February 16th, 2012
A certificate and monetary prize was awarded for the 2012 Best Contributed Paper presented orally by a student at the Annual Meeting (SICB/AMS) in Charleston, South Carolina. Current students or graduates who have received a degree not more than 12 months prior to the meeting are eligible to compete for the awards. The work presented must be original and must be carried out principally by the student presenting the paper. Membership in AMS is not a requirement.
Winner 2012
Caroline Harper: How nectar-feeding bats lab: nectar uptake and ingestion in Glossophaga soricina.
HARPER, C.J.*; SWARTZ, S.M.; BRAINERD, E.L.; Brown University, Providence; Brown University, Providence; Brown University, Providence caroline_harper@brown.edu
Honorable Mention 2012
Sarah Werning: Early evolution of elevated growth and metabolic rates in archosaurs
WERNING, S*; IRMIS, RB; NESBITT, SJ; SMITH, ND; TURNER, AH; PADIAN, K; Univ of California, Berkeley; Univ of Utah; Univ of Washington; The Field Museum; Stony Brook Univ; Univ of California, Berkeley swerning@berkeley.edu
See:Â AMS Annual Best Contributed Paper Award for abstracts of these presentations.
February 15th, 2012
Access AMS Summer Research Awards online at:Â amicros.org/studentfellowship.phpailable
The AMS Student Research Fellowship funds are designated for summer support of research projects involving microscopy. Two fellowships of $700 each are available. The funds may be used for summer support of any research project involving microscopy. Any undergraduate or graduate student member of AMS* is eligible to apply, with the exception of past fellowship recipients. Applications from undergraduates and those from graduates are assessed independently.
Deadline for applications:Â March 25, 2012
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August 7th, 2011
2011 Recipients
Caroline Harper
Brown University
Project title: The Morphology of the Brush-Like Papillae in a Nectar-Feeding Bat, Glossophaga soricina.
Fredrick Larabee
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Project title: Comparative study of ant mandible mechanical properties and performance.
Nathan Farrar
University of Alberta
Project title: Visualizing the structure of primary cilia in the osculum of the demosponge, Ephydatia muelleri.
August 7th, 2011
A certificate and monetary prize will be awarded for the Best Contributed Paper presented orally by a student at the Annual Meeting (SICB/AMS). Current students or graduates who have received a degree not more than 12 months prior to the meeting are eligible to compete for the awards. The work presented must be original and must be carried out principally by the student presenting the paper. Membership in AMS is not a requirement.
Follow link to application instructions
April 29th, 2010
2010 Recipients
Shanna Hanes
Department of Biology, Auburn University
Project title: Elevated autophagic activity during hyperthermic stress in the tropical sea anemone, Aiptasia pallida: a novel bleaching mechanism
Joey Pakes
Department of Integrative Biology, UC-Berkeley
Project title: Investigation of chemosymbionts in the anchialine cave crustaceans Speleonectes c.f. tulumensis (Remipedia) and Typhlatya sp. (Eumalacostraca).