RCSA launched a new award to recognize and welcome outstanding senior scientists with impressive records of research, teaching, leadership, and mentoring into the Cottrell Scholar community: the Robert Holland Jr. Award. The award honors the legacy of the late Robert Holland Jr., an engineer and corporate executive who served as a member of RCSA’s Board of Directors from 1997-2010. Cottrell Scholars helped design the award as a way to honor and learn from new colleagues with backgrounds and contributions currently underrepresented in their community. Starting with the first awardees in 2023, Holland Award recipients became full members of the Cottrell Scholar community, able to attend annual Cottrell Scholar conferences and eligible to participate in Cottrell Scholar Collaborative projects.
