MU of VIRGINIA PHI BETA KAPPA VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA  24061-0405

ΦBK Albert L. Sturm Awards for Faculty Excellence in the Creative Arts

ΦBK Albert L. Sturm Award for Faculty Excellence in Research

The Phi Beta Kappa Sturm Awards honor the memory of Albert Lee Sturm (1911-1998), a founding member of Virginia Tech’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and a University Research Professor in Political Science.  Through these awards, the Mu of Virginia chapter recognizes excellence in research (one award) and in the creative arts (two awards) by our university’s faculty. 

All Sturm Awards honor excellent work that is recognized as significant by a wider, educated audience, not just a narrow group of specialists.

Each award consists of a $500 prize to each winner, to be presented at the Phi Beta Kappa spring initiation ceremony in May 2008.  The University Libraries will attach bookplates acknowledging the award in winning volumes in the circulating collection. In addition, every spring the chapter, with support of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, hosts a reception recognizing current and previous Sturm Award winners.

Creative arts awards in 2006-07 were given for an original novel and the set and lighting design of a puppet show.  The research award went to an analysis of portrayals of Moses.

Who may be nominated?  Virginia Tech faculty (full- and part-time, tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure track, active and retired).  Nominees need not be members of Phi Beta Kappa. 

Who nominates?  Any appropriate department-level committees (eg, personnel, promotion and tenure, executive) from any department or other unit in a college may submit up to two nominations a year.
Department heads/chairs may withdraw nominations at any time during the academic year.

How to nominate?  For more details, see the announcements for the individual awards on the PBK website: <http://www.pbk.org.vt.edu/pages/sturm.html>.The deadline for nominations is Friday, January 25, 2008 at 5:00pm. 

Address questions to PBK Chapter President Charles Lattimer <clattimer@vtcli.com> or staff coordinator Mikhelle Taylor taylor@vt.edu.

Nomination Forms for the Sturm Awards