AMS Travel Grants provide students with up to $500 to offset travel expenses to present at the annual American Microscopical Society meeting (held jointly with Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology)

 

Applicants must:

• Be a member of AMS

• Be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program

• Be the presenter of a talk or poster presentation in which microscopy was used in the research being presented

Applications should include (and be limited to):

• Applicant’s name and academic affiliation

• Applicant’s contact information (email, telephone, mail address)

• Title and authors of your AMS/SICB presentation

• Statement of membership in AMS

• A paragraph describing the use of microscopy in the research to be presented at the annual meeting (≤ 200 words)

• Statement of financial need, including a budget where appropriate (≤200 words)

• Please indicate if you have received funding from AMS in the past.

 

Applicants should not send full CVs, letters of recommendation, reprints, or other documents.

Email complete proposals as a single PDF file by December 1st to AMS@amicros.org with the subject line: AMS Student Travel Grants

 

Award notifications will be made in mid-December and awards will be payable at the meeting after the presentation has been given.