SETAC and American Chemical Society (ACS) Environmental Division have developed a Graduate Student Exchange Program to 1) expand the professional and scientific interactions of student members of the two participating organizations and 2) to promote networking between the ACS and SETAC. One award will be made annually in the amount of $1,000 for attendance at the Fall ACS meeting that is held in the calendar year following the SETAC North America Annual meeting at which the award is judged.  In addition, ACS will provide a complementary registration for the meeting.

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Of special note for 2009, SETAC will provide two awards — one for the Spring 2010 ACS meeting in San Francisco and the other for the Fall 2010 ACS meeting in Boston.

Eligibility

Applicant must be a SETAC North America Masters or Ph.D. student member in good standing.  Applicant should arrange for a letter of support to be sent from their advisor stating that the student is progressing well towards a graduate degree.

Application Instructions

To apply, the following materials must be submitted electronically to the Pensacola Office no later than 30 September 2010.  Send all materials to the attention of Barbara Knight at barbara.knight@setac.org.  Failure to meet the deadline or to follow instructions invalidates the application. The application packet must contain all the materials requested to be considered for this award. Length of each item must not exceed the length guidelines given below. 

-        Applicant must provide a high quality abstract. (This abstract should be a copy of the abstract submitted for that year's SETAC North America annual meeting.)

-        A letter of endorsement by the applicant's faculty advisor (a one-sided, single page maximum).

-        Curriculum vitae (résumé) of the applicant (one-sided, single page maximum).

 Evaluation Procedure

Student abstracts will be reviewed by a panel of subject matter experts within SETAC North America and facilitated via the SETAC North America Awards & Fellowship Committee.  All student authors will be notified if their abstract was selected for on-site judging.  Authors of the five most highly ranked abstracts will be judged in person at the SETAC North America Annual meeting by the Awards committee.

The award winner will be announced at the closing ceremony of the SETAC North America Annual meeting.  Award monies will be provided to the student upon notification to the SETAC North America Awards Committee of abstract acceptance by the ACS Environmental Program Committee.  Forwarding the abstract acceptance email from ACS is sufficient.