2026 March Sino-Eco Newsletter

[Muyang Lv]

Dear Sino-Eco friends,

Hope this email finds you well!

Please see attached the latest newsletter from SinoEco.

Best regards,

Muyang

[Hui, Dafeng]

Dear Sino-Eco Friends,

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2026 Sino-Eco Awards. Please see the details below:

SINO-ECO CALL FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS

SINO-ECO 2026 Awards

(中华海外生态学者协会2026年奖项)

 

Call for nominations

 

Dear SINO-ECO Members and Friends:

 

To promote the recognition of students and young investigators from our association, we are calling for nominations and self-nominations for the 2026 SINO-ECO Awards.

 

(A) About the Awards

The SINO-ECO Awards are designed to recognize the research excellence of next-generation ecologists originally from China. A total of four winners, two for current students, and the other two for early-career scientists within five years of graduation, will be selected.  The committee pays particular attention to empirical research when making the decisions so two of the awards will focus on empirical research. Each of them will receive a $150 cash prize and formal recognition by SINO-ECO. The funding support will come from the SINO-ECO annual budget.

 

(B) Eligibility of nominees

(1)  The nominee should be an active SINO-ECO member of the current year. The SINO-ECO Treasurer/Membership Administrator maintains a list of active members. You may join us on our website https://sino-eco.org/become-a-member/.

(2) The nominee should currently be a student for the Best Student Paper award and an early career scientist within five years of graduation for the Best Young Investigator Paper Award.

(3) The paper must be published or in press from January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.

(3) The nominee should be the first author of the paper.

(4) Papers that received SINO-ECO award in previous years are not eligible.

(5) The nominee should not be a member of the SINO-ECO 2026 Best Student & Young Investigator Paper Award Committee.

 

(C) Application materials

A single PDF document containing the following:

(1) the paper;

(2) one-page statement, written by the nominee, that highlights the significance of the paper;

(3) one- to two-page Curriculum Vitae of the nominee.

  

(D) Application and Deadline

The application must be sent by e-mail to both Dr. Dafeng Hui (dh...@tnstate.edu) and Dr. Lixin Wang (lxw...@iu.edu) at the same time (two email addresses in one message). The deadline to submit the application package via e-mail is 5 pm on June 30, 2026 (EST).  The winners will be announced by middle July, 2026.

 

(E) Sino-Eco 2026 Best Paper Award Committee

Dr. Dafeng Hui (Committee Chair), Tennessee State University, dh...@tnstate.edu

Dr. Lixin Wang, Indiana University Indianapolis, lxw...@iu.edu

Dr. Jiafu Mao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ma...@ornl.gov

Dr. Songlin Fei, Purdue University, sf...@purdue.edu

Dr. Shuijin Hu, North Carolina State University, shuij...@ncsu.edu

Dr. Lingli Liu, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, lingl...@ibcas.ac.cn

Dr. Wei Ren, University of Connecticut, wei...@uconn.edu

 

Best Wishes,

Dafeng

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Dafeng Hui, Ph.D.

Professor of Ecology
Department of Biological Sciences
Tennessee State University
Nashville, TN 37209

Tel:(615)963-5777
Fax:(615)963-5783
Email: dh...@tnstate.edu

Http://www.tnstate.edu/faculty/dhui