Eligible individuals are any current or recently graduated UG student. Recently graduated students regardless of current employment status (i.e. professionally employed or enrolled in a Master’s level program) are eligible provided the work was completed as an undergraduate student and they are not more than one semester removed from UG graduation. The purpose of this award is to recognize and support undergraduate student investigative research. The winner receives a plaque and $250. All undergraduate students who submit an abstract for a Free Communications/Slide presentation at the MARC Regional Chapter Meeting will be eligible for this award. The award is based on the quality of the submitted abstract and the presentation at the meeting. All abstracts will be evaluated, but only the top abstracts will have their presentations evaluated.
Eligible individuals are any current or recently graduated Master’s level student. Recently graduated students regardless of current employment status (i.e. professionally employed or enrolled in a PhD level program) are eligible provided the work was completed as a Master’s student and they are not more than one semester removed from graduation with their Master’s degree. The purpose of this award is to recognize and support Master’s level student investigative research. The winner receives a plaque and $400. All undergraduate students who submit an abstract for a Free Communications/Slide presentation at the MARC Regional Chapter Meeting will be eligible for this award. The award is based on the quality of the submitted abstract and the presentation at the meeting. All abstracts will be evaluated, but only the top abstracts will have their presentations evaluated.
Eligible individuals are any current or recently graduated student in a doctoral or medical program. Students that recently completed their doctoral or medical program are eligible provided they are currently employed as a post-doctoral fellow or equivalent (those employed in faculty positions are NOT eligible) and they are not more than one semester removed from their doctoral or medical program completion. The purpose of this award is to recognize and support graduate student investigative research. The winner receives a plaque and $500 to be used to defray either travel costs to the National ACSM meeting or her/his research expenses. All graduate students who submit an abstract for a Free Communications/Slide presentation at the MARC Regional Chapter Meeting will be eligible for this award. The award is based on the quality of the submitted abstract and the presentation at the meeting. All abstracts will be evaluated, but only the top abstracts will have their presentations evaluated.
The MARC Research Committee screens all student abstracts that are submitted for an oral presentation using a rubric. You may download the evaluation rubric here. The top five ranked abstracts for each academic category identified above present their research during an oral session with the other class finalists (i.e. there is an Undergraduate session, a Master’s level session and a Doctoral level session) during the MARC Annual Conference. These finalists are ranked by a sub-committee of the MARC Research Committee to determine the award recipients.
*Note: Prior to 2010, the Award was named the MARC Graduate Student Investigator Award
Note: Before 2001, MARC did not differentiate between graduate and undergraduate students for this award.
Given in recognition of a history of outstanding service and dedication to the MARC-ACSM. Name changed to Honor Award in 2013.
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