ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards
Up to twenty Distinguished Student Paper Awards are given each year to assist students and recent graduates in presenting contributed papers at the ENAR Spring Meeting. Each winner receives a certificate, reimbursement for travel expenses up to $650, tuition waiver for one ENAR short course of choice, and an invitation to the Monday evening ENAR President's Reception. The author of the most outstanding paper also receives the John Van Ryzin Award, which includes an additional $500 prize.
Eligibility
To be eligible, a student must be an ENAR member, a degree candidate at an accredited institution in any term during 2024, and able to present the research during the ENAR Spring Meeting, March 23-26, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Reported research should be either a new statistical methodology or a creative application of statistical analyses to a problem, issue or policy question relevant to biometric applications. The student must be the first (senior) author, although the manuscript can be coauthored with a faculty advisor and/or a small number of collaborators. The paper must not be published or accepted for publication at the time of submission. Previous recipients of a Distinguished Student Paper Award from any region of the International Biometric Society and students presenting papers on the 2025 invited program are not eligible.
*DUE TO RECENT WEATHER EVENTS, WE ARE EXTENDING THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE TO 11:59 p.m. ET OCTOBER 7, 2025.*
All required materials for a Student Paper Award must be received by the ENAR Business Office, including the electronic submission of the manuscript and the abstract through www.enar.org, by 11:59 p.m. ET October 7, 2024. Only complete submissions that meet the eligibility requirements, follow the described guidelines, and are received by October 3 will be considered. (Please refer to the complete details of Submission of Manuscripts below.) Manuscripts are reviewed blinded (e.g. without author or institutional identification). Please be certain the text contains no such identifying information or obvious cues.
ENAR Student Paper Awards Guidelines for Manuscript Preparation
Please use the following Guidelines Checklist to confirm your manuscript is complete before submitting for participation in our ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards competition. If you do not meet these criteria, your manuscript may be disqualified. Out of respect for all applicants, NO EXCEPTIONS to the eligibility criteria or submission deadlines will be made. Please read these details carefully and plan ahead!
To be considered complete:
Your submission should include:
✔ a manuscript submitted as pdf
✔ a brief abstract (1200-character count max)
A manuscript should include:
✔ a maximum of 25 lines per page, double spaced
✔ 1-inch margins
✔ 12-point font
✔ a maximum of 15 pages*
✔ a title page with title, brief abstract (1 paragraph in length) and keywords
✔ References typed using the style of the Biometrics journal
✔ Tables and figures at the end of manuscript
✔ no more than SIX (6) tables and/or figures
*Title page, up to 6 tables/figures and references are NOT included in the 15-page limit.
A manuscript should NOT include:
X any identifying information in manuscript filename
X author’s names, co-author’s names and affiliations anywhere in manuscript
X appendices, acknowledgements, and supplemental materials
Review Criteria
Up to 20 award winners will be selected through review, blinded to authorship and institutional affiliation, by the ENAR Student Awards Committee chaired 2024 ENAR Immediate Past-President Leslie McClure.
Selection criteria will emphasize the strength of the manuscript in four areas:
- Clarity of research purpose and motivation by a relevant problem;
- Methodological development or innovative application that is relevant to the motivating question;
- Scientifically meaningful results are clearly explained and/or illustrated;
- Organization of the article with clear and concise writing.
Submission of Student Papers
All manuscripts and supporting documentation must be submitted No Later Than 11:59 p.m. ET October 7, 2024. You are required to complete Steps 1&2. No identifying information should be included anywhere in the paper or the filename submitted online.
STEP 1: Electronic Submission of Manuscript by 11:59 p.m. ET October 7, 2024.
- Electronic submission (pdf only) of the manuscript. Please complete the form at the bottom of the page. (Please note that the submitted manuscript should include a title page with no other identifying information regarding the author.)
STEP 2: Electronic Submission of Abstract by 11:59 p.m. ET October 7, 2024.
**Please note: When registration opens for the ENAR 2025 Spring Meeting, any student who plans to present, will be required to register prior to the meeting.**