TSAPS Distinguished Service Award Grant

TSAPS Distinguished Service Award Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: American Physical Society (APS)
Amount: Unspecified amount in in-kind support
Last Updated: August 14, 2025

Summary

The TSAPS Distinguished Service Award honors individuals for their exceptional contributions to the Texas section of the American Physical Society (APS). This prestigious award recognizes sustained leadership and service, particularly through executive committee involvement or significant participation in regional conferences. Recipients will receive a plaque and a dedicated webpage featuring their biography on the TSAPS website. The award emphasizes the importance of promoting excellence in physics within Texas, although no monetary stipend is provided.

Overview

The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents more than 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world. Distinguished Service Awards This award is to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions over several years to the Texas section of the APS. These contributions include leadership through service on the executive committee and/or TSAPS sponsored activities such as the Fall and Spring Regional conferences, or other activities that significantly promote excellence in Physics in the Texas region. The award itself will be a plaque for each recipient to be presented at the regular Fall TSAPS meeting. In addition, a permanent webpage dedicated to the award and posted at the TSAPS website will include a brief biography of each recipient including a description of their service to the section. There will be no monetary stipend associated with this award. The number of awards made per year is not specified. In any year, the committee may choose to make multiple awards or none.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Individuals who have made outstanding contributions over several years to the Texas section of the APS. You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member.