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About the Prize
The ASU-Science Prize for Transformational Impact recognizes the importance of innovative, use-inspired research, intentionally designed to address pressing problems. This prize recognizes transformational research that uses innovative methods and approaches to identify problems and develop solutions with impacts on policy and decision-making. The research should be designed, executed, and communicated with explicit consideration for the problem(s) and how the research contributes to a solution outcome. Such work considers the values and interests of different communities, typically with attention to ethical, economic, political, or legal contexts. The research is often collaborative, drawing on multiple disciplines, driven by desired outcomes, and considering implications for policy and decision-making. Examples could include research that addresses human and environmental health, improves education and social outcomes, or evaluates beneficial use of synthetic biology and artificial intelligence technologies.
Grand Prize Winner Receives:
Each year, the grand prize winner will receive a prize of US$30,000. The grand prize-winning essay will be published in Science in print and online nd receive a 5-year digital subscription to Science.
ALL FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL TAXES, AND ANY OTHER COSTS AND EXPENSES, ASSOCIATED WITH THE RECEIPT OR USE OF THE PRIZE ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WINNER.
About Arizona State University
ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves. The mission of ASU is articulated in the ASU Charter and ASU Design Aspirations. Too often, research designed to solve problems receives less recognition than so-called fundamental science. Researchers driven by achieving outcomes can encounter obstacles, especially early in their career, as outcome-driven science may be disciplinarily unorthodox, and standard methods and approaches may be insufficient for developing solutions to entrenched problems. ASU seeks to empower early-career scientists to pursue innovative, use-inspired research, intentionally designed to address pressing problems.
About Science/AAAS
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journals, Science, Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, Science Advances, Science Immunology, and Science Robotics. AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes some 254 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science, founded by Thomas Edison, has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 228,000.
The non-profit AAAS—www.aaas.org—is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, and more. Science further participates in various efforts to provide free access for scientists in the world's poorest countries.
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