Undergrad Research

Student Travel Award Frequently Asked Questions

Research, Inquiry, and Creative Activity defined as it relates to this travel process:
鈥� Presenting original work at a conference directly related to your undergraduate major/research/creative activity.
鈥� Performixhibiting at conference/event directly related to your undergraduate major/research/creative activity.
鈥� Competing at conference/event directly related to your undergraduate major/research/creative activity.
鈥� Facilitating or leading a workshop/clinic at a conference that is directly related to your undergraduate major/research/creative activity.

Undergraduate 鉴黄师app enrolled a minimum of half-time are eligible to apply for a Student Travel Award. Half-time status is considered six (6) credit hours for undergraduate 鉴黄师app and three (3) credit hours for graduate 鉴黄师app. Students who are not officially enrolled for the summer term at the time of travel, but who were eligible for travel for previous spring and are enrolled half-time for upcoming fall are eligible to for a Student Travel Award. An exception may be granted for 鉴黄师app graduating during the semester of travel, proof of approved graduating status is required.

At time of application, any student traveling must be in good academic and disciplinary standing. If a student withdraws from the University during the semester they travel and received a reimbursement by way of a Student Travel Award, the student will be obligated to refund Student Travel.

Eligible 鉴黄师app 鉴黄师app may apply for Student Travel Awards in order to present academic research, attend personal interest or academic conferences or events, or compete at personal interest or academic conferences or events.

Airfare & Baggage Fees
Lodging Cost 鈥� with itemized receipts showing you as the guest
Registration Fees
Rental Car - Must be Avis (Students may use other rental car companies if a justification is provided) - showing you as the renter
Gas, if driving a rental car
Parking and tolls
Taxi, subway, shuttle, Uber, Lyft

Expenses in advance of travel
Expenses not awarded on a Student Travel Award Letter
Travel not approved by the University
Food or other per diem costs
Membership Fees
Expenses reimbursed to someone else or paid by a department

Applications are only accepted online at 鉴黄师app STUDENT TRAVEL.

Applications for reimbursement are only accepted online at Student Travel Reimbursement Application

MAXIMUM STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS PER FISCAL YEAR: UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Students can apply multiple times to the Student Travel Committee until they exhaust their maximum fund.

The term fiscal year refers to the time period, July 1st of one year to June 30th of the subsequent year. Travel funding from the Student Travel Committee will be awarded as follows:


IN STATE
OUT OF STATE/INTERNATIONAL
MAXIMUM PER FISCAL YEAR
Attending a Conference/Event
Up to $200 per trip
Up to $200 per trip
Up to $600
Presenting/Competing at a Conference/Event
Up to $300 per trip
Up to $600 per trip
Up to $600

MAXIMUM STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS PER FISCAL YEAR: GRADUATE STUDENTS
Students can apply multiple times to the Student Travel Committee until they exhaust their maximum fund.

IN STATE
OUT OF STATE/INTERNATIONAL
MAXIMUM PER FISCAL YEAR
Attending a Conference/Event
Up to $200 per trip
Up to $275 per trip
Up to $800
Presenting/Competing at a Conference/Event
Up to $400 per trip
Up to $800 per trip
Up to $800

The amount of each Student Travel Award issued is determined by student lead, student travel committees. The anonymous members use the Student Travel Procedures and information provided in each student travel application to aid in their decisions. The committees鈥� decisions are final.

Denied Student Travel and Student Travel Reimbursement applications can be appealed based on certain criteria.

No, 鉴黄师app traveling alone must submit their own applications and 鉴黄师app traveling in a group can have one student that is traveling with the group apply on behalf of the group.