The Graduate School offers a limited number of competitive scholarships to selected graduate students who are in good academic standing. These travel grants are offered to support the costs of travel to professional meetings that are relevant to their degree.
To be eligible, graduate students should be presenting research or a creative activity which they have authored/co-authored. It must have been peer reviewed and accepted for presentation. If acceptance is pending, students can still apply but the final award of a travel grant is contingent upon acceptance for presentation. Students who are simply attending a meeting without any active participation are ineligible for travel grant funding.
Interested students must have an approved degree plan on file in the Graduate School and must be receiving at least $100 in matching funds from their departments (or other appropriate sources).
Beginning March 1, 2012 all students wishing to apply for the TGS Travel Grant must attend at least 3 TGS Graduate Professional Development workshops. If, for any reason, you are unable to attend a workshop in person, videos of most workshops are available online. To verify that you have watched the video, please complete and submit the review form at the end. If you have attended any Graduate Professional Development Workshop, please list those in the appropriate box in the application.
We are now accepting applications for the June 1, 2013 evaluation period.
Travel grants can be submitted at any point throughout the academic year. The grants are awarded on a rolling basis with three evaluation deadlines throughout the semester (October 1, February 1, June 1). We notify students of their acceptance or denial 1-2 weeks after the evaluation deadline. We recommend you submit your application as early as possible, because applications that are not awarded will be forwarded to the next review period and reconsidered for funding during that period. Applications must be submitted and travel must occur within the same academic year (Fall 2012 through Summer 2013).