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Awards
This
year, MISfN will provide a Founders Award for outstanding research
to one graduate student as well as poster awards for postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
The quality of posters and poster presentations will be judged based
on a 5-point rubric
that was developed by Dr. Michael Sandstrom.
Poster presenters who would like more information on scoring rules
and procedures should contact Dr.
Michael Sandstrom for more details.
Deadline for all abstract and paper submissions is Friday, April
24th, 2009
Founders Award Paper Competition
Masters/Doctoral Students
This award is in honor of Montford F
Piercey and Duncan McCarthy for their contributions in organizing
and maintaining our chapter.
The
prize for the Founders Award is $500. Entrants are required to
submit a regular abstract as first author and to also submit a
comprehensive paper. Two reference letters, one of which must be
from the entrant's own advisor, are also required. The winner of the award will present a 20 minute slide
presentation during the meeting. See
Call for Papers for
more information.
Poster Competition
Graduate Students
Two
awards of $200.00 each are given. Entrants are required to submit a
regular abstract as first author. Posters will be judged at the conference, during
the poster session.
Poster Competition Undergraduate Students
Two
awards of $200.00 will be given. Entry rules are the same as the
Poster Competition for Graduate Students.
Poster Competition Postdoctoral/Research Associate
One
award of $200.00 will be given. Postdoctoral trainees, research
associates, laboratory technicians and non-tenure track faculty
members are eligible to compete.
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Michigan
Chapter Society for Neuroscience
2009