Student Presentation Awards
Deadline: extended to August 16, 2024
The American Society of Primatologists Education Committee (ASPEC) will hold the Student Competition sponsored by the American Journal of Primatology (AJP) at the annual ASP meeting to recognize high quality, first-authored student presentations. Prize winning categories may include Outstanding, Outstanding First Place, Outstanding Second Place, and Honorable Mention for both Oral and Poster presentations.
Prizes:
Up to eight student awards will be given: two for in-person poster presentations, two for in-person oral presentations, two for online poster presentations, and two for online oral presentations. Awardees for the best in a given category will receive a certificate, a cash prize of $150, and a one-year membership to ASP with electronic access to the American Journal of Primatology. Honorable Mention in-person and online oral and poster awardees will each receive a certificate, a cash prize of $100, and a one-year membership to ASP with electronic access to the American Journal of Primatology.
General Process:
- Students must register for the annual meeting in order to submit their work to the Student Competition
- Students must submit an electronic abstract by the abstract deadline. To do so, log in to your account and go to Profile Home. Be sure to indicate you wish to participate in the Student Competition while submitting your conference abstract.
- Students must submit their electronic application through their ASP membership portal.
- The top 5-7 Applications for each category (in-person and online oral and poster) will be selected for the finalist round of judging. Finalists will be notified prior to the meeting whether or not their presentation has been selected for judging.
- Student finalists are also expected to participate in a 2-minute Data Blitz at the opening of the meeting to publicize and succinctly describe their research. Online participants should be prepared to schedule a time the week before the in-person meeting to perform their 2-minute Data Blitz live online for the members of the Education Committee. Online presentations will be recorded for later publishing to the hybrid conference website. Students should be prepared to follow-up the 2-minute Data Blitz presentation by answering 2-5 questions about their study, their answers will factor into their presentation delivery score.
- In-person and online oral and poster presentations of finalists will be judged by the members of the ASP Education Committee at the annual meeting. Note: judges with conflicts of interest with student contestants recuse themselves from the finalist round of judging.
- Award recipients will be announced and prizes awarded at the Closing Banquet.
Eligibility:
To be eligible for the Student Competition, a paper or poster must meet the following criteria:
- The first author (Principal Investigator, PI) must be a student registrant* of the ASP meeting who has not previously won a prize for a paper or poster in Student Competition. *Student registrants are strongly encouraged to become members of ASP. Students may join ASP or renew membership at www.asp.org.
- Individuals who have completed all terminal degree requirements before the abstract submission deadline are INELIGIBLE for the Student Competition.
- The research to be presented must be primarily the work of the first author(s) (PI), and PIs must attest to their contribution to the research in the Application.
- Abstracts for each oral or poster presentation must be ACCEPTED by the ASP Program Committee for the presentation to be eligible for the Student Competition.
- The student contestant must personally make the oral or poster presentation. Co-PIs are not permitted for presentations.
- The Application must be completed online through their ASP membership portal by 11:59 p.m. EST on the deadline.
*NOTE: If the student cannot attend the meeting, online or in-person, to which an abstract has been submitted, the abstract should be withdrawn in writing to the ASPEC Co-chairs, Brett Frye and Gabriela de Faria Oliveira (education@asp.org), no less than 5 days before the start of the meeting. If the student wishes to withdraw from the competition, but still present the paper/poster, the ASPEC Chairperson should be notified of this change no less than 5 days before the start of the meeting.
Application Process:
- Register for the conference.
- Submit an Abstract and indicate that you wish to participate in the Student Competition.
- Complete the Online Application for the Student Competition through your individual ASP Membership Portal and submit by 11:59 p.m. EST on the above deadline.
- Contact the ASPEC Co-chairs, Brett Frye and Gabriela de Faria Oliveira (education@asp.org), with any questions.
*Regarding Criterion 1. above, the ASPEC would like to emphasize that this competition is intended to judge work that is conceived, developed, conducted, and written by students/trainees. We recognize the valuable contribution of professors and fellow students, and for that reason will accept multi-authored papers. However, we encourage participants to take seriously the notion that this is a STUDENT COMPETITION. As such, entries will be limited to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post-baccalaureate trainees and lab/research technicians who have not yet enrolled in graduate school.
Review and Decisions:
The ASP Education Committee reviews the Application (1st round judging), the data blitz presentation, as well as the Oral /Poster presentation given online or at the in-person meeting (finalist judging) for background and significance, quality of research design, organization, written, visual, and oral clarity of presentation. Applications are judged in a blind fashion prior to the meeting, and the top 5-7 Applications in both categories, finalists, are judged at the meeting. Specific criteria for finalist round judging may be found here. Award Recipients are announced and prizes awarded at the Closing Banquet on the last evening of the Annual Meeting. Any questions regarding the student competition may be directed to the ASPEC Co-Chairs Brett Frye and Gabriela de Faria Oliveira (education@asp.org). Award Recipients are encouraged to submit their work to the American Journal of Primatology for publication. Award Recipients will be listed and abstracts published in the annual meeting issue of the AJP, in the ASP Bulletin, newsletter, and other media. Abstracts will also be published on the Society’s web page.
These awards are administered by the Education Committee. Chairs: Brett Frye & Gabriela de Faria Oliveira.