SWSS Awards

These awards of $1,000 cash and a certificate or plaque to be presented annually to a young weed scientist one from academia (teaching, research, extension) to be sponsored by BASF and one from Industry to be sponsored by the SWSS in recognition of outstanding service to weed science.

To be eligible for the OYWSA, the potential recipient:

• Must have been a voting member of the Society for at least three of the last five (5) years and must be a voting member of the Society in the year that the person is nominated for the award.
• Must be 40 years of age or younger on January 31 of the year she or he receives the award.
• Must have completed at least five (5) years’ work in weed science other than that related to academic studies.
• Previous recipients of this award will be ineligible for re-nomination.

These awards (one each for students at the MS level and the PhD level) are sponsored by the SWSS Endowment Foundation and consist of a $400 cash award and a plaque for MS level and $400 cash award and plaque for PhD level. The awards are given annually to a graduate student (one at the MS level and one at the PhD level) who has demonstrated outstanding performance in graduate studies and related weed science activities. Winners at the MS level are not eligible for this award at the PhD level. Students must have received the degree for which they are nominated since the previous SWSS Annual Meeting.

To be eligible for the OGSA, the potential recipient:

• Must be enrolled as a graduate student in the degree program for which she/he is nominated within the calendar year for which the nomination is made
• Must have actively participated in SWSS sponsored activities such as the annual meeting, weed contest, student paper contest, or committee work during the past two years including the year nominated and the previous year.

This award is sponsored by Bayer CropScience and awarded yearly for five years beginning in 2023. This award is for specific collaborations in the emerging applications of science and technology that require regulatory and stewardship protocols. This award recognizes scientists that demonstrate great interaction and collaboration between public and private institutions, establish multiyear outreach and support of the new technologies, and provide nonbiased feedback while extending research findings to the scientific and farming communities through publications and extension activities. The selected program will be awarded a plaque and monetary awards to be allocated as follows: Principal Investigator, $2000, and remainder of the graduate team ($250 each), to a maximum total award of $3,000 unless extenuating circumstances. The graduate students should be the primary researchers and does not include technicians. Team members should be named during the nomination process. If a project has two lead PI’s they should be awarded and the primary funds divided evenly. Graduate students providing minimal assistance should not be nominated.

Eligible nominees should be active members of the SWSS; and include industry personnel, primary research/extension project leaders, and primary graduate students actively involved in conducting the research.