EERI Graduate Student Paper Award from Earthquake Spectra

EERI’s Student Awards Committee is excited to offer its annual Graduate Student Paper Award from Earthquake Spectra. This competition encourages the active involvement of students in earthquake engineering and the earthquake hazards community and allows emerging experts to share their research. The prize is a trip to the EERI Annual Meeting, recognition during the Institute’s Awards Ceremony, and the opportunity to meet and network with peers and experts in the field.

Since January 2018, papers with graduate student first authors published in each volume of Earthquake Spectra have been eligible for the competition. This (1) encourages graduate student researchers to publish their high-quality work in Earthquake Spectra, (2) ensures that other research team members are properly credited for their contribution to the work, and (3) aligns more with current interdisciplinary earthquake engineering research trends.

Eligibility and Selection Procedures:

1. Papers will be submitted to Earthquake Spectra for possible publication. The submitted papers may have any number of authors, but the first author must be a graduate student researcher at the time of first submission. The submitted paper will undergo the normal peer-review process.
2. Each year (i.e., each volume of Earthquake Spectra), the published papers will be collected by the managing editor and staff, and reviewed by the Student Awards Committee to determine which paper(s) will win the graduate student paper award for that year. For example, the 2025 winning paper will be chosen from papers published in Volume 41 of Earthquake Specta, for which the first author was a graduate student researcher at the time of first submission.
3. Do not submit a paper for the competition. If your paper was published in Earthquake Spectra and qualifies, it will be reviewed by the Student Awards Committee for the award.
4. The authorship team wins the award, and at least one co-author should be designated to accept the award on behalf of the research team at the EERI annual meeting.

Prize:

1. Free registration to the EERI Annual Meeting for the graduate student first author
2. Recognition during the Institute’s Awards Ceremony
3. Up to $1,000 to cover airfare, ground transportation, and hotel costs associated with attending the meeting.

Undergraduate Student Paper Competition

EERI previously held an annual undergraduate student paper competition. Past winners of this competition can be found on the EERI Award Recipients page.