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STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD

Are you a student interested in Risk Analysis? Do you have work you plan to present at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) and would like to see published? Would you like a chance at funding for the meetings? The Section on Risk on Analysis of the American Statistical Association sponsors an annual student paper competition in conjunction with JSM. This year, one or more travel awards of up to $800 will be granted to papers of publishable quality that are presented by student authors at JSM 2007. In addition, qualified papers will be forwarded to the journal Risk Analysis, with the recommendation of a panel of reviewers from the section, for possible publication. The journal will, of course, judge all submissions on basis of their relevance, and final publication decisions will rest with their editorial board, which may solicit additional peer reviews at its discretion.

To be eligible, papers must focus on a topic in risk analysis and have been submitted for presentation at this summer's JSM in Salt Lake City (the deadline was February 1) under the sponsorship of the Section on Risk Analysis. Applicants have an opportunity to revise their abstracts in early April, and completed manuscripts must be submitted by June 30. Applicants should be current graduate students in a degree granting program in statistics or a related discipline. It is not necessary that the student be a member of the ASA, but this is strongly encouraged. Although collaboration with non-students is permitted, a student must present the paper at JSM and be its lead author to be eligible for the award. Additional information about the award and last year's program is available at the section's web site:

http://www.amstat.org/sections/srisk/studentaward.htm

Students wishing to be considered for this award must send a copy of the completed paper and a cover letter requesting consideration for the award to Robert Stine, Risk Section Chair, at stine@wharton.upenn.edu by June 30, 2007. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are interested in having your paper considered for publication by the journal Risk Analysis.