Travel Awards

These competitive awards support travel to professional meetings or workshops by undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of JCRC faculty members. Applicants are expected to present a poster or short talk . Other criteria for this award include: positive impact on the applicant’s training, potential impact on laboratory recognition, possibility of establishment or support of collaborative efforts, evidence of frugality, and availability of matching funds. Cancer relevance of the research and meeting will also be a factor.

This application must be submitted by the mentor, NOT the student or postdoc. Requests for multiple applicants from the same laboratory attending the same meeting should be submitted together as one application. This is a very detailed application, which must be completed thoroughly. Please prepare it with attention to detail and in the spirit that limited funds must benefit as many people as possible. The biannual application deadlines are October 1 and March 1. Applicants should consult the university's guidelines on reimbursable travel expenses.

Student Travel Award Online Application NOTE TO APPLICANTS: We have changed to PieStar. You will need to create an account to log in. But this will allow you to save your information as you are working on it!

Postdoc Travel Award Online Application
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Biology Graduate Student Travel Awards

These competitive awards support travel of Division of Biology graduate students to professional meetings or workshops. They are funded by endowments established in memory of Barbara J. Consigli and Kenneth E. Bassett. Per the donors’ wishes, biology students are eligible without regard to research interests. Applicants are expected to present a poster or short talk. Other criteria for this award include: positive impact on the applicant’s training, potential impact on laboratory recognition, possibility of establishment or support of collaborative efforts, evidence of frugality, and availability of matching funds.

This application must be submitted by the mentor, NOT the student or postdoc. And requests for multiple applicants from the same laboratory attending the same meeting should be submitted together as one application. This is a very detailed application, which must be completed thoroughly. Please prepare it with attention to detail and in the spirit that limited funds must benefit as many people as possible. The biannual application deadlines are October 1 and March 1. Applicants should consult the university's guidelines on reimbursable travel expenses.

Biology Graduate Student Travel Award Online Application
NOTE TO APPLICANTS: We have changed to PieStar. You will need to create an account to log in. But this will allow you to save your information as you are working on it!