Division of Research

Staff Excellence Award

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Division of Research Staff Excellence Award

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The 2024 Division of Research Staff Excellence Award is intended to honor individuals who demonstrate a commitment to excellence in performing their job duties and exhibit performance above and beyond. A team award will recognize combined individual efforts that contribute to exceptional team performance and significant sustained contributions worthy of recognition.  Nominations are accepted from any employee of The Texas A&M University System; self-nominations will not be accepted. 

Our Units

  • Conflict of Interest/Responsible Conduct of Research
  • Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness (Hub 1)
  • Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
  • Office of the Vice President for Research
  • Research Communications
  • Research Compliance and Biosafety
  • Research Development Services
  • Research Enterprise Business Services
  • Research Security and Export Controls
  • Special Strategic Projects
  • Sponsored Research Services
  • Technology Services
  • Texas A&M Global Health Research Complex

Our Centers, Institutes and Facilities

  • Comparative Medicine Program
  • Hagler Institute for Advanced Study
  • High Performance Research Computing
  • International Ocean Discovery Program
  • Microscopy and Imaging Center
  • Private Enterprise Research Center
  • Texas A&M Energy Institute
  • Texas A&M Global Cyber Research Institute
  • Texas A&M Institute of Data Science
  • Texas A&M Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas
  • Texas A&M Institute for Genome Sciences and Society
  • Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience
  • Texas Real Estate Research Center
  • Texas Sea Grant College Program

2024 Individual Staff Award Guidelines

This award is intended to honor and recognize exceptional staff performance and significant sustained contributions, with a portion occurring during the last fiscal year.

Eligibility

DOR Staff Excellence Award (Individual) nominees must:

  • be a full-time employee.
  • have a minimum of two years of service in the Division or within their unit if the unit was recently moved under the Division, have a minimum of two years of working with the Division if centralized staff, or have a minimum of one year of service in the Division or within their unit if classified as a postdoctoral research associate.
  • have an annual performance evaluation of meets expectations or higher.
  • hold a title below that of Associate Vice President, Director, or equivalent.

Criteria

Nominees should:

  • demonstrate a continuing commitment to excellence and development as a professional within the Division through personal actions related to mentorship, professional development, and/or leadership, or through advancement of others, promoting mentorship, professional development and/or leadership.
  • demonstrate special qualities such as innovation, initiative, enthusiasm, and cooperation.
  • make a positive impact within the Division and externally, through the sharing of ideas, outstanding and sustained improvements in customer service, processes and procedures, communication and/or reduction of administrative burdens.
  • demonstrate a commitment to support Aggie core values (respect, excellence, leadership, loyalty, integrity, and self-less service) at Texas A&M, within the DOR and all stakeholders.

Award

  • Monetary award of $500 and certificate.

Selection Process

The principal nominator (any employee of The Texas A&M University System) should complete and sign the nomination form. The form should be submitted with a letter of nomination describing how the candidate meets the criteria listed above. One, one-page letter of endorsement may also be submitted. Self-nominations will not be accepted. The DOR Awards Recognition Committee will review and select the award recipients using a numerical scoring system.

The nomination process will open on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, and nomination packets must be received by close of business on Friday, October 18, 2024. Awardees will be notified at a later determined date.

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2024 Individual Guidelines

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2024 Team Award Guidelines

This award is intended to honor and recognize exceptional team performance and significant sustained contributions, with a portion occurring during the last fiscal year.

Eligibility Criteria

Impact should be evidenced by individual actions contributing to the team effort, to make a positive impact within the Division and externally through the sharing of ideas; outstanding and sustained improvements in customer service, processes and procedures, communication and/or reduction of service barriers; or implementation of new ideas or innovations as a team resulting in greater customer satisfaction or substantial cost savings.  Teams selected for this award will have demonstrated a team commitment to support Aggie core values (respect, excellence, leadership, loyalty, integrity, and self-less service) at Texas A&M, within the Division, and externally.

Team Definition:

  • A minimum of two staff members shall constitute a team.
  • A maximum team size is not specified.
  • Team members include Division of Research staff as well as centralized staff.

DOR Staff Excellence Award Team nominees must:

  • be full-time employees.
  • have a minimum of two years of service in the Division or within their unit if the unit was recently moved under the Division, have a minimum of two years of working with the Division if centralized staff, or have a minimum of one year of service in the Division or within their unit if classified as a postdoctoral research associate.
  • have an annual performance evaluation of meets expectations or higher.
  • hold a title below that of Associate Vice President, Director, or equivalent.

Award

The team selected will be celebrated with a team event and individual certificates.

Selection Process

The principal nominator (any employee of The Texas A&M University System) should complete and sign the nomination form. The form should be submitted with a letter of nomination describing how the team meets the criteria listed above. Up to three, one-page letters of endorsement may also be submitted. Self-nominations will not be accepted. The DOR Awards Recognition Committee will review and select the award recipients using a numerical scoring system.

The nomination process will open on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, and nomination packets must be received by close of business on Friday, October 18, 2024.

Awardees will be notified at a later determined date.

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2024 Team Guidelines

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Questions

Questions can be directed to vpr@tamu.edu