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Graduate Student Awards and Funding

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Discover the means to turn your research dreams into reality through our internal graduate travel awards and research grants. Explore the opportunities that await you and learn how these awards can propel your research endeavors to new heights. Your path to funding begins here.

Research Grant Competition

Both Master's and Doctoral students have the chance to secure funding through our College of Arts and Science (CAS) Graduate Student Research Grant competition.

This competitive funding opportunity is open to all graduate students in good academic standing in the CAS.

The CAS Graduate Student Research Grant may be used to support a wide range of research or creative activities, that contribute to the applicant’s thesis, dissertation, or capstone project.

Category 1 will award four (4) $500 grants to eligible graduate students who are enrolled in MA, MEd, and MS programs in CAS. To apply for this grant, to access the application.

Category 2 will award four (4) $1000 grants to eligible graduate students who are enrolled in DMA, MFA, and PhD programs in CAS. To apply for this grant, to access the application.

Application Deadline: Friday, May 3, 2024

Travel Awards

The College of Arts and Sciences and Graduate School both offer travel awards to support your attendance at conferences and research-related events.


College of Arts and Sciences

The CAS coordinates the Graduate Student Travel Awards in the fall and spring semesters each year, so that graduate students can attend professional conferences and other research related events.

The travel awards aim to provide funding to graduate students who present their research or creative/artistic work at conferences, meetings, and other professional events.

This award is open to all eligible graduate students in the College, but priority will be given to applicants who have not received a CAS Graduate Student Travel Award since the fall semester of 2023.  

Deadline: August 30, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. (This award will cover eligible travel from Sept. 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025) 

To apply for this award, you'll need to:

  1. Fill out the application template. Click here to download the application template.
  2. When you download the template, save a copy to your computer. After filling out the application template, save it as a (.pdf) file.
  3.  to submit your application.

 

Graduate School 

Each semester, the Graduate School also coordinates their own travel awards to support graduate students.

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