Award at a Glance
Award amount: $250
Application deadline: January 6
Questions? Contact: Member Communities Department
Who can apply: APS members who are undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Award Description
The NCARnation Trainee Presentation Awards recognize research excellence by our Section's trainees in the areas of neural control, autonomic regulation and related physiological processes. This award is generously sponsored by anonymous donation from members of the American Physiological Society (APS) Neural Control & Autonomic Regulation (NCAR) Section.
Recipients of the NCARnation Trainee Presentation Award are required to make an oral presentation at American Physiology Summit to highlight their research.
Eligibility
The applicant must:
- Be an APS member with primary affiliation in the NCAR Section.
- Be an undergraduate student, graduate student, or postdoctoral fellow.
- Submit an abstract to a NCAR Foundational Science Session at the American Physiology Summit.
Criteria
The application package includes:
- A PDF copy of an abstract submitted to any appropriate NCAR topic at the American Physiology Summit.
NCAR Trainee Committee members and former NCARnation participants review and select abstracts from those submitted by NCAR trainees to any NCAR abstract topic. Twelve Finalist are selected: Six undergraduate or graduate students and six postdoctoral fellows.
Finalist receive an opportunity to give a five-minute oral presentation at the American Physiology Summit. NCARnation is a special session that takes place on the first day of the Summit.
Speakers will be judged on the following factors during their presentation:
- Significance.
- Innovation.
- Clarity of the presentation.
- Familiarity with the field.
- Ability to answer questions.