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Call for Submissions: 2013 Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology

The SPA is now accepting submissions to the 2013 Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology

The Society for Psychological Anthropology solicits entries for the 2013 Richard G. Condon Prize for the best student essay in psychological anthropology.

Please encourage students to submit papers for this competition.

The winner will be awarded $500 and one year’s free membership in the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

The winning essay will be published in Ethos after working with the Editor to revise and prepare the final manuscript.

The prize is named for the late Richard G. Condon, whose work included the study of adolescence, family, and change among the Canadian Inuit.

Psychological anthropology is defined broadly to include interrelationships among psychological, social and cultural phenomena.

Essays will be judged on their relevance to psychological anthropology, theoretical and methodological strengths, and organization and clarity.

The winner will be recognized at the 2013 SPA Business Meeting in Chicago.

Papers submitted for consideration must follow these guidelines:

1. No evidence of the author's identity may be provided in any way through the text or by reference in the paper.

2. The author's name, address, email, student affiliation, and the title of the paper must be provided in an email message to which the paper is attached, and the paper should only be identified by title – and not by author's name – in the attachment.

3. Authors must be students at the time of submitting the paper, but they need not be members of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

4. Papers must not exceed 9000 words inclusive of references.

5. Papers must follow the American Anthropological Association style guide, available at: http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm.

6. Papers must be submitted and received by August 15, 2013. Entries should be emailed as MS Word attachments to Harold Odden, SPA Secretary-Treasurer, at Oddenh@ipfw.edu.

Please direct any questions to Merav Shohet, Condon committee chair, at mshohetg@gmail.com.

Merav Shohet, Ph.D.
merav@post.harvard.edu
617.520.4891

Ralph E. Roughton Paper Award

The Ralph Roughton Paper Award was established in 1998 to honor the founding Chairperson of APsaA’s Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues. In its first decade, it gave formal recognition to outstanding published papers that deepened our psychoanalytic understanding of gay men and lesbians.  In 2007, the mission of the Award was changed. In the years that it is awarded, the Ralph Roughton Paper Award is now given to an unpublished manuscript that, in the opinion of the judges, makes an original and outstanding contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding and/or treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered individuals.

The Award carries a cash prize of $500 and the author of the winning paper will be invited to present it at the National Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in New York every January.  The winner may submit his/her paper for review by the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and, if accepted, it will be published as the winner of the Ralph Roughton Paper Award.

Sponsor

Committee on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Issues

Submission Guidelines

Papers must be unpublished (but may have been presented at professional meetings) and must conform to the Preparation of Submission Guidelines outlined by the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association with the exception that the length should not exceed 30 double-spaced typed pages. Paper submissions are welcome from anyone regardless of institutional affiliation.

Email one Word document containing the manuscript with all references to the author deleted, and email another Word document containing the author’s name, email address, address, phone number, and any institutional affiliation to Carol B. Levin, M. D. (levinc@msu.edu).

Submissions are due August 31, 2013.

Contact

Co-Chairs, Ralph Roughton Paper Award

Don Spivak, M.D.
248-540-7776
dspivakmd@comcast.net

Carol B. Levin, M.D.
517-381-0496
levinc@msu.edu

American Psychoanalytic Association 3rd Annual Undergraduate Prize

The American Psychoanalytic Association is pleased to announce its 3rd Annual Undergraduate Prize

For an undergraduate paper or essay which engages Psychoanalytic ideas in relation to a focused question in any academic discipline.

$300.00 First Prize

($100 Second Prize)

The essay should be no more than 25 pages in length and should neither have been published nor submitted for publication. It must have been written in an undergraduate course or under an instructor’s supervision within one year of submission. Essays should be submitted by the instructor. In a separate cover letter, please include the course name (if applicable), the instructor’s name, and the name of the student along with his/her contact information (mailing address, email address and telephone number).

Only one submission per instructor, please.

Essays are due September 20, 2013

Essays with cover letter should be electronically submitted to:

Michael E. Shulman, Ph.D.
Co-Chair, Committee on Undergraduate Education
mshulmanphd@gmail.com

CORST Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture

The $1,000 CORST Essay Prize recognizes the best essay on psychoanalytically informed research in the biobehavioral sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The winning essay will be presented at the APsaA National Meeting and will be reviewed for publication by The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Sponsor

Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST)

Eligibility Criteria

Essay can be no longer than 30 pages in length and should neither have been published nor submitted for publication.

Application deadline: September 20, 2013

Contact

Essays should be electronically submitted to: Geralyn Lederman, Ph.D., Director of Public Affairs.

For additional questions, contact Lewis Kirshner, M.D.

American Society of Pharmacognosy Student Research Award

ASP Student Research Awards are designed to recognize outstanding research in the general area of natural products. The competition is open to all graduate and undergraduate students working with a member of the ASP. Students should submit a cover letter that includes contact information including email address and a research paper describing his/her own work in the area of natural products. The research paper should conform in general to the format of the Journal of Natural Products. Up to two awards will be made in any year. The award will consist of an engraved plaque, a $500 cash gift and up to $1000 assistance with expenses to present the paper at the annual meeting of the ASP (restricted to meetings held in continental North America and Hawaii). If applicants for the Student Research Award who are working in colleges or schools of pharmacy provide the required certification letter from the student’s Dean or Registrar, they will be considered automatically for the Kilmer Prize. The deadline for submission of the research paper is February 15.

Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology

Prize money US$25,000

Application deadline for the 2013 Prize: June 15, 2013

The grand prize winner of the Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology is selected along with up to three finalists by an independent board of scientists that is chaired by Science's senior Editor, Dr. Peter Stern. The winner is awarded US$25,000. This is a personal gift. The grand prize winner's essay is published in Science and on Science Online. Furthermore, the winner receives a free, five-year subscription to Science and Science Online and US$1,000 in free Eppendorf products.

The award is announced and presented at a ceremony in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Eppendorf provides full support for the grand prize winner to attend this event. The winner is also invited for a later trip to Hamburg to visit Eppendorf.

The finalists also receive full support to attend the prize ceremony and receive free Eppendorf products worth US$1,000 and a year's subscription to Science and Science Online. The finalist essays are published on Science Online.

Rules of eligibility

The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology is an international research prize.

Entrants must be a neurobiologist with an advanced degree received in the last 10 years and not older than 35 years of age.

The research described in the entrant's essay must be in neurobiology.

The entrant must have performed or directed the work described in the essay.

The research must have been performed during the previous three years.

Employees of Eppendorf AG, Science and AAAS and their relatives are not eligible for the prize.

Contact information

Selection Committee for the
Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology
Science
Attention: Maryrose Madrid, Rm. 1049B
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
United States

Email address: eppendorfscienceprize@aaas.org

Forum for the History of the Human Sciences/Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences John C. Burnham Early Career Award

The Forum for History of Human Science invites submissions for the John C. Burnham Early Career Award for 2013. This award is intended for scholars, including graduate students, who do not hold a tenured position and are not more than seven years past the Ph.D. Unpublished manuscripts dealing with any aspect of the history of the human sciences are welcome.

The winning article will be announced at the annual History of Science Society meeting, and will be submitted to the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences with FHHS endorsement, to undergo the regular review process.

When the article is accepted for publication, the publisher of JHBS will announce the award and issue a US $500 honorarium.

The manuscript cannot be submitted to any other journal and still qualify for this award.

Email manuscript and curriculum vitae (PDF format) by June 30, 2013, to Nadine Weidman(weidman@fas.harvard.edu)

Pierskalla Award of the Health Applications Society of INFORMS

The Health Applications Society of INFORMS sponsors an annual competition for the Pierskalla Award, which recognizes research excellence in the field of health care management science. The award includes a $500 honorarium for the best paper presented in a Health Applications Society sponsored session at the annual INFORMS conference.

The award is named after Dr. William Pierskalla to recognize his contribution and dedication to improving health services delivery through operations research. Dr. Pierskalla is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Anderson School at UCLA and the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor Emeritus, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and serves as an editor on numerous operations research journals.

Eligibility

To be considered for the award, a full paper must be submitted by the application deadline to the Chair of the Pierskalla Committee (see Application Process details below). The submission can be a working paper, a paper under review, or a previously published paper, and is not restricted to papers written by students. If desired by the authors, the winning paper will be published in Health Care Management Science if it has not been published or is not under review elsewhere.

Judging

Papers are judged by a panel of up to four representatives from the Health Applications Society on

Contribution to operations research/management science in health care

Readability, clarity and organization of the paper

Technical content and scope relative to the length of the paper

Originality

Up to five finalists will be selected and invited to present their work at the INFORMS annual meeting in a session devoted to the competition. The panel judging the papers reserves the right not to award a prize in any given year.

Application Process

A complete entry consists of:

1. A single-page PDF cover letter containing the following:

Names and affiliations of all co-authors

Complete contact information of the corresponding author

The paper title

Appropriate keywords for the submitted paper

The filename of the cover letter should be CorrespondingAuthorLastName_CoverLetter.pdf.

2. A completely anonymous paper in PDF format that meets the following criteria:

Author(s) names or affiliations should not appear anywhere in the paper

At most 32 pages excluding the appendix but including tables, figures, and references. The paper must include all material necessary for judges to assess its technical correctness and confirm the validity of results.

The formatting standards for submitting a paper to major INFORMS journals (such as Management Science or Operations Research) apply.

The filename of the submitted paper should be ShortTitleOfThePaper.pdf.

The above two documents should be sent by the entrant as e-mail attachments to pierskalla2013comp@gmail.com.

The email’s subject line should be: 2013 INFORMS Pierskalla Award Submission. Complete entries must be received on or before Monday, July 1, 2013.

Any question(s) related to the competition should be sent by email to: pierskalla2013comp@gmail.com.

The winning paper will not be announced until the Health Applications Society's business meeting at the INFORMS annual meeting.

2013 committee members

Co-Chair: Vishal Ahuja
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago

Co-Chair: John Birge
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago

Call for Nominations: Pan American Health Organization/Pan American Health and Education Foundation 2013 Pedro N. Acha Award for Excellence in Veterinary Public Health

The call for nominations is now open for the 2013 PAHO/PAHEF Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health. The deadline to submit a nomination is June 14, 2013 at 5:00 pm ET (Washington, D.C., time).

Form of the Award

The award consists of a cash prize, certificate of honor, and a symbolic representation of the award.

If you have questions, contact awards@pahef.org.

This award honors Dr. Pedro N. Acha, long-time chief of the Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) veterinary public health program, and recognizes his outstanding contributions to health in the Americas. It is intended to stimulate excellence in students who are pursuing careers in veterinary medicine or animal sciences in the region of the Americas, especially in Latin America and/or the Caribbean.

This award is one of the awards in the Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health Program, a joint partnership of PAHO and the Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF).

Qualifications

Deans or directors of schools of veterinary medicine and animal sciences in the Americas may nominate an undergraduate student who has prepared a research paper based on his or her undergraduate thesis within the veterinary public health field. The research paper should cover at least one of the following: zoonoses, food safety, animal health and production, development of biomedical models (animal research models or in vitro substitutes), food security and animal husbandry (zootechnics), and/or environmental health related to livestock production systems or other domesticated animals. The maximum number of nominations that will be accepted from any one school is three.

Both the research paper and the thesis must have been written within the previous three years of the nomination and a copy of the thesis must be included as part of the nomination package for the jury’s reference. It is encouraged, but not mandatory, for the research paper to be formatted per the guidelines of the Pan American Journal of Public Health.

The winning research paper will have the opportunity to be published in the Pan American Journal of Public Health.

The nomination package must be submitted online by the dean or director of the nominee’s veterinary medicine program. If the nominator is someone other than the student’s dean or director, the nomination cannot be considered compliant.

Staff members, consultants, and interns in active service of PAHO, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other United Nations agencies; current official representatives to PAHO's governing bodies (e.g., ministers of health); sitting members of the PAHEF board of directors; PAHEF staff, consultants, advisors, and interns; and members of the Pedro N. Acha Award for Excellence in Veterinary Public Health jury are ineligible to receive the award.

Science, Technology, and Medicine Interest Group of the Society for Medical Anthropology STM Graduate Student Paper Prize

The Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM) interest group of the Society for Medical Anthropology is pleased to welcome submissions for the STM Graduate Student Paper Prize.

This prize is awarded annually for a paper that offers an innovative approach to issues in science, technology, or medicine. These issues include:

1. How scientific research, technological transformation and professional medicine inform public health policy and popular culture and affect the intimate realms of bodily experience;

2. The ways laboratory and experimental medicine (both public and private sector) are influenced by economic and political institutions and patient mobilization;

3. The specificities of the development, regulation, marketing and distribution of pharmaceuticals and biologics;

4. How local experiences of illness and health are refracted through established modes of discrimination (such as class, race, and gender) and unequal access to new medical technologies; and

5. The extent to which pragmatic and embodied responses to medical science and technology shape concepts of personhood and degrees of political membership.

Submission rules:

  * The word count should be 6000-8000;

  * All authors must be enrolled as a graduate students at the time of submission;

  * The paper can be under review at the time of submission, but it cannot be in press or published.

The winner of the prize will be announced at the 2013 American Anthropological Association Meetings in Chicago, IL. The winner will receive an award certificate, detailed suggestions from the committee of judges on ways to prepare the article for publication, and a cash prize of $100.

Submissions should be emailed by June 1st, 2013 to Amy Moran-Thomas: (amoran@princeton.edu). For more information on the STM interest group, go to: http://www.medanthro.net/research/stm/index.html