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The Department encourages its graduate students to begin writing research papers early in the program and each year recognizes the best paper submitted in each of three categories with one of three scholarships, each of which comes with a cash prize. The Rhona Lantin Award, named for a former graduate student, recognizes the best paper by a first-year student. The Bessie H. DeVault Award, named for the wife of Dr. Samuel H. DeVault, chair of the Department of Agricultural Economics from 1922 to 1951, is presented to the author of the best paper by a second-year student. The writer of the best dissertation is honored by receiving The Dr. and Mrs. Bill V. Lessley Dissertation Excellence Award. Dr. Billy Lessley was an esteemed member of the Department from 1965 to 1991.

All Ph.D. dissertations submitted and approved by the Graduate School in the year preceding the award submission deadline are automatically considered. Dissertations will be judged on criteria comparable to the American Agricultural Economics Association Dissertations Award competi­tion.

Papers for the Lantin Award and the DeVault Award will be judged on broad criteria of excellence comparable to that used for evaluating papers for publication in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics or the Journal of Envi­ronmental Economics and Management.  Students may submit term papers done for coursework or may submit papers developed as part of their research assignment or other scholarly activities. Note that both Masters and PhD students are eligible for these awards.

An awards ceremony will be held in the fall.  Plaques hanging in the AREC Conference Room in 2200 Symons Hall will permanently enshrine the name of each recipient.  We anticipate that each of these prizes will become items of prestige on the résumés of those receiving them.

Please submit your papers to Pin Wuan Lin at plin@arec.umd.edu by the August 31st deadline.  E-mail submission is ac­ceptable as long as it is received before midnight on the 31st.

 

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Last updated: 07/21/2011

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