Awards

Award Categories and Information (2025 cycle)

WSSA Award Nominations Requested: Deadline –October 31, 2024.

Our society has many members who deserve recognition for outstanding achievements, contributions, and service in weed science. Please take time to nominate a deserving individual.

Awards are to be presented at the 2025 annual meeting with SWSS in Vancouver, Canada.

The award nominations packet must be submitted electronically as a single pdf file. The deadline is October 31st for all awards except the Undergraduate Research Award, Excellence in Journalism Award, Grad Student Travel Awards, and the Photo Contest.  Photo contest submission may be utilized by the WSSA on the website.  Contact the subcommittee chair for questions or problems with electronic submission. Any WSSA member who has won an outstanding service award is not eligible to receive another one for the subsequent three years. Fellows are eligible for all awards. Members of subcommittees are not eligible and cannot nominate for award of their committee. Winners of most awards will be asked to supply a biographical sketch (approximately 250 words), the names of two individuals whom the winner would like contacted with information about the award, and an electronic copy of a recent black and white picture and an informal color picture at work.

Success of the WSSA Awards Program depends on the efforts of WSSA members as nominators.

For general questions about the Awards, contact John Lindquist.