2020 Scholarship Awards for Richardson-Applebaum Outstanding Graduate Research on Food Distribution and Marketing

The Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) is pleased to accept applications for the Richardson-
Applebaum Outstanding Graduate Research on Food Distribution and Marketing. Broadly defined, this
area encompasses all economic functions that occur between the farm gate and final consumer.

Eligibility

• The competition is open to all graduate students with scholarly interest and career aspirations in the food distribution system who have completed the degree between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019.
• Please note: 

1.  applicants are limited to applying for each category only once and subsequent submissions will be not be considered and 
2. only one submission will be accepted per university per category each year.

Award

• One travel stipend for each of the following categories: best Ph.D. Dissertation ($1,500), best M.S. Thesis ($1,500), and best M.S. Case Study ($1,500).
• Complimentary one-year FDRS student membership.
• Complimentary conference registration fees and recognition at the 2020 FDRS Annual Conference, which will take place in Dallas, TX, October 9-14, 2020.
• The Ph.D. recipient is invited to present his/her research during the FDRS Applebaum-Richardson Award Luncheon.

Application steps
Submit the following as one PDF file in the following order to KathyKelley@psu.edu by January
1, 2020. When labeling your PDF files, please include your first and last name and name of your
university.

• Statement of Intent form
• Cover letter that includes a brief synopsis of academic training, any food industry experience, and/or research experience and career interests and goals.
• Letter of recommendation from the research paper advisor.
• A copy of the dissertation/thesis/case study

For more information
Please visit the FDRS website at www.fdrsinc.org
or contact FDRS’s Vice President of Education: Dr. Kathy Kelley at
KathyKelley@psu.edu

2019 Call for Research Reports, Updates, and Outreach Writing

Food Distribution Research Society Annual Conference

October 18-22; Seattle, WA

The Food Distribution Research Society invites submissions of Research Reports, Research Updates, and Outreach Writing for the 2019 Annual Conference to be held in Seattle WA from October 18-22, 2019. Work related to any food distribution area from the farm gate through retail to the consumer is welcome at FDRS.

For more information on the conference, check under “Conferences” at the FDRS website  http://www.fdrsinc.org. Address and Questions & Correspondence regarding research submissions to Research co-VPs Dawn Thilmany and Lurleen Walters at the email: FDRSVPresearch@gmail.com

Research Reports are scholarly papers focusing on the results of research efforts. Reports will be evaluated and accepted on the basis of one-page abstracts that describe the research and its relevance to food distribution issues. Conference presentations of research reports are limited to 20 minutes each.

Research Updates are synopses of research or educational work either (1) recently completed, (2) in progress, or (3) to be undertaken within the next year. To give an update, submit a maximum one-page description of the update. Presentations of updates will be limited to 15 minutes each.

Outreach Writing is a relatively new category for the conference. We seek to recognize the kinds of technical communication of food industry issues that is key to the Extension/Industry Outreach work done by the Society’s founders and is core to many members’ work today. Some call these articles “industry outlook” or it may be something contributed to publications such as Choices …materials that communicate food supply chain and marketing issues to an intelligent, highly-involved but non-academic audience. Submissions will consist of the actual article and the submission form. At the conference, the author will have 15 minutes to present a summary of the article’s key points and how it was used in outreach/Extension efforts.

Email submissions to Dawn Thilmany and Lurleen Walters, at  FDRSVPresearch@gmail.com, by July 1, 2019. Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 31, 2019.

2019 Food Distribution Research Society Scholarship Award

For Outstanding Undergraduate Research on Food Distribution and Marketing

The Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) is pleased to accept applications for the 2019 Undergraduate Student Research Paper Competition in the area of food distribution and marketing. Broadly defined, this area encompasses all economic functions that occur between the farm gate and final consumer.

Eligibility: This competition is open to all undergraduate students with scholarly interest and career

aspirations in the food distribution system.

Award

• A travel stipend of $1,000 for the best Undergraduate Student Research Paper.
• Complimentary one-year FDRS student membership.
• Complimentary conference registration fees and recognition at the 2019 FDRS Annual Conference scheduled for October 18-22, 2019 in Seattle, Washington.
  
  

Application Steps: Submit the following in PDF format to KathyKelley@psu.edu by May 31, 2019. When labeling your PDF files, please include your first and last name.

• Statement of Intent form.
• Cover letter that includes a brief synopsis of academic training, any food industry experience and/or research experience and career interests and goals.
• The complete research paper. Write the research paper following the formatting guidelines provided on page 2 and 3.
• Letter of recommendation from the research paper advisor.
  
  

For more information: Please visit the FDRS website at: www.fdrsinc.org or contact FDRS’s Vice President for Education: Dr. Kathy Kelley at KathyKelley@psu.edu.