Undergraduate Travel Fund | Ohio University

Academic Year: 2026-2027
Deadline: Thursday, Oct. 1, 4 pm. 

Statement of Purpose

Ohio University is dedicated to offering undergraduates alternatives for analysis, and scholarly and inventive works and actions. As a part of this effort, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity sponsors a program of journey help for undergraduate college students presenting their work to the scholarly group. The Undergraduate Travel Fund gives as much as $500 towards journey to conferences or different venues for presentation of analysis outcomes or inventive works and actions.

Eligibility

All undergraduate college students at the moment enrolled at Ohio University are eligible for the awards.

Students could solely obtain one award per yr.

Note, attributable to restricted funding, we’ll solely fund as much as 4 candidates per convention or venue.

Review/Selection Criteria

Proposals shall be reviewed by a designee of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity. Preference shall be given to college students attending nationwide and worldwide conferences or occasions or these attending their first assembly. In most instances, we anticipate that school advisors shall be attending the occasion, however this isn’t a requirement.

Proposals

The proposal ought to be concise and to the purpose, however should embody:

• The mission title, authors and summary (or equal submission supplies) as submitted to the convention.
• The title, places and dates of the convention or occasion.
• A press release detailing how the scholar expects this chance will improve their profession (no
  greater than ½ web page).
• A press release from the scholar’s mentor indicating that the supplies being introduced and the venue are acceptable (a number of sentences is appropriate).
• A funds and justification for the journey bills to be incurred (together with transportation, lodging, and registration). Professional membership in a society will not be coated even when required for attendance.

The proposal ought to be submitted as a single Word or PDF doc.

Note:

1. It is crucial that candidates make sure that all journey complies with all present restrictions and
   that the journey can feasibly be concluded inside a 12-month interval.
2. Applicants can use funds for registration for digital conferences, performances and reveals to disseminate their analysis and inventive works.

Students who’re touring past 100 miles of their Ohio University campus or to a different state should register with the Office of Global Opportunities: Travel Registration.

For extra assist on home and worldwide journey, threat rankings for locations and planning a global expertise, college students are inspired to contact the Office of Global Opportunities.

Travel Booking/Payments

As per University coverage, 41.121, all recipients should work with their respective division and college mentor to entry funds. Funds is not going to be dispersed on to recipients.

Additional Requirements

All college students receiving journey awards are anticipated to finish a quick Qualtrics survey upon their return. Students are inspired to incorporate a picture associated to their journey of their survey response.

Proposal Submission

Email the finished proposal to the Office of Experiential Learning, experiential.studying@ohio.edu. 

It can be required that the scholar’s mentor be carbon copied (cc) on the submission e-mail.