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Honored Membership

The Award

• Senior researchers who are still active in the field may be nominated for Honored Membership, in recognition of their contributions to the society. These may be purely scientific although a combination of scientific work and service to the ILCS and the community (scientific and public) is preferred.
• Nominees for Honored Membership must be Members of the Society.
• There will be at most one Honored Membership conferred at the biannual ILCC.
• Honored Members will receive a framed certificate from the Society with a citation of their achievements and they are invited to an Awards Dinner along with the Honored Members and Executive Committee of the Society at the Conference at the Conference Banquet. There will be no financial award.

1. Invitations to nominate candidates for Honored Membership will be made through a communication to the general membership and advertised via the Society's web-site, nine months before the upcoming ILCC at which the awards are to be made. The deadline for nominations is the 15th of February of the year of the ILCC at which the Honored Membership will be conferred.
   
2. Nominations may be made only by ordinary members of the Society. Members of the Awards and Honors Committee, Executive committee, and the Board may not normally nominate a candidate for these awards. If a member of these bodies nominates someone or is nominated for any category of awards, they will not participate in any action pertaining to the awards and will be barred from receiving any information related to the nominations and awards until the decisions have been announced.
3. Two months before the ILCC the Chair and members of the Awards and Honors Committee will make selections for awards through discussions resulting in unanimous agreement on each award winner. The Chair and members of the Committee may discuss nominees with the President in situations where guidance on the selection of a nominee is required.
   
4. The process will be confidential, identities of nominators and nominees will not be revealed during the selection. The identities of all nominators and unsuccessful nominees will remain confidential.
   
5. The process of selection should remain impartial. Any conflicts of interest, for example an Awards and Honors Committee member belonging to the same institute as a nominee, will be managed by the Chair of the Committee and/or the President..
   
6. The process of selection will be free from consideration of a nominees' gender, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and age.
   
7. The decision of the Awards and Honors Committee will be conveyed to the President of the Society for ratification by the Board at least seven weeks before the ILCC. If any of the Board members have any real or perceived Conflicts of Interest, the President will inform him/her and suggest that he/she abstain from deliberations and voting. Any member of the Board who serve on the Awards and Honors Committee shall also abstain from voting during ratification.
8. The President shall have the authority to reject the selections of the Committee if proper procedures are not followed, for appearance of impropriety, and if the recommendations violate the rules and norm governing such awards. If this should occur, the President will seek agreement from the Board for the rejection and give the reasons for the rejection. The Chair or the Awards and Honors Committee shall refrain from campaigning the Board against the President's recommendation.
   
9. The President should not vote in the ratification process, and will only cast a tie-breaking vote.
10. After ensuring and certifying that all the procedures have been followed, the President will seek the Board's ratification of the awards. Upon ratification, the President will send official notification to each awardee of their award and details of the arrangements for the ceremony.
    
11. The decision on Awards that are ratified will be final, and the Society (Awards and Honors Committee and Board Members) will not enter into any further discussions of the matter with anyone.