The Father James B. Macelwane Annual Award was established by the American Meteorological Society to honor the late Rev. James B. Macelwane, S.J., a world renowned authority of seismology, who was a geophysicist and Dean of the Institute of Technology, Saint Louis University, until his death in 1956. The recipient of the Father James B. Macelwane award will receive a stipend of $1000 supported by member donations to the AMS Giving Program.
The purpose of this award is to stimulate interest in meteorology among college students through the submission of original student papers concerned with some phase of the atmospheric sciences. The student must be enrolled as an undergraduate at the time the paper is written, and no more than two students from any one institution may enter papers in any one contest.
The Society encourages applications from women, minorities, and disabled students, traditionally underrepresented in the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences.
Applicants should sign into the submission portal using their AMS information/password, then click the “select award” button. Search for “Macelwane” and then click on “create nomination”.
Applicants are responsible for keeping time to ensure that all application tasks are complete in order to submit the application for consideration by the deadline date! (All uploads should be in pdf format.)
To consider papers for the Macelwane Award, the AMS Committee of Judges must receive the following:
The evaluation of papers occurs during the summer. Announcement of the award recipient will be made August of 2021.
The application includes specific guidelines; if you have further questions, contact AMS Development and Student Program Manager Donna Fernandez ( 617-227-2426 ext. 3907).