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Written by Director of Finance | 13 December 2010
Posted in GPSS Main - Funding

If you have questions, use the "Contact Us" Button at the top of this page.  The finance director is not in charge of the travel grants.  The President and executive board will be handling the program until the incoming Vice-President takes over the program in summer 2012.

UPDATE:  The website is currently in its Beta review stage.  We hope to have it available shortly.  The deadline will be extended as necessary to ensure that EVERYONE will have ample time to submit their applications!

 

New Website: Available for Spring 2012 Applications Available May, 2012!  Do NOT submit Spring 2012 in any other manner!  Wait until new website is available.

Fall 2012 Travel Grants are being processed and will be completed by GSG by mid-May.  We hope to have it up VERY soon!

If you need to log into the old system for applications for Fall 2011 and prior please read and click below:

The reason viewing the current system is problematic is that our SSL    certificate is expired. Until we get the    new system up, you can use the direct address:

https://gpssusc.com/gpssfund/travel_grants/index.php

    Your browser might complain saying "This Connection is Untrusted",    just accept the warning.

 

New Deadlines

Spring 2012 -  May 31st, 2012

 

Welcome Conference Travel Fund Applicants!!

Purpose

The purpose of the GPSS Conference Travel Program is to partially reimburse the expenses incurred by the graduate students during travel to conferences that are related to the student’s major field of study. The GSG Travel Grant Program is to be considered supplemental to other sources of funding and applicants are expected to seek travel funds from their departments, advisors, or other outside sources first.

Qualifications

The applicant must be a registered graduate student of USC at the time of the conference AND

The applicant must have paid the Student Programming Fee AND

Category 1 ‐ The graduate student must present original research at the conference OR

Category 2 ‐ The graduate student attends a conference related to their major field of study.

Allocations

The money for this fund comes from a part of the programming fee collected from each qualified graduate student and is split between the summer, fall, and spring semesters. Those that will be presenting original research at a conference will get priority over those that will be
attending the conference.

Grant Amounts

After all the Category 1 applicants have been funded (up to the annual per student maximum), then the remaining fund allocation will be split amongst the Category 2 applicants (up to the annual student maximum). Any remaining amounts will carry forward to the next semester within the same fiscal year. If the total requests in any category are above the fund allocation amount, then each applicant will receive a percentage of their request instead of the full amount. (E.g. If the fund has $20K and we receive applications for $25K, then each applicant will receive 80% of the amount they qualified for.)

Deadlines

• Fall 2012:
  • Travel Dates: Monday, August 27, 2012 - Sunday, January 13, 2012
  • Deadline to submit is:  TBA
• Spring 2012:
  • Travel Dates: Monday, January 9, 2012 - Friday, May 9, 2012
  • Deadline to submit is: Monday, May 31, 2012 @ 11:59PM PST
• Summer 2012
• Travel Dates: Saturday, May 10, 2012 - Sunday August 28, 2012. 
• Deadline to Submit is: TBA

 

Complete Guidelines Can be Found Below:

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Apply Now!

 

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