Trainee Travel Awards

One goal of the Center for Foundational Neuroscience Research and Education (CFNRE) travel award program is to help offset costs incurred by Fellows, Residents, postdocs and/or graduate students in a Department or Center within the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute or related departments in the Schools of Arts and Sciences or Engineering, in order that s/he would be able to present their basic, clinical, and/or translational research at a scientific conference.

Awards of up to $1500 will support travel costs and/or conference registration fees of a Fellow, Resident, or Post-doc.

Awards of up to $1000 will support travel costs and/or conference registration fees of a graduate student.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Applicants must have been accepted to present a poster or talk at the conference listed below
  • Applicants must submit application at least four (4) weeks prior to conference travel
  • Awards are limited to one trainee per affiliated faculty member per year
  • Awarded investigators are expected to:
    • Present research at the conference.
    • Acknowledge the CFNRE in all work: This project has been supported in part by the West Virginia University Center for Foundational Neuroscience Research and Education.

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Complete the application (PDF below);
  2. Attach the project abstract and conference program (or note url);
  3. Submit both via email to elstewart@hsc.wvu.edu.
  4. All original receipts must be turned in to Erica Stewart, and in accordance to the policy of the recipients’ unit.

Travel Award Program PDF

Travel Award Program Application Form (PDF)