The Catherine Allen Memorial Outstanding Student Poster Award was established in 2003 by colleagues and students of Dr. Catherine “Kit” Allen. This award is given to honor her long and distinguished commitment to quality research, teaching and mentoring in the Department of Population Health Sciences (PHS).

Outstanding Student Poster Award selection procedure:

1. An Outstanding Student Poster Award committee will be formed each spring by the Steering Committee of the graduate program in Population Health to review all eligible posters at the annual PHS Poster Session and select one for the award. The committee will consist of two faculty of the graduate program in Population Health and one scientist who works in PHS.

2. Posters that have a Population Health graduate student as first author will be eligible.

3. The posters will be judged on criteria including the following: significance of the question and contribution, approach utilized, innovation of approach and clarity of the poster.

4. The winning poster will be on display for one year in a case devoted to this purpose, on the 7th floor hallway of WARF, next to a memorial plaque recognizing Kit’s contributions to the Department and its students. There will also be a plaque that will be engraved with the title and up to three authors of the winning poster annually. The student author of the winning poster will be recognized and awarded with a certificate at the PHS annual graduation luncheon.

Recipients
2008     Matt Maenner
2007     Rachel Clavers
2006     Amy Kind
2005     Hui Guan
2004     Natasha Stout