The McClung Award

The McClung Award is offered for the most outstanding paper published in BIOS each year. All papers published in BIOS are automatically reviewed by the McClung Committee which announces the Award in January of each year.

Judging Criteria for the McClung Award

Papers that have no undergraduate members among the authors will not be considered for the Award.
Papers that have undergraduate members who are sole authors would be given the greatest preference if they are among the top three according to quality.
Papers that have only undergraduate members as the senior and a single junior author would be given the second greatest preference if they are among the top three according to quality.
Papers that have undergraduate members as the senior author and several undergraduate members as junior authors would be given the third greatest preference according to the paper with the least number of junior authors if they are among the top three according to quality.
Papers that have the undergraduate members as the senior authors and graduate students as junior authors would be given the fourth greatest priority if they are among the top three according to quality.
Papers that have undergraduate students as the senior author and junior authors who are faculty would be given the fifth highest priority and the paper/s with the fewest number of faculty junior authors would be given preference if they are among the top three according to quality.