How To Apply for Funding 

Awards Available

I. E. Melhus Fund
Each year funding support is provided for a graduate student symposium at the APS Annual Meeting through the I. E. Melhus Fund. The application deadline is Friday, January 15, 2010.

Schroth Faces of the Future Fund
Funding supports a symposium at the annual meeting to acknowledge the "up and comers" in a specific area of plant pathology research. The application deadline is March 2, 2010.

NEW! Raymond J. Tarleton Student Fellowship
This fellowship supports graduate education in plant pathology and can be used as a stipend for research expenses, books, research or scientific meeting travel, summer internships (industry, other research labs, etc.) and/or for equipment necessary to the recipient’s thesis research. Applications are now being taken, materials must be submitted by January 15, 2010.

Student Travel Grants
Students interested in travel grants for the APS Annual Meeting can compete for several awards via the APS Foundation Travel Grant Application. The application process will open in February 2010.

Frank L. Howard Fellowship
The Frank L. Howard Fellowship offers funding for undergraduate research. Applications will next be considered in 2010 for awards in 2011.

French-Monar Latin American Fund
The French-Monar Latin American Fund supports Latin American graduate students and early career plant pathologists. Applications are not being accepted at this time.

International Travel Fund
The Foundation, in cooperation with the Office of International Programs, has established the International Travel Fund to support travel costs for early- to mid-career international APS members to participate in an APS annual meeting. Applications are not being accepted for 2010, plans are in place to offer again in 2011.

John and Ann Niederhauser (JANE) Endowment
This award was created to facilitate international cooperation related to research and management of plant diseases, with particular emphasis on those caused by Phytophthora. Applications will next be considered in 2010 for awards in 2011.

Pioneer Fellowship in Plant Pathology
This graduate student fellowship through the APS Foundation with gifts from Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. to help attract students to careers in plant pathology, emphasizing disease resistance, host-pathogen interactions, and disease etiology was awarded in 2009. Applications will next be considered in 2012.

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