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The Best Student Presentation Award is given for the best
oral or poster presentation given by a student at the annual meeting. However,
in 2003, we decided that the number of students applying to participate in the
best student presentation contest has grown to a number that made it
logistically very difficult to attract a suitable number of volunteer judges to
provide a fair assessment of all participants. Furthermore, despite numerous
calls for only students presenting their highest quality research to join in
the contest we continue to have numerous students entering the contest who were
presenting results of partially completed studies and other work that was not
competitive for the award. We recognize that these students were receiving a
valuable service in terms of feedback on their presentations but they were
detracting from our ability to completely assess the relative merit of the
students who were presenting competitive presentations.
In order to address this problem the rules for the student awards competition
were changed from the 2003 meeting forward each student will be eligible to
participate in the best student presentation award only once per degree while
still enrolled in that degree program. This should lead to students
carefully contemplating which talk or poster represents the best work that will
be produced during the course of their degree, so that only competitive
presentations are submitted. This will reduce the contest to a more manageable
size. Specifically, a student that earns separate MS and PhD degrees would be
eligible to participate in the contest twice during their graduate school
years. To further clarify, presentations will only be eligible if they are
presented while the student is currently enrolled in the given degree program.
Thus, a student who has received their degree and is presenting material from
it after degree receipt would no longer be eligible. This rule will help keep
the playing field level at the work of active students who are presenting their
best research. Additionally, all student participants in this program are
required to be members of IALE. Students who meet these criteria and are
interested in competing in this years meeting should watch the US IALE list
server and the meeting web page for forth coming announcements about
registration in the student awards contest.
Geoff Henebry
Professor of Biology and Geography
Senior Research Scientist
Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence
South Dakota State University
Email : usiale.stawp@gmail.com
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