2020 Conference – Information for Students and Trainees
Looking for travel support to attend this year’s conference? The Diversity and Innovation team has compiled a list of outside funding sources. If you know of another travel award to add to the list, please email one of the student committee leaders.
Thematic Flash Talk and Poster Awards
To acknowledge the Society for Affective Science’s appreciation of its trainee members, the most outstanding trainee presentations each year are recognized with awards. All trainees (postdocs, graduate students, undergraduate students, and post-baccalaureate students) who were first-author on a poster or thematic flash talk are eligible for these awards.
Process: Awards are determined based on a two-step process. Candidates are initially identified based on the quality of submitted abstracts (blind to author name/affiliation) by a team of three raters from the SAS program committee. Abstracts are evaluated for the impact of the work; those who self-select to present flash talks and who are rated the highest are chosen to present flash talks at the conference. All others are chosen to present posters. These same ratings are used to designate which trainees will subsequently be evaluated in person for flash talk or poster awards. Approximately the top 10% of flash talks and posters are selected for further evaluation after the initial review of abstracts.
Second stage evaluation is completed at the conference by a team of judges from the SAS program committee that spans disciplines. Each flash talk and poster selected from the first stage is evaluated in person by a team of three judges. Flash talk and poster candidates are rated on three dimensions: research quality, presentation clarity, and effectiveness in answering questions. Awards are given to the top-rated flash talk presenter and poster presenter. Awardees are recognized at the conferences’ award ceremony and/or via society-wide email.
2019
Best Thematic Flash Talk Award
Name Erika Weisz |
Institution Harvard University |
Best Poster Award
Name Pooya Razavi [poster] |
Institution University of Oregon |
2018
Best Thematic Flash Talk Awards
Name Jin Hyun Cheong Ashley Doukas Jennifer G. Pearlstein Adrienne Wood |
Institution Dartmouth College New York University University of California, Berkeley University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Best Poster Awards
Name Sydney M. Krueger [poster] Daina Crafa [poster] Jennifer Yih [poster] Jacinth Tan [poster] |
Institution Columbia University McGill University Stanford University University of California, San Francisco |
2017
Best Thematic Flash Talk Awards
Name Dyan Connelly Katie Hoemann Kent Lee Daniel Lim |
Institution University of California, Berkeley Northeastern University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Northeastern University |
Best Poster Awards
Name Elizabeth Cosby Veronica Heng Jennifer MacCormack Aliza Schwartzblatt |
Institution Brown University University of California, Davis University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill CUNY Graduate Center |
2016
Best Thematic Flash Talk Awards
Name Elise Kalokerinos Shir Atzil Autumn Kujawa Brett Ford |
Institution KU Leuven Mass General Hospital University of Illinois at Chicago University of California, Berkeley |
Best Poster Awards
Name Erik Nook Victoria Spring Erin Moran Kelly Finn |
Institution Harvard University University of Iowa Washington U School of Medicine University of California Davis |
2015
Best Poster Awards
Name Brett Ford Alice Hua Sandy Lwi Andrew McCullough BoKyung Park John Purcell Ashley Ruba |
Institution University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco University of California, Berkeley Northeastern University Stanford University University of Colorado Boulder University of Washington |
2014
Best Poster Awards
Name Jozefien DeLeersnyder Janine Dutcher Sunny Dutra Marlies Houben Philipp Opitz Jennifer Silvers Daniel Stout |
Institution KU Leuven UCLA Yale University KU Leuven Tufts University Columbia University University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |