The award, which will be presented at the ATA Annual Conference in Orlando, FL in September 2000, is open to any graduate or undergraduate student or group of students attending an accredited college or university in the United States. Preference will be given to students who have been or are currently enrolled in translator training programs. Students who are already published translators are, however, ineligible. No individual student may submit more than one entry. The project, which may be derived from any facet of translation studies, should result in a project with post-grant applicability, such as a publication, conference presentation, or teaching materials.
Computerized materials are ineligible, as are dissertations and theses.
If the project is a translation, the description must present the work in its context. It must also be a substantive statement of difficulties or innovations involved in the project and of the post-competition form the work will take. The application must be accompanied by a statement of support from the faculty member who is supervising the project. This letter of support should demonstrate the faculty supervisor s intimate familiarity with the student s work and include a detailed assessment of the project s significance and of the student s growth and development in translation. If the project involves an actual translation, a translation sample of not less than 400 and not more than 500 words, together with the corresponding source-language text, must accompany the application.