Name	ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA
Research Fields TEST	Entomology, travel, pest management
Categories	Agriculture
Citizenship	No citizenship available
Eligibility	Norman Criddle Award The Society may award, annually, an award known as the Norman Criddle Award to recognize the contribution of an outstanding non-professional entomologist to the furtherance of entomology in Canada. The award may be given for outstanding work in teaching or research, community projects, publicity, popular writing, preparation of slide sets or films or any other activity that enhances the image of entomology. Candidates for the award shall preferably be amateurs or students, residing in Canada. Membership in the Entomological Society of Canada is not required. Visit http://www.esc-sec.ca/awards.html for details. Graduate Research-Travel Scholarship To foster graduate education in entomology, the Entomological Society of Canada will offer two research-travel scholarships, awarded annually on a competitive basis. The intent of these scholarships is to help students increase the scope of the graduate training. These scholarships, up to a maximum of $2,000, will provide an opportunity for students to undertake research or course work pertinent to their thesis subject that could not be carried out at their own institution, and that represents a significant addition to the planned thesis research or course work. Applications will be judged on scientific merit. Deadline - 16 February 2010 To be eligible, a student must: 1) be enrolled as a full-time graduate student 2) be studying at a Canadian University 3) be pursuing scientific studies on insects or other related terrestrial arthropods. Visit http://www.esc-sec.ca/travel.html for an application and detials. Entomological Society of Canada Postgraduate Awards The Entomological Society of Canada offers two postgraduate awards of $2,000 each to assist students in study and research leading to a postgraduate degree in entomology. The postgraduate awards will be made on the basis of high scholastic achievement. The Society will normally award one scholarship to a M.Sc. student and one to a Ph.D. student. Deadline - 16 February 2010. The applicant must be a postgraduate student enrolled at a Canadian university and their studies and research must be carried out at a Canadian university. A student who was unable to gain admission or enters graduate school as a qualifying candidate is not eligible to receive an award. Visit http://www.esc-sec.ca/postgrad.html for an application and details. John H. Borden Scholarship In honour of Dr. John H. Borden, and his prestigious contributions in the field of forest pest ecology, the Entomological Society of Canada is offering one postgraduate award of $1,000 to assist students in postgraduate programs who are studying Integrated Pest Management (IPM) with an entomological emphasis. The award will be made on the basis of high scholastic achievement and innovative research in IPM. Documented evidence of sustained accomplishment and dedication to the field will be considered in evaluation of applicants. Deadline - 16 February 2010. Applicant must be a full time postgraduate student at the time of application, studying IPM at a degree granting institution in Canada. Visit http://www.esc-sec.ca/borden.html for an application and details. Ed Becker Conference Travel Award This cash award was established to provide some financial assistance for a student or students to travel to Joint Annual Meetings to present a paper or poster. One or more awards of $500 each may be presented yearly. The annual occurrence of the award and number of awards presented yearly will depend on the financial standing of the Society. This award honours the memory of Dr. Ed Becker, a distinguished entomologist, Honorary Member and Fellow of the Society, who served for 25 years as Treasurer and also as the Editor of the Senior Entomologist's Newsletter. The naming of this award after Dr. Becker is particularly apt as he attended 49 consecutive Annual Meetings. Deadline - 15 August 2010. The competition for the ESC ED Becker Conference Travel Award(s) is open to students with active membership in the ESC (i.e., paid for the current year), who are either in a graduate or undergraduate program at a Canadian university. Students must present a paper or a poster at the Joint Annual Meetings of ESC on their own original research. No student may receive more than one ESC Ed Becker Conference Travel Award while registered for the same degree. Visit http://www.esc-sec.ca/conftravel.html for an application and details. Biological Survey of Canada Scholarship In recognition of the Biological Survey of Canada, the ESC offers one postgraduate award of $1000 to assist a student studying insect or terrestrial arthropod biodiversity in Canada. The award will be made on the basis of high scholastic achievement and excellence in faunistics, and will be offered in alternate years to the Keith Kevan Scholarship. Deadline - February 16 2010. Applicants must be post-graduate students at the time of application, be studying at a Canadian university, and be carrying out a project on insect (or terrestrial arthropod) faunistics in a Canadian habitat. Visit http://www.esc-sec.ca/bscschol.html for an application and details. Keith Kevan Scholarship In memory of Dr. D. Keith McE. Kevan, the Entomological Society of Canada offers one postgraduate award of $1,000 biennally to assist students in postgraduate programs who are studying systematics in entomology. The award will be made on the basis of high scholastic achievement and excellence in insect systematics. Applicants must be members of the Entomological Society of Canada at the time of application. The successful applicant must be a postgraduate student at the time of application, studying at a Canadian university or be a Canadian citizen studying abroad. Deadline - February 16 2011. Visit http://www.esc-sec.ca/kevan.html for an application and details. President's Prizes The Student Paper/Poster Committee* appointed by the Regional Society hosting the Joint Annual Meeting has the responsibility of coordinating its Society's and the ESC’s President's Prize student paper and poster competitions and awards. Regional societies may have their own award(s) and set of rules or traditions for their student paper or poster competition that may bind them to handling the competition in a certain way. Having a corporate sponsor that traditionally presents a prize, or a rule that winners must be members of the regional society, or that students must be single authors on the papers etc. may preclude merging the regional and national societies’ competitions. The regional society may choose to skip their own competition in favour of a single joint meeting competition, hold their own competition separately, or they may want to incorporate their own award into the meeting. In any case it is the responsibility of the Student Paper/Poster Committee to ensure that the various national and regional society’s competitions are clearly defined and coordinated and that the prizes for each competition are ready for presentation. Consultation with the chair of the ESC Student Awards competition is encouraged to ensure coordination. Some variations on awards that have been given out at previous meetings include: * An award for the best student paper for each paper session * An award for the best student poster * Awards for the best overall student papers by a Ph.D. and by a Master’s student * Additional awards for runners-up * An award for the best paper by a member of the regional society. General rules governing the ESC student paper competition are: * The student must be enrolled in a graduate degree program or have graduated from the program less than six months previously * The student must be registered at the meeting * The student must be the principal investigator and principal author of the paper * The student does not have to be a member of the ESC. Visit http://www.esc-sec.ca/presprize.html for further details.
Value	The value is not available
Currency	Canadian
Tenable at	No details on tenability available
Deadlines	No deadlines available
Application Details	Visit the Entomological Society of Canada web site at http://www.esc-sec.ca/studentawards.html Contact: myers@zoology.ubc.ca Updated: December 20, 2010