Call for Nominations: Golden Goose Award

Nominate your colleagues, collaborators, and role models for a Golden Goose Award!

The Award honors federally funded researchers whose work may sound odd or obscure, but ultimately had a major positive impact on society. The purpose of the Award is to demonstrate the human and/or economic benefits of federally funded scientific research. It’s intended to demonstrate that scientific outcomes build upon each other and that the technological advances that flow from them cannot easily be predicted at the outset of a particular scientific research project.

Nominations for the 2026 Golden Goose Awards are being accepted through December 12, 2025. More information and the nomination form can be found here.