Chronology of PA Awards & Grants

OUTSTANDING STUDENT AWARD

Year	G. R. Schmeidler´s Award for Outstanding Student
1994	Matthew D. Smith
1995	none given
1996	none given
1997	Kathy Dalton
1998	Fatima Regina Machado and Wellington Zangari (joint winners)
1999	Cheryl H. Alexander
2000	Simon J. Sherwood
2001	Stefan Schmidt
2002	Christine Simmonds
2003	Lance Storm
2004	none given
2005	Anneli Goulding
2006	Nicola Holt
2007	none given
2008	none given
2009	Renaud Evrard
2010	Thomas Rabeyron

Description of Grants and Awards of the Parapsychogical Association
Revised April 21 2008

PARE Grants [see detail of awardees here]

Committee = Harvey Irwin, Chair, Christine Simmonds-Moore and Jean Burns

Established in 2003, the PARE awards and grants are intended to pay for the direct costs of conducting research and may also be used to help defray other expenses providing the applicant is able to document the relevance of their research to parapsychological research.  The awards are used to achieve a scientific understanding of psychic phenomena. 

Grants are awarded on an annual basis with the total amount of available funds being an amount equal to either $5,000 or the amount earned by the fund in the previous calendar year, whichever is larger [per 2005 Board minutes]. 

Schmeidler Outstanding Student Award

Committee = Board of Directors; Committee Chair = Past President.

Winner, if any, to be selected by end of April [per 1998 minutes]  

This award goes to a student who excels academically and makes early contributions to the field through conference presentations, research or involvement in one or more of the organizations of the field, and/or who has overcome practical difficulties to study parapsychology. The Award includes a small cash grant and one complimentary year as a Student Affiliate in the PA or one complimentary year of membership, if the Award Winner is already a member. The Award Winner will also be invited to give a 30-minute Invited Address at a future PA convention on the topic of his or her choice.

Outstanding contribution

Committee = Board of Directors; Committee Chair = Past President.

Winner, if any, to be selected by end of April [per 1998 minutes]

Awarded to a PA member or associate member who has made an outstanding research (experimental, theoretical, scholarly) or service contribution that has advanced the discipline of parapsychology.

Recipient receives a plaque at the annual convention. The recipient is invited, if he or she wishes, to present an Invited Address (30 minutes maximum), preferably at the Parapsychological Annual Convention in the year following the award, or, if it be preferred by the awardee, no later than at that Convention the second year following the award. The willingness to give such an address is not, however, a condition for receipt of the award. 

Career award

Committee = Board of Directors; Committee Chair = Past President.

Winner, if any, to be selected by end of April [per 1998 minutes]

Awarded to a PA member or associate member for sustained (20 years or more) research or service contributions that have advanced the discipline of parapsychology.

Recipient receives a plaque at the annual convention. The recipient is invited, if he or she wishes, to present an Invited Address (30 minutes maximum), preferably at the Parapsychological Annual Convention in the year following the award, or, if it be preferred by the awardee, no later than at that Convention the second year following the award. The willingness to give such an address is not, however, a condition for receipt of the award.

Charles Honorton Integrative Contributions award

Committee = Board of Directors; Committee Chair = Past President.

Winner, if any, to be selected by end of April [per 2008 Board discussion]

Awarded to a PA member or associate member who has made significant research contributions that integrate parapsychology and mainstream science, and thereby has advanced the discipline of parapsychology.

Recipient receives a plaque at the annual convention. The recipient is invited, if he or she wishes, to present an Invited Address (30 minutes maximum), preferably at the Parapsychological Annual Convention in the year following the award, or, if it be preferred by the awardee, no later than at that Convention the second year following the award. The willingness to give such an address is not, however, a condition for receipt of the award.

Bob Morris Student Travel Grant

Sub-Committee = Chris Roe, the Past-President, and the
Program Chair.  The sub-committee will make a presentation to the Board each year, suggesting recipients and amounts.

A donation of $10,000 was generously given to the PA by Joanna Morris.  The donation will be used as the initial contribution to the “Robert L. Morris Student Travel Grant Fund.”  It will be for PA student affiliates who are participating actively in the convention through a paper, panel, research brief, etc.  Students will be encouraged to apply for a travel grant when they submit their presentation to the Program Chair.  A student may receive funding once in her or his career. A sub-committee of the Board will administer the award. A maximum total amount to be awarded will be decided by the Board each year after receiving the Treasurer's report.  The availability of the award and instructions for applying will be included with the Call for Papers.

[Information on this page contributed by Erlendur Haraldsson]