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​Travel Grants

NED-APS ​Travel Grants are available for Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Post-docs, and Early Career Scientists.

The NED-APS Executive Committee is happy to announce $500 travel grants to support undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, and early career scientists in attending the 2024 NED-APS annual meeting in Ithaca, New York from March 6-8.  All travel grantees must plan to attend the NED-APS meeting and graduate student and post-doc travel grantees must present their research at the meeting. (Early career scientists are those who are within 5 years of their terminal degree).

Travel funds may be used for direct travel costs (gas, rental car, airline, train or bus ticket), hotel costs, meals not included in the meeting registration fee, business attire, caregiving needs specific to attending the conference (e.g. after-hours care for someone at home, additional cost of traveling with another adult to help with caregiving of child, or for a support person such as an ASL translator), or research supplies directly related to current projects (in the event that the applicant is geographically close to meeting location and will not need to use all $500 for travel costs).  These funds cannot be used for normal daycare/caregiver fees that the attendee would normally incur without attending the NED-APS meeting.  Recipients of travel grant funds will not be asked how the funding will be used but will be asked to include in their statement that they will use the fund for approved travel expenses.   

Application Instructions: 

Please submit your application materials to Nick Brazee by January 15 at nbrazee@umass.edu (Funding decisions will be announced by February 1, 2024).   

For all travel grants, please submit a cover page with your name, affiliation, contact information, research supervisor/PI (if appropriate), and indicate if this is your first NED-APS meeting. Applicants must be an active NED-APS member to be considered for the travel grant.

 Undergraduate Travel Grant:  

• One-page description of research activities, including the significance of your research, and what you hope to gain from attending the NED-APS meeting (including if you will be presenting research or volunteering)
• Letter of support from research supervisor/PI: the letter must include whether the adviser is an active NED-APS member, if the adviser is able to financially support the additional costs for the student to attend the meeting, and a recommendation for the student. 
  

Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Researcher Travel Grant:

• One-page description of research activities (including significance of research), planned activities at NED-APS (such as participation in workshops or volunteering), and what the researcher hopes to gain from attending the NED-APS meeting.
• CV
• Letter of support from research supervisor/PI: the letter must include if the adviser is able to financially support the additional costs for the student to attend the meeting, and a recommendation for the student. 
  

Early Career Scientist Travel Grant:

• One page description of research, teaching, extension, or other professional activities (including significance of activities), NED-APS meeting plans including number of mentees attending (and if they are presenting), participation in workshops or planning sessions, and volunteer activities on any NED-APS committees or ad-hoc committees.
• CV
  

Application Reviewing

• ​All applications will be evaluated by a committee of at least three volunteer NED-APS members. 
• Applicants will be evaluated on their demonstration of excellence in research and passion for plant pathology. 
• Graduate and postdoctoral researchers will be required to present at the meeting. Early career scientists with many mentees attending the meeting and presenting will be given preference.  
• Applicants participating in workshops, the extension/industry meeting, and/or are volunteering within NED-APS, those attending the annual meeting for the first time, and those geographically farther from the meeting location will be given higher preference. 
• All recipients of travel funding, regardless of how they choose to use the funds, must attend the NED-APS meeting in the year the funds are given. Travel grants will be made in each category each year only if the Travel Grant Committee identifies well qualified candidates in those categories.  
  

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