- Graduate Student Funding
- Funding for Research
- Funding for Conferences
- Funding for foreign students or research abroad
- Diversity-Related Funding
- The College of Liberal Arts
- Grant Support Services
Funding for Conferences
Graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend professional conferences. We recognize that travel is expensive and funds are limited, and therefore try to provide help in whatever way is possible. The application for funding is explained below, although even students meeting criteria cannot be guaranteed funding because resources are regrettably limited. If the request is approved, departmental staff identify which of the funds described earlier may be appropriate (i.e., the Moore, Trumbo, or Sherif Funds), and/or recommends funds from the Departmental budget when available. Because there are always more requests than money, the following guidelines are used to allocate travel funds for graduate students:
Funding priority is given to students whose names appear on the program as the author or co-author of a paper.
Funding priority is given to students who are the first author or primary presenter of a conference paper.
Students who wish to attend a conference but do not appear on the program will be considered for funding at a reduced level.
Funding priority is given to students who have not yet been awarded funding in a given year. Funding for conference travel beyond two trips will be considered if the student is presenting a paper and if funds are available.
Students requesting travel funds should submit an application form available in 125 Moore, together with a photocopy of their listing in the program or a letter indicating that a presentation has been accepted. Eligibility for travel funding is limited to students who are enrolled as full-time graduate students at the time of the conference and who are in good standing and making satisfactory progress (as indicated, for example, by timely completion of the Masters thesis).
American Psychological Association Travel Funds
Please note that APA has travel awards for graduate students who are student members of APA for presenting papers at the annual convention. In addition, members of the graduate association within APA (APAGS) qualify for free registration when the student is first author. Many other organizations may have similar programs, so it is a good idea to obtain information.