Department of Pharmacology Student Travel Award
The Graduate Training Committee (GTC) may award up to four $750 awards each year. A log will be kept of students that receive the award to keep track of this. Individual students may receive this award more than once during their graduate tenure, but, only once per academic calendar year.
Conditions:
A student must:
- Have a thesis mentor that has a primary appointment in the Department of Pharmacology.
- Provide a copy of the related abstract indicating that the student is the 1st and presenting author.
- Write a paragraph justifying why the travel award is beneficial to his or her career.
- Submit abstract and justification to Graduate Program administrator, currently Vanessa Martinez, and Graduate Program directors, currently Drs. Jason Aoto and James Costello. They will share with the GTC. Please indicate if the application is time sensitive in your email to them.
- Pursue any other funding sources available (if, for instance, the meeting organizers offer any travel awards).
- Demonstrate commensurate academic merit (subject to the discretionary review of the GTC).
Students can receive multiple travel awards at the same time. Students are encouraged to apply to all other travel support sources available to them where applicable: department, Dunwiddie, graduate school, Hirs award, and or any resources from the sponsoring society.
Dunwiddie Student Travel Award
The Dunwiddie award can go to anyone studying neuroscience and first author presenting at an exclusive meeting, regardless of program.
The Dunwiddie travel award is a one-time award to any student studying neuroscience in the program or not, but in a pharmacology program faculty members laboratory. It has to be a first author presentation at a small meeting like a Gordon conference or a keystone conference. It cannot be a big meeting like the society for neuroscience.
Students are eligible for $1,000 once in their graduate tenure.
Students are encouraged to apply to all other travel support sources available to them where applicable: department, Dunwiddie, graduate school, Hirs award, and or any resources from the sponsoring society.
A student must:
- Provide a copy of the related abstract indicating that the student is the 1st and presenting author.
- Write a paragraph justifying why the travel award is beneficial to his or her career.
- Submit abstract and justification to Graduate Program administrator, currently Vanessa Martinez, and Graduate Program directors, currently Drs. Jason Aoto and James Costello. They will share with the GTC. Please indicate if the application is time sensitive in your email to them.
- Pursue any other funding sources available (if, for instance, the meeting organizers offer any travel awards).
- Demonstrate commensurate academic merit (subject to the discretionary review of the GTC).
After the meeting, students should send the Pharmacology Director of Finance and Administration a follow-up paragraph detailing what they learned from the meeting and how it enhanced their research and education. They should inform the front office that they received a travel award and the amount awarded, so that can be reconciled with their travel expenses.