Travel Awards
Graduate Student Travel Awards Guidelines
Purpose: To encourage and assist a graduate student's presentation of their research findings at national and international professional meetings.
Amount: an average of $300 per student.
Open to ALL graduate students ADVISED by CAS Faculty
Application:
- senior author's name
- title of oral or poster presentation
- name, location, and date of meeting
- how funding will be used
- an abstract with objectives, methodology, results, and conclusions must be submitted with application. Limit to one page.
- M.S. or Ph.D. degree candidates (College or intercollege major)
- presentation based on student's original research
- one presentation per degree (this is usually the final presentation, otherwise, provide explanation)
- national meeting (or last chance to present and not previously funded)
- a signature is required from advisor or unit leader
- upon returning from a trip, a travel support form should be submitted through your department for reimbursement. We ask that you do this within two weeks of returning from your trip.
Timetable: Applications will be accepted and reviewed on an ongoing basis. Submit application, along with abstract, to the Office for Research and Graduate Education, 217 Ag. Administration Bldg.
You must be a registered student at the time of your travel.
If you receive an award, you MUST follow-up with a THANK YOU note to the sponsors. You can contact them at the addresses below.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Sahakian
Chairman and CEO Uni-Marts, Inc.
477 E. Beaver Ave.
State College, PA 16801-5690
Please send a copy to Susan Bezonsky, 217 Ag. Administration Building, University Park, PA 16802.
If you have any questions, contact Susan Berzonsky (sfb11@psu.edu) .
