Thank you for your interest in attending the ASA 2023 Annual Meeting. If you are a returning student, welcome back! We are so happy to have you again. If this will be your first meeting, here are a few things you can expect:

• Excellent plenary sessions from speakers at the top of their fields
• Opportunities for fellowship and networking with other ASA members in the USA, Canada, and beyond
• A special student track and reception
• Meal Meet Ups
• Opportunities to present a paper or poster
• InterVarsity Fellowship Reception

Our Student/Early Career Track provides a terrific opportunity to network with other emerging scholars.

Audience:
Students (grad & undergrad) and early career professionals within three years of finishing their most recent degree.

Are you looking for a sense of purpose in your work as a student or early career professional? Or for a community that will help you grow? Join us for a special Saturday morning Student/Early Career Track. We’ll feature a panel of experienced Christians in science, small groups to help you connect your working life and your experience of faith, and an early career lunch to connect and celebrate.

Some of our scholarship winners at ASA 2016 at Azusa Pacific University.

We know that money can be tight for students. The ASA would like to help make your attendance at ASA 2023 a possibility. Registration for student members is FREE (a $295 value).

• Scholarship awards will cover 50% of meals and lodging (double occupancy, shared bath).
• If the student is presenting either a poster or oral presentation (including posters for the AI workshop), the award increases to cover 75% of meals and lodging.
• Students traveling internationally from overseas are eligible for scholarship awards for 100% of meals and lodging. Please note the country you are traveling from on your scholarship application in your comments.

Important Notes:

• Please join the ASA as a student member if you wish to apply for scholarships, even if you have already graduated. This allows us to grant scholarships within the technical infrastructure of our registration system.
• For the purpose of scholarship awards, we define “early career” as in a postdoc or less than 3 years out from your most recent degree.

ASA Student Membership
Not an ASA student member? No problem! Annual membership is FREE for students (a $114 value). Benefits of membership include, access to our online journal, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, and networking opportunities at local chapter meetings.

Join us after the State of the ASA for our much-anticipated Ice Cream Social!

All are welcome to the InterVarsity Reception/Ice Cream Social! Join us after the State of the ASA to celebrate what God is doing this year. We’ll give a brief update on InterVarsity’s work with grad students and faculty, feature some fun guests, and give you a chance to connect with Christians in and interested in science.

Students are invited to deliver academic talks and poster sessions at ASA annual meetings.

We invite meeting student registrants to contribute oral or poster presentations to traditional parallel session tracks for a poster presentation on a range of topics at the intersection of science and faith. You may propose an abstract one of the following:

• An Oral Presentation: this is a 20-minute presentation (plus 5-minute Q&A) on a topic of importance to the science-faith dialogue (deadline Feb 28)
• A Poster Presentation: this is a conference-style poster for viewing; it should include scientific data and analysis as well as some discussion about its theological significance. (deadline May 31)
• This year, we are also calling for students to submit abstracts for posters at our three-hour, pre-conference workshop about Artificial Intelligence on Friday, July 28. These workshop-only posters will not be included in our poster contest, but they do still qualify as a "presentation" in terms of our scholarships.

Students may either include theological reflection in their poster or bring a poster they have already created (e.g., for a secular conference) and develop theological connections in conversation at the conference.

This year, graduate and undergraduate students submitting posters will be entered into the student poster contest.

We're excited to announce our inaugural student poster contest! This year, graduate and undergraduate students submitting posters will be entered into the student poster contest. (This does not include posters submitted for the Friday AI workshop.) We are excited to honor exceptional student work at the Annual Meeting.

Posters will be judged on the following criteria:

• Overall Clarity of Presentation: Visual interest, Readability, Balance between text and visuals, Title, Authors, etc.
• Elements and Flow: Title and authors, Statement of purpose and significance, Description of research
• Quality of Research: Key references to support findings/conclusions
• Graphs and Data presentation: Do they support the conclusions? Are they readable and clear?

Information for those coming from a country which requires a visa.

If you are coming from a country which requires a visa (see this page), you must:

• register and pay for the conference
• send us an email requesting a letter of invitation. This must include a link to an institutional website (church, university, company) which we can use to confirm your position

You can then use this letter as part of your application for a visa from the Canadian embassy or consulate in your country.

If there's a problem, contact asa@asa3.org