About PSA Awards and Nominations

Nominations for 2022 PSA Fellows will be accepted starting August 1, 2021.

Nominations for all other 2022 awards will open on November 1, 2021.

2022 PSA Awards

The following awards will be presented at the 2021 Virtual PSA Annual Meeting. Please review the Rules & Regulations for PSA Awards for individual award rules and nomination requirements. A complete list of required, supporting documents for each award are listed in the award description in the PSA Portal.

Alltech Student Research Manuscript Award
(Graduate Student Award)
Purpose: To recognize graduate students for the presentation and publication as senior author of an outstanding research manuscript in Poultry Science or The Journal of Applied Poultry Research.

American Egg Board Research Award
Purpose: To increase the interest in research pertaining to all things related to eggs. This could include areas related to egg production, safety, product quality, or egg science technology.

American Feed Industry Association Poultry Nutrition Research Award
Purpose: To recognize distinctive work demonstrating sound research in poultry nutrition in the last 10 years.

American Poultry Historical Society Award
(Unique to 2022)
Purpose: To stimulate interest in documenting and recording historical information regarding the poultry industry development, to preserve artifacts and other items of historical interest to the poultry industry, and to encourage the publication of recorded historical infomration in papers, books, etc.

Evonik Award for Achievement in Poultry Science
Purpose: To recognize distinctive contributions to poultry science advancement, covering a period of not more than seven years preceding the annual award.

FASS-AFIA New Frontiers in Animal Nutrition Award*
Purpose: To stimulate, acknowledge, and reward pioneering and innovative research relevant to the nutrition of animals that benefits humankind and the nutritional value of foods from animals.

*This award is presented by FASS and not PSA. For details and to nominate, visit the FASS Website here. This award's deadline is April 1, 2021.

Hy-Line International Genetic & Genomics Award
(Graduate Student Award only awarded to those entering the 2022 student competition; applications for this award are not accepted.)
Purpose: This award is given as a result of the student competition and can be awarded to up to two students who present on quantitative genetics, molecular genetics or genomics research.

Maurice Stein Fellowship Award
(Graduate Student Award)
Purpose: To recognize graduate students whose training and research in applied poultry sciences may lead to improvements in efficiency and profitability of the egg industry; particularly research that has the potential to have a positive financial impact on the egg industry.

National Chicken Council Broiler Research Award
Purpose: To recognize distinctive research work that has a strong economic impact on the broiler industry, primarily on the economic influence the work has had or will have on the industry.

National Turkey Federation Research Award
(Unique to 2022)
Purpose: To recognize the outstanding record of turkey research published in the last six years (2016-2021).

Novus International Inc. Teaching Award
Purpose: To recognize that excellence in teaching is basic to the future welfare of the poultry industry and to aid continued professional improvement through travel, study, and other means.

Phibro Extension Award
Purpose: To recognize PSA members for conducting an outstanding program of work in the area of poultry extension and outreach during a five-year period.

PSA Early Achievement Award for Research
Purpose: To recognize the achievements of a PSA member in the early stages of his/her career in poultry research.

PSA Early Achievement Award for Teaching
Purpose: To recognize the achievements of a PSA member in the early stages of his/her career in poultry education and/or academia.

PSA Fellow
Purpose: The distinction of Fellow is the highest award bestowed by the Poultry Science Association and is granted for professional distinction and contributions to the field of poultry science and service to the Poultry Science Association.

Poultry Welfare Research Award
(Unique to 2022)
Purpose: To recognize original research on poultry welfare in any discipline that has been published in the last five years (2017-2021).

Tyson Foods Inc. Support Personnel Award
Purpose: To acknowledge the contributions by support personnel and to recognize outstanding support of research, extension, or teaching programs in poultry science.

USPOULTRY Distinguished Poultry Industry Career Award
Purpose: To recognize distinctive, outstanding contributions by an industry leader or leaders based upon a broad, even nonscientific, contribution to the poultry industry.

For questions about the awards or assistance with nomination submission, please contact Sam Shafer, Communications Specialist, at sam.shafer@poultryscience.org.