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Please plan on attending the CUTC Poster Session, or better still, submitting a poster.

The poster session provides researchers a chance to interact with peers and exchange ideas.  It also offers the opportunity to showcase your research to a broad range of the corn industry-from producers to end users.  Additionally, there are a number of representatives of organizations that fund research at the conference.

To support and to encourage new researchers, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is pleased to present the Corn Utilization and Technology Conference Outstanding Poster Award. Posters will be judged throughout the conference by a committee composed of personnel from various corn processing industries, academics and government scientists.

Specific Areas of Interest:

• Innovative research that demonstrates new uses and value-added products from corn
  
• Scientific and technical projects that improve energy utilization, environmental control, product quality, process development and/or analytical procedures
  
• Research that results in a better understanding of corn processing
  
• Analysis of human and animal nutrition issues facing the corn industry

Evaluation Criteria:

• Open to graduate students
  
• Relevance to the corn growing and dry grind processing/wet milling industries
  
• Scientific originality
  
• Valid and supportable conclusions
  
• Oral and visual presentation

Award Honorarium

First Place: $300
Second Place: $200
Third Place: $100

The award winners will be announced at the conclusion of the conference. After receipt of the honoree’s biography and paper abstract, a letter of congratulations and certificate will be sent with the honorarium. An announcement of the award will be distributed to the trade press by NCGA.

Please Note: Posters will be available for review throughout the conference in addition to scheduled review sessions. However, authors are only required to be in attendance during the scheduled reviews.

Who to Contact:

Please contact Nathan Danielson, BioCognito at nathan.danielson@gmail.com if you wish to submit a poster for display at the 2008 CUTC.

For guidelines for poster presentation, click here.