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- The Founders' Memorial Poster Paper Award is to be given for the best Poster Paper presented at the Founders' Memorial Poster session at the annual meeting. For each year the award shall be named in honor of any one or more founders of the Animal Behavior Society that have died during the previous 24 months. In a period in which no founders have died the award shall be simply in honor of all founders of the Animal Behavior Society or in the name of a founder who died prior to establishment of the award; the President shall make the decision. No founder should be honored more than once.
- A "Founder" is defined as a person active in the six-year period 1960-65 and who was an elected officer or held a committee assignment in ABS or the ESA Section on Animal Behavior and Sociobiology or the SICB Division of Animal Behavior as recorded by the ABS Historian. This period involves the organizations preceding ABS that planned the transition to ABS and the first two years of ABS.
- The Poster Paper Award competition shall be conducted by the First President-elect of the Society. The First President-elect shall appoint a judging committee with four members, including her/himself as chair and no more than one member from any institution. The committee chair, with possible advice and assistance from the other judges and the previous chair, shall develop a set of criteria for judging to posters. (Revised at 1999 E.C. meetings.)
- All members of the society in good standing are eligible to enter the competition. There shall be one winner for the Founders' Memorial Poster Paper Award, who will receive a certificate and (U.S.) $100. In the case of papers with multiple authors the award shall be made only to the senior author. The award certificate shall be presented during the Annual Meeting of the Society. The First President-elect is responsible for having the certificate lettered appropriately prior to its presentation.(Revised at 2007 E.C. meetings.)
- With at least 10 entrants in the competition the judges may award one honorable mention. With at least 20 entrants in the competition, the judges may award two honorable mentions and so on. There is no requirement that the judges award any honorable mentions. The First President-elect shall write to the family of the deceased founder(s) honored by the award for that year to inform them of the selection(s).
- A note regarding the Founders' Award shall be placed in the information accompanying the Abstract/Transmittal forms and a check-off box should be included on the forms so that members can indicate their intention to enter the competition.
- When the Program Officer notifies those who have submitted abstracts of their scheduled place on the program she/he should also send them a list of suggestions for preparing an effective poster paper. (Passed by mail vote October 1986; revised at 1989 E.C. meetings).
- The chair of the Founders' Award Poster Competition handles correspondence regarding rules, regulations and information. (Enacted at 1996 E.C. meetings).
