The Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award is the third component of the ASH Minority Recruitment Initiative following the Minority Medical Student Award Program and the ASH-AMFDP. The goal of the Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award is to attract and/or retain minority PhD students to the field of hematology through the ASH annual meeting. At this meeting, students will have the opportunity to hear the latest advances in hematology-related research, and interact with ASH leadership, senior researchers, and minority physicians, scientists, and students.

• About the Program 
• Program Benefits 
• Eligibility Requirements 
• Timeline 
• Evaluation, Selection, & Notification 
• Acceptance Policy 
• Corporate Support 
• Past Recipients 
• Questions 

About the Program

Students who are selected for the Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award will already be conducting hematology-related research, and must submit an abstract to the annual ASH meeting that is accepted for oral or poster presentation.

Students will be encouraged to remain involved with ASH throughout graduate school, in an effort to keep them engaged in the study of hematology.

Recipients are eligible to apply for additional Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Awards in subsequent years, as long as they are still eligible.

Read the ASH press release about the 2012 Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award recipients.

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Program Benefits

Participants will receive the following financial support:

• A stipend of $1,500

Participants will also receive complimentary online subscriptions to Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology, as well as The Hematologist, the Society's newsletter, during all of their remaining graduate school years.

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Eligibility Requirements

For the purposes of this program, minority is defined as individuals from racial and ethnic groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health-related sciences in the United States and Canada, including American Indians or Alaska Natives, Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders, African Canadians, Innuit, and First Nation Peoples. Thus, applicants must self-identify, and participants are drawn from this pool.

In addition, applicants must be:

• Enrolled in a graduate-level course of study at a school or institution in the U.S. or Canada.
• In the first three years of their graduate school education.
• Engaged in research under the direction of an ASH member.
• An author on an abstract submitted to the ASH annual meeting that is accepted for poster or oral presentation. Please note that priority is given to first-authors.
• Students pursuing their masters are not eligible.

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Application Process

To be considered for a Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award, students must complete both steps.

1. Submit an abstract to the 2013 ASH Annual Meeting. Applicants must review the rules for abstract submission to submit their abstract online.
2. In addition to abstract submission, applicants must submit the following:
• Program application
  • All applications must be compiled into a single .pdf document and sent to awards@hematology.org.
   
• Letter of endorsement from research mentor/PI

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Timeline

Students that do not submit an abstract by the abstract deadline are not eligible to submit a Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award. No late abstract submissions will be accepted. 

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Evaluation, Selection, & Notification

Abstracts submitted to the ASH annual meeting will be scored by the appointed abstract reviewers through the regular abstract review process. Abstracts will not be flagged as being from minority PhD students at any point through the abstract review process.

Program applications (not abstracts) will be reviewed by the Committee on Promoting Diversity. A copy of each abstract, as well as its score, will be provided to Committee members in the course of their review.

Applicants will be evaluated on the following criteria:

• Research (academic potential)
• Leadership/service
• Interest in hematology

Applicants selected for participation and their mentors will receive official notification of acceptance approximately mid-October 2012.

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Acceptance Policy

Anyone meeting the eligibility requirements set forth above can submit an application. The review of the Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award applications is based solely on the scientific merit of the abstract submitted and quality of the applicant. However, in fairness to award programmatic balance, participants are not eligible to receive a Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award and an ASH annual meeting abstract achievement award in the same year.

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Corporate Support

Visit ASH's Acknowledgement of Commercial Support page for more information on support for the Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award.

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Past Recipients

Past recipients of the Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award 

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Questions

Questions or requests for additional information regarding the Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award can be directed to ASH Awards at awards@hematology.org or by phone at 202-776-0544.

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