The TPRC hosts this annual forum for dialogue among scholars and decision-makers from the public and private sectors engaged in communication and information policy. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policymakers with the best of recent research and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policymakers and industry. The TPRC program is assembled from submitted abstracts, invited papers and proposals for complete sessions.

The TPRC offers this award to support and encourage excellence in telecommunications research at the graduate level. The competition is open to all individuals who were graduate or law students on October 1, 1999 (thus, "first-year" faculty members and industry and government professionals may be eligible). Papers may be based on research undertaken for a master’s thesis, for a Ph.D. dissertation or for other supervised analytical writing. All papers must be accompanied by a letter of nomination by a faculty member of the university department or law school in which the research was undertaken.

The award recipients will be invited to attend (and may be asked to present their paper) at the Conference to be held September 23-25, 2000 in Alexandria, Virginia.

All submissions should be double-spaced and no longer than 30 pages. Papers should be sent as an attachment in MS Word or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) to Dawn Higgins at tprc@ei.com. All submissions must be received by May 8, 2000.

Please address inquiries to: tprc@ei.com

TPRC, Inc.

c/o Conference Coordinator

P.O. Box 19203

Washington, DC 20036

202-452-9033 (voice) 202-296-7138 (fax)