{"id":9829,"date":"2023-08-30T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T22:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9829"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T22:10:27","slug":"lfs-graduate-student-travel-awards-for-2023-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9829","title":{"rendered":"LFS Graduate Student Travel Awards for 2023-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon:<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, the <strong>LFS Graduate Student Travel Award<\/strong> has provided over $300,000 in funding to LFS students to attend and present a research paper or poster describing their thesis research at a scientific meeting\/conference, held by a professional society, outside the Lower Mainland.\u00a0 100% of this funding comes from a generous $1.4 million endowment from the estate of Ursula Knight Abbott.\u00a0 In 2022-2023, 51 LFS GSTAs were awarded totalling over $77,000.<\/p>\n<p>A number of changes have been made to the <strong>LFS Graduate Student Travel Award for 2023-2024<\/strong>.\u00a0 The new application will be in effect between September 1, 2023 and August 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a summary of the changes \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The application is now a Qualtrics survey.<\/li>\n<li>An expense summary and\/or receipts are no longer needed.\u00a0 Proof of presentation is still required.<\/li>\n<li>Supervisor\u2019s signature is no longer required (both the student and supervisor will be informed via email once an award nomination has been sent to G&amp;PS for processing).<\/li>\n<li>The award value has been changed from up to $1500 to a lump award offer of $1750.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>MSc students<\/strong> may claim up to <strong>one award per degree program<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>PhD students<\/strong> may claim up to <strong>two awards per degree program<\/strong>;\u00a0 PhD students can only claim one award per funding period September 1 to August 31.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students who have already claimed their maximum number of LFS GSTAs may email the Manager, Graduate Programs \u2013 LFS to request consideration for additional awards.\u00a0 These will be considered on a case-by-case basis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional information will be posted on the LFS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/graduate\/financial-support-scholarships-awards\/\">website<\/a> on Friday (Sept 1).<\/p>\n<p>Please let me know if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>Shelley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon: Since 2015, the LFS Graduate Student Travel Award has provided over $300,000 in funding to LFS students to attend and present a research paper or poster describing their thesis research at a scientific meeting\/conference, held by a professional society, outside the Lower Mainland.\u00a0 100% of this funding comes from a generous $1.4 million&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions\/9830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}