Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers

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Invitation for Nomination for the Award(2011)

The scientific committee of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers/Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation announces the opening of the door for nomination for the 2011 Award in the following scientific and academic specialization out of the twelve specializations adopted for the Award, it being noted that the latest time for accepting nominations is the end of December 2011.

1. Abdul Hameed Shoman Chemistry Award.

2. Abdul Hameed Shoman Psychology and Educational Sciences Award.

3. Abdul Hameed Shoman Biology and Environmental Sciences Award.

4. Abdul Hameed Shoman Humanities Award (includes history, geography, languages and literature, archeology and philosophy).

5. Abdul Hameed Shoman Medical Sciences Award.

6. Abdul Hameed Shoman Engineering Sciences Award.

The Award is given for distinguished scientific accomplishment whose publication and circulation leads to enhanced scientific knowledge, to fostering and energizing Arab scientific research, and also to forming a generation of young Arab researchers, experts, and specialists in diverse scientific fields.

Components of the Award:

The Award consists of the following:

1. A certificate including the name of the award and the name of the winner.

2. A financial reward in the amount of (15,000) Fifteen Thousand Dollars.

3. A shield or medal bearing the name of the Award and the emblem of the Foundation.

Terms of the Award:

1. A candidate should be of Arab nationality or of Arab origin.

2. He has rendered to science and the community services that are of academic and social value during the three years prior to nomination, and shall have rendered such services in an Arab country.

3. At the time of application, his age should not be in excess of (45) years. For instance, the applicant for the award of 2011 should have been born in 1966 or thereafter.

4. He shall be nominated, in writing, by two professors in a university or an academic institution in an Arab country, provided that the nomination letter includes a C.V. of the nominee, as well as the justifications for the nomination attached with which is a list of the academic publications of the candidate.

5. Four electronic copies shall be sent (CDs). Each of the copies shall include the complete academic output of the nominee (studies, books, attendance of conferences etc.) during the years (2009, 2010, 2011), and each CD shall also contain the documents and other information requested in the nomination form prepared for such. In case this should prove difficult, it would be possible to

6. A nominee may send his/her academic output and documents directly to the Foundation or through his/her university or academic institution.

7. Research works in both Arabic and English are accepted, while master's or doctoral theses shall not go into the evaluation of the academic achievement of the nominee.

8. The academic output and the documents shall be sent only once, and any material sent thereafter shall not be considered. Moreover, the academic output of the nominee shall not be returned whether he wins or does not win the Award.

9. It is impermissible for those who won one of the Abdul Hameed Shoman awards to nominate themselves for the award in the same specialization or in any other specialization once again. Concerning those who did not previously win the award, they are permitted to nominate themselves provided they submit new scientific studies, in addition to fulfilling the aforementioned conditions.

10. The applications that do not comply with the terms of the award will not be considered, nor those that are received after the expiry of the period of nomination.

Evaluation:

The scientific output of the nominees shall be evaluated by a judging committee formed by the Award Scientific Committee from among those with expertise and qualification. Its decisions are final and it is impermissible to object to them. The Foundation has chosen not to restrict the Judging Committee by any criteria for evaluating the scientific output of the nominees, leaving the matter up to the Committee.

Winners and Granting the Awards:

1. The Abdul Hameed Foundation shall announce the names of the Award winner by appropriate means. A special ceremony for giving the Award shall be held at the Foundation's headquarters or on a university campus in Jordan.

2. In case the Award is merited by two or more winners each one of them shall be granted a certificate of recognition and a medal, in addition to the financial reward which shall be equally shared by the winners.

3. Each winner shall present an intensive summary contained in about one page about his/her scientific accomplishment which qualified him to win the Award, to be published by the Foundation on its Website, in addition to a personal photograph of good specifications for purposes of the Award booklet to be distributed at the ceremony.

4. Nominations shall be sent to the following address:

Chairman of The Scientific Committee

Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers

Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation

P.O.Box.(940255) Amman 11194

Fax. 4633565-6-00962

4659164-6-00962

Tel. 00962-6-4659154

00962-6-4633372

00962-6-4633627

E-mail: AHSF@shoman.org.jo

www.shoman.org