Penn State Global maintains a fund to support international travel through Global Graduate Student Travel Grants. The main use of Global Graduate Student Travel Grants is to assist students in presenting their scholarly work at international conferences or other major professional meetings. Graduate student travel grants are intended to promote Penn State’s global leadership in scholarship and international engagement.
Eligibility
Applicants must be currently registered Penn State graduate students in good academic standing at the time of application and at the time of travel.
The application form requires applicants to identify:
- a concise summary of the paper/presentation;
- a brief description of the conference and its significance in the applicant’s field
- a short explanation of why it is important for the applicant to present their work at the selected conference
- a succinct assessment of the connection between the student’s research to one or more of the evaluation criteria
- a tentative travel itinerary, and
- a tentative budget.
Awards are contingent upon the availability of funds and the number of applications received. Applicants are strongly encouraged to seek additional funding sources, including matching funds from their campus/college/department or external funding sources.
- The international conference must take place outside the U.S. Workshops, internships, and other activities are not eligible for funding.
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Benefits
- Funds are available.
Application Process
- Any documents that are uploaded with the application must be in PDF for Word format, and the file name must include the applicant’s Penn State User ID (everything before “@psu.edu” in the applicant’s email address).
- Applications will be considered for works prepared and presented by the graduate student applicant. If multiple graduate students are applying to present the same work at the same conference or major professional meeting, each graduate student must submit a separate application.
- Applications must include a letter of support from the graduate student’s academic advisor.