Support for Student Travel

The department would like to encourage graduate students to attend national meetings to present papers and to help in job searches. Therefore the department will support student travel as follows:

1.

Supported graduate students who pass both the preliminary and candidacy exams will be awarded an amount of travel money (at the current rate determined by the department) for use during the remainder of their studies at Delaware. This money can be spent on a combination of approved travel at the choice of the student.

2.

The student can apply to use this money to pay the costs of attending scientific meetings or other educational/academic events. To make an application for travel funds the student must fill out a travel approval form available from the Graduate Administrative Assistant. The form must be completed and approved before travel commences (it needs to be signed by the students advisor, and if grant funds are to be used, the PI of the grant also needs to approve the use of the grant funds). In no cases will students be reimbursed for travel without prior approval of this form.

3.

Except as noted below, in no case will any funds beyond the amount approved for the student at the time of passing the canidiacy exams. We recommend that students reserve some travel money to attend a national meeting for recruitment purposes late in your time at Delaware. Exceptions to the funding cap are as follows:

(a)

Students who wish to return to their undergraduate school to help recruit new graduate students may petition the department for extra support.

(b)

Students may also petition the Graduate Committee to receive partial funding to attend special training programs/workshops or clinics. Such requests must be clearly documented.