Bailey Award

The Bailey Award was established in honor of Wallace K. Bailey, an eminent peanut scientist. The award is based on a two-tier system whereby nominations are selected based on the oral paper presentation in sessions at the annual APRES meeting, and final awards are made after critiquing manuscripts based on the information presented during the respective meeting.

Initial selection

The session chairman shall appoint three persons, including him/herself if desired, to select the best paper in the session. None of the judges can be an author or co-author of papers presented during the respective session. No more than one paper from each session can be nominated for the award but, at the discretion of the session chairman in consultation with the Bailey Award chairman, the three-member committee may forego submission of a nomination. Symposia and poster presentations are not eligible for the Bailey Award. The following should be considered for eligibility.

1. The presenter of a nominated paper, whether the first or a secondary author, must be a member of APRES.
2. Graduate students being judged for the Joe Sugg Award are also eligible for the Bailey Award if they meet all other criteria for eligibility.

Oral presentations will be judged for the Award based on the following criteria:

1. Well organized.
2. Clearly stated.
3. Scientifically sound.
4. Original research or new concepts in extension or education.
5. Presented within the time allowed.

A copy of these criteria will be distributed to each session chair and judge prior to the paper session.

Final Evaluation

Final evaluation for the Award will be made from manuscripts submitted to the Awards Committee, after having been selected previously from presentations at the APRES meetings. These manuscripts should be based on the oral presentation and abstract as published in the PROCEEDINGS.

Authorship of the manuscript should be the same (both in name and order) as the original abstract. Papers with added author(s) will be ruled ineligible. Manuscripts are judged using the following criteria:

Appropriateness of the introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion, interpretation and conclusions, illustrations and tables.

1. Originality of concept and methodology.
   
2. Clarity of text, tables and figures, economy of style; building on known literature.
   
3. Contribution to peanut scientific knowledge.

The Bailey Award chair for the current year’s meeting will complete the following:

1. notify session moderators for the upcoming meeting of their responsibilities in relation to judging oral presentations as set in the guidelines in APRES PROCEEDINGS.
   
2. meet with committee at APRES meeting.
   
3. collect name of nominees from session moderators by Friday a.m. of Annual Meeting.
   
4. provide Executive Officer and Bailey Award committee.
   
5. notify nominees within two months of meeting.
   
6. set deadline in late Fall or early winter for receipt of manuscripts by Bailey Award chair.
   
7. distribute manuscripts to committee members.
   
8. provide Executive Officer with Bailey Award winner and paper title no later than May 15, and
   
9. Bailey Award chair’s responsibilities are completed when the Executive Officer receives Bailey Award recipient’s name and paper title.

The presentation of bookends will be made to the speaker and other authors appropriately recognized.

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