Department Deadline: 9/22/2019 by 11:59P
External Deadline: 10/430/2019 by 5:00pm
| Conference Travel Grants (Fall 2019) | The Graduate College will provide awards, not to exceed $350, provides awards of up to $350 for students to travel to professional conferences. participate in virtual conferences to present papers, posters, or creative work. Awards will not cover participation unless the student is making a presentation.
These conference travel awards are intended to support students who will be presenting papers, posters, or creative work at the conferences they attend. Conference Travel Awards are supported by Students for Equal Access to Learning (SEAL) fees. CS may submit the maximum number of applications (five). See: http://www.grad.illinois.edu/general/travelaward
http://www.grad.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Conf-travel-dept-sheet.pdf | >2199 | $350Award amounts are based on the distance to the conference location from Champaign, IL:
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| <200 | $150 |
| 200-699 | $200 |
| 700-999 | $225 |
| 100-1399 | $250 |
| 1400-1899 | $300 |
| 1900-2199, Canada & Mexico | $325 |
registration fees required for participation in the conference. No other fees (such as membership fees) are allowable. The maximum allowable award amount is $350.
Note: The Graduate College has revamped its Conference Travel Award program in light of travel restrictions related to Covid-19. The new and temporary program is called the “Conference Presentation Award” program. Whereas the previous “Conference Travel Awards” covered travel to in-person conferences, “Conference Presentation Awards” will cover registration fees for virtual conferences. Once pandemic-related travel restrictions are lifted, the program will return to its previous iteration and will support actual travel to in-person conferences.
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- The student Applicants must be registered and in good academic standing during both the term the award is received.A student is eligible to application is submitted AND the term during which the conference takes place (exceptions to this are made for summer).
- Applicants may receive only one Conference Travel Presentation Award per academic year.
- A student is eligible to receive only one Conference Travel Award per conference.
- Non-degree students and students enrolled in online programs are not eligible for Conference Travel Awards.
- For fall awards, the student travel may have occurred during the previous summer, or occur during this fall, the following spring or the next summer. For spring awards, the student travel may occur that spring, the following summer or the next fall.
- The Conference Travel Students in non-degree, online, cost-recovery, and self-supporting programs are ineligible. Students in traditional on-campus degree programs whose courses are being temporarily held online because of the pandemic are eligible.
- Awards are supported by Students for Equal Access to Learning (SEAL) fees, which are part of the Student Initiated Fees. Students Therefore, applicants must have paid the Student Initiated Fees in the semester during which they apply in order to be eligible to receive an award. For more fee information, see http://www.registrar.illinois.edu/fee-infodetails on fees, see the Office of the Registrar's website. Students who are not assessed the fees, for example because they are e.g., students registered in Credit Range III or IV (less than 6 hours), may participate become eligible by paying the fee at a cashier's window in 100 Henry Administration Building.
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