The Pitelka Award
passed away in 2003
appeared in the
Spring 2004 issue
of the ISBE Newsletter
The students of Frank Pitelka have established the Frank A. Pitelka Award for Excellence in Research, to be administered through the ISBE. Beginning in 1996, this award and its associated cash prize will be given out at biennial meetings of the ISBE to the senior or sole author of a significant paper published in Behavioral Ecology during the previous two years.
Eligibility of sole or first authors will be limited to predoctoral candidates or personas that have received their doctorate within five years of the date of the publication of their paper. In the case of multi-authored papers, the award will go to all authors, but the cash prize will go to the senior author only. All authors that meet the eligibility criteria, and whose papers present the results of original empirical or theoretical research, will be considered for this award. Review papers will not be eligible.
The ISBE executive committee will serve as the committee to select awardees, with the past-president acting as chair of the committee. For the 1996 award, papers published in Behavioral Ecology in 1994 and 1995 were considered. It is not necessary to apply for this award, as all papers whose first authors qualify will be considered. One award of US $150 will be made at the Canberra meeting. In future years, as the endowment grows, the size and number of awards made will increase.
Pitelka Prize Winners | A Biography of Frank Alois Pitelka - (Reprinted from ISBE Newsletter, 1996, volume 8(1): 6-7)