Student Travel Awards
Deadline: 17 April 2009
Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Awards can be made to students or recent postdocs who are AOU members and who are sole authors or joint authors of papers; in the case of joint authorship, the student must present the poster or oral paper.
In addition to award application materials described below, students must also submit standard abstract materials to the Program Coordinator by the 17 May 2009 deadline to receive a place on the program.
Note: The purpose of the advanced deadline for the Awards application is to allow the selection committee to inform applicants of funding decisions about Travel Awards before the deadline for early registration and program abstracts.
Application Procedures
Application deadline for travel awards is 17 April; late applications will not be accepted. If applying also for a Presentation Award, submit only ONE application; indicate on the cover sheet (see application instructions below) whether you are applying for a travel award, presentation award, or both. Submit the following items via e-mail (as a single pdf attachment) to Rebecca Kimball (rkimball@ufl.edu):
- The Travel Award Cover Sheet (MS Word), including confirmation of AOU membership
- 1-page curriculum vitae
- An expanded abstract (double-spaced with 12-point font, 3-page maximum including any references, tables, and figures). The expanded abstract should state objectives, methods, major results, and scientific significance.
- Applicants should have their academic advisor send a brief e-mail (1 - 3 sentences) stating that the applicant is a student in good academic standing (longer letters of support are not required).
- Questions may be directed to Rebecca Kimball (rkimball@ufl.edu).
Eligibility:
- Full-time undergraduate and graduate students are eligible.
- Students graduating the semester/quarter prior to the meeting are eligible. Postdocs are eligible only if the degree was awarded in the semester/quarter prior to the meeting.
- Undergraduate students are eligible for travel awards, though preference will be given to advanced graduate students.
- Students giving either oral or poster presentations are eligible for travel awards.
- The applicant must be the sole or lead author and must also present the poster or oral paper.
- Applicants for student travel awards must be members of the AOU.
Restrictions:
- Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Awards are limited to two per lifetime.
- Travel award funds cover transportation costs only. Students should not expect to use award funds for registration, accommodation, or meal expenses.
Award criteria:
- Applications will be judged based on quality of research/abstract and also standing of student: students close to completion of a degree program will be given preference over students at earlier stages in a program.
- The award is contingent on eventual acceptance of the abstract by the Scientific Program Committee (see Call for Papers, above). Students may receive both a research award and a travel award in the same year.
- We cannot predict the size of the awards at this time. The size of each award will depend on the number of applications funded.