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Student Awards

Student Presentation Awards

SSB LogoStudent Presentation Award from the SSB

The Ernst Mayr Award is given to the presenter of the outstanding student talk in the field of systematics at the annual meetings of the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). This is SSB's premier award, and is judged by the quality and creativity of the research completed over the course of the student's Ph.D. program. The award consists of $1000, a certificate of distinction, and a two-year subscription to the journal Systematic Biology.

Eligibility: Members of the Society who are students or have completed their Ph.D. within the last 15 months are eligible. Applicants may be from any country, but must be members of SSB, and are advised to join the Society as soon as possible to be considered (to join go to: http://systbio.org/?q=node/6). Previous Mayr award winners are not eligible.

Application Procedure: Indicate the Mayr Award option and submit a 400-word abstract when you submit your talk title.

Judging: A maximum of 16 submissions will be chosen for inclusion in the Mayr Award Symposium.

For more information please visit the SSB Student Awards web site.

Student Presentation Awards from the SSESSE Logo

The W.D. Hamilton Award for Outstanding Student Presentation will be given to a student who has presented an outstanding talk at the annual meeting. Applicants will present their papers during regular sessions of the meeting, appropriate for their topic. The winner of the award will receive $1,000 and a one year membership to the Society for the Study of Evolution, which includes a one year subscription to the journal Evolution. Up to two Honorable Mentions will each receive a one-year membership to the Society for the Study of Evolution, including a subscription to Evolution.

Eligibility: The presenter must currently be enrolled in a graduate program or have received her or his degree within twelve months of the date of the annual meeting, and must be a member of the SSE. Visit the SSE web site to become a member. Talks that are part of invited symposia are ineligible if they are longer than other contributed papers.

Application Procedure: Indicate the Hamilton Award option and submit a 400-word abstract when you submit your talk title.

Judging: Presentations will be judged by a committee of SSE members. The committee will select talks for consideration based on abstract quality, and notify selected finalists several weeks in advance of the meetings. The best abstracts will be clearly written, providing relevant background, justification, methods, results, and implications.

For more information please visit the SSE Student Awards web site.

ASNLogoStudent Poster Award from the ASN

The Ruth Patrick Student Poster Award was established in 2012 to recognize a student who has presented an outstanding poster at the annual meeting of the American Society of Naturalists. Ruth Patrick is a renowned limnologist, past president of the American Society of Naturalists (1975), and Lifetime Honorary Member of the ASN. The winner of the award receives $1,000 and a one year membership to the ASN, which includes a one year subscription to the American Naturalist.

Eligibility: The senior author and presenter of the poster must be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student at the time of the annual meeting or have received her or his degree within twelve months and must be a member of the ASN.
Visit the ASN web site to become a member.

Application Procedure: Indicate the Ruth Patrick Poster Award option during poster title submission to be considered for the award. Abstracts are not required for this award.

Judging: Eligible posters will be judged by a committee of ASN members. 

For more information please visit the ASN Student Awards web site.

Student Travel Awards

Student Travel Awards from the ASN

The American Society of Naturalists will award $500 each to 15 graduate students to help defray the cost of attending the 2013 meetings in Utah. Awards will be chosen from a random drawing of eligible students who apply via the registration form online. To be eligible, student must be a student member of the American Society of Naturalists, must be presenting a paper or poster at the meeting, and must not have received the travel award in the previous year. Visit the ASN web site to become a member.

Travel Awards from the SSE (for eligibility see below*)

These stipends are for students and young scientists to attend the SSE meeting in Snow Bird, Utah in June and the ESEB Congress in Lisbon in August 2013. The stipend will contribute to covering travel, living expenses and congress registration fees. The stipend will be paid out as a reimbursement after the congress, based on specification of the expenses.

Eligibility: 
  • Applicants must be SSE members (for becoming a member of SSE.
  • Applications can be submitted by scientists at various stages of their professional career (e.g., Masters and PhD students, postdocs, and lecturers).
  • Scientists working in a country with high GDP are not eligible (for the list of excluded countries see below*).
  • Scientists who received an SSE travel stipend in the last five years are not eligible.
  • Applicants must submit to present either an oral communication or a poster to be eligible for the stipend. This will be verified before the reimbursement, but no proof that a poster or talk is accepted is necessary at the application stage.
Application Procedure: send your application by email to the SSE International Committee, c/o Professor Nina Wedell (N.Wedell@exeter.ac.uk).
The application should be no more than 2 pages long and include:
  • Name of the applicant;
  • Budget, including sources of additional support.
  • An explanation of how attendance to the meeting will further the attendant’s professional goals.
  • Copy of a recent CV.
  • Please submit the application as a single PDF-file.
A support letter from the applicant's advisor/mentor/senior colleague is also required. Support letters should be sent to the same email address (N.Wedell@exeter.ac.uk) by the applicant’s mentor.

Deadline: March 1st 2013, 24:00 GMT.

For more information please visit the SSE-IC Travel Award Announcement.

*Excluded Countries: Members professionally based in the following countries are not eligible for the travel stipend: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland , United Kingdom, and United States of America.

Student Volunteer Opportunities

Student Volunteer Opportunities

Student volunteer positions are offered to student society members (ASN, SSB, or SSE) on a first-come basis. Volunteers will work for one full day during the meeting. If you are selected, you will be notified before the meeting and offered the opportunity to select job preferences, but there is no guarantee that you will get your top choices.  Typical jobs would include being a session monitor (helping with computer/AV equipment) or working at the registration desk. Reimbursements for registration (early registration rate for student members) will be provided to volunteers who complete their work assignments. You will be given the opportunity to volunteer for work during the meeting when you submit your talk or poster title.