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NATIONAL
TAX ASSOCIATION
101st ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ON TAXATION
November
20-22, 2008
Sheraton Society Hill,
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
Jon
Rork, Chair Student Initiatives
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
Graduate Student Session:
The National Tax Association will sponsor one session at the Annual
Conference in
Philadelphia
(
November 20-22, 2008
) that will consist entirely of graduate student papers (papers co-authored with
faculty mentors should be submitted for the general call for papers).
Interested students should submit full contact information, a one-page
abstract, and a brief letter of nomination from a faculty mentor or advisor
directly to Jon Rork at jrork@gsu.edu by
July 31, 2008
. Abstracts submitted for the
Graduate Student Session should not be
submitted simultaneously for the general call for papers.
In your e-mail cover letter, please indicate whether you would be
interested in (a) serving as a discussant for the Graduate Student Session or
(b) participating in the Graduate Student Research Forum (see below) in the
event that your paper is not selected for the Graduate Student Session.
Graduate Student Research Forum:
The NTA’s Annual Conference in
Philadelphia
(
November 20-22, 2008
) will also have a student poster session that will allow students to network
with other tax professionals and potential employers. Students
will present their research one-on-one and in a small group setting. Interested
students should submit full contact information, a one-page abstract, and a
brief letter of nomination from a faculty mentor or advisor directly to Jon Rork
at jrork@gsu.edu by
October 1, 2008
. Abstracts submitted for the
Graduate Student Research Forum should not be submitted simultaneously for the general call for papers.
NTA Doctoral Dissertation Prize:
Advanced graduate students who will complete their dissertations by June
2007 can submit their work for consideration for the NTA’s Outstanding
Dissertation in Government Finance and Taxation.
The winner receives a $2,000 award and the two honorable mentions receive
$1,000 each. The winners present
their work at the NTA Annual Conference. Full
details of the competition are available on the NTA’s web site at www.ntanet.org.
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