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[Section] Environmental [Award] 
Robert Sommer Award for Best Student Paper Amount: $300 & a commemorative certificate Information: Graduate and undergraduate students conducting research in any aspect of environmental psychology are eligible to enter their research into a competition for Robert Sommer Award from the CPA Section on Environmental Psychology. Award submissions will consist of 1000-word extended abstracts of original research for which the student is first author. The submissions need not be papers submitted for presentation at CPA conventions; they may be thesis work, journal papers, or papers presented at other conferences. Requirement: The student must be the first author on the project. Application Procedure: Students who would like their work considered for the award must make a submission. This submission should include the following. 1. A cover letter indicating that they would like to be considered for the award. 2. A letter from the student’s supervisor confirming that the applicant is a student in psychology and that the applicant’s work on the project merits first authorship. 3. A 1000-word extended abstract for Committee Review. This abstract must contain the name(s) and institution(s) of the author(s). The following headings and format should be used. A. Title: B. Area: Briefly state your specific issue. C. Context: Put the research in context by providing adequate background information on relevant scholarly literatures, including references. D. Methodology: State the design, size and characteristics of the sample, procedure, materials, and statistical tests employed, providing rationale as needed. E. Results: Key findings. F. Conclusions and implications. 4. Two copies of the abstract should be submitted: one with the authors' names included and one without, so blind reviews may be done. All materials must be e-mailed with the subject line “Robert Sommer Award” to: Loraine.Lavallee@unbc.ca by April 30, 2015.
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