awards Archives - Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences

22 Jul 2025

2025 AAPS award for Lifetime Contributions to the Participatory Sciences

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Dixon Butler with GLOBE colleagues Jen Bourgeault, Lin Chambers, Becky Boger, and Elena Sparrow at a CAPS 2025 reception. Photo courtesy of Lin Chambers. For his vision in growing and sustaining the GLOBE Program, his ongoing work to champion and support the use of science by youth and youth educators, and his role as a mentor and wise counsel for many in the emerging field of participatory sciences, AAPS is pleased to recognize Dr. Dixon Butler with the first ever AAPS award for Lifetime Contributions to the Participatory Sciences. This honor was presented as part of the 2025 Conference for…

18 Jun 2025

By Reanna Putnam

CAPS 2025 Poster Awards

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This year we debuted CAPS Poster Awards. Poster award winners received conference totes, a participatory science book from authors at the event, and the opportunity to share their poster with the broader AAPS community after the conference. ???? Join us in celebrating the following individuals who will be sharing more of their work in the coming weeks in the community forum on AAPS Connect. Wednesday Poster Awardees: Most interesting research findings: Brandon Budnicki (P:139) Improving research protocols through natural language processing Designing research protocols with clear and interpretable questions is a challenge for new project managers. We will explore preliminary results on how natural…

30 Nov 2023

By Reanna Putnam

2023 Rick Bonney Award for Leadership

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The first ever Rick Bonney Award for Leadership recognizes the Co-Chairs and Advisors of the Environmental Justice Practitioners Working Group (individuals named on next pages) for their tireless work to inform and improve how this Association operationally attends to issues of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and funding parity, in order to advance these principles across this field as a whole. Since the founding of this group in 2020, as an outgrowth of activities at the 2019 conference in Raleigh, the co-chairs and advisors of this group have met every other week with staff and Board members, and have also collaborated with related…

30 Nov 2023

By Reanna Putnam

2023 Distinguished Service Award: Greg Newman

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The first ever award for Distinguished Service recognizes the work and commitments of Dr. Gregory Newman. Greg’s roles in service to this Association have included as Co-Chair of the Data & Metadata Working Group, as a member of CSA’s Board, and as CSA’s first Board Chair. Greg’s commitment to principled service is perhaps most evident when, as Chair, he assumed personal and professional risk to both guide and back a member-driven boycott of Raleigh, North Carolina for the 2017 conference due to state laws causing harm to many attendees. In his long-standing tenure as Co-Chair of the Data & Metadata Working Group…

28 Nov 2023

By Reanna Putnam

Celebrating 10 years Advancing Participatory Sciences

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We are proud of the work we have done over the past ten years, and all of the people who have helped to build this field and Association. An event on October 5th, 2023 celebrated this history and community and propelled us into the future and a new phase of growth. This new phase includes affirming our identity an embracing a new name, the Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences (more on the name change here). This event marked the launch of a new Awards program to honor those whose work inspires and enables the best in this field. Three awards…

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