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Graduate Student Travel Awards
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Application Deadline: June 15, 2010
Applications are now closed. Please check back next year for 2011 application information.
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2009 Recipients of the Graduate Student Travel Awards were honored at Mentoring: A Networking Event in Chicago.
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Graduate Student Travel Awards
Supported by Eli Lilly & Co.
Background
The Society for Neuroscience offers Graduate Student Travel Awards, administered by the Professional Development Committee (PDC), to honor outstanding female and male graduate researchers.
The award includes complimentary registration and a stipend to offset travel expenses for the SfN annual meeting.
Eligibility
Awardees are chosen on the basis of the scientific merit of their abstracts, a letter of nomination from a principal investigator or advisor, research and career goals, and essay. The award is open to both women and men.
Applications must meet the following criteria:
- Applicant must be the first author of an abstract to be presented at the annual meeting
- Applicant's abstract must be of the highest scientific merit
- Applicant and his or her advisor must be members of SfN
- Applicant must be a graduate student who has advanced to doctoral candidacy
- Laboratory from which the awardee is chosen should not have been the recipient of a travel award the previous year
Application Information
Please upload the following application ination materials to the new SfN awards submission site:
- Completed application form (Word 97-2003 document, .doc)
- Copy of the applicant's abstract submission confirmation form for the 2010 SfN annual meeting
- Curriculum vitae (please include education, date at which nominee received PhD, honors/awards, and publications (abstracts and manuscripts) in the format provided: curriculum vitae template (Word 97-2003 document, .doc)
- One-page letter of recommendation from the applicant's advisor
- Essay by the applicant about a woman scientist who has inspired him/her (no more than 500 words). All essays must be the applicant's own words and ideas. Using someone else's work without citing the source is not permissible - this includes copying, rephrasing, and borrowing facts, statistics, or other material.
- Description of the applicant's research and career goals (no more than 250 words)
Deadline for receipt of application materials: Tuesday, June 15, 2010.
All applicants will be notified of the selection results in August. Award checks will be presented at the Society's 40th Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Please e-mail awardsandprizes@sfn.org with any questions.
Past Recipients
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2008 |
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Elisabetta Babetto
Kasia M. Bieszczad
Joshua W. Buckhold
LaTasha K. Crawford
Maya Desai
Racheal M. Hannah
Cynthia M. Harley
April J. Ho
Sunah Kim
Deranda Lester
Nanxin Li
Shyuan Ngo
Laura Prolo
Amber Van Matre
Sarah K. Williams
Calvin Kai Young
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Cameron Jeter
Jamie Johansen
Ji Hyun Ko
Kami Koldewyn
Geraldine Kress
Guarav Kumar
Ingrid Nieuwenhuis
Michelle Previtera
Jamie Reed
Norma Andrea Velazquez Ulloa
Susan Winters (Susan Bartko) |
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| 2007 |
2006 |
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Susan Austin
Corina Bondi
Eliza Congdon
Delphine Feuerstein
Erin Newburn
Biyu He
Yelenis Herrera
Amy Herrold
Karra Jones
Laveeta Joseph
Lena Khibnik
Christi Kolarcik
Vivian Labrie
Carla Lema Tome
Aislinn Williams
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Karen Alsene
Barbara Bendlin
HaiYan Chen
Catherine Christian
Susan Harrison
Vaishali Jahagirdar
Kara Kuntz
Tara Lauriat
Misty Marshall
Elizabeth O'Hare
Lucy Palmer
Jennifer Peters
Asya Rolls
Laura Thomas
Marieke Van Vugt |
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| 2005 |
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Nicole Avena
Celine Bouquet
Joelle Chabwine
Georgina Cruz
Kimberly D'Anna
Elena Giaconi
Nina Hasen
Amanda Kaas
Irena Kadiu
Emily Murphy
Angelique Paulk
Karen Rommelfanger
Khanh Tran
Melinda Tyler
Tiffany Wallace |
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