Graduate Student Travel Awards: Summer/Fall 2013

Submitted by gentlemanprice on March 15, 2012 - 12:00pm

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Summer and Fall Recipients!

 

The semiannual Graduate Student Travel Awards program provides funding for graduate students to travel to meetings, workshops, conferences, or symposia to present their research, or to do fieldwork. All graduate students at the University of Arizona who are engaged in interdisciplinary environmental research are invited to apply. The maximum award is $500.

Requirements

  1. You must be a current UA graduate student at the time of travel.
  2. You must be engaged in interdisciplinary water, environmental, and/or energy research that involves at least two disciplines.
  3. You may apply for an award in both the fall and spring round of grants, but you are eligible to receive only one travel grant per academic year.
  4. You must travel during the original proposed travel dates.
  5. Travel must occur between June 1 and December 31, 2013.  
  6. If you receive an award, you must submit a 200-word summary within two weeks after your return describing how you benefited from the meeting, workshop, conference, symposia, or fieldwork. 

Application

  1. Proposal Coversheet (download a fillable PDF file here)
  2. One-page letter explaining why it is important to participate in the meeting or fieldwork (e.g. how it will contribute to your professional development and research)
  3. Abstract of your research, or summary of your fieldwork goals
  4. Detailed budget showing all anticipated costs. NOTE: The maximum award will be $500; please explain how you will cover other expenses.
  5. Letter of recommendation from a UA faculty member
  6. Combine all of this information into ONE PDF FILE for submission.

Submission

Submit your application electronically to Lesa Langan DuBerry at lesa@email.arizona.edu by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 12, 2013.

Selection

An interdisciplinary panel of UA faculty/staff will review the proposals. Partial or full funding will be awarded at the discretion of the panel. Review criteria will include the strength of the proposal (e.g. impact on the students’ career, on scholarship in general, and/or environmental science and policy), interdisciplinary commitment, faculty recommendation, and financial need.

Announcement
Award winners will be notified via email by May 1, 2013.