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2010 Graduate Student Mentor/Scholarship Program

I would like to thank all of the members who have indicated that they will be making a contribution to the scholarship fund for the 2010 conference.  If other members wish to donate to the scholarship fund, they should contact me as soon as possible.

Graduate students presenting at the December 2010 conference must be nominated by a member by November 1, 2010 to be eligible for a scholarship.  Letters of nomination should be sent to:

Lynn Yribarren Phone: (305) 458-4030

10393 SW 116 St. Email: lyrib001@fiu.edu

Miami, FL 33176-4063

Students involved in a conference session, either as a presenter or reactor, may be nominated.  Nominees are expected to submit an electronic version of a Power Point slide presentation consisting of 6 – 10 slides. The Power Point presentation should include a photo of the nominee and a statement of the purpose of the presentation. Each Power Point slide should have a running head of the nominee’s name. The nominees are expected to submit an article on their session or a reaction to another session, following the procedures established for the ARF Yearbook.  Acceptance of the article for publication is not a condition of eligibility for scholarship recipients.

This year the 2010 Call for Proposals provides a Graduate Student Research Proposal Form with a deadline of October 1, 2010. If you have a graduate student who applies either under this provision or under the regular deadline for proposals, I will need to have your nomination by November 1, 2010.

Each scholarship recipient will be selected according to the ratings obtained on the blind reviews of his/her session proposal and receipt of nomination letter from an ARF member.  If a student is unable to attend the conference, the next attending student on the list will receive the scholarship.

It is the expectation that the reactor receives a draft of the scholarship recipient’s paper at least one week prior to the conference and that the member who nominates the student will mentor and then verify to the chair of the Scholarship Committee that these requirements have been met.

Mentoring/Research Exchange Session

Students wishing to participate in the mentoring/research exchange sessions during the 2010 conference should notify me (see the address, email and numbers above) by November 1, 2010 so that appropriate arrangements can be made.  Students do not have to be scholarship recipients to attend this session.

Lynn Yribarren, Chair

ARF Graduate Student Mentor/Scholarship Program