The GSA awards eight travel grants each semester to graduate students
at CSM. The travel grants are intended to help students display their
research at meetings or conferences in their field of study by
providing financial assistance toward travel expenses. Travel grants
are awarded according to the criteria listed below.
QUALIFICATIONS:
In order to qualify
for a travel grant, a person must be a currently registered, fee paying
student in a graduate program at CSM. Travel grants are awarded to
defray the costs of attending a specific conference, at which the
student must be either the speaker in an oral presentation or primary
author in a poster session. Applications will be considered and travel
grants may be tentatively awarded for abstracts which have not yet been
formally accepted by a conference, but the funds will not be disbursed
until proof of abstract acceptance is shown. A graduate student may
receive only one travel grant during his or her academic career in a
particular graduate degree program at CSM.
SCHEDULE:
Travel grant
applications are accepted each fall and spring semester. The specific
application deadlines vary from year to year, but should be listed in
the Graduate Student Handbook or posted in the "News" section of this
website. Fall semester grants are intended to assist students attending
conferences scheduled during November through April. Spring semester
grants are for conferences during May through October.
AMOUNT:
Travel grants are
awarded in amounts up tp $400. The awards are intended to cover
conference-related expenses, such as travel costs, lodging, food, or
registration fees. The grant funds are transferred to a school account
belonging to the recipient's advisor or department. Each semester, four
awards are reserved for doctoral students, and four for masters
students, although if fewer than four grants are awarded for one of
these groups, the unused awards are made available to the other group.
RECIPIENT DETERMINATION:
The travel grant
recipients are determined by the Travel Grant Committee, which is
composed of volunteer graduate students. Any graduate student may
request to be on the committee by attending GSA meetings and making his
or her desire known.
The Travel Grant Committee determines the grant recipients in accord
with the goal of the Travel Grant program, which is to help ensure that
all graduate students have the opportunity to present their research at
a conference before they graduate. To this end, recipients are
determined using the following criteria:
Seniority - Graduate
students who are closer to finishing their degree will be given
precedence.
Prior conference attendance - Students who have not yet had an
opportunity to present their research at a conference will be given
precedence.
Financial need - Students who would not be able to attend a conference
without this financial assistance will be given precendence over those
who have alternate sources of funding.
Completed travel
grant applications must be turned in by 5 pm on the day that they are
due. Please remember to have your advisor sign and date the bottom of
your application form under your signature!
Application form (in Word
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