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Pacific Division Graduate Student Oral or Poster Presentation Competition

The Executive and Award Committees would like to encourage all graduate students presenting their research at the Pacific Division meetings to consider enrolling in the student competition.  The award is intended to increase opportunities for graduate students who attend institutions within the Pacific Division to participate in APS Pacific Division meetings, receive recognition for their research, network with other graduate students and scientists, and gain experience in presenting scientific information to an audience. The monetary awards are $500 for first place, $300 for second, and $200 for third place.

Graduate students who receive a Graduate Student Travel Grant award must compete in the Graduate Student Oral or Poster Presentation Competition. However, at virtual meetings, no Graduate Student Travel Awards will be awarded.

To participate, mark the box "this abstract is for the student competition"  when you submit your abstract online and meet these requirements: (i) be enrolled as a graduate student in an accredited University in the Pacific Division at the time the paper is submitted; (ii) be a member in good standing of the Pacific Division at the time the paper is submitted; (iii) be senior author of the paper; (iv) present the paper orally or as a poster at a meeting of the Pacific Division; and (v) submit a complete application package.

In order to give a presentation at the 2025 PD-APS meeting, abstracts must be submitted and the abstract submission fee paid through the online abstract submission form by February 21, 2025. If you want to participate in the Graduate Student Oral or Poster Presentation Competition, you must indicate on the submission form that you are submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation and that you intend to participate in the Graduate Student Oral or Poster Competition.

IN ADDITION, you must email a copy of your abstract, including the title, authors, and affiliations, as a single PDF to Awards Committee Chair, Jeremiah Dung (Jeremiah.dung@oregonstate.edu), by February 21, 2025, and you must register for the meeting by March 1, 2025. 

Only one abstract per presenter will be considered for the Graduate Student Oral or Poster Presentation Competition. Students participating in the Graduate Student Oral Presentation Competition may not participate in the Graduate Student Poster Presentation Competition.

Students will be notified by March 8, 2025, if their abstract will be included in the Graduate Student Oral or Poster Presentation Competition. Note that the poster competition is not held every year.

The APS Pacific Division will recognize outstanding oral and poster presentations by graduate students by presenting a certificate and monetary award. In addition, the 1st place winner of the oral competition will be sent to the annual Plant Health meeting to present in the showcase, "Plant Pathologists of the Future.”

Graduate Student Oral or Poster​ Presentation Winners​

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