Student Paper Award Research Articles

2014 USNC-URSI Ernest K. Smith student paper award winners

2014 USNC-URSI Ernest K. Smith student paper award winners

From Acid Revolution to Entheogenic Evolution: Psychedelic Philosophy in the Sixties and Beyond : Winner of the William M. Jones Best Graduate Student Paper Award at the 2013 American Culture Association Conference

From Acid Revolution to Entheogenic Evolution: Psychedelic Philosophy in the Sixties and Beyond : Winner of the William M. Jones Best Graduate Student Paper Award at the 2013 American Culture Association Conference

2013 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference Awards Comments by the Chairman

T is a longstanding tradition of the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) to honor the Outstanding Conference Paper and the Outstanding Data Workshop Presentation. In recent years recognition has also been given to the best paper presented and first-authored by an IEEE Student Member. The awards process not only rewards authors for particularly high quality and important work, but also encourages all authors to produce presentations and manuscripts of high technical quality, clarity of presentation, and significance to the community. As in previous years, this difficult selection process began at the conference, where the Awards Committee selected the candidate papers based on the conference presentations (both oral and poster). At least four committee members judged each conference session and scored each presentation on the basis of technical quality, originality, clarity and significance to the community. At the conclusion of the conference the committee met to discuss the presentations and their scoring. Thirteen presentations were selected as candidates for the Outstanding Conference Paper Award. The three highest scored papers presented by IEEE Student Members were among the thirteen selected candidates and these were additionally considered for the Outstanding Student Paper Award. During the conference each committee member also evaluated all the Radiation Effects Data Workshop presentations for selection of the Outstanding Data Workshop Presentation Award. Following the conference, the manuscripts of the thirteen nominated papers were reviewed and scored using the criteria mentioned above. This was a time-consuming and difficult process, requiring each committee member to thoughtfully read and compare the thirteen candidate papers during late July and August. Although there were a number of strong candidates, one paper stood out due to its consistently high scores across committee members. Accordingly, I am pleased to announce that the winner of the 2009 NSREC Outstanding Conference Paper Award is: Single-Event Upsets and Multiple-Bit Upsets on a 45 nm SOI

Introduction to the SCiP special issue

Several of the articles in this issue are based on presentations at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP). The conference was held in Minneapolis, MN on November 15, 2012 and included talks, posters, and symposia on topics as diverse as cognitive and neural processes, computational linguistics, online learning, eyetracking tools, and data mining. The keynote address was given by Brian MacWhinney on “Using the Web to Study Real-Life Language Learning: Measures, Experiments, Models, Tutors, and Tours.” Ping Li also hosted a presidential symposium, “Innovative Technologies and the Science of Learning: Language Acquisition by Children and Adults.” A copy of the conference program can be found at http://www.scip.co/scip-2012/. Alexandra Paxton from the University of California, Merced received the John Castellan Student Paper award for the presentation “Linguistic Alignment in Debate.” All of the SCiP articles in this special issue were treated to the same reviewing and publication standards as other articles in Behavior Research Methods. My thanks to the authors, reviewers, and consulting editors for quickly moving the papers through the review process. The 43rd Annual Meeting of SCiP will be in Toronto, Canada on November 14, 2013. Additional information can be found at http://www.scip.co/scip-2013/. The Society for Computers in Psychology is a nonprofit organization of researchers interested in applications of computers in psychology. Its primary purpose is to increase and share knowledge about the use of computers in psychological research. Membership is open to any person who has an academic degree and who is active in scientific applications of computers to psychological research. Membership information can be found at the SCiPWeb site at http://www.scip.co/. The officers of SCiP 2012 included president, Ping Li, Pennsylvania State University; president elect, Michael Jones of Indiana University; past president, Joseph Magliano of Northern Illinois University; and secretarytreasurer, Rick Dale of the University of California, Merced. The steering committee included Patrick Conley of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point; Rick Dale of the University of California, Merced; Randy Jamieson of the University of Manitoba, Chris Koch of George Fox University, Kay Livesay of Linfield College; Otto MacLin of the University of Northern Iowa; Danielle McNamara of Arizona State University; Douglas Mewhort of Queens University; Ulf-Dietrich Reips of University of Deusto; Yana Weinstein of Washington University, St. Louis; and Xiaowei Zhao of Emmanuel College.

Kaye Bock Award

The Kaye Bock Student Paper Award is named in loving memory of Kaye Bock—DCRP’s Student Affairs Officer for over 20 years—to honor her unbounded concern for and commitment to graduate students in this department.

Outstanding Student Paper Awards

The following members received Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 2013 AGU Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico. Past winners can be found on AGU's Web site at http://membership.agu.org/ospa‐winners/.

Outstanding Student Paper Awards

The following members received Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. See also “Outstanding Student Paper Awards” published previously (Eos, 94(8), 82, and Eos, 94(9), 92).

IEEE-NANOMED 2012 [Conference Review

The 6th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering (IEEE-NANOMED) was held at the Imperial Queen's Park Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, 4-7 November 2012. IEEE-NANOMED is one of the premier annual events organized by the IEEE Nanotechnology Council to bring together physicians, scientists, and engineers in the area of nano/ molecular medicine and engineering. The conference provides a unique forum for highlighting the latest research results in molecular engineering, microfluidics, nanotechnology, system integration, fundamental biology, and translational medicine. In 2012, we established a series of conference awards and journal special issues for IEEE-NANOMED. The awards included the Best Conference Paper Award, the Best Student Paper Award, and the Best Conference Poster Award. The authors of selected papers presented at IEEE-NANOMED were invited to publish in special issues of the peer-reviewed NANOMEDICINE: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine journal (2011 impact factor: 6.693), the Journal of Laboratory Automation (2011 impact factor: 1.42), Micromachines, and IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine. We hope these awards and journal special issues will encourage the participants to continue their excellent work in nano/molecular medicine and engineering and promote the IEEENANOMED conference.

Outstanding Student Paper Awards

The following members received Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. See also “Outstanding Student Paper Awards” published previously (Eos, 94(8), 82). Look to future issues of Eos for more award winners.

Outstanding Student Paper Awards

The following members received Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. Awards for other sections and focus groups will be announced in future issues of Eos.

Rear Admiral George Stephen Ritchie, CB, DSC

Rear Admiral George Stephen Ritchie, CB, DSC

Frank Lindenfeld Outstanding Student Paper Award

Frank Lindenfeld Outstanding Student Paper Award

Special issue of the 9th high-aspect-ratio micro-structure technology workshop, HARMST 2011, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, June 12–18, 2011

Dear HARMST Friends, Thank you very much for your strong supports and participations in the 9th International Workshop on High Aspect Ratio Micro Structure Technology (HARMST 2011). This year we had ninety-three papers from 9 countries including Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and USA. Among them, 43 were presented in oral and 50 through posters. The HARMST follows his traditional success to provide an international platform to collect and share the knowledge of up-to-date advancement of high aspect ratio micro and nano fabrication technologies and their applications. The topics include HARMST design, modeling, manufacturing, testing, and applications in this research field. This year, the conference venue was selected in Hsinchu city, located in northern Taiwan. It is exact the city which plays the dominant role to enable the Taiwan economical miracle through the renowned Hsinchu Science Park, the so-called ‘Silicon Valley’ of Taiwan. In addition, we initiated the first trial of the industrial session in HARMST. We invited local industrial partners to have free talks with the academic people worldwide to bridge more communications and to see whether there are problems which can be solved through the cooperation between two sides. Besides, we continued the good tradition of best student paper award competition with the best prize of the latest apple IPAD 2. This encouraged more than thirty student papers decided to participate in the competition. Furthermore, we initiated the first time the cross-countries activities in HARMST. We had one academic session day and a technical tour in Japan. We heartily appreciated the tremendous efforts and contributions from Prof. Yamasaki and University of Hyogo. Furthermore, we arranged the visit to the Hsinchu Science Park (HSPA), the National Device Laboratories (NDL), Chip Implementation Center (CIC) and Taiwan Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) in Taiwan. At the banquet, you enjoyed the famous aboriginal Dancing and Chorus, and met a lot of our old and new friends. I sincerely hope you have enjoyed the HARMST 2011. At the end, I needed to express my highest appreciation to all attendees, paper presenters, exhibitors, TPC members, organization committees, and sponsors as well as the conference staff. Without you, this HARMST 2011 special issue would not have been possible. Thank you very much and see you at the next HARMST in Berlin, 2013.

Best Student Paper Award 2014

Best Student Paper Award 2014

2012 APCG Student Paper Awards

2012 APCG Student Paper Awards

Local studies centers: Transforming history, culture and heritage in the Philippines

This paper is an exploratory study of the specialized information centers, referred to as local studies centers, in three regions of the Philippines, namely, Central Luzon, CALABARZON and MIMAROPA. It aims to identify and describe the nature, practices and status of these centers and to explore their innovative and transformative role in the fields of history, culture and heritage studies in the Philippines. It examines the impact of their programs, projects, services, and activities on the study, development and promotion of these three fields. Some of the outstanding features of local studies centers in the Philippines that were identified include: 1) they collect materials pertaining to ethnic groups, and make the materials available and accessible to potential users, mostly in one center; 2) their holdings include library materials, archives and museum artefacts; 3) they conduct research and publish books, relating to history, culture and heritage of the localities they serve and the Philippines. This paper may provide insights for the management (or future establishment) of local studies centers not just in the Philippines, but also in other countries. This paper received the IFLA LIS Student Paper Award 2012.

2012 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference Awards Comments by the Chairman

Announces the winners of the 2012 NSREC Outstanding Conference Paper Award, the 2012 Outstanding Student Paper Award, and the 2012 Outstanding Data Workshop Presentation Award.

Emasculated by Trauma: A Social History of Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder, Stigma, and Masculinity

Winner of William M. JonesBest Graduate Student Paper Award at 2012 American Culture Association ConferenceThe suppression of fear and other strong emotions is not demanded only of men in trenches. It is constantly expected in ordinary society.-Elliott Smith and T. H. Pear, 191 71The history of medicine is a social one. Although medical knowledge and its history are often understood as objective fact, divorced from cultural and social context, historians of medicine have recendy begun to undermine these assumptions. Social histories of medicine have put forth a thesis about social nature of knowledge, specifically related to health, disease and medicine. Namely, way a disease is understood, treated and talked about is shaped not only by medical knowledge, but also by broader cultural, social and political climates and ideologies. This social construction of disease is evident across history of medicine but is perhaps most prominent in history of mind-body medicine. The history of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other war-related traumatic disorders is a study in evolving American sensibilities, social mores, and gendered cultural expectations. Since its first appearance on battlefield, PTSD and its predecessors were used by Americans to symbolize manifestation of societal concerns surrounding unfulfilled gender roles, tightly bound to concepts of heteronormativity. Trauma-related nervous disorders became mark of someone who had failed to live up to culturally constructed notions of ideal male citizen soldier. Thus, victims were blamed for their unmanly behaviour by way of stigmatizing medical diagnoses.Cultural mores surrounding gendered social roles have long shaped both medical understanding of PTSD (and related predecessors) and way its victims are treated and regarded within societal framework. According to Harvard historian Ann Harrington, a cultural inability to understand non-physical properties that lead to disease and ill health has caused society to explain these health problems through a variety of narratives. Harrington grounds western culture's inability to comprehend mind-body medicine in modern medicine's foundational assumption of physicality of illness. Namely, modern western medicine believes that physical illness must have a physical cause. This assumption is what makes mind-body medicine so complicated. Due to ambiguity and lack of understanding surrounding connections between mind-body, physicalist cultures must turn to narratives as a way of explaining what does not fit into physicalist medical paradigm. These narratives are useful in understanding experiences of bodies and minds and how they have been understood within specific cultural contexts throughout history.Harrington explores six narratives in her book: power of suggestion, body that speaks, power of positive thinking, by modern life, healing ties and eastward journeys.2 While quite expansive in scope, these narratives do not represent an exhaustive list and fail to adequately address stories surrounding battlefield trauma. In light of this, another narrative of mind-body medicine is needed. Within this narrative, entitled emasculated by trauma, male body of trauma it has experienced on modern battlefield, marrying two narratives of the body that speaks and broken by modern life. However, this story is also one of soldiers as failed citizen subjects. Soldiers suffering effects of trauma show an inability to exhibit virtues of ideal male, by failing to meet expected gender norms and fulfil male gender roles. Soldiers are still and have historically been expected to be strong and fearless, but trauma-related nervous disorders such as PTSD serve to expose vulnerabilities and frailty of these men. Therefore, this narrative explains both a soldier's failure to fulfil cultural expectations of men, as well as cultural and institutional notions of good soldier. …

Kaye Bock Student Paper Award

Kaye Bock Student Paper Award

Architectural acoustics—Space for sound, and you

The discipline of Architectural Acoustics consistently produces more than 100 papers across 6 or more special sessions, at each meeting of the ASA. Student paper awards, student design competitions, and Knudsen lectures augment these activities. Joint sessions, particularly with Noise, Musical Acoustics, Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, and Signal Processing in Acoustics, add more still to the architectural acoustics goings-on at every ASA conference. The sphere of influence is not limited to ASA alone, as TCAA members participate in the Green Construction Code of the International Code Council, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Study Group: Movie Theater Sound System Measurement and Adjustment Techniques, Classroom Acoustics Standards, the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System, and more. This busy committee also produces a steady stream of publications documenting recent work and deciphering standards for key stakeholders. Anyone with an interest in the field will find many opportunities to advance their own expertise, build a network of colleagues, friends and mentors, and contribute to the essential activities of the Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics.