Travel Awards
Information on travel awards provided by The University of Rochester Graduate Women In Science (GWIS)
Application deadlines are November 15th and April 15th. You must be a graduate student in years 1 through 5 and an active participant in GWIS. Travel will be sponsored on the basis of scientific merit and need.
Application Process:
- Submit a completed Application Form along with a copy of your C.V., and copies of your peer-reviewed publications to Stephanie Scoville
- Request that your Ph.D. mentor and one of your Ph.D. advisory committee members each forward a letter of reference to Stephanie Scoville.
A one-page follow-up report from travel awardees is required within one month after travel is completed. This should be submitted to Stephanie Scoville.
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Benson Cheng Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Benson Cheng, a 4th year graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Luis Martinez-Sobrido
received a travel and conference award from GWIS. He attended the 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology at Colorado State
University at Fort Collins from June 21st to June 25th.
View his Travel report followup.
Julianne Feola Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Julianne Feola, a 4th year graduate student in the Gail Johnson lab received a travel and conference award
from GWIS. She attended a Gordon Research Conference titled
Transglutaminases in Human Disease Processes
from June 29th to July 4th, in Lucca, Italy.
View her Travel report followup.
Lesley Chapman Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Lesley Chapman, a 4th year graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Craig Morrell
received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Conference in Lindau, Germany
from June 29th to July 4st.
View her Travel report followup.
Emily Resseguie Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Emily Resseguie, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Michael O'Reilly lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference in San Diego, California from May 17th to May 21st. View her Travel report followup.
Alexis Stein Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Monday, October 28, 2013
Alexis Stein, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Elaine Sia lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended attend the 26th International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from August 29th to September 3rd. View her Travel report followup.
Xuan Li Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Xuan Li, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Dirk Bohmann lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended the 2013 meeting Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription
that was held August 27th to 31st at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories in Long Island, New York. View her Travel report followup.
Sarah Loerch Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Sarah Loerch, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Clara Kielkopf lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended the 2013 biennial meeting on Eukaryotic mRNA Processing
held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories (CSHL), New York. View her Travel report followup.
Katie Lannan Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Friday, August 23, 2013
Katie Lannan, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Richard Phipps's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended 100th Annual International Conference of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) from May 2nd to 7th in Honolulu, Hawaii. View her Travel report followup.
Joanne Lim Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Monday, December 31, 2012
Joanne Lim, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Edith Lord's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and gave a poster presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference on Tumor Immunology, that was held in Miami, FL, from December 2nd to 5th, 2012. View her Travel report followup.
Wenhua Wang Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Wenhua Wang, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Clara Kielkopf's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and gave a poster presentation at the 2012 American Crystallographic Association (ACA) Meeting in Boston, MA. View her Travel report followup.
Meghan Bushway Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Friday, June 29, 2012
Meghan Bushway, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Shawn Murphy's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and gave a poster presentation at the Joint International Congress of the American Society for Reproductive Immunology (ASRI) and the European Society for Reproductive Immunology (ESRI) from May 31 - June 2, 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. View her Travel report followup.
Bethany Winans Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Bethany Winans, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. B. Paige Lawrence's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and gave a poster presentation at the Prenatal Programming and Toxicity III (PPTOXIII) Conference this May 14-16 in Paris, France. View her Travel report followup.
Brenda Cadiz-Rivera Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Friday, June 10, 2011
Brenda Cadiz-Rivera, a 5th year graduate student in Dr. Michael Bulger's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She will attend the Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference in Easton, Massachusetts where she plans to present a poster on her research.
Brenda is also a recipient of the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship to support her participation at this conference.
View her Travel report followup.
Sharon Pepenella Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Friday, June 10, 2011
Sharon Pepenella, a 5th year graduate student in Dr. Jeffrey Hayes's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She will attend the 30th Summer Symposium in Molecular Biology in University Park, Pennsylvania where she plans to present a poster on her research. View her Travel report followup.
Krystle McLaughlin Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Krystle McLaughlin, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Clara Kielkopf's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and the American Crystallographic Society Meeting in Chicago, Illinois where she presented her work as part of the Etter Student Lecture Award. View her Travel report followup.
Mercedes Szpunar Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Mercedes Szpunar, a 3rd year graduate student in Dr. Edward Brown's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. Mercedes attended and presented a poster at the 2010 Days of Molecular Medicine Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. View her Travel report followup.
Amy Tsurumi Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Amy Tsurumi, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Willis Li's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended the 52nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference in San Diego, California. View her Travel report followup.
Karen Chiang Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Karen Chiang, a 3rd year graduate student in Dr. Patrick Holland's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and gave an oral presentation at the Fall 2009 National American Chemical Society (ACS) Conference in Washington, DC.
Hristina Nedelkovska Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Monday, June 1, 2009
Hristina Nedelkovska , a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Jacques Robert's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and gave an oral presentation at the 11th Congress of the International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology (ISDCI) in Prague, Czech Republic. View her Travel report followup.
Su Jun Lim Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Su Jun Lim, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Willis Li's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and presented a poster at the 51st Drosophila Conference in Washington, D.C. View her Travel report followup.
Meghan Clark Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Meghan Clark, a 3rd year graduate student in Dr. Patrick Holland's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and presented a poster at the Bioinorganic Gordon Research Seminar in Ventura, California. View her Travel report followup.
Lisa Carlson Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Friday, August 1, 2008
Lisa Carlson, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Todd Krauss's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and gave an oral presentation at the SPIE Conference in San Diego, California. View her Travel report followup.
Sarah Bowman Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Friday, August 1, 2008
Sarah Bowman, a 3rd year graduate student in Dr. Kara Bren's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and gave an oral presentation at the American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Lidza Kalifa Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Lidza Kalifa, a 3rd year graduate student in Dr. Elaine Sia's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and presented a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Mutagenesis in Oxford, United Kingdom. View her Travel report followup.
Melanie Preston Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Melanie Preston, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Eric Phizicky's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and gave an oral presentation at the annual RNA Society Meeting in Berlin, Germany. View her Travel report followup.
Ana Goyos Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Friday, February 1, 2008
Ana Goyos, a 4th year graduate student in Dr. Jacques Robert's lab received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and presented a poster at the NK & NKT Cell Biology
Keystone Symposia in Keystone, Colorado. View her Travel report followup.
Amy Ensign Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Sally Rocks Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Sally Rocks, a 3rd year graduate student in Dr. Patrick Holland's and Dr. Timothy Machonkin's labs received a travel and conference award from GWIS. She attended and presented a poster at the International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry in Vienna, Austria. View her Travel report followup.
Margaret Holland Receives GWIS Travel and Conference Award
Friday, June 1, 2007
Margaret Holland, a 3rd year graduate student in Dr. Peter Veazie's lab received a travel and conference award from
GWIS.
She attended and presented a poster and oral presentation at the annual Academy Health Research Meeting in Orlando, Florida. View her
Travel report followup.