For Students of Phycology
BOLD AWARD to Graduate Student in Phycology
Students are invited to participate in the Bold Award competition, awarded for the outstanding student research presentation at the Annual PSA Meeting. This award, named in honor of the late Professor Harold C. Bold, has been awarded at PSA Annual Meetings since 1974. The winner will be awarded a certificate and monetary prize. Previous Awardees. Bold Award Eligibility: Graduate students who are PSA members, regardless of nationality, are eligible to compete for the Bold Award, as well as former students within twelve months of completion of their degree. The work presented must be that of the student, must be presented orally by the student in English, and should be a complete or nearly complete project. Only one presentation may be made per year and students may enter no more than twice, and not in successive years. Previous Bold Award recipients and those who have failed to give a scheduled Bold Award paper without valid reason are ineligible.Important Note: Students wishing to be considered for this award must notify the Award Committee chair (Kirsten Müller, address below) via e-mail, fax, or regular e-mail on or before the abstract deadline. An ORIGINAL signed letter from the student's research director (mentor or major advisor) or department chair, verifying that the candidate is a student and that the work to be presented represents the initiative, imagination, and labor of the student must be sent to Dr. Kirsten Müller, the Bold Award Committee Chair, by Monday June 23, 2008 (for last minute applications, an e-mail letter from the mentor, IF sent from an official university e-mail address is sufficient by the deadline Monday, June 23, 2008 but the hard copy letter must still be sent). Send this letter to the following address:
Dr. Kirsten M. Müller
Chair, Bold Award Committee
200 University Ave West
Dept of Biology
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
N2L 3G1
phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 32224
fax: 519-746-0614
kmmuller@uwaterloo.ca
In addition, there are travel grants available through the Hoshaw Travel Awards.
PSA Student Poster AwardThe PSA Student Poster Award competition will be held at the annual PSA meeting under the following criteria:
- An individual applying to be considered for the PSA Poster Award must be a student or no more than one year past graduation at the time of the meeting where the work is presented and must notify the Award Committee Chair (address below) of his or her intention to apply for the award competition by the abstract deadline.
- The individual must be a Phycological Society of America member.
- Posters with multiple authors are permitted, but the student competing for the award must be the first and presenting author. Regardless of the number of authors, the student's mentor must certify that the poster is primarily the result of the candidate student's initiative, imagination, and labor. This ORIGINAL signed letter from the student's research director (mentor or major advisor) or department chair, verifying that the candidate is a student and that the work to be presented represents the initiative, imagination, and labor of the student must be sent to Dr. Müller, the Award Committee Chair, by deadline (for last minute applications, an e-mail letter from the mentor, IF sent from an official university e-mail address is sufficient by the deadline but the hard copy letter must still be sent). Send this letter to the following address:
Dr. Kirsten M. Müller
200 University Ave West
Dept of Biology
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
N2L 3G1
phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 32224
fax: 519-746-0614
kmmuller@uwaterloo.ca- Only one poster per student per year may be entered in the competition. If meeting rules allow multiple posters to be contributed by the same presenting author, the student must designate which poster is to be considered for the award. Poster size limit is 3' x 4'.
- There is no limit to the number of years in which a student may enter this competition. Posters describing the same overall project may be entered in multiple years but only if there are new data included in successive years. Posters on a student's project that has previously won this or the Bold Award are not eligible. Students who have won the Poster Award are eligible to present the same project in the Bold Award competition in a later year if additional data are included.
- Judging will include multiple aspects of the poster itself as well as the students' ability to informally discuss their work at the poster session.
Want to communicate with your algae friends throughout the year and not have to wait until the annual meeting? Are you out of the loop when it comes to phycology awards and fellowships? Would you like to hear your fellow students' perspective on a specific collecting site, field station, or internship? Would you like to carpool with other students up to Juneau next summer? Announcing the creation of the new PSA Student ListServ, to which all PSA students are encouraged to subscribe. Members of the ListServ will receive updates from PSA concerning student activities at the annual meeting, postings for student awards and fellowships, and more. In addition, the student listserv will provide a forum for phycology students to communicate with one another throughout the year, exchange research ideas, and solicit opinions, advice and collaboration from their peers. Our hope is that this listserv will help unite the phycology students across the globe.To subscribe, send an email to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu
In the body of the email, type: subscribe psa-studentsIf you have any problems or concerns, please feel free to contact Patrick Martone, PhD Candidate,
Department of Biological Sciences, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Hilary McManus has been appointed to the PSA Executive Committee as the student member through December 2007. Please contact her at hilary.mcmanus@uconn.edu if you have student concerns that need to be addressed.
Hannah T. Croasdale Fellowship application deadline is March 1.