The Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Division invites all graduate students to apply for this annual paper award competition.  The paper should be related to the broad Division interest of youth, aging, and the life course.  Current graduate students and recent graduates (who received their degrees after January 2012) may submit a paper if it was written while a student.  Papers based on theses or dissertations are acceptable.  Co-authored papers are acceptable as long as all the listed authors were graduate students at the time the paper was written.  Double submission to other SSSP award competitions will disqualify the submission.  The award recipient will be required to present the winning paper at the 2013 SSSP Annual Meeting in New York, NY.  Thus, the paper also should be submitted to any Youth, Aging, and the Life Course meeting session organizer or the roundtable organizer by the January 31st deadline.  The recipient will receive a monetary prize of $100, student membership to SSSP, SSSP conference registration, and a ticket to the SSSP awards ceremony.  Send an electronic copy of the paper and a cover letter identifying your graduate program to: Mary Byrnes, Ph.D., mbyrnes4404@marygrove.edu.  The paper submission should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages (including references) and should be prepared for anonymous review (with the author specified only on the cover page).