Honors

Adriana has received a number of awards, fellowships, spotlights and other recognition for her work on academic research culture and STEM workforce development, as well training the next generation in science policy. Below is a selection of these received honors.

• Top 20 in 2022 Award For Excellence in Advocacy Award, The Advocacy Association (2022).
• Nominee, Excellence in Advocacy Award, Advocate on the Rise Category, Women in Government Relations (WGR) (2022).
• Inaugural 2022 Emerging Broader Impacts Leader Award, Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) (2022).
  • Highlighted in ARIS News, JSPG News.
  • Related ARIS interview.
• Top 50 Women Leaders of DC for 2022 Award, Women We Admire (2022).
  • Highlighted in JSPG News.
    
• Fellow, Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) (2022-2023).
  • Highlighted in ARIS News, JSPG News, SAi News.
• Finalist, NASEM New Voices (2021).
• CEO & Managing Publisher, Journal of Science Policy & Governance (JSPG) (2021-present).
  • Highlighted in JSPG News, ASBMB Today.
    
• Policy & Advocacy Fellow, Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (2019).
• Semi-finalist, AAAS STPF Executive Branch (2019).

• AIP FYI Newsletter Highlight: Adriana Bankston: Activating Policymakers to Take Action in Supporting the Next Generation of Scientists, AAAS, September 2022
• Science Letter Mention: Researchers criticize Senate plan to steer more NSF funding to ‘have not’ states, Science, June 2022
• Canadian Science Policy Centre, The next gen section: Enhancing Capacity Building for the Next Generation of Science Policy Leaders, CSPC Magazine, by invitation, November 2021
• SciTech Forefront Editors’ Picks: Building the future STEM workforce beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: a call to action for policymakers driven by the next generation of innovators, SciTech Forefront Blog, November 2021
• Kavli Foundation Newsletter Highlight: Great Science Begins with Nurturing Early-Career Researchers, Issues in Science and Technology, December 2021 & Included in Issues in Science and Technology Special Edition “The Next 75 Years of Science Policy”
• AIP FYI Newsletter Highlight: Adriana Bankston, chief executive of Journal of Science Policy & Governance, SAPEA Podcast, July 2021
• Graduate Career Consortium Blog, Carpe Careers Author of the Week, February 2021
• ScienceGeist Highlights Newsletter (SNSF ECR section): Research Culture: Why scientific societies should involve more early-career researchers, eLife, September 2020
• Career Book What is out there for me? The landscape of Post-PhD career tracks provided interview, March 2020
• Outstanding Publication Award, 2019 AERA SIG (Grad & Postdoc Education): Chapter published in The Postdoc Landscape, March 2019
  
• Nature Study Mention: Assessing the landscape of US postdoctoral salaries, Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, February 2019
• Science Study Mention: Assessing the Landscape of U.S. Postdoctoral Salaries, bioRxiv, August 2018
• Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) Best Human Rights Books list: Science not Silence: Voices from the March for Science Movement included featured story, March 2018