1. Eligibility is confined to paper/posters of which the senior author is a Psi Chi member. The student must be registered as a Psi Chi member at the time of submission of the paper in order to be eligible for the award.

2. Empirically based papers/posters are accepted.

3. The regional awards will be administered by the regional vice-presidents; the national awards will be administered by their respective national program coordinators.

4. The awards will only be for papers/posters presented at Psi Chi program sessions. The presenter must be present at the convention to receive the award. The awards will be presented by the Psi Chi regional vice-presidents at the regional conventions.

5. Awards are for papers/posters rather than individual authors; money will go to senior author for distribution, with any faculty members being precluded from the monetary distribution.

6. For the 2006-07 year, up to 144 Regional Research Awards of $300 each may be awarded for a total of $43,200. Eight National Convention awards will be awarded for both APA and APS. Four for undergraduate students at $300 each and four for graduate students at $500 each. If there are not enough worthy submissions, all awards do not have to be presented. The distribution of the awards for 2006-07 is:

Eastern	300 chapters	16 awards
Midwestern	266 chapters	16 awards
Southeastern	235 chapters	16 awards
Southwestern	101 chapters	12 awards
Western	101 chapters	12 awards
Rocky Mountain	41 chapters	6 awards
APA	8 awards
APS	8 awards

7. Awards will be for regional best paper/posters, rather than travel awards as originally proposed and will be called Regional Research Awards or National Conference Research Awards.

8. Ties are possible, with the money being split between the authors of the tied papers.

9. A paper may receive both a regional award or a national award and a Guilford and/or Allyn & Bacon Award. The same paper may not receive both a regional and a national award.

10. Both graduate and undergraduate members are eligible for the awards.

11. Psi Chi student members may submit their research to any region.