Award Competition
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This year we are piloting a new format for the annual New Investigator
and Postdoctoral Competitions. As detailed below, to enter these competitions
you must email your paper to  by March 15th, 2008. Papers submitted by this deadline that conform to the specifications
described below will be sent to the respective Competition Committee. Each
Committee will select the top 3 papers for their competition and will notify
the finalists of their decision by April 7th, 2008. The 3 finalists for each competition will present their talks to
the Society during two special sessions Saturday afternoon. The winner
of the competitions will be announced at the Banquet Saturday evening.
Please read the Paper Specifications for the New Investigator and Postdoctoral
Competitions section for more information.
Submission for competitions and general presentations is closed.
Poster Competition
All poster presentations are automatically entered into a competition for
a $500 award for the best poster.
New Investigator Competition
Description: The New Investigator Competition is an award for the best paper by a graduate
student, carrying with it a cash prize of $500. We have changed the procedure
for this competition. Please see Paper Specifications below.
Eligibility: 1) You must not yet have your Ph.D. People receiving their Ph.D. in 2008,
however, are eligible. 2) Previous winners of the New Investigator competition
are NOT eligible. 3) The paper submitted may be coauthored. However, to
be eligible, the paper must be the result of a project on which the graduate student
made the primary contribution. This includes the intellectual contribution, execution, and writing of
the submitted document; accordingly, the graduate student is expected to
be listed a first author should a version of the paper eventually be published
in a professional journal.
Postdoctoral Competition
Description: The Postdoctoral Competition is an award for the best paper by a recent
Ph.D., carrying with it a cash prize of $500. We have changed the procedure
for this competition. Please see Paper Specifications below.
Eligibility: 1) You must have completed your Ph.D. or other postgraduate degree within
the past five years (i.e. 2003-2007). 2) Previous winners of the Postdoctoral
Competition are NOT eligible. 3) The paper submitted may be coauthored.
However, to be eligible, the paper must be the result of a project on which the submitting individual
made the primary contribution. This includes the intellectual contribution, execution, and writing of
the submitted document.
Paper Specifications for the New Investigator and Postdoctoral Competitions
Paper Specifications: All papers submitted for these competitions must conform to APA guidelines
or similar formatting standards in a flagship disciplinary journal. Manuscripts
must be double-spaced. Finally, manuscripts must be no longer than 5,000 words in length (excluding references). Manuscripts longer than this limit will not be
considered. The use of Times New Roman 12-point font is strongly encouraged
to insure uniformity of appearance across submissions. Please indicate
the word length on the title page of the manuscript. Papers reporting research
involving human or non-human animal subjects must include a statement to
the effect that the research was conducted in accord with the ethical guidelines
of the governing body or association of the applicant’s discipline.
You can apply for the competitions whether the paper has been published
or not. So long as the paper is the result of a project on which the submitting
individual made the primary contribution -- first author billing.
All manuscripts shall be submitted electronically and the size of the main
electronic file shall not exceed 10MB in size. In cases where graphics,
figures, or other supplementary materials necessitate a submission that
exceeds 10MB, the submission shall be divided into several files, where
no single file exceeds 10MB in size. These size limitations will be enforced
to insure the timely electronic transfer of files between judges.
Deadline: The deadline for submitting written papers for either competition is March 15th, 2008. You are supposed to submit your paper by emailing a .doc or a .pdf file
to. Please type NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD or POSTDOCTORAL AWARD, as appropriate,
in the subject line of your email.
Contact
Any questions or concerns about submission procedures can be handled by
contacting the HBES Program Chair, Debra Lieberman, at  . Please type "HBES Awards" in the subject line of your e-mail.
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