Two types of student awards are given every year, the Peebles Award for Graduate Student Research in Adhesion Science and the Alan Gent Distinguished
Charles Paul, Henkel, and Ali Dhinojwala, University of Akron and Chair of Student Awards, present Michael Bartlett, front the University of Massachusetts, with the Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award. Mr. Bartlett was chosen from a group of six students who competed in the Peebles Award Session for Graduate Student Research in Adhesion Science for this award. His paper title was “Scaling Reversible Adhesion in Synthetic and Natural Adhesive Systems.”
Student Paper Award. Both awards are sponsored by Henkel. Any student who is past the first year of graduate study and who will be enrolled in graduate school at the time of the annual meeting and who has not received a student award previously is eligible to compete.
Peebles Award
The first type of student award is the Peebles Award for Graduate Student Research in Adhesion Science. Several of these are given each year. The selection of awardees is based on abstracts submitted as contributions to the Annual Meeting . These awardees will receive partial support to attend the meeting, and will present their paper at an oral symposium with the other award winners.
The amount of support will not exceed the lesser of US $750 or one-half of the student’s expenses for attending the meeting. In addition to this support, registration fees for the short course and the meeting will be waived for the Peebles Award winners. The deadline for submitting short abstracts is the same as that of the general meeting, and long abstracts are due November 30, 2012 (two months in advance of the general long abstract dealine). For submission details, please refer to the Student Award Guidelines.
Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award
Peebles award recipients participate in a student awards symposium at the annual meeting. The presentations will form the basis for choosing choosing the winner of the Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award, sponsored by Henkel. The winner of the Gent Award will receive a cash prize in addition to the remuneration associated with being a Peebles Award winner.
Additional questions about the Student Award competition should be directed to Prof. Ali Dhinojwala at ali4@uakron.edu.
View a list of past winners of the Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award