Up to $250 in funding is available to support faculty, postdoc, and student travel to a NASA Center, scientific conference, competition, or other institution for research and professional networking purposes. All travel must take place within the United States. Only one application is accepted per academic year per person/group. Applicants must be attending or employed at the University of Wyoming or a Wyoming community college.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible, applicants must be a faculty member, postdoc, or student attending or employed at the University of Wyoming or a Wyoming community college. Applicants can receive one travel grant per academic year. However, unsuccessful applicants are welcome to reapply during subsequent application periods.

Applicants must also satisfy one of the following requirements:

• Be presenting or competing at the event to which they will be traveling
• If not presenting or competing, provide a clear justification explaining the benefit of attending the event

GROUP TRAVEL

There are funding restrictions for large student groups (6 or more) traveling to the same event. For example, this includes research groups (sharing the same research advisor) traveling to scientific conferences, class trips (sharing the same instructor) to academic workshops, or RSOs attending professional or academic conferences.

• For student groups of six or more, the advisor or instructor must apply for travel funding on behalf of the students (the students may not apply individually)
• Funding for student groups of six or more is capped at $1,500 for the academic year
• There is no limit to the number of students that can be in the group
• Group applications are still subject to the review process

APPLICATION SUBMISSION

In order to submit an application for a travel award, please fill out the following online application form.

For the online application, you will need the following information:

• Applicant name and department
• Position (if faculty/postdoc) or major (if student)
• Dates of travel
• Title and brief description of the scientific conference, competition, NASA Center, or research opportunity
• Abstract citation (if presenting a talk or poster at a conference)
  OR a clear justification explaining the benefit of attending the event
• Names of collaborators (if visiting a NASA Center or other research institution)
• A short justification (benefit) of the travel funding
• Summary of the total anticipated budget, including funding from other sources and the amount requested from Wyoming NASA EPSCoR

Once submitted, you will receive a confirmation email. A second email will be sent notifying you as to whether or not you were awarded a travel grant. If you were not awarded a travel grant, you are welcome to apply again during the next semester’s application period (assuming that you are eligible).

QUESTIONS?

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Phone:  (307) 766-2862 or (307) 766-2987