Mission Statement

The Committee is responsible for the selection of recipients of awards associated with the AAAP in a timely fashion. The Committee is also responsible to recommend to the Board of Directors candidates for nomination to Life membership in the AAAP. On request from the Board of the Directors, the Committee will develop guidelines for new awards or evaluate guidelines for current awards.

Specific Objectives

• The Committee selects the recipients for the P.P. Levine Award for the best publication in Avian Diseases in the preceding year, the AAAP Special Service Award, the Bruce W. Calnek Applied Poultry Achievement Award, the Phibro Animal Health-Excellence in Poultry Research Award, the Lasher-Bottorff Award, the Bayer-Snoeyenbos New Investigator Award, the Best Case/Diagnostic Report during the AAAP Scientific Session, the Reed Rumsey Award, the Richard B. Rimler Memorial Paper Award, and the L. Dwight Schawartz Travel Scholarship. The names of the recipients of these awards will be presented to the President, the Secretary-Treasurer and Business Office of the AAAP at least 60 days prior to the Annual Meeting of the AAAP. With the exception of the recipient(s) of the Schawartz Travel, Rimler Memorial Paper and Reed Rumsey Award, the names of the recipients are kept secret.
• The Chair of the Award Committee will notify the recipients of the Schwartz Travel, Rimler Memorial Paper and Reed Rumsey Award that they will receive this award at the next Annual Meeting.  The Chair of the Program Committee, the President, Secretary-Treasurer and Business Office of the AAAP will also be notified as early as possible, but not later than December 31st, to allow their inclusion in the Scientific Program.
• The Chair of the Committee will provide the Secretary-Treasurer with biographical information concerning the recipients of the different awards in a timely fashion in order to facilitate the presentation of the awards during the Annual Awards Luncheon of the AAAP.
• The Committee selects annually the best student posters in the field of applied and basic research presented during the poster session of the AAAP program.
• The Chair will submit write-ups on the recipients of all awards to the editor of Avian Diseases in time for publication in the October-December issue of Avian Diseases of that year.
• The  Chair submits to the President, Secretary-Treasurer, and Business Office of the AAAP the name and titles of the top 5 finalists for the P.P. Levine Award for distribution to the AAAP membership at least 60 days prior to the Annual Meeting.
• The committee encourages the members of the AAAP to nominate candidates for all awards with the exception of the P.P. Levine Award and the student poster awards.  The recipients of the latter two awards are determined by the committee at the annual meeting.