To be considered for the 2013 Aptman Prize, email the following as a SINGLE FILE to Ernest Zitser by May 15, 2013:

• Application cover sheet (see form)
• Essay of 500-750 words describing research strategies and use of library tools and resources
• Paper including bibliography and appendices
• Faculty letter of support (see form), emailed by faculty member or applicant to Ernest Zitser (may be a separate file, if necessary; first three items should be sent as a single PDF or Word document)

Please consider the following guidelines:

• All materials must be emailed to Ernest Zitser by May 15, 2013 -- cover sheet, research essay and paper should be in a SINGLE FILE (PDF is preferred); faculty statement of support may be emailed as a separate file, if necessary
• All authors must be undergraduates
• Papers will be grouped into lower-level (first/second-year) and upper-level (third/fourth-year) categories based on the author’s class distinction at the time that the paper was written
• Honors theses shall be accepted for consideration and will be judged separately from all other papers
• Papers may take the form of a traditional research paper, as well as a digital project; emphasis is on students' use of library resources and their awareness of their research strategies, rather than the project’s format
• Papers must include internal citations and bibliographies, formatted according to bibliographic style requested by course instructor or preferred by student’s discipline and specified on application cover sheet
• Digital projects should be submitted in the desired format (e.g. URL of the final project, videotape, DVD)
• Students may submit papers only once but may submit multiple papers in a given year.  Each paper must be submitted individually and with an accompanying application cover sheet, essay and faculty letter of support
• Papers must be written for courses completed at Duke and using Duke University Libraries
• Papers written during terms spent abroad may be submitted, so long as students are enrolled at Duke during these terms and use Duke University Libraries resources for their research
• Drafts of papers will be accepted, so long as they reflect students’ research processes and their use of library resources