Research Grant Award

The Grants and Awards Committee will award a $5,000 grant for a Research Proposal. The next grant will be awarded in 2010. The purpose of this award is to encourage PNPG members to pursue research within their institutions. Members without research experience are encouraged to apply and receive mentoring through the PNPG Research Mentoring Committee. For more details concerning this grant, please click here.

Outstanding Member of the Year Award

This award, sponsored by the Nestle Nutrition Institute and PNPG, recognizes outstanding leadership contributions to pediatric nutrition or maternal and child health (MCH). Criteria include PNPG membership for at least three years and outstanding service, accomplishments and community outreach in pediatric nutrition or MCH, as exemplified by research, publications or conceptual development. For more details on this award, please click here

Published Research Award

This award, sponsored by the Nestle Nutrition Institute, recognizes an outstanding research contribution in pediatric nutrition or maternal and child health (MCH). Criteria include PNPG membership for at least two years, research applied to pediatric or MCH, awardee must be a major contributor to the research and article and publication is in peer-reviewed journal during the previous calendar year. The award criteria can be downloaded as a pdf file here.

Creative Nutrition Education Award

This award, sponsored by PNPG, recognizes an individual demonstrating a creative approach to pediatric nutrition that assists other PNPG members with nutrition education of children and their families. Creativity may be exhibited in the form of technique, method, tool or project. Criteria include PNPG membership, the educational approach is currently in use where the applicant is affiliated and documented evaluation of the effectiveness of the educational approach (i.e., teaching effectiveness, utilization of services, patient compliance, marketing of the product in the community). Additional considerations include originality, appropriateness, quality of content, clinical application, learner participation, and for tools only, aesthetics and technical quality. The award criteria and application can be downloaded as a pdf file here or a Word document here.

PNPG Glenda Bible Memorial Scholarship

The purpose of the PNPG Glenda Bible Memorial Scholarship is to encourage members of ADA to pursue a career in pediatric nutrition. This $1500 award is given to graduate-level students, and preference is given to candidates who have a clearly defined research plan in pediatric nutrition. Application for this award is made on the standard American Dietetic Association Foundation (ADAF) scholarship form.

More information, including the application form, can be found on the ADAF Web site. Log-on to the ADA Web site: http://www.eatright.org, then follow the links to the ADAF section, then to the scholarship information. (The URL for the scholarship information is http://www.eatright.org/scholelig.html, but you must be logged-on to the site to access this page.)

The application deadline is February 15, 2008.

Dietetic Internship/Preprofessional Scholarship

The Dietetic Internship/Preprofessional Program Scholarship, sponsored by Beech-Nut Nutrition is the pre-professional award for members who are enrolled in CADE-accredited internships or pre-professional practice programs. The scholarship for the 2007-2008 academic year is for those intending to pursue a career in pediatric nutrition after completion of their current training program. The amount of the scholarship is $500.

Qualifications

To be eligible, the applicant must:
1.	Intend to pursue a career in pediatric nutrition after completion of current program
2.	Maintain a grade point average of at least 3.3 on a 4.0 scale

Preference will be given to candidate with pediatric experience

Materials to submit

1.	PNPG Scholarship Application Form (3 page). This form can be downloaded as a pdf here or a Word document here. Note: this links to a pdf. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to open it. Acrobat is available free of charge from the Adobe web site.
2.	Two letters of recommendation (preferably from a professional an a pediatrics-related environment. One letter must be from a registered dietitian
3.	Transcripts (1 original and 2 copies are acceptable)

Deadline
Application must be postmarked by February 15, 2008

Mail completed applications, letters of recommendations and transcripts in triplicate (1 original and 2 copies) to the scholarship committee chair:

Scholarship Committee Chair
Kerry Regnier, MPH, RD, LDN
468 Trout Road
Batavia, IL 60510
Email:

Applications that are not complete and/or not received in triplicate will be returned and will not be considered.