Attention Graduate Students: The American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) encourages graduate students to submit a manuscript to their competition for three student honoraria, the Anna M. Jackson, Elmer C. Burney, and A. Brazier Howell awards, to be awarded at the 2006 annual meeting of the Society in Amherst, MA, USA. The competition is open to all student members of the American Society of Mammalogists, a long standing society organized to promote the study of mammals. ASM has an international membership and encourages students internationally to join the Society and enter the competition. To become a member of the Society visit the ASM membership page at http://www.mammalsociety.org/membership/index.html Participants must not have received their Ph.D. before September 2006 and must not have received a previous honorarium from ASM. Each award carries an honoraria of $750. Honoraria will be awarded based on originality, quality, and written presentation of the research. Applicants should submit a manuscript on their current research written in the format of an article for the Journal of Mammalogy (please consult the journal webpage for style: http://www.asmjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html). Manuscripts must be single-authored and should not exceed 12 double spaced pages of text in length (not including figures, tables, and references). Authors must submit either pdf or Word files. No other formats will be accepted. Electronic submissions should be sent to http://www.mammalsociety.org/applications/ before 15 February 2006. Questions should be directed to Virginia Hayssen, Biology Department, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063 [413 585 3856]. Papers that do not meet the above requirements or are received after the deadline will not be considered. Applicants will be notified of award recipients around 15 March 2006. Winners of honoraria will be invited to present their research at the Plenary Session of the ASM annual meeting. These platform presentations will be 15 min in length (12 min for the presentation, 3 min for questions). Regardless of the outcome of the competition, applicants intending to present a paper at the meeting must submit the usual abstract and pre-registration material to the local committee before their deadline. Details regarding the meeting can be found at http://www.asm06.org/index.htm. Attention Undergraduate Students: The American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) encourages undergraduate students to apply for the American Society of Mammalogists Undergraduate Student Research Awards to be presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the Society in Amherst, MA, USA . The competition is open to all student members of the American Society of Mammalogists, a long standing society organized to promote the study of mammals. ASM has an international membership and encourages students internationally to join the Society and enter the competition. ASM student members currently enrolled in an undergraduate program who will not graduate before May 2006 and who have not received a previous Undergraduate Award from ASM are eligible to apply. Three awards of $400 are available for winners of the competition. The Honoraria Committee will review applications and select award recipients on the basis of the originality and quality of research and the student's curriculum vitae. To become a member of the Society visit the ASM membership page at http://www.mammalsociety.org/membership/index.html Students applying for the awards also must present an oral or poster presentation at the Annual Meeting. Applicants should submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation, a 1-page summary of the research project, a curriculum vitae, and a letter from their research advisor. Authors must submit either pdf or Word files. No other formats will be accepted. Electronic submissions should be sent to http://www.mammalsociety.org/applications/ before 15 February 2006. The advisor's letter must be submitted separately from the student's material. Applicants should also submit their abstract and pre-registration material to the local organizing committee before their deadline, see the ASM website for referral to the local committee¹s webpage http://www.mammalsociety.org/. Packets that do not meet the above requirements or are received after the deadline will not be considered. Applicants will be notified of award recipients around 15 March 2006. Questions should be directed to Virginia Hayssen, Biology Department, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063 [413 585 3856]. Details regarding the meeting can be found at http://www.asm06.org/index.htm. Respectfully submitted, Joy M. Lapseritis MIT/WHOI Joint Program Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MS #32, 45 Water Street Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA joyous@whoi.edu 508.289.3212