Student Paper Competitions
Applied Geography Specialty Group Student Paper Competition
The Applied Geography Specialty Group is sponsoring a student paper competition this year. The paper and its research should utilize geographic methods, techniques, or analysis applied in service to a real world client, while the subject-matter focus of the paper is open. One prize ($500) will be awarded to the best paper. The student papers can range from a class project or term paper to one that has been given at any professional meeting in the 12 months preceding (and including) the Washington, DC AAG conference.
Participants are required to register and present in the AGSG Interactive Short Paper (ISP) Student Session at the April 14-18, 2010 AAG Annual Meeting.
New this year, the Applied Geography Conference Board will award the student paper winner with a free conference registration to attend the 33rd Annual Applied Geography Conference in October, 2010 and an invitation to submit the winning paper for review and possible publishing in the Annals from that conference.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the Applied Geography Specialty Group student paper competition is: October 28, 2009. To submit an abstract to the AGSG you must first register for the meeting. Registration for the 2010 meeting is now open. Please review AAG guidelines for abstract submission.
Send an abstract of no more than 250 words as an email attachment and your personal identification number (received from the AAG after applying online at www.aag.org), along with a 100 word maximum statement identifying the applied geography components of their paper to Dr. Dawna Cerney at dlcerney@ysu.edu.
Written papers (8,000 word maximum) are due on March 1, 2010. The prize will be awarded based on the written papers and not on the presentations, and the winner will be announced at the conclusion of the interactive session. If any participants would like informal feedback on their presentation, please advise Dr. Cerney in advance.
Both Master's and Ph.D. students are welcome in the competition. One prize will be awarded in the amount of $500. All authors will be recognized for their participation.
European Specialty Group Graduate Student Paper Competition
The European Specialty Group is pleased to announce the 2010 ESG Graduate Student Paper Competition. We are inviting submissions of conference papers that graduate students presented (or are going to present) at regional or national geography meetings (and related interdisciplinary conferences) from April 2009 through April 2010.
To make this competition a success, we ask that faculty members encourage their graduate students at all levels to enter the competition. Papers must focus on European geography. Theses and dissertations are not eligible for this competition. Students must be members of the ESG in order to be eligible for this prize.
Papers should be double-spaced, 12-point font, and not more than 15 pages in length (including everything). The paper should have a title page with the authorŐs name, institution, level of study (MA, PhD), when and at what conference the paper was/will be presented. So that the judges may read the papers anonymously, do not include the author's name on the inside pages of the paper.
Those interested in participating should send a copy of their paper by e-mail as a Word attachment to each of the following members of the paper competition committee by March 15, 2010. Early submissions are encouraged, late submissions will not be considered.
Lydia Pulsipher (lpulsiph@utk.edu)
Micheline van Riemsdijk (vanriems@utk.edu)
The winner will receive a cash prize and a ticket to the award banquet.
Please direct any questions you may have about the paper competition to: Micheline van Riemsdijk, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee (vanriems@utk.edu).