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Essay Contest: Innovating for Equality

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The School for the Future of Innovation in Society is pleased to announce the inaugural Innovation in Society contest, focusing on innovation for equality. Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit an open letter to the future President of the United States addressing the need for policies and initiatives that promote innovation for equality.

The author of winning entry, judged by a distinguished panel of experts from industry, government policy, and the ASU community, will be awarded a cash scholarship of $1,000. Two second place authors will be awarded $500 cash scholarships, respectively. The top letters will be published on the School for the Future of Innovation in Society website, and brought to the attention of key policy makers.

The ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society has extended the deadline for the 2016 Innovation in Society contest to March 1.

Further details, along with evaluation criteria and submission information, can be found at https://sfis.asu.edu/essay-competition

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Association of Black Sociologists Student Paper Competition

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44th Conference of the Association of Black Sociologists
Freedom Summer Remembered: Emerging Issues, Policy Paradigms, and the Role of Human Rights
October 23-25, 2014
Charlotte, NC

Graduate and Undergraduate Student Paper Competition

The Association of Black Sociologists (ABS) invites submissions for its 2014 graduate and undergraduate student paper competition. Winners in both the undergraduate and graduate tracks will receive the following awards: 1st place = $300, 2nd place = $200, 3rd place = $100.

All papers must be submitted electronically by August 1, 2014 to rvr9845@louisiana.edu.

Click read more for submission guidelines.

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UPDATE: SAIC Student Paper Competition

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NO UNDERGRAD PAPERS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED! GET YOURS IN NOW!

Have a science or technology policy-related paper you're working on? Submit it to the SAIC Student Paper Competition!

SAIC Student Paper Competition Overview

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Georgia Tech are pleased to announce the opening of the 23rd Annual SAIC Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition. SAIC has instituted this student paper competition as part of its Strategic University Alliance program to recognize technical excellence at Georgia Tech and to foster the development of closer ties between the company and the university.

SAIC will present awards totaling $8,000 to 10 finalists for outstanding technical papers in the fields of engineering, physics, chemistry, computer science, biology, and science & technology policy.

Awards will be made to students at the undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. levels. Papers may be prepared in support of university courses, professional society competitions, or technical publications. SAIC reserves the right to keep a copy of each submitted paper for its records.

To read more about this paper competition, click the "Read More" button.

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Call for Papers for SHUR at Mississippi State

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The History Department at Mississippi State University invites interested undergraduate to submit papers for the 3rd annual Symposium for History Undergraduate Research (SHUR). The Symposium will provide students with the opportunity to present and discuss their work in the format of an academic history conference. It is tentatively scheduled for May 18-19, 2012 on the Mississippi State campus in Starkville, MS.

The theme of the symposium is "Learning from the Past, Preparing for a Future," and we welcome papers on this or any other historical topic. Preference will be given to papers that reflect the Mississippi State History Department's strengths in the history of science and technology, agricultural, rural and environmental history, history of international security/internal safety, the Civil War, gender history, and African American history and civil rights.

The paper should be based on the student's original research in primary sources. Interested students should submit a 500 word proposal or abstract via email to Dr. Peter Messer at PMesser@history.msstate.edu, or by regular mail to SHUR c/o Dr. Peter Messer, Dept. of History, P.O. Box H, Mississippi State, MS, 39762 by March 7 ,2012. Students whose papers have been accepted will be notified by March 15,2012. The History Department will offset the costs of one night's lodging on the MSU campus and supply BBQ banquet on Friday night.

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MSSA Undergraduate Student Paper Competition

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2011 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION

(Deadline: June 30, 2011)

The Mid-South Sociological Association http://www.midsouthsoc.org/ invites the submission of student papers for its annual undergraduate student paper competition. The competition is open to students in the Mid-South Region and to other undergraduate students who are members of the Mid-South Sociological Association. A prize of $50 will be awarded for the best paper. The authors of the papers selected will be presented with certificates of merit after presentations of papers at the 2011 MSSA Annual Meeting.

Rules for the 2011 Competition
Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter requesting participation in the undergraduate competition session. The letter must include the title of the paper, author(s) of the paper, the school affiliation, the email address and the telephone number of the author(s). (This can be in the body of the email)

The maximum length of an eligible paper shall be 20 double-spaced pages of text, not counting abstract, references, tables, and figures.

Papers may be co-authored with a maximum of three student authors, but not by graduate students or faculty.

Papers must not have been submitted for publication prior to submission for this competition.

Each of the submissions will be evaluated by a committee of scholars based on (1) originality, (2) contribution or potential contribution to the discipline, (3) clarity of arguments, and (4) mechanics (i.e. neatness, use of an appropriate format, grammar, spelling, etc.). To receive full recognition for participation, submissions must meet deadlines and participants must present their papers at the 2011 MSSA meetings in Little Rock, AR (October 26-29, 2011).

Papers (in word, .doc, .docx, or .rft format) should be submitted by email to Dr. Ruth Chananie-Hill at rchill@uni.edu by June 30, 2011. If you have any questions regarding the competition, please feel free to contact Dr. Chananie-Hill at the email address above or by phone at (319-273-7242).

Students are strongly encouraged to seek faculty advice prior to submission of papers.

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MSSA 2011 Undergraduate Student Competition

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(Deadline: June 30, 2011)

The Mid-South Sociological Association http://www.midsouthsoc.org/ invites the submission of student papers for its annual undergraduate student paper competition. The competition is open to students in the Mid-South Region and to other undergraduate students who are members of the Mid-South Sociological Association. A prize of $50 will be awarded for the best paper. The authors of the papers selected will be presented with certificates of merit after presentations of papers at the 2011 MSSA Annual Meeting.

Rules for the 2011 Competition

Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter requesting participation in the undergraduate competition session. The letter must include the title of the paper, author(s) of the paper, the school affiliation, the email address and the telephone number of the author(s). (This can be in the body of the email)
The maximum length of an eligible paper shall be 20 double-spaced pages of text, not counting abstract, references, tables, and figures.
Papers may be co-authored with a maximum of three student authors, but not by graduate students or faculty.
Papers must not have been submitted for publication prior to submission for this competition.

Each of the submissions will be evaluated by a committee of scholars based on (1) originality, (2) contribution or potential contribution to the discipline, (3) clarity of arguments, and (4) mechanics (i.e. neatness, use of an appropriate format, grammar, spelling, etc.). To receive full recognition for participation, submissions must meet deadlines and participants must present their papers at the 2011 MSSA meetings in Little Rock, AR (October 26-29, 2011).

Papers (in word, .doc, .docx, or .rft format) should be submitted by email to Dr. Ruth Chananie-Hill at rchill@uni.edu by June 30, 2011. If you have any questions regarding the competition, please feel free to contact Dr. Chananie-Hill at the email address above or by phone at (319-273-7242).

Students are strongly encouraged to seek faculty advice prior to submission of papers.

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This I Believe @ Tech Contest

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What do you believe? This semester Tech is having a This I Believe contest, where students submit their own statement of personal belief. This I Believe, a national project started in the 1950s by journalist Edward R. Murrow and continued today on NPR, invites everyday Americans to write about the core beliefs that guide their daily lives. In a short essay (350-500 words) students will reflect on the values and beliefs that drive them. The deadline is March 17, 2011 and the guidelines, submission instructions, and examples can be found at http://www.thisibelieve.gatech.edu/. Contest winners will be invited to present their essays at a This I Believe public event at the end of the spring semester. All finalists in the contest (from which the winners will be chosen) will have their essays published online in written, oral, and/or video format.

Also, you can see a live This I Believe presentation this Tuesday, March 15 at 11am in the Wilby Room of the library. Pete Ludovice, a CHBE professor by day and stand up comedian by night, will be giving his "This I Believe" on humor and laughter. You won't want to miss it!

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Creative Nonfiction Writing

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The Norman Mailer Writers Colony and the National Council of Teachers of English are pleased to invite submissions for the 2011 Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Awards for Creative Nonfiction.

PRIZES
Cash prizes of $5,000 to $10,000 will be awarded to National Winners. Four finalists in each category will be awarded trophies. Sixteen semifinalists in each category will be awarded certificates. Winners receive travel and lodging to attend the Colony's National Award Ceremony.

Submission Guidelines

CATEGORY
Norman Mailer produced extraordinary works in many genres, including the category of this year’s award: Creative Nonfiction. Students may submit work in any of the subgenres of creative nonfiction: memoir or autobiography, essay, literary journalism, profiles of people or places, and so on. Whatever its type, the best work will be true material presented with compelling literary merit.

ELIGIBILITY, PAGE LENGTH, and DEADLINES
Entries accepted online only March 1 - April 28, 2011, Noon CST.

Four-Year College Competition is open to current full-time students. Maximum 15 single-spaced pages. The college winner receives a scholarship to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony during the summer of 2012 and cash award of $10,000.

For complete submission guidelines and judging criteria, or to submit an entry, visit the NCTE website. Please email any questions to nmw@ncte.org.

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Open Forum Sparks Informal Discussion & Essay Contest

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After a week of ice and snow delayed its start, Open Forum opened the conversation for its third semester of topical intellectual discussions during the Institute’s first full week of classes.

Open Forum began in summer 2010 as a place for students and faculty to engage in non-academic intellectual discussion. Subjects for this semester include society’s reliance on technology, the value of self-reflection and the consequences of immortality. Last fall’s agenda included forums on topics such as service, diversity, elections and cheating.

Discourse about the relationship of politics and civility began Open Forum’s third semester of activity.

As part of its format, Open Forum invites guests to deliver short personal essays, tapping into a deep human need and echoing a movement familiar to many: This I Believe.

A nonprofit initiative that encourages youth and adults in “writing, sharing and discussing brief essays about the core values that guide their daily lives,” This I Believe began as a radio show during the 1950s. In recent years, the program has been rekindled through its inclusion as a series on National Public Radio (NPR).

Making a Statement

In conjunction with these personal presentations, Open Forum is hosting a campus-wide essay contest to the same theme. Many students will participate by default in ENG 1101 and ENG 1102 classes, but all students are encouraged to submit their pieces. Finalists’ essays will be posted online, and the winner will deliver his or her essay during the final Open Forum of the semester on April 19. Some examples of essay topics from thisibelieve.org include, “I Believe in the Power to Forget,” “I Believe in Laughter” and “I Believe in Being Cool to the Pizza Delivery Dude.”

Students have until March 15 to decide what they believe and submit their essays for consideration; submissions should use words and tone “that truly echo your belief and the way you speak,” as recommended by thisibelieve.org. Additional contest information and guidelines are available at Open Forum’s website.

To learn more about Open Forum or This I Believe, attend the next Open Forum, where LeBrun will share his This I Believe statement, on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at 11 a.m. in the Neely Room in the library; check the full schedule online for other future sessions.

For more information, click here

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ISI Essay Contest

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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is pleased to welcome currently enrolled undergraduate students at Georgia Institute of Technology to participate in our annual scholarship essay competition. This year's contest, "Totalitarianism, Tweets, and Turf: Human Community in an Age of Techno-Globalism," invites essayists to examine and explore the nature of human community and to consider the challenges posed to it in our technological age.

An educational non-profit organization, ISI seeks to foster and facilitate the free exchange of ideas among students and professors on college campuses across the country. In addition to organizing lectures, debates, and conferences, ISI publishes books of interest to students and academic faculty, including the 3rd edition of the book featured in this contest, Robert Nisbet's "The Quest for Community."

There is no cost to participate in this contest and every student who registers for the contest on or before the deadline of January 31, 2011 will receive a FREE copy of Robert Nisbet's The Quest for Community. The contest is a wonderful opportunity not only to compete for a $3,000 scholarship but is also an occasion to read one of the seminal books of the 20th Century.

Essayists are asked to reflect on international politics, global economics, and the extraordinary technological advances of recent decades in light of the social, political, and anthropological premises of The Quest for Community. Is community as Nisbet presents it still necessary and desirable? How do the current barriers and challenges to establishing meaningful community compare to those he considers? Do our contemporary circumstances lend support to Nisbet’s insights, undermine them, or suggest that they have been overtaken by events?

To register for the contest, students must email essaycontest@isi.org with their name, email address, mailing address, university name, and expected year of graduation by January 31, 2011. Essays should be no more than 2,500 words and will be judged on the basis of scholarship, imagination, and quality of writing. Essay submissions must be emailed or postmarked by March 18, 2011.

Copies of the contest flyer are available here: http://www.isi.org/programs/essay/undergrad1011/content/undergrad1011.pdf

Please feel free to contact Douglas Minson by email at essaycontest@isi.org with any questions about the contest or about ISI in general.

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Fiction Writing Contest for Zine "Literary Laundry"

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Call for submissions in creative writing:

We would like to introduce Literary Laundry, a new online journal that aims to publish outstanding contemporary fiction in the genres of poetry, prose fiction, and one-act drama.

We are excited to announce our second issue, and with it, our second writing competition. We are offering the following cash awards: $500 for the best poem, $500 for the best short story, and $250 for the best one-act drama.

Additionally, we are sponsoring an undergraduate-only competition, offering $250 for the best undergraduate poem, and $250 for the best undergraduate short story.

All award-winning work will be published in our bi-annual online journal and our annual print retrospect. Submissions are due December 1, 2010. There is no submission fee.

Click here to visit our website at www.literarylaundry.com and submit your work.

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Student Reflection Speaker Contest for Fall Grads

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Student Reflections Contest - Applications Due Oct 29

Fall 2010 graduating students are encouraged to apply to be one of two inaugural Georgia Tech student Commencement reflection speakers at this semester's Commencement exercises. Both a graduate and an undergraduate student will be selected by a panel of faculty, administrators, and students to share an inspirational message with his/her classmates and their guests at each respective ceremony. Selected finalists must be graduates of the ceremony, in both academic and judicial good standing, and have a history of participation in campus and/or community activities.

The student reflection speaker will speak at the beginning of the ceremony and will rejoin his/her classmates on the Coliseum floor. The reflection message -which should be two to three minutes in length - should also be secular in tone, providing inspiration to the graduates, recounting times spent together at Georgia Tech, or calling the audience to action around a certain message.

Applications must be received by Friday, Oct 29.

To apply: http://studentaffairs.gatech.edu/plugins/commencement
For more information, visit http://www.commencement.gatech.edu/reflection-speaker.php

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The Georgia-Pacific Prize Essay Contest

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On November 11, 2010 in Atlanta, Womenetics will host the Global Women’s’ Initiative: Creating the Ripple Effect, a symposium designed to inspire action and collaboration among business, nonprofit, education and public policy leaders, and to build the will to make a difference in the lives of women and girls around the globe. The Honorable Melanne Verveer, US Ambassador-At-Large for Global Women’s Issues will be the keynote speaker.

1st Prize Winner: $5000 and an invitation to attend and be recognized at the Womenetics Global Women’s Initiative luncheon and symposium on Thursday, November 11 at Loews Atlanta Hotel. In addition the winner is invited to attend a VIP Reception with Ambassador Verveer and other top business, education, nonprofit and policy leaders on Wednesday evening, November 10.

Four Runners Up - 2nd Prize: Four additional essayists will win $500 and recognition at the Womenetics Global Women’s Issues symposium, as well as an invitation to the VIP Reception with Ambassador Verveer and other top leaders.

To enter, essay and registration form must be received by email and in printed copy by 5 pm on Monday, October 18th. The top five essays will be determined byWomenetics, and submitted to Ambassador Melanne Verveer, who will determine the first place prize. Essays must be sent electronically to Essays@womenetics.com , and in printed form to Womenetics Essays, 3500 Valley Road, Atlanta, GA 30305. Winners will be notified via email on November 1, 2010. Questions may also be directed to Essays@womenetics.com.

Click here to download form

Please include this information electronically and print this form and send it with the paper copy of your essay to be mailed to: Womenetics Essay, 3500 Valley Rd., Atlanta, GA 30305. All applications must be received by 5 p.m. on Monday, October 18th.

For more information, click here.

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NCBS Essay Contest 2011

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Every year NCBS host a nation wide student essay contest. Graduate and undergraduate students from all over participate in this event. The winners are recognized and honored at the annual Student Luncheon, which is held during the conference. If you or others are interested in submitting an essay for the Student Essay Contest please do so by January 14, 2011.

ESSAY GUIDELINES:

1. Essays should focus on any aspects of the Africana experience, i.e. art, education, history, literature, politics, psychology, social issues, and policy issues.

2. The essay must be typed in Micro Soft Word software, 12-18 pages in length, double- spaced with one inch margins-left to right and -top to bottom. Students are asked to document sources by with either MLA or the APA style guide.

3. You must include: your name, mailing address, telephone number, name of the college you attend, and your class status i.e., freshman, sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student and name of faculty advisor).

FAXED OR ELECTRONIC ESSAYS ARE NOT ACCEPTED!

Send all essays to:

National Office, NCBS

Department of African American Studies

Georgia State University

P.O. Box 4109

Atlanta, GA 30302-4109

Street/Overnight Address:

1 Park Place South, #962

Atlanta, GA 30303

For more information, click here.

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Williams-Mystic Essay Contest Honoring Joseph Conrad

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2010 Williams-Mystic Essay Contest in Honor of Joseph Conrad, awarding a $500 prize, sponsored by The Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport

Deadline: October 15, 2010

Eligibility: Undergraduates of any major in good academic standing at an accredited college or university are eligible. High school seniors may also submit.

Entry Fee: None.

The Essay: Submissions of either fiction or nonfiction should be between 1,000-5,000 words.
Submissions may be about any topic and in any genre as long as the ocean or a major body of water is the primary setting or aspect of concern. The essay may be nature writing, environmental or political activism, literary or historic scholarship, or simply good storytelling. (Sorry, no collections of poetry in 2010.) The submitted work must be in English and unpublished at the time of submission, though it may be under consideration. It may have been submitted for a course.

Submission Format: Paper manuscripts only; no email submissions accepted.

Mail to: Williams-Mystic/Joseph Conrad Essay Contest, Williams-Mystic, Mystic Seaport Museum, 75 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, CT 06355. Cover letter must include your full name, email, home college/university, year of intended graduation, title of submission, and word count. Your last name only must appear at the header of each page, along with the page number.

Acknowledgment: Williams-Mystic will email each applicant to confirm the essay’s arrival. This prize is competitive; please be patient as to our final decision. Honorable mentions will be recognized.

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National Council for Black Studies Student Essay Contest

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ESSAY CONTEST GUIDELINES:

Essays should focus on any aspects of the Africana experience, i.e. art, education, history, literature, politics, psychology, social issues, and policy issues. The essay must be typed in MS Word, 12-18 pages in length, double- spaced with one inch margins-left to right and -top to bottom. Students are asked to document sources by with either MLA or the APA style guide.

You must include: your name, mailing address, telephone number, name of the college you attend, and your class status (i.e., freshman, sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student and name of faculty advisor).

Contest Winners:
* 1st Place - $350.00
* 2nd Place- $250.00
* 3rd Place- $125.00

For more information, go to www.ncbsonline.org/student_essay_contest.

Mail to:
National Council for Black Studies, Inc.
Department of African-American Studies
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4109

Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4109

Deadline, January 8, 2010

FAXED OR ELECTRONIC ESSAYS ARE NOT ACCEPTED!

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