• Promising Scientist Award

    2024 Award sponsored by Theia Markerless. Open to post-baccalaureate students. The top three abstracts will be selected to present in a special session at the conference.

  • Oral Presentation Awards

    When submitting your abstract, you will be asked whether or not you’d like to be considered for an award. Awards are given to the top graduate and undergraduate presentation.

  • Poster Presentation Awards

    When submitting your abstract, you will be asked whether or not you’d like to be considered for an award. Each poster considered for an award is judged by a minimum of two judges.

  • Travel Planning

    Student Travel Award

    This grant is available to students that may not have funds to attend SCASB. Applications are due by March 24, 2025 at 5:00 pm Central Time.

Past Awardees

  • Promising Scientist Award: Ashwini Sansare

    Graduate Oral Presentation: Kuanting Chen

    Undergraduate Oral Presentaion: Riley Phipps

    Poster Awards: Mia Hite and Alexis Gant

  • Promising Scientist Award:

    • Gold​ -  Sally Kenworthy​

    • Silver​ - Antonio Vintimilla​

    • Bronze​ - Nesreen El-Refaei

    Oral Presentations:

    • Jason Tsai​

    • Kuan Chen​

    • Petr Svoboda​

    • Kaleigh Renninger​

    Poster Awards:

    • Undergrad​ -  Samantha Martinez​

    • Master’s ​ - Mattie Higgins​

    • PhD​ - Ashlyn Jendro​ & Hunter Alvis​