Distinguished Mycologist Award
Awarded annually to an individual who has established an outstanding mycological career. This is one of the highest awards bestowed by the MSA and marks a distinguished career. Nominees for the award will be evaluated on the basis of quality, originality, and quantity of their published research, and on the basis of service to the MSA or to the field of mycology in general.
Application deadline: March 15, annually
General Requirements:
- The nominee must be a current member of MSA or eligible for emeritus membership.
- The nominee must have received his or her terminal degree at least twenty years prior to January 1 of the year in which the award is given. There is no requirement for a minimum age or impending or actual retirement . Honorary degrees shall not be considered in determining the time interval.
- An individual may receive the Distinguished Mycologist Award only once.
- Self nomination is not allowed.
- Nominators must be members of the MSA.
- Nominees who are not chosen for the award in the year in which they are nominated will be reconsidered for up to two additional years. The Distinctions Committee Chairperson will request updates of the nominee’s materials.
Documents required (nomination folder should contain):
- A nominating letter, including a detailed evaluation of the nominee’s outstanding contributions to Mycology.
- A current curriculum vitae, including a list of the nominee’s publications.
- Up to five additional letters of support.
Apply to: The nominator should a) prepare a single electronic file, preferably in pdf format, containing all of the items listed above and email it as an attachment; or b) prepare as much as possible electronically in one email with attachments followed by FAX or hard copy of the non-electronic portions; and send all to the Chair of the MSA Distinctions Committee.
Note: The Chair of the MSA Distinctions Committee will appoint ad hoc committee members in place of committee members whose major professor may be nominated for the award. The committee may choose to make more than one award or no award in a given year, if it is appropriate. Presentation of the award, a plaque, will take place at the awards ceremony at the annual meeting of the MSA. The recipient will be notified in time to plan to attend the presentation. The name of the winner of the award will be published in Inoculum.
| Distinguished Mycologist Award | |
| 2009 | Timothy J. Baroni |
| 2008 | John W. Taylor |
| 2007 | David J. McLaughlin |
| 2006 | Harvey C. Hoch |
| 2005 | Walter Gams Charles Mims |
| 2004 | Jack Rogers |
| 2003 | Meredith Blackwell David Malloch |
| 2002 | James M. Trappe |
| 2001 | James W. Kimbrough Robert A. Shoemaker |
| 2000 | Jan J. Kohlmeyer Ronald H. Petersen |
| 1999 | Ian K. Ross Richard T. Hanlin |
| 1998 | George Barron Orson K. Miller, Jr. |
| 1996 | John Rippon I. Brent Heath |
| Karl Esser Bryce Kendrick |
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| 1994 | Salomon Bartnicki-Garcia Robert L. Gilbertson |
| 1993 | Richard K. Benjamin Charles E. Bracker |
| 1992 | Margaret E. Barr Bigelow Melvin S. Fuller |
| 1991 | Richard P. Korf Robert W. Lichtwardt |
| 1990 | Emory G. Simmons Harry D. Thiers |
| 1989 | No award |
| 1988 | D.B.O. Saville |
| 1987 | Horace L. Barnett John S. Karling |
| 1986 | Mildred K. Nobles Rolf Singer |
| 1985 | Stanley J. Hughes Josiah L. Lowe |
| 1984 | Ross W. Davidson Charles Drechsler |
| 1983 | Roy F. Cain Everett S. Luttrell |
| 1982 | Libero Ajello Chester W. Emmons Clifford W. Hesseltine Alexander H. Smith |
| 1981 | Constantine J. Alexopoulos John N. Couch George Cummins Lindsay Olive Kenneth B. Raper |
