[Plsgs] Graduate Student Travel Awards

[Georgina Lambert]

DEADLINE APPROACHING - Graduate Student Travel Awards to attend "World
Congress on Evolution III" in the Galapagos Islands, June 2013

 

The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent - www.nescent.org
<http://www.nescent.org/> ) is sponsoring two travel awards to enable
Evolutionary Science graduate students at US institutions to attend the
third "World Congress on Evolution" (www.usfq.edu.ec/eventos/evosummit),
which will be held from June 1-5, 2013 on the Galapagos Island of San
Cristobal.

 

These awards are part of NESCent's continuing outreach efforts to serve
members of groups that are under-represented/under-served in evolutionary
science, as defined by the National Science Foundation
(www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd).  As such, application is restricted to
US-based graduate students that are: American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian,
Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino/Latina, and/or Native Hawaiian/Other
Pacific Islander.

 

Travel awards cover travel/food/lodging/conference registration.  

 

To apply, please visit www.nescent.org/galapagos-travel-award.  Applicants
must provide a one-page Statement of Academic Interests and Career Goals, a
one-page Biosketch and a letter of recommendation from your graduate
advisor.

 

Application Deadline: April 1st, 2013, 5:00 PM PST

Notification Date: April 5th, 2013

 

Please note that applicants must be graduate students at US
colleges/universities, and must be US citizens, permanent residents, or
otherwise free of any restrictions which would prevent them from traveling
out of the US, to Ecuador/Galapagos over the dates of the conference.

 

For more information, please contact Dr. Jory Weintraub: jory at nescent.org

 

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Jory P. Weintraub, PhD

Assistant Director, Education & Outreach 

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

2024 West Main St., Suite A200, Durham, NC 27705

Phone: 919.668.4578     Fax: 919.668.9198

Email: jory at nescent.org     Skype: jory.weintraub 

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Ms. Georgina Lambert

Program Coordinator, Sr.

School of Plant Sciences

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ 85721

Office  520-621-1219

Cell  520-404-2856

FAX 520-621-7186

 

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