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2011 Travel Grants for Students
The ASPT Membership Committee is happy to announce that the popular student travel grant lottery from last year will be continued this year. The ASPT Council approved the same number of travel grants, so that we will be awarding 33 travel grants for $300 each. Please see the attachment for the application form and instructions.
Please encourage your graduate students, or undergraduates if you have a particularly motivated student who would benefit from attending the meeting, to apply for a travel grant. Graduate students must obtain the signature of the major advisor (to confirm status as a currently enrolled graduate student in plant systematics) and be a current member of ASPT (enrollment status will be verified, please renew memberships prior to submitting applications). Undergraduate students need not be members, but they must obtain the signature of the mentor or sponsor to apply. All applications will go into a single pool, from which 33 winners will be drawn randomly. If you are a student who received a travel grant last year, you may apply again with no restrictions.
Travel grant recipients will be provided with a check for $300 or $300 plus the cost of an ASPT banquet ticket if a receipt for a purchased banquet ticket is provided.
Please note that applications must be received by 4 March 2011, in order to select and notify the winners in advance of the April 1, Botany 2011 abstract submission deadline.
Molly Nepokroeff, on behalf of the ASPT Membership Committee
To be considered for this award, return this form, preferably as a pdf, by 4 March 2011 to: Molly Nepokroeff, Chair of ASPT Membership Committee, mnepokro@usd.edu
Download the application form here!
Results of the 2011 Student Travel Grants Program
The following 43 travel grants were awarded, which included travel funds to attend the Botany 2011 meeting and an ASPT banquet ticket:
1) Arevalo, Rafael
2) Attigala, Lakshmi
3) Barba Montoya, Jose Antonio
4) Benedict, John
5) Borja, Guadalupe (Lupita)
6) Caddah, Mayara
7) Chen, Tina
8) Chokthaweekpanich, Hatharait
9) Clay, Danielle
10) Crowl, Andrew
11) De Moura, Tania Maria
12) Diazgranados, Mauricio
13) Eseman, Lauren
14) Fisher, Amanda
15) Fleming, Samantha
16) Fraga, Naomi
17) Hampilos, Katherine
18) Hinchliff, Cody
19) Jeffries, Shandra
20) Johnson, Christopher David
21) Kates, Heather
22) Kiel, Carrie
23) King, Colin
24) Kriebel, Ricardo
25) Lichtenwald, Samantha
26) Lindsay, Colleen
27) Matos, Fernando
28) Mora, Marcela
29) Ooi, Maggie
30) Parks, Matthew
31) Puppo, Pamela
32) Rein, Angela
33) Rolfesmeier, Susan
34) Ryan, Sean
35) Schuster, Tanja
36) Schwartz, Emily
37) Shiels, Derek
38) Spitz, Lauren
39) Swadek, Rebecca
40) Tembrock, Luke
41) Voshell, Stephanie
42) Wheeler, Greg
43) Worcester, Lindsey
Results of the 2010 Student Travel Grants Program
The following 32 travel grants were awarded, which included travel funds to attend the Botany 2010 meeting and an ASPT banquet ticket:
1) Adeyemi, Temitope Olabisi
2) Adhikari, Binaya
3) Bruenn, Riva*
4) Burke, Janelle
5) Crawley, Sunny
6) Croley, Matthew*
7) Dever, Rodney
8) Diazgranados, Mauricio
9) Dorsey, Brian
10) Franck, Alan
11) Furches, M. Steven
12) Futey, Mary
13) Guilliams, Christopher Matthew
14) Guo, Jinyan
15) Hartooni, Nairi*
16) Hodkinson, Brendan
17) Howland, Jared*
18) Lindsay, Colleen
19) Neubig, Kurt
20) Neupane, Suman
21) Nikolov, Lachezar Atanasov
22) Parks, Matthew
23) Plumb, Rachael*
24) Plume, Olofron
25) Quedensley, Taylor Sultan
26) Riser, James
27) Sidoti, Brian
28) Uribe-Convers, Simon
29) Vernon, Amanda
30) Voshell, Stephanie
31) Weng, Mao-Lun
32) Yang, Ya
33) Zuniga, Jose
*undergraduate student
Results of the 2009 Student Travel Grants Program
The following students were funded for travel to the 2009 Botany Conference in Snowbird, UT:
Presenting Category (14)
1. Stephen Stern (Bohs)
2. Hari Chhetri (Columbus)
3. Andrew Wheeler (Wilson)
4. Charlotte Germain-Aubry (Gitzendanner)
5. Nicholas Tippery (Les)
6. Daisie Huang (Friar)
7. Carl Rothfels (Pryer)
8. Alejandra Vasco (Moran)
9. Craig Barrett (Freudenstein)
10. Amanda Grusz (Pryer)
11. Kristen Hasenstab (M. Simpson)
12. Andrew Gardner (Emshwiller)
13. Janelle Burke (Luckow)
14. Matthew Parks (Liston)
Non-presenting Category (6)
15. Debra Hansen (B. Simpson)
16. Jacquelyn Howell (Morris)
17. James Riser II (Roalson)
18. Jeffrey Sanders (Moore)
19. Kevin Weitemier (Fishbein)
20. Michael Wright (Costea)