ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards

Up to twenty Distinguished Student Paper Awards are given each year to assist students 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 2021, and able to present the research during the ENAR Spring Meeting, March 19-22, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee. Reported research should be the work of the student and 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 The paper must not be published or accepted for publication at the time of submission.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 2023 invited program are not eligible.

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. EDT October 1, 2022. Only complete submissions that meet the eligibility requirements, follow the described guidelines, and are received by October 1 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

*Tables and figures, the title page with summary abstract and keywords, appendices, acknowledgements, and references are NOT included in the 15-page limit.

A manuscript should NOT include:

• any identifying information in manuscript filename
• author's names, co-author's names and affiliations anywhere in manuscript

**Please note: When registration opens for the ENAR 2023 Spring Meeting, any student who plans to present, will be required to register prior to the meeting.

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 by 2021 ENAR Immediate Past-President Michael Daniels.

Selection criteria will emphasize the strength of the manuscript in four areas:

• Motivation by a relevant problem;
• Methodological development or investigation relevant to the motivating problem;
• Scientifically meaningful illustration of proposed methodology;
• Clarity and style of presentation.