When you’re presenting your research at conferences across the country, we’ll make it possible for you to get there. We offer conference travel funding to support SGS graduate students who are presenting their research at national and international conferences. There are currently different protocols in place for applying for such funding depending on your graduate program.
New Brunswick/Piscataway Biomedical Sciences doctoral program
PhD or MS student who work for an RBHS PI and are in the following graduate programs are eligible for these RBHS travel awards: Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Cell & Developmental Biology, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Exposure Science, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Neuroscience, and Physiology and Integrative Biology. For students in the Toxicology program, PhD students who work for faculty that are resident members of EOHSI or in RWJMS labs are eligible. Please visit the program’s Student Academic Forms website to download a Student Travel Award Approval Form, or contact Tina Marottoli if you have questions about eligibility requirements and application procedures.
Newark Biomedical Sciences doctoral programs
If you’re enrolled in one of these programs, please visit the program’s SGS Forms website to download travel approval forms, or contact Beatrice Suffrant if you have questions about eligibility requirements and application procedures.
All other SGS doctoral programs
SGS will provide limited travel and research support awards for 2023-2024.
A link to the form that students must use to request funds will be active in the new academic year.
Travel awards will be made in the form of a scholarship award. All current University regulations regarding travel authorization must be followed, even if external (scholarship) funds are used. Please visit RU Travel for the current university travel guidelines.