BERNOULLI AWARDS
THE BERNOULLI AWARDS
FOR
UNDERGRADUATE STATISTICAL RESEARCH
FIRST PRIZE: $5,000
SECOND PRIZE: $2,500
HONORABLE MENTION: $1,000
The Department of Economics and Econometrics announces the second annual competition for Undergraduate Statistical Research. Prizes, donated by an anonymous benefactor, will be awarded in recognition of outstanding research papers authored by an undergraduate student or students that use statistical methods to analyze an applied problem that is judged important, timely, and original.
Award decisions will be made by a panel of Notre Dame faculty members, including at least one drawn from each College with a submission. There is no presumption that any award will be made nor that there is a limit on the number of awards that can be made. Papers that win prizes will be posted on the web site of the Department of Economics and Econometrics, although the authors retain the right to publish them in other outlets.
ELIGIBILITY
All undergraduate students at the University of Notre Dame are eligible. Papers can have more than one author (in which case the prize is split equally among them) but cannot have co-authors who are not currently enrolled as undergraduates at the University Notre Dame.
CRITERIA
The judges will focus on whether the paper has the potential to be published in a well-respected, peer-reviewed outlet in the relevant discipline. Special emphasis will be placed upon: (1) the intellectual merit of the research question addressed; (2) the use of appropriate state-of-the-art statistical techniques; and (3) the significance and/or novelty of the results.
SUBMISSION
Students who want to have a research paper considered for a Bernoulli Prize must submit it as an electronic file in pdf format to ecoe@nd.edu. The paper submitted cannot exceed 20 pages of text in 12-point font, double-spaced, with standard 1 inch margins (not including tables, graphs, and technical appendices).
The submission must also be accompanied by the name of a member of the Notre Dame faculty who endorses the submission. If the submission is based upon research conducted in the laboratory of a professor at Notre Dame, then the supervising professor should separately submit a brief letter indicating the unique contribution of the student and publication plans (anticipated authorship and outlet) for the research.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: APRIL 17, 2009
Questions should be addressed to ecoe@nd.edu.
2009 Winners