ASCE Student Prize Award

ASCE Student Prize Competition for 2008

Every year ASCE sponsors a Student Research Award Competition for a graduate and an undergraduate student on interdisciplinary research dealing with Cuba's domestic issues, its foreign relations, or Cuba in a comparative perspective.

For graduate students, the first and second best papers carry awards of $600 and $300, respectively. For undergraduate students, the awards for the two best papers are $300 and 200, respectively. In addition, the first place winners are invited to present their papers at ASCE's 18th annual conference on August 5-7, 2008 in Miami Florida; their papers will be published in Volume 18 of "Cuba in Transition"; and they will be given a travel allowance of up to $400 each to come to Miami. All students whose papers are accepted for the competition will receive a complementary one year membership in ASCE and those attending the Conference may be invited to present their papers and will have their registration fee waived and will be ASCE's guest at the official luncheon. Deadline for submissions is May 20, 2008 .

Basis for Award

At a minimum, papers are expected to outline a thesis statement support it by persuasive evidence and data. All nominations, ranging from 15-20 pages, must follow one of the standard writing style guides. Papers will be judged by a panel of scholars on the basis of relevance, originality, quality, contribution, and clarity of the exposition.

Deadline

Papers received or postdated by May 20, 2008 will be considered. The winners will be announced by the end of June.

ANNOUNCEMENT ASCE Student Prize 2008

Latest developments

The Jorge Perez-Lopez Student Prize Committee for 2007 is formed by Ted Henken, Maria Dolores Espino, Beningno Aguirre, José Alvarez, Joseph Scarpaci, Alfred Cuzan, and Enrique S. Pumar (Chair).  The committee received ten papers, 4 graduates and 6 undergraduates, and several inquiries about the prize.  As in previous years, the papers reflect a wide variety of themes, approaches, and the geographical residency of the authors.  Two of the papers came from overseas (both UK).  The committee expects to conclude its deliberations by the end of June.