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Gruber Presentation Award
The Samuel Gruber Endowment Fund was established in 1988 by Dr. Samuel H. Gruber, founding member of AES, to benefit the society primarily by encouraging excellence in research and scientific papers by student members. The purpose of the Gruber Fund is to provide monies on a continuing basis for the Gruber Award, which is given for the best oral paper by a student member at the annual AES meeting. The current amount of the award is $300, of which half is drawn from the Gruber Fund and the other half comes from AES general operating funds.
The winner of the award is chosen by the AES Student Awards Committee, an ad hoc group of reviewers appointed each year by the AES President. Over the past 15 years the Gruber Award has become an entrenched part of the society's growing legacy and a prestigious honor for its student members.
Past Gruber Award winners
have represented many different disciplines in elasmobranch biology, including physiology, behavior, ecology and other fields, and many have gone on to full-time scientific careers.
To be eligible for the Gruber Award, a student must:
- be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student, or have completed his/her degree within 12 months of the presentation;
- be in at least his or her second year of AES membership;
- be a member in good standing of AES;
- be first or sole author of a contributed paper; and
- indicate at the time of abstract submission his/her intention to compete for the appropriate award.
Remember that to be "in good standing" students must renew their memberships before
the first day of the calendar year, e.g. to qualify for the Gruber Award for the
2008 annual meeting, students must have renewed their society membership by
January 1 2008..
Jim Gelsleichter
Chair, AES Grant Committee
Mote Marine Laboratory
1600 Ken Thompson Parkway
Sarasota, FL 34236
Email: jimg@mote.org
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