Travel Awards for Graduate School Funded Fellows

Update: Signature pages (with narrative attached and signed by the appropriate faculty within your section) must be submitted to the Department no later than Monday, 1/25 because these forms still require Dean's approval before final submission to the Graduate School. We appreciate your cooperation!

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As part of USC’s continuing efforts to support our students’ academic professional development, grants will be available to Graduate School PhD Fellows for travel to conferences and to research sites. The base travel award is $500. If the fellow’s program matches this amount with $500, the Graduate School will contribute another $500, for a total of up to $1,500 available to the student.
The deadline for fellows to complete the spring online application is Friday, January 29, 2016 at 12 noon.

Eligible students include PhD students funded by Provost’s, Annenberg, Rose Hills Foundation and Global Fellowships who have passed departmental screening or completed 24 units in their USC PhD program. Students funded by the Graduate School’s various advanced fellowships, including the Endowed and Dissertation Completion fellowships are also eligible to apply.

Fellows will complete an on-line application and will be asked to collect signatures from their faculty advisor, department chair, and dean or dean’s designate, affirming that they are making good progress toward the PhD and that the specific travel request will serve their academic goals.  Fellows will complete an on-line application and will be asked to collect signatures from their faculty advisor, department chair, and dean or dean’s designate, affirming that they are making good progress toward the PhD and that the specific travel request will serve their academic goals (signature page is attached).  Please click on the following link to access the application site: http://grad.usc.edu/TravelAwardApply/.

New this year, the Graduate School will administer our portion of the travel award ($500 or $1,000 if matched) directly with students.  Information about the reimbursement process will be sent to students once they receive the travel award.

In addition to these funds, fellows are encouraged to apply to the Graduate Student Government for travel funding (http://gsg.usc.edu/finance/travel-grants-faq).

For further information, please contact Kate Tegmeyer, Fellowship Coordinator at gradfllw@usc.edu.

  Travel Award Signature Page 2015