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Please advertise, encourage, and support your undergraduate researchers' participation in this travel award program!</div>
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Also, mark your calendars as these will become periodic deadlines much like those for graduate student travel awards.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 2, 2025 9:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ur_alliance@list.arizona.edu <ur_alliance@list.arizona.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Orzech, Kathryn McElveen - (kmcelvee) <kmcelvee@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ur_alliance] Undergraduate Research Travel Grants: Presenting Your Work - All majors welcome to apply!</font>
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Please share this with your students! This grant is for students traveling to present their work in research and/or creative inquiry at conferences, concerts, symposiums, art shows, and other events appropriate to their field. </div>
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Funding is limited and the application is only open for a short time. Encourage your students to apply today!</div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,176,80)"><b>Undergraduate Research Travel Grant Application Now Open in AZ Cultivate! Application window 9/2/25 – 9/12/25</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><u>Who is eligible?</u> Any undergraduate involved in research (broadly defined) and connected to a faculty or staff mentor, who has plans to travel to a conference or other event. Students are asked
if they plan to present, but presentation of research is not required to receive a travel grant.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,112,192)"><b>Complete application (Student application, student-created simple budget & submitted Mentor Support Form) due by
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><u>When can the student travel?</u> Between September 1, 2025 and February 28, 2026. A separate application window will open in January for travel between March and June.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><u>How much will be awarded, and when will awards be announced?</u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Up to $1,000 will be awarded in Fall 2025 based on student-submitted budgets.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Awards will be announced by Friday, October 10<sup>th</sup>, 2025.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Link to </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:blue"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA864f143d-ae27-2095-448d-3bee8f3a047b" href="https://ur.arizona.edu/undergraduate-research-travel-grants-presenting-your-work" style="color:blue; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">Undergraduate
Research Travel Grant Information on UR.Arizona.edu</a> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">(includes a “preview” document that shows students exactly what will be asked on the application)</span></p>
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