DCP sponsors travel awards for graduate students who present a paper or a poster at the March or April meetings. Eligible expenses include reduced rate air fare or car travel, registration, economy room and board for the duration of the meeting. Awards can range from $250 to $400. As many as twelve awards will be made.

Criteria:

1. The work must be of significance suitable for a National APS meeting. The work would be presented as a poster at a DCP poster session or in a DCP sponsored oral session.
2. The applicant cannot have previously received a DCP-GSTA award.
3. The student must be a member of DCP (This should not be a problem as the student APS dues are only $28 and the DCP dues are $7.) Students who are not currently members can still apply, but they must join both APS and DCP before their check will be issued.

Application:

1. The graduate student should submit an abstract directly to APS (see meeting information above) as well as a copy to the DCP-GSTA committee chair listed below. In addition, the graduate student should send a list of estimated expenses to the DCP-GSTA committee chair.
2. The faculty advisor of the student must write a nomination letter specifying the student's role in the research and explaining the significance of the work. Normally, only one applicant from any research group will be selected.

The application deadline is November 24. This is a rigid deadline for when applications must be received. Decisions will be made quickly so that any unsuccessful applicants may, if they wish, withdraw their abstract before it is published in the APS bulletin. The amount of individual awards will be based on total available funds and estimated expenses. Send applications to Jim Lisy.

Applications may be sent to:

If you know a student who would benefit from this opportunity, please bring it to her or his attention.