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The Office of the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate programs
will award funds on a competitive basis for the purpose of
supporting graduate student travel to scientific meetings or other
appropriate scholarly activities. The Dean’s Office feels that such
travel opportunities are essential for the scientific growth and
development of students.
Travel funds will be awarded twice each year: the deadline for
travel that will occur between January 1, 2008 and June 30, 2008 is
November 15, 2007;
the deadline for travel that will occur between July 1, 2008 and
December 30, 2008 is May 15, 2008.
In order to be compensated for travel during any one travel period,
an application must be submitted before 5:00 pm on the date listed
for that period (see above). Students traveling over an interval of
time that falls within two travel periods must apply for the travel
period of the Travel Begin Date.
Applications for travel awards should
include the following information:
Your name, year in graduate
school at K-State CVM, and expected graduation date; list of your
publications (published and submitted only) and previous
presentations; research advisor's name; your e-mail address, and
your office/lab phone and room numbers; type of scholarly activity
for which support is requested (name of meeting, location, etc.);
the nature of your involvement at this activity (if presenting a
poster or giving a talk, please attach abstract). If your abstract
has been submitted but not reviewed at the time of application,
please indicate this so that a conditional award can be considered.
If the meeting is not commonly known (examples of common meetings
might include Society of Neuroscience, Conference of Research
Workers in Animal Disease, Experimental Biology, American College of
Veterinary Internal Medicine, Gordon Research Conferences, etc…)
please describe the format of the meeting in one paragraph (number
of participants, talks running in parallel or serial, and anything
else that is unique about the meeting). If the activity or meeting
organizers provide travel grant opportunities for graduate students,
please indicate if you plan to apply for these funds. Indicate if
your department or research advisor will be contributing to your
travel cost for this meeting, and if so to what extent (be sure to
discuss this first with your advisor! He/She is expected to provide
a letter of commitment along with the application). Provide an
estimated budget for your trip, including: airfare, lodging, meals,
registration, and other anticipated costs (indicate source of your
budget information). Explain what you have done to minimize the cost
(sharing a room, staying over Saturday night to obtain reduced
airfare, etc.). In one paragraph explain how this meeting will
impact your graduate student experience at the K-State CVM. Indicate
the amount of your request. Awards will typically range between
$400-$500, but all requests will be considered.
An application for the award can be
found here.
Selection:
Awards will be made based on
the following criteria:
The meeting's ability to
enhance the graduate student experience -- this will include issues
such as the size of the meeting, the extent to which students will
be in contact with other students, faculty, industry
representatives, and so forth; extent of participation in the
meeting (poster, oral presentation, etc.); extent of matching funds
from the meeting organizers, research advisor, or other sources;
number of previous K-State CVM travel grants awarded (no more than
one per academic year may be received).
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