Dear Colleagues,
This is a reminder that the deadline to submit nominations for the ENRE Student Best Paper Award is coming up soon on June 23. Please reach out to the award committee chair Elina Spyrou (evangelia.spyrou@imperial.ac.uk) for your nominations.
Here is the original call for nominations that contains all the details:
Student Best Paper Award:
This award is given annually to a paper addressing energy, environmental, or natural resource issues and authored by a student. All students (undergraduate, MS, PhD) conducting research related to energy, environment, or natural resource issues (including theory, OR/MS methods, or applications) are encouraged to apply. Students do not need to be ENRE members to be eligible for the competition, however membership is encouraged. Publication of the paper is not a requirement. The submitted papers will be reviewed by a panel of judges and the Student Best Paper Award Committee of ENRE. The award includes an official certificate from INFORMS and a $400 honorarium.
Eligibility Criteria:
· Student must be currently enrolled in a graduate/undergraduate program of a university.
· Student must be the first author and main contributor of the paper, although faculty members or other mentors can be co-authors.
· Student must be presenting a talk at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
· Student must not have received a previous ENRE Student Best Paper Award.
Submission process:
We encourage ENRE members to submit their paper or nominate papers written by others.
The paper must be submitted to Committee Chair: Elina Spyrou (evangelia.spyrou@imperial.ac.uk), Imperial College London, by June 23, 2025.
The submission should be done via email and must include:
1. An electronic version of the paper [formatting requirements: 30 pages or less, double-spaced, with 11-point font and 1-inch margins all around.]
2. A letter from the mentor/supervisor/faculty co-author highlighting the contributions of the student to the paper.
The winner will give a short presentation of the winning paper in the ENRE Awards Session during the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting. The student must register for the conference and will be responsible for the associated travel and registration expenses.
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Gokce Palak
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC
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