2010 Student Awards

2010 Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards in Applied Spectroscopy

Society for Applied Spectroscopy, New York Section

The New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy is pleased to announce the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards program for Academic Year 2009-2010.  The NYSAS is seeking nominations for its annual Student Awards that recognize excellence in the field of Applied Spectroscopy.  The field of Applied Spectroscopy is broadly defined, and includes the use of traditional atomic and molecular spectroscopic techniques as well as the use of spectroscopic detectors in hyphenated instruments, spectroscopic detectors in microscopy, imaging and related fields.

One graduate and up to five undergraduate awards will be presented. Each candidate should be an undergraduate in at least their junior year or a graduate student majoring in science or engineering.  The graduate awardee will receive a $250 cash award, a plaque, a one year membership to the SAS, plus an invitation to the student awards dinner.  Each undergraduate awardee will receive a $100 cash award, a plaque, a one year membership to the SAS, plus an invitation to the student awards dinner.

Applications must include the following items:

a.) A letter of nomination from the student’s research advisor or from an authorized representative of an industrial sponsor of the student rsquo;s research.  (Students are not permitted to self-nominate.)

b.) Letters of recommendation from two additional faculty members or other scientists who are familiar with the quality of the student's work.

c.) Transcripts that document all university credits (unofficial transcripts are OK).

d.) A one-page summary of the research project written by the student including reference to any of the student's published work, demonstrating applicability of the research to the field of applied spectroscopy.

e.) Tel ephone numbers, addresses and e-mail addresses of both the student & research advisor.

Electronic submission is preferred.  Please use the subject line “NYSAS Award: Lastname” (where ‘Lastname’ should be replaced by the surname of the student nominee; for example “NYSAS Award:  Carroll”).

Nominations for 2010 are closed!     

Please submit nominations to:

Prof. Mary K. Carroll

Chair, NYSAS Student Awards Committee

Department of Chemistry

Union College

Schenectady, NY 12308

E-mail:  carrollm@union.edu

Fax:  518-388-6795