We are happy to announce this year's ENRE Student Travel Award competition. This award is given annually to the best paper dealing with energy, environmental or natural resource issues by a student author who is presenting at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, as judged by a panel of the Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment Section. The award is accompanied by a certificate and a $300 honorarium.

Application Process

Requirements of eligibility for students applying to this year's competition are:

1. Student who did not complete their Ph.D. prior to May 1, 2011, and
2. Student will be presenting a talk at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting held in Phoenix, Arizona.

If you wish to submit an abstract for this year's meeting, please contact:

• Marc McDill at mem14@psu.edu for papers related to forestry,
• Ramteen Sioshansi at sioshansi.1@osu.edu for papers related to energy,
• Alexandra Newman at anewman@mines.edu for papers related to mining, or
• Hayri Önal at h-onal@illinois.edu for papers related to the environment and sustainability.

All students conducting research in or related to energy, mining, sustainability, environmental or natural resource issues (including theory development, applications, optimization, econometrics, simulation) are encouraged to submit a paper. The work must be predominately that of the student, although faculty members or other mentors can be co-authors if appropriate. The paper should be 30 pages or less (double-spaced and 12-point font) and in the standard format of the INFORMS’ journals Management Science or Operations Research. Students do not need to be ENRE members to be eligible for the competition, however membership is encouraged.

To be considered for this year's competition, please submit an electronic version in MS Word or PDF format via e-mail to either of the Prize Co-Chairs by July 1, 2012. The prize is awarded at the ENRE business meeting at the INFORMS National Meeting.

2012 Committee Co-Chairs

Marcos Goycoolea
Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
School of Business
Peñalolén, Santiago, Chile
Email: marcos.goycoolea@uai.cl

Steffen Rebennack
Colorado School of Mines
Division of Economics and Business
Golden, CO, USA
Email: srebenna@mines.edu

Please encourage your students and/or qualified research associates to apply.