Student Travel and Presentation Awards
Full-time students and post-doctoral fellows may apply for a Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Award to help defray transportation expenses to the AOU annual meeting. Eligible students (see below) may also apply for a Presentation Award. Students graduating the semester prior to the meeting are also eligible for either award. Students must be active members of the AOU to be eligible for either type of award; students who are not currently members are encouraged to become members, and thereby become eligible for student awards, before registering for the meeting. Students who are not currently members may also be eligible for AOU student membership awards.
Travel Awards
Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Awards can be made to students who are AOU members and who are sole authors or joint authors of papers; in the case of joint authorship the student must present the poster or oral paper. Applications will be judged based on quality of research/abstract and also standing of student: students near the end of a degree program are usually given priority over those at earlier stages. Undergraduate students are eligible for travel awards, though preference will be given to advanced graduate students. Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Awards have a limit of two per lifetime. Students may receive both a research award and a travel award in the same year.
Deadline for applications for Travel Awards for the 2009 AOU meeting in Philadelphia: 17 Apr 2009. Details
Presentation Awards
Four awards will be given, including an award (the Robert B. Berry Student Award) for the most outstanding presentation on research pertaining to avian conservation. In addition, there will be a separate competition for best research poster, and undergraduate students (including recent graduates who have not started a graduate program) are encouraged to participate. Awards will be made based on quality of both research and presentation, and preference will be given to students presenting a substantial body of work rather than early progress reports. Eligible papers need not be single-authored papers, but in the case of joint authorship the student must present the poster or oral paper. Presentation Awards have a limit of once per lifetime.
Deadline for applications for Presentation Awards associated with the 2009 AOU meeting in Philadelphia: 17 Apr 2009. Details