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The ROSEMARY GRANT Graduate Student Research Awards
The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) is pleased to announce the recipients of the annual Rosemary Grant Graduate Student Research Award competition. These awards are to assist students in the early stages of their Ph.D (first two years). programs by enabling them to collect preliminary data (to pursue additional sources of support) or to enhance the scope of their research beyond current funding limits (e.g. by visiting additional field sites, or working at other labs). Students will need to demonstrate how the proposed work is outside any related funding for the project already held by the student or advisor.
2011 Recipients
Gerardo Arceo‐Gómez, University of Pittsburgh, Advisor: Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman
Lisa N. Barrow, Florida State University, Advisor: Dr. Emily Lemmon
Thomas D. Brekke, University of Montana, Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Good
Sally Marie Chambers, Purdue University, Advisor: Dr. Nancy Emery
Gerardo Antonio Cordero, Iowa State University, Advisor: Dr. Fredric Janzen
Rongfeng Cui, Texas A&M University, Advisor: Dr. Gil Rosenthal
James C. Cureton II, University of Oklahoma, Advisor: Dr. Richard E. Broughton
Kira Delmore, University of British Columbia, Advisor: Dr. Darren Irwin
Elizabeth M. Droge-Young, Syracuse University, Advisor: Scott Pitnick
Sarah W. Fitzpatrick, Colorado State University, Advisor: W. Christopher Funk
Elisabeth Jane Forrestel, Yale University, Advisor: Michael Donoghue
Chang Seok Han, University of New South Wales, Advisor: Robert Brooks
Rachel E. Hanauer, Indiana University, Advisor: Ellen D. Ketterson
Kayla M. Hardwick, University of Idaho, Advisor: Erica Bree Rosenblum
Sarah M. Hird, Louisiana State University, Advisor: Drs. Robb Brumfield, Bryan Carstens
Elizabeth J. Kleynhans, University of British Columbia, Advisor: Drs. Sarah Otto, Mark Vellend
Matthew H. Koski, University of Pittsburgh, Advisor: Tia-Lynn Ashman
Ezra Lencer, Cornell University, Advisor: Amy McCune
Chase Mason, University of Georgia, Advisor: Lisa Donovan
Alicia MastrettaYanes, University of East Anglia, Advisor: Dr Brent Emerson
George Andrew Meindl, University of Pittsburgh, Advisor: Tia-Lynn Ashman
Julie S. Miller, Cornell University, Advisor: H. Kern Reeve
Tara A Pelletier, Louisiana State University, Advisor: Bryan C Carstens
Rebecca H. Penny, Indiana University, Advisor: Lynda Delph
Cheryl Pinzone, University of Georgia, Advisor: Kelly Dyer
Diana Jessie Rennison, University of British Columbia, Advisor: Dolph Schluter
Leila Teruko Shirai, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, Advisor: Dr. Patrícia Beldade
Angela Stathos, University of Montana, Advisor: Lila Fishman
Alexa R. Warwick, Florida State University, Advisor: Emily Moriarty Lemmon
Corlett Wolfe Wood, University of Virginia, Advisor: Edmund Brodie III
LengxobYong, East Carolina University, Advisor: Jeffrey S. McKinnon
2010 Recipients
Cheryl Marie Andam, University of Connecticut
Chelsea Berns, Iowa State University
Megan DeMarche, Colorado State University
Eva Fischer, Colorado State University
Andrew Furness, University of California, Riverside
Emily Jacobs-Palmer, Harvard University
Christopher Muir, Indiana University, Bloomington
Carlos Prada, Louisiana State University
Darren Rebar, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Benjamin Sandkam, Simon Fraser University
Seema Sheth, Colorado State University
Sonal Singhal, University of California, Berkeley
Frank Smith, University of Connecticut
Caitlin Smukowski, Duke University
Kathryn Stewart, Queen’s University
Katherine Stryjewski, Boston University
Conor Taff, University of California, Davis
Marjorie Weber, Cornell University
Applications for the 2012 Rosemary Grant Awards for Graduate Student Research
The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) is pleased to announce the 2012 Rosemary Grant Graduate Student Research Award competition. These awards are to assist students in the early stages of their Ph.D. programs by enabling them to collect preliminary data (to pursue additional sources of support) or to enhance the scope of their research beyond current funding limits (e.g. by visiting additional field sites, or working at other labs). Students will need to demonstrate how the proposed work is outside any related funding for the project already held by the student or advisor.
To be considered for this year's award, application materials, including letters of recommendation, must be received electronically by APRIL 1, 2012, 2pm Pacific Standard Time.
Applicants AND their mentors must be members of SSE, and are advised to join SSE, if not already members, as soon as possible to facilitate their applications (to join go to: https://payments.evolutionsociety.org/joinsse/. This is the second year of the award. Previous awardees may not re-apply, but previous applicants who were not selected for funding last year are encouraged to re-apply. Awards will range from $1,500 - $2500 and approximately twenty awards will be made. Focus on convincing the awards committee of the importance of the question, how the funds will allow you to reach certain objectives, and how these objectives fit into your overall thesis schedule, while also demonstrating that the research is sufficiently independent that funds from your mentor cannot be applied. Only Ph.D. students in their FIRST TWO YEARS are eligible. Funding is not limited to any particular aspect of research.
How to apply
All application materials must be in electronic format. Applicants and their recommender are required to use .pdf format, to minimize difficulties in file transfer. Applicants should send all materials (except the letter of reference) in a SINGLE pdf file. Letter of recommendation should be sent separately by the referee in .pdf format; please include the FULL NAME OF APPLICANT in the recommendation letter. All material, including letter of reference must be formatted to have one inch margins (= 2.5 cm) and 12 font.
Applicants must submit (as a .pdf file):
- a curriculum vitae (one page);
- A brief research proposal, with title page (must include: title of proposal, name of student, student's email address, mentor's name and mentor's email address, student's institutional and departmental affiliation, year of student's study, and statement of student's affiliation in SSE) followed by objectives, methods, significance, and schedule (max. two single-spaced pages including title, literature cited and any figures and tables), as well as an explanation as to how this work is independent from the mentor's funding;
- Budget and budget justification (1 page), and:
- One letter from the student's current graduate advisor, and this letter must clearly state in the first line that the mentor is a member of SSE and does not have major funds available to do this project (i.e., the proposed research does not fall under the umbrella of the mentor's currently funded research), FOLLOWED by a second statement that the student is in their FIRST TWO YEARS.
Applicants: Please email all application materials and queries to SSE Awards Committee SSE.RosemaryAwards@EvolutionSociety.org. THE SUBJECT LINE OF THE E-MAIL MUST STATE: "RosemaryGrantAward: APPLICANTS LAST NAME, FIRST INITIAL".
Reccomenders: Please email your letter to the SSE Awards Committee, SSE.RosemaryAwards@EvolutionSociety.org. THE SUBJECT LINE OF THE E-MAIL MUST STATE: "RosemaryGrantAward: APPLICANTS LAST NAME, FIRST INITIAL, Ref.Letter".
To be considered for this year's award, application materials, including letters of recommendation, must be received electronically by APRIL 1, 2012, 2pm Pacific Standard Time.
The award winners will be announced at the SSE banquet. SSE would be pleased if you consider submitting work funded by the Rosemary Grant award to EVOLUTION. All work published with funds from the award should acknowledge the award as funded by the Rosemary Grant Student Research Award from SSE, and a full citation of the work should be submitted to SSE within 2 months of publication.
Members are encouraged to contribute to the Rosemary Grant Graduate Student Research award program.
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