2023 Recipient

Deirdre Quinn, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh 
"Changes in Unhealthy Alcohol Use Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Women Veterans of Reproductive Age"

Purpose

To recognize and promote exceptional scholarly work related to military families and children among family scholars.

Award

A certificate will be presented at the Military Families and Children focus group annual meeting held at the NCFR Annual Conference. No monetary award will be issued.

Criteria

• All format of proposals accepted for the NCFR Annual Conference are eligible, the proposals focus must be on military families. Proposals related to research, theory, and practice are eligible.
• There will be one award, the first author must be a Professional, and must be a member of NCFR at the time of nomination and receipt of the award.

Nomination process

The recipient is selected on the basis of the average rating from the peer reviews. The proposal with the highest average score is selected as the recipient. In cases where multiple proposals receive the same score, the members of the focus group leadership team review each of the top scoring proposals and vote on the recipient.

Deadline

July 31: The recipient is notified by this date