Student Awards Competition GuidelinesGraduate and undergraduate students are invited to present the results of their research in the platform or poster competitions NASBR Annual Meeting. Students must be the principle investigator of the research and listed as the first author. Papers and posters will be judged on their scientific merits and clarity of presentation. To enter the student awards competitions, students must register by checking the appropriate box on the abstract submission form before the abstract deadline. Please consider completing your entry and registration well before the deadline to avoid possible complications – no late entry to the student awards competition will be accepted. The competition is adjudicated by a panel of anonymous judges and all decisions of the judges are final. Student competition presentations will be on Thursday, the first day of the conference. Students entering the competition are encouraged to review the evaluation forms as they prepare their presentations. QUALIFICATIONS: A student may enter a platform paper in the student awards competition one (1) time during a given candidacy for a degree program (once as a bachelor's degree candidate, once as a Master's degree candidate, and once as Ph.D. candidate). Similarly, a student may enter a poster for student awards competition one (1) time during a given degree candidacy. Adherence to the one time per degree policy is by honor system. Students entering competition must acknowledge a statement on the registration form indicating that they affirm that they meet these qualifications. Each award includes a certificate and a check for $500 Avinet Award Basically Bats Wildlife Conservation Society Award Bat Conservation International Award Bat Research News Award Luis F. Bacardi Bat Conservation Award NASBR Karl F. Koopman Award Batgoods Award Titley Scientific Award White-nose Syndrome Research Award NASBR thanks the generous contributions of the sponsors above for encouraging undergraduate and graduate research on bats. Congratulations to the NASBR 2024 Student Award Winners:Bat Working Group award for oral presentations Cecilia Montauban (Forest Loss Changes Bat Diversity and Natural Pest Control Dynamics) Titley Scientific award Vaibhav Chhaya (Functional Interactions in the Bat Rostrum) Luis F. Bacardí Bat Conservation award Abigail Rutrough (Bat Hunting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mapping the Distribution of a Conservation-Relevant Human Behavior Using Hypothesis-driven Models) Journal of North American Bat Research award Caleb Ryan (Investigating the Diversity of Social Strategies Among Neotropical Bats) Batgoods.com award Jade Anderson (Revealing the Mechanism of an Anti-bat Sensory Illusion) Karl Koopman award Francisco Castellanos (A SINE-based Method to Reconstruct Concordant Phylogenies Across Chiroptera) Bat Conservation International award Michelle Beltran (Applying land-based learning approach to reconnecting positive relationship with Apakawaanaajinh (bats)) Basically Bats (Wildlife Conservation Society) award Phoebe Reuben (Bat Diversity Patterns in a Mosaic Neotropical Landscape) Avinet award Alicia Roistacher (Comparing Wild and Captive Populations of a Common Neotropical Fruit Bat Reveals Antiviral Immune Mechanisms) Bat Working Group award for poster presentations David Alfonso Rivera Ruiz (Innate and Acquired Humoral Immunity of the Nectarivorous Bat Leptonycteris yerbabuenae Through its Phenological Cycle) Past Winners:2023 Julia Vrtilek (Titley Scientific award) Nina Garrett (Bat Conservation International award) Pedro Mônico (Karl F. Koopman award) Dana Green (Journal of North American Bat Research award) Lily Hou (Luis F. Bacardi Bat Conservation award) Aleana Savage (Avinet award) Renee Lile (Wildlife Acoustics award) Carly Trujillo (Batgoods.com award) Travis Bayer (Basically Bats - Wildlife Conservation Society award) 2022 2021 No meeting 2020 No meeting 2019 Alexander Grimaudo (Bat Research News Award) Iroro Tanshi (Karl F. Koopman Award) Emma Kunkel (Bat Conservation International Award) Luis Víquez-R (Luis F. Bacardi Bat Conservation Award) Timothy Divoll (Titley Scientific Award) Derek Krueger (Batgoods Award) Juan Moreira-Hernández (Basically Bats-Wildlife Conservation Society Award) Brooke Daly (White-nose Syndrome Research award) Alexander Morris (Avinet Award) |