Announcing the Student Paper Prizes for the 2024 NEAA Annual Meeting

Attention Students:

If you intended to present at the 2024 NEAA conference at Rhode Island College on April 12-13, and would like your paper or poster to be considered for one of the NEAA student prizes, please submit your entry directly to Dr. Joyce Bennett at jbennet4@conncoll.edu, by Saturday, April 19.

Submission Details:

The NEAA awards three prizes each year:

• The M. Estellie Smith Graduate Paper Prize ($250) - only graduate students are eligible for this prize.

• The John Omohundro Undergraduate Paper Prize ($250) - only undergraduate students are eligible for this prize.

• The NEAA Poster Prize ($250) - only those presenting a poster are eligible for this prize.

For the Smith Graduate and Omohundro Undergraduate prizes, only the “conference version” of the paper is eligible; this is a paper of 8-12 pages, double spaced, exclusive of bibliography. The bibliography should be included with the paper. Papers exceeding 15 pages exclusive of the bibliography will not be eligible.

For the NEAA poster prize, please submit your poster as a PDF. 

For all entries, a cover page must be attached with the author’s name, address, phone number, email address, institution, department and program. Entrants must also specify the competition (graduate or undergraduate, podium or poster) that they are entering.

Shared student authorship papers are eligible provided that the category in which they are entered (i.e. undergraduate or graduate) is appropriate for the most senior author. Papers co-authored with professionals are not eligible for the competition.

All papers submitted by undergraduates must be accompanied by a note from the student’s advisor or a professor from their department, indicating that the work is an original piece and that the professor believes it to be appropriate for presentation at the conference.

Please contact Dr. Joyce Bennett at jbennet4@conncoll.edu, with any questions.