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The 2005 meeting of the American Crystallographic Association will be held May 28 to June 2 in Orlando, FL. Please stay tuned for more details as they become available....

Poster Prizes

Pauling Poster Prize

Eligibility:  Graduate and undergraduate students only - no post-docs. Awarded to not more than five of the best student (poster) presentations at the Annual Meeting. An additional Pauling Prize sponsored by the Canadian Division of the ACA and the Canadian National Committee of the IUCr, will be given to the highest ranked poster from a Canadian laboratory. Each award consists of $200, a complimentary banquet ticket, and a copy of Linus Pauling’s “General Chemistry”. Honorable mentions may also be awarded a complimentary banquet ticket. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission. Winners will be announced at the banquet on Wednesday, June 1. 

Oxford Cryosystems Poster Prize

Eligibility:  The Oxford Cryosystems Low Temperature Prize is awarded to any poster describing work in low temperature crystallography. The winner will receive a prize of two hundred and fifty pounds sterling donated by Oxford Cryosystems. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission. The winner will be announced at the banquet on Wednesday, June 1.  

IUCr Poster Prize

The Executive Committee is pleased to inaugurate a new series of IUCr awards to be presented at meetings of the regional affiliates and national crystallographic associations. The Award is complimentary online access to all IUCr journals for one year or a complimentary volume of International Tables or other IUCr publication. Eligibility will be the same as that for the Pauling Poster Prize. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission. The winner will be announced at the banquet on Wednesday, June 1.

Protein Data Bank Poster Prize

Eligibility:  The PDB Poster Prize is to recognize a student poster presentation involving macromolecular crystallography. The prize is open to graduate and undergraduate students only - no postdoctoral posters. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission. The winner will be announced at the banquet and an announcement will appear on the PDB web site and in the PDB Newsletter.

The Journal of Chemical Crystallography Poster Prize

The Journal of Chemical Crystallography proudly sponsors a prize to be awarded to the best student (poster) presentation in the area of chemical crystallography or small molecule structure determination and analysis at the ACA’s Annual Meeting. The winner will receive a one-year subscription to the Journal of Chemical Crystallography and a $200 Springer book voucher. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission. The winner will be announced at the banquet on Wednesday, June 1.

Student Travel Support for the Florence IUCr Meeting

The US National Committee for Crystallography is providing travel funds for students and post-docs attending the International Union of Crystallography meeting in Florence, Italy, August 23-31, 2005 (http://www.iucr2005.it/).

Additional information can be obtained on the web at http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-iucr/Travel_Grants_2005.html.