Subject: CASTAC - Mullins Award / San Diego Conference Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:37:30 -0500 From: Joseph Dumit To: CASTAC-L (sent by Albert Cambrosio) The 1998 NICHOLAS MULLINS AWARD of The Society for Social Studies of Science The Nicholas Mullins Award is awarded each year by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) for an outstanding piece of scholarship by a graduate student in the general field of Science and Technology Studies. The prize, consisting of a cheque of 500 U$ and a certificate and travel money for the 1998 annual meeting will be awarded for the eighth time. The competition is for graduate student papers, which must be submitted in English, based on all types of scholarly products in the field of science and technology studies: unpublished papers, published articles, dissertation chapters. It is recommended that dissertation chapters be adapted so as to make them "stand-alone." The work may not be older than two years at the time of submission. The intended readership for the papers is a general STS audience, rather than a specialized disciplinary readership. A graduate student can only make one submission a year. The length of a paper should not exceed 10,000 words -- including notes and references. According to the rules, longer papers will be "punished" in the evaluation procedure, i.e., they do not have to be read in their totality. They should be typed double-spaced. Six (6) copies should be sent to the chair of the Nicholas Mullins Award Jury (see address below), but for students for whom this would be a financial hardship two (2) copies would be acceptable. The name and address of the author, the name and address of the author's institution should be on a separate sheet, so that these can be detached from the distributed copies. Deadline for submitting contributions is May 15, 1998. Papers received after that date will be considered for next year's contest. The evaluation is executed blindly by a jury of STS scholars. The winner will be announced at the Banquet at the Annual Meeting of the 4S. Winners are expected to attend the Annual Meeting of the 4S. For further information, please contact the chair of the jury: Alberto Cambrosio, Ph.D. Department of Social Studies of Medicine McGill University 3655 Drummond St. Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6 Canada e-mail: cyco@musica.mcgill.ca FAX: 514 398 4981 Phone: 514 398 1498