ENRE Student Best Paper Award
This award is given annually to the best paper dealing with energy, environmental, or natural resource issues by a student author who is presenting at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, as judged by a panel of the Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section. Award finalists will present their submitted papers in the ENRE award session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The prize is awarded at the ENRE business meeting at the INFORMS Annual meeting 2017 in Houston and is accompanied by a certificate and a $300 honorarium.
All students conducting research in or related to energy, mining, sustainability, environmental, or natural resource issues (including theory development, applications, optimization, econometrics, and simulation) are encouraged to submit a paper. The work must be predominately that of the student, although faculty members or other mentors can be co-authors, if appropriate. The paper should be 30 pages or less, double-spaced, single-column, and in 12-point font. Students do not need to be ENRE members to be eligible for the competition, however membership is encouraged.
Eligibility requirements for students applying to the 2017 Student Best Paper Award:
- Student must not have completed his or her Ph.D. prior to May 1st, 2017;
- Student must be presenting a talk at the 2017 INFORMS Annual Meeting (this is not required to be in an ENRE-sponsored session, but doing so is encouraged);
- Student must be the first author and main contributor of the paper; and
- Student must not have won a previous ENRE Student Best Paper Award competition.
Application Process and Deadline:
To be considered for the ENRE Student Best Paper Award, please submit the following two documents via e-mail to Felipe Feijoo (felipe.feijoo@pnnl.gov) by the application deadline of June 1st, 2017:
- An electronic version of the paper in PDF format,
- A letter from the Ph.D. supervisor highlighting the contribution of the student in the paper.
Regards
Felipe Feijoo, Ph.D.
Chair, Student Best Paper Award
Felipe.feijoo@pnnl.gov
Masood Parvania, Ph.D.
Co-chair, Student Best Paper Award
masood.parvania@utah.edu
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Felipe Feijoo
Joint Global Change Research Institute
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
College Park, MD
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