Details:

• All graduate students at the School of Medicine are eligible to apply
• Each student can receive up to $500 during his/her tenure as a graduate student
• Applications will be judged on the following criteria, ranked in this order:
  
  1. Financial Need: Would the students otherwise be unable to attend due to the lack of funding from their lab? A letter from the mentor verifying this claim must accompany the application as laid out in the GSA Travel Award Application Form
  
  2. Academic Merit: Is the student presenting original work at this conference? Generally, being selected for an oral presentation carries more weight than being selected for a poster presentation.
  
  3. Year of student and previous conferences attended: Students who are in their fifth or sixth years who have never been to a conference before will be given priority in this category compared to first or second year students who have attended conferences in their labs

The "Ideal" Candidate:

This means an "ideal" candidate is someone presenting original work in an oral presentation at a conference as a senior student who had never attended a conference before, and would not be able to attend the conference without financial aid from the GSA. This person would also be a senior student who had never attended a conference before.

A candidate who is unlikely to get funded is a candidate whose lab can absolutely afford to reimburse their students, who is not presenting any work at the conference or and would not benefit from attending the conference, and is a junior student who has been to many conferences before.

Please carefully read through GSA Travel Award Policy before you apply! Please sent the Application Form to the Director of Finance.

Important Dates!

*please note For the April 1st window all receipts MUST be submitted prior to June 30th to guarantee payment.

Reimbursements

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