Student Travel Awards
Current and recently graduated students may apply for a Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Award to help defray transportation expenses to the AOU annual meeting. Post-docs who graduated more than one semester prior to the meeting may apply for a Post-Doctoral Travel Award.
Email questions to Rebecca Kimball ().
Deadline: 1 May 2011, 12 noon (EST). The online application form will be taken down at that time.
To be eligible, applicants must be:
- Sole author or joint author of a poster or oral paper presented by the student at the meeting.
- A full-time or recently graduated student. Students graduating the semester prior to the meeting are also eligible for travel awards. Undergraduate students are also eligible for travel awards.
- A member of the AOU at the time of registration. Students who are not currently members are encouraged to become members, and thereby become eligible for student awards, before registering for the meeting. Students may also be eligible for AOU Student Membership Awards.
- Applicants are limited to two Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Awards per lifetime.
In addition to completing the online application form, applicants should have their academic advisor send a brief email (1–3 sentences) stating that the applicant is a student in good academic standing (longer letters of support are not required). Please email recommendations to: Rebecca Kimball ().
Travel and presentation award applications use the same online submission form. Submit only one application, even if you are applying for multiple awards.
Applications will be judged based on quality of research/abstract and also the standing of the student. Students may receive both a research award and a travel award in the same year.
In 2012, AOU will participate in the 5th North American Ornithology Conference, which will take place 14-18 August at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. For this large joint meeting, students may compete for travel awards through a single collective program; to participate, students must submit applications to the awards committee by 15 January 2012, which is earlier than the deadline for separately submitting an Abstract for a place on the Scientific Program.
Previous Recipients of AOU Travel Awards:
