Graduate Student Awards

Announcement

Graduate students registered through BCPS may compete for the 10th annual Nichols Graduate Award, given annually for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the Conference.

Graduate students who are members of ACIS may also compete for The Maureen Murphy Postgraduate Prize, awarded to a graduate student who has presented at the most recent ACIS national conference for an exemplary presentation.

Submissions

The Nichols Award

AThose interested in competing for the Nichols Graduate Award should attach a COMPLETED copy of their paper to be presented at the Conference to an email sent to this address: nicholsaward@acis-bcps2025.net Entrants should also attach a copy of their current CV to the email. Both documents should be in .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf formats.

The Maureen Murphy Postgraduate Prize

Students should submit a PDF of their unrevised paper (fixing typos and cleaning up one’s bibliography is fine, but no other edits, corrections or elaborations may be added) via a form on the ACIS site. Applicants may also include PDFs of their presentation PowerPoints in the event that such materials are necessary for full understanding of their papers. Papers may be submitted in English or Irish.

Deadlines

The Nichols Award

All papers to be considered for the 2025 award must be submitted before midnight EST on February 7, 2025. Late entries will not be considered.


The Maureen Murphy Postgraduate Prize

All papers to be considered for the 2025 award must be submitted before midnight EST on March 7, 2025. Late entries will not be considered.

More Information

For more information,
see the "Awards" page on the acis-bcps2025.net site.