Each summer the Central Arizona Project (CAP) offers an award for student research that focuses on water issues affecting Central and Southern Arizona and the Colorado River. It is exciting to have an award that is available to both graduate and undergraduate students at any college or university in the state. The 2019 submittal deadline is May 15th. Over the last several years, University of Arizona students from the School of Geography and Development, the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, the School of Natural Resources, the School of Geography and Development, and the Water, Society, and Policy Master's program have received awards. CAP offers first place winners $1,000 and second place winners $500. Each year a variety of topics are covered and past winning papers are posted on the CAP website where they can be read for years to come. Papers can focus on legal, economic, political, environmental, or water management issues, as well as any other issue that might be of interest to CAP or Arizona water users.