Postdoctoral appreciation week, an entire week of both fun and informative events celebrating UAB’s postdoctoral fellows, will be held the week of November 6 - 10, 2023.

Hosted by the UAB Postdoctoral Association, the Black Postdoctoral Association, and the Office of Postdoctoral Education, Postdoc Appreciation week includes seminars, a “Say it in 6” competition, social events, a career summit, and more.

Appreciating Our Postdocs through Awards

One of the most exciting and fulfilling parts of Postdoc Appreciation week is that we are able to publicly honor the amazing work of our postdocs.

Honoring our postdocs began in 2015 with the first ever Postdoctoral Appreciation Awards submissions and ceremony. The Postdoctoral Association Board started this tradition, and in 2016, the Dory Award was included to acknowledge the resilient nature of postdoctoral scholars.

The awards categories are as follows:

• Excellent Peer Award — this award is for the postdoctoral fellow/trainee who habitually extends their talents, patience, and time to help other scholars or researchers.

• Community Minded Award — this award is for the postdoctoral fellow/trainee who is dedicated to filling the needs of a local, national, or international community.

• The Dory Award — this award is for the postdoctoral fellow/trainee who, despite setbacks and obstacles in their project, has kept pushing and persevered until they successfully finished the work.  

• Dr. Congeniality Award — this award is for the postdoctoral fellow/trainee who has a disposition so kind and pleasant that their presence brightens the atmosphere of the work environment. 

• Extraordinary First Year Postdoc — this award is a “Rookie of the Year” award for the first year postdoctoral fellow/trainee who has become an immediate asset to the lab and shows great promise.

• Hardest Working Postdoc — this award is for the postdoctoral fellow/trainee who puts in consistent great work, but their dedication and skill is not necessarily represented with publications.

• Most Esteemed Postdoc — this award is for the postdoctoral fellow/trainee with an impressive number of peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations and posters.