2024 PSA Award Nomination Details

All PSA Awards* closed on Friday, March 1, 2024 at 11:59 PM CST.

 All award descriptions and nomination forms will now be available in the new PSA Awards website. Nominators will now be able to save and continue working on a nomination prior to submitting on the awards site.

*Please note that PSA Fellow nominations closed on November 1, 2023.

The Poultry Science Association is accepting nominations for the following awards to be presented at the 2024 PSA Awards Celebration in July.

• Alltech Student Research Manuscript Award
  (Student Award)
  Purpose of this award: 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 of this award: 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. Committee may choose no awardee if none are deemed worthy.
• AFIA Poultry Nutrition Research Award
  Purpose of this award: To recognize distinctive work demonstrating sound research in poultry nutrition in the last 10 years. The committee may choose no awardee if none are deemed worthy.
• American Poultry Historical Society Award (Unique to 2024)
  Purpose of this award: 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 information in papers, books, etc.
• Evonik Award for Achievement in Poultry Science
  Purpose of this award: To recognize distinctive contributions to poultry science advancement, covering a period of not more than seven years preceding the annual award.
• Maurice Stein Fellowship Award
  (Student Award)
  Purpose of this award: 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 of this award: 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 2024)
  Purpose of this award: To recognize the outstanding record of turkey research published in the last six years.
• Novus International Teaching Award
  Purpose of this award: 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 of this award: To recognize PSA members for conducting an outstanding program of work in the area of poultry extension and outreach during the five-year period prior to the award year.
• Poultry Welfare Research Award (Unique to 2024)
  Purpose of this award: To recognize original research on poultry welfare in any discipline that has been published in the last five years. Research on poultry welfare will be defined as research that 1) evaluates Updated November 2023 14 indicators of welfare, such as those related to fear, pain, or stress; 2) evaluates management practices that can be applied to the laboratory use or commercial production of poultry to improve welfare; and/or 3) evaluates or develops procedures intended to alleviate or minimize poultry welfare problems
• PSA Early Achievement Award for Research (Unique to 2024)
  Purpose of this award: To recognize the achievements of a PSA member in the early stages of his/her career in the poultry industry.
• PSA Early Achievement Award for Teaching (Unique to 2024)
  Purpose of this award: To recognize the achievements of a PSA member in the early stages of his/her career in poultry education and/or academia.
• The James H. Denton Distinguished Service Award of the Poultry Science Association (NEW Award!)
  Purpose of this award: The James H. Denton Distinguished Service Award specifically recognizes and focuses on a pattern of significant, continuous, dedicated contributions by an individual to the success, wellbeing and advancement of the Poultry Science Association and/or PSA Foundation. Recipients of the James H. Denton Distinguished Service Award are long-time Association members who have clearly and substantially given of themselves in the work of the Association and/or Foundation, having significantly furthered the purpose for which it was founded. This award should not be confused with recognition as a Poultry Science Association Fellow.
• Tyson Foods Inc. Support Personnel Award
  Purpose of this award: 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 of this award: To recognize distinctive, outstanding contributions by an industry leader based upon a broad, even nonscientific, contribution to the poultry industry.