The HAD Student Travel Award

Type: Prize

Name: The HAD Student Travel Award

Location: National Harbor, MD

Application Deadline: October 01, 2017

Sponsoring Institution: AAS Historical Astronomy Division

Details:

To encourage students to present papers at its meetings, the Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society will present up to one award for its main meeting in January of each year.

The award will consist of $500, to be paid after the meeting at which the student presents a paper, either oral or display.

Any current graduate or undergraduate student is eligible. A student may not receive the award more than once.

The application deadline for the 2018 meeting is 1 October 2017. To apply, the student should send the abstract of the paper to the HAD Secretary-Treasurer. The student’s academic advisor should also send a message stating that the student is currently enrolled and will not complete the doctorate before the meeting.

The HAD Committee will make the decision and inform the recipient before the deadline to submit the abstract to the American Astronomical Society. The Committee reserves the right to make no award for any given meeting.

Previous Recipients

  • 2016: Andrew Oakes, University of Toronto
  • 2014: Sarah Reynolds, Indiana University
  • 2012: Matthew Whitehouse, University of Arizona
  • 2011: Clifford J. Cunningham, James Cook University

Details are available at https://had.aas.org/awards_and_prizes/had_student_travel_award .  Information about the January AAS meeting may be found at https://aas.org/meetings/aas231 . Abstracts of papers presented at previous HAD meetings may be found at https://had.aas.org/membership/had_meetings .

Contact Information:
Ken Rumstay
hadsec@aas.org

Posted: September 08, 2017