The national prestige of a veterinary college is related to the quality of its research program. A distinguished research program influences the quality of patient care, veterinary education, veterinary professional and graduate students, residents, and faculty. It is therefore in the best interest of the college to support the faculty in organized research and to foster high-impact research projects that create or confirm new knowledge and methods for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. There are a number of other support mechanisms to help faculty to initiate research projects and to achieve research funding. Established investigators, however, are often left to depend on their own means to success.
The goal of the David White Research Award is to honor and support established and prevailing investigators and to establish a research apprenticeship that feeds on the success of the honored and successful investigator.
There are three objectives combined here for maximum impact on the overall college research program:
This award has been designed to honor a successful principal investigator based in the College of Veterinary Medicine and shall reward demonstrated success. The award shall provide funds for hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work with the honored award winner. This award also provides the opportunity to a young aspiring clinical or research scientist to prepare for an academic veterinary faculty career by taking up apprenticeship with a successful principal investigator, by learning and practicing the art of grant writing, the day-to-day research tasks, and advising graduate students in their pursuit of research.
While the postdoctoral researcher is to sustain the research routine, his/her preceptor, the principal investigator, is freed up to maintain or even increase the research program. The award is given approximately every one to three years with the aim of increasing the pool of highly qualified candidates for future academic faculty positions in veterinary schools. This award is intended to foster mentorship and collaboration between established and young aspiring researchers.
The original plus 9 copies must be received in the CVM Office of Research and Graduate Studies (Michele Morscher, 127L VMAB) by 5:00 pm, July 15, 2008. Download the David White Award Application .
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