Teaching Career Enhancement Award
Forecasted
Teaching Career Enhancement Award supports physiology educators with innovative teaching programs, training, and collaborations to improve teaching and learning and advance their teaching careers.
Funder: American Physiological Society
Due Dates (Anticipated): June 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $10,000; funds must be used within one year of the award date
Summary: Supports APS members advancing their teaching careers through innovative, broadly applicable educational initiatives in physiology.
Key Information: Applicants must have two consecutive years of APS membership in good standing and hold assistant professor rank or above.
Description
The American Physiological Society’s Teaching Career Enhancement Award supports educators developing innovative, broadly applicable approaches to physiology teaching. It funds new programs, collaborations, and instructional approaches that strengthen teaching and learning while advancing the applicant’s teaching career. Activities can include short-term visits to consult with experts, specialized methodological courses, and research and development collaborations producing educational products or publications.
The program emphasizes measurable improvements in teaching methods and contributions to teaching knowledge. Projects may develop new or substantially revised courses or units with plans to evaluate their effectiveness. Applicants should explain how the work will inform future courses, benefit their career and institution, and reach the broader physiology teaching community through presentations, posters, workshops, or publications.
