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The Interdisciplinary Faculty Award recognizes a faculty member who advances meaningful interdisciplinary collaboration through teaching, research or creative activity, service, or a combination of these areas. The recipient brings together perspectives, methods, or expertise from multiple disciplines to address complex challenges, enhance student learning, foster innovation, or strengthen engagement with the university and broader community. Their work builds productive partnerships across academic programs, departments, colleges, or external organizations and demonstrates the value and impact of working across traditional disciplinary boundaries. The recipient of this award will receive $2,000.

Eligibility
Submission Details
Selection Criteria

Eligibility

  • Must be a current, full-time academic faculty member at UNLV.
  • May be nominated by faculty, staff, or academic leadership.
  • The nominee must demonstrate interdisciplinary work involving more than one discipline, program, department, college, or external partner.
  • Contributions may occur through teaching, research or creative activity, service, community engagement, or a combination of these areas.
  • The nomination should reflect contributions made within the previous academic year.
  • Previous winners are eligible for re-nomination after five years.

Submission Details

All required materials must be combined into a single PDF document. Please note the following when creating the PDF file that will be uploaded through the nomination form.

File Name

The nomination packet submitted through the online form must use the following file name convention: LastName_FirstName_InterdisciplinaryFacultyAward.pdf

Example: Doe_Jane_InterdisciplinaryFacultyAward.pdf

Required Materials

  1. Cover sheet
  2. Table of contents that lists items 3-6 below
  3. Nomination letter with evidence of interdisciplinary collaboration
  4. Letter from collaborator with evidence of the nominee's interdisciplinary collaboration
  5. Letter from supervisor
  6. Nominee's current CV

Criteria Considered By Selection Committee

  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Demonstrates meaningful collaboration across disciplinary, departmental, college, or organizational boundaries.
  • Integration of Perspectives: Effectively brings together different perspectives, methods, or areas of expertise.
  • Impact: Produces demonstrable benefits for students, scholarship or creative activity, the university, profession, or broader community.
  • Innovation: Uses interdisciplinary approaches to create new opportunities, address complex challenges, or advance innovative ideas or practices.
  • Partnership and Sustainability: Builds productive relationships that strengthen or create opportunities for continued interdisciplinary collaboration.