Distinguished Research Award (DRA)

Distinguished Research Award 2025

Applications and all supporting materials due: January 30th, 2025

The Office of the Provost, the Office of Research, the University Research Council and the Research Deans’ Council are now accepting nominations and self-nominations for the Fordham University Distinguished Research Award (DRA). The DRA is designed to recognize tenured and tenure-track faculty members who have produced outstanding research, scholarship and creative practice accomplishments within the past three years (January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024).

1. Award

• The award consists of an engraved plaque and an honorarium of $1,000.
• There are five categories of the award, covering: 1) science and mathematics; 2) social sciences; 3) humanities; 4) interdisciplinary studies; and 5) research in any of these fields by a junior faculty member.

2. Award Eligibility

• The applicant must be a full-time tenure-track or tenured faculty member during the academic year in which the award is received.
• Within the last three years, the applicant must have secured an externally funded research grant, external fellowship or award, published an article in a refereed research journal, and/or had a research book published by a non-commercial publisher.
• External funding not awarded to Fordham University will be excluded from consideration.

3. Award Nomination and Evaluation

• Self-nominations or formal nominations by members of the academic community should be submitted to the Office of Research via the 2025 DRA Nomination form (https://form.jotform.com/242974934429167) by December 15, 2024. Nominations made by students will not be accepted.
• Applications and all supporting materials must be submitted to the Office of Research via the 2025 DRA Application form ( https://form.jotform.com/242974568654170) no later than January 30, 2025. 
• Formal nominations or self-nominations must be specific to only one of the five areas in section I.2.

 4. The Fordham University Research Council and Research Deans’ Council will organize the DRA review committee to evaluate the application material and recent scholarly records of all eligible applicants and make recommendations for the Award.

5. The Chief Research Officer and the Provost will deliver the final decision.

6. The awards will be presented at the Fordham Research Day on April 22, 2025.