations for BHHS awards are currently closed.

Ellen Swallow Richards Public Service Award

The Board on Health and Human Sciences Ellen Swallow Richards Public Service Award honors a nationally recognized leader who has a significant history of promoting and advancing the health and human sciences. It is likely that the nominees for the BHHS Ellen Swallow Richards Public Service Award will be individuals who have supported higher education, and especially the mission of the health and human sciences and other programs in land-grant universities. The award is named in honor of Ellen Swallow Richards, who dedicated her life to applying research to enhance the well-being of individuals, families and communities.

Lifetime Achievement Award

The purpose of the Board on Health and Human Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award is to honor a nationally recognized leader who has a noteworthy history of promoting and advancing the health and human sciences. Nominees for the BHHS Lifetime Achievement Award are individuals who serve or have served in significant faculty and/or administrative roles in higher education. Also, candidates will be individuals who earned recognition for advancing the mission of the health and human sciences and related disciplines in colleges and universities.

Outstanding Engagement Award

The Purpose of the Board on Health and Human Sciences Outstanding Engagement Award is to recognize an individual who is a “campus based” or a “state level faculty member” for exceptional creativity and scholarship in the development, application, and evaluation of outreach, extension, and public service programs.

Undergraduate Research Mentor Award

The purpose of the Board on Health and Human Sciences Undergraduate Research Mentor Award is to recognize a faculty member in the health and human sciences for exceptional performance as a research mentor for undergraduate students. This award was developed to advance the purposes of the Undergraduate Research Community in the Human Sciences. The Undergraduate Research Community focuses on the scholarship of learning and teaching in preparing students for graduate education, the workplace and responsible citizenship. It enhances the experimental content of undergraduate education in the health and human sciences.