Primate Welfare Presentation Award

Deadline: August 1, 2025

The American Society of Primatologists Primate Care Committee (PCC) offers an award for an outstanding oral or poster presentation(s) given either in-person or virtually at the society’s annual meeting. This award is intended to recognize high-quality research or projects that directly and significantly enhance the welfare of nonhuman primates. Awards may be given for completed evaluations or ongoing projects with a proven outcome for positive impacts on primate welfare.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for the Primate Welfare Presentation Award:

• the applicant must be an ASP member, first author, and available to answer questions following their oral/poster presentation.
• the presentation must describe work that is either underway or completed (i.e., forthcoming or proposed studies are not eligible for consideration).
• the written application and the project to be presented must be the first author’s work.
• applicants are not required to attend the annual meeting’s banquet to win.
• individuals with or without terminal degrees (e.g., PhD, DVM) are eligible and those without such degrees are especially encouraged to apply.
• applicants may not enter the same presentation for this award and the ASP Student Competition within the same year. However, an applicant may apply for the ASP Student Competition with a different project.

Application Process:

The application is available here. Submit your application following the acceptance of your scientific abstract. The application (no more than 350 words, excluding references) must include a description of:

1. how your project enhances the welfare of nonhuman primates.
2. how the project could apply to other environments/primate species.
3. which aspects of the work are innovative.

Candidates for the Primate Welfare Award will be judged based on their application, the accepted scientific abstract, and whether the oral/poster presentation was delivered clearly, including the applicant’s ability to answer questions from the audience. Contact the Co-Chairs of the Primate Care Committee, Jaine Perlman (jeperlm@emory.edu) or Dr. Ori Pomerantz (opomerantz@ucdavis.edu), with any questions about the application process. The judging rubric can be found here.

Application:

Briefly answer the following questions in a total of 350 words or less for all answers (excluding references):

1. Please describe how your project enhances the welfare of captive nonhuman primates.
2. Please describe how your project could apply to other captive environments/primate species.
3. How is your project innovative?

The Judging Process:

Judges of this award are all members of the PCC. Before the annual meeting, judges will review the applications and abstracts. At the meeting, judges will attend the presentations and score them. Once all applications are evaluated and scored, the judges reconvene to reach unanimous decisions regarding the winners. The PCC reserves the right not to award applicants if standards are unmet.

The winners will be announced in the closing banquet of the annual meeting and awardees are notified via email. Each winner receives a certificate and a modest monetary prize.

These awards are administered by the Primate Care Committee. Chairs: Jaine Perlman and Ori Pomerantz