Bill Iacono Awarded Prestigious NIH MERIT Award
Dear Psychology Colleagues,
Bill Iacono was recently awarded a prestigious NIH MERIT award. This
award is testimony to the very high esteem in which Bill's research is
held by the research community. We all congratulate Bill on this
splendid recognition.
NIH describes the MERIT award as follows:
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recognizes researchers who have
demonstrated superior competence and outstanding productivity in
research endeavors by the highly selective award, the MERIT (Method to
Extend Research in Time) Award. MERIT Awards provide long-term support
to investigators with impressive records of scientific achievement in
research areas of special importance or promise. Less than 5 percent of
NIH-funded investigators are selected to receive MERIT Awards.
Initiated in 1987, the MERIT Award program extends funding to
experienced researchers who have superior grants and who have
demonstrated a long-term commitment to and success in research. The
principal feature of the program is the opportunity for such
investigators to gain up to ten years of grant support. The MERIT Awards
are intended to provide such investigators with long-term, stable
support to foster their continued creativity and spare them some of the
administrative burdens associated with frequent preparation and
submission of research grant applications."
-Gordon