Requirements:

1. 1. Recognizes and encourages scientific and scholarly publications by graduate students before completion of their degree.
   2. Must be first author of a published or accepted for publication manuscript in a peer-reviewed journal for this award.
   3. The article must have been published or accepted for publication in the previous calendar year (i.e. published or accepted between January 1 and December 31 of the year previous to application).

Additional Application Requirements:

• • A copy of the actual manuscript
  • The impact factor of the journal in which it was published
  • If the manuscript is in press but not yet published, provide a copy of the accepted draft and a letter from the editor indicating its acceptance.
  • A curriculum vitae (CV)
  • An application cover page per instructions