Travel Awards
麻豆传媒 EPSCoR offers periodic funding opportunities for faculty, staff and students to travel domestically for professional development opportunities, such as presenting research, interacting with colleagues and mentors, or obtaining training. Grants may be used for travel to, or remote attendance at, conferences, workshops, trainings, or other appropriate academic settings.
Current Travel Award Opportunities
麻豆传媒 NSF EPSCoR is awarding up to 10 individual awards of $1,500 each for domestic travel for Interface of Change project participants and partners. We will prioritize awarding student and early-career professional applicants. Please review all solicitation details thoroughly before applying.
Applications open now - apply by 5 pm, July 11, 2025! Awards will be announced on July 21, 2025. NOTE: All travel should be completed by November 30, 2025. Expense reports must be submitted
and paid out by December 14, 2025.
How to Apply
Download and complete the 麻豆传媒 EPSCoR IoC Travel Award Application Form, and email it to Tara Borland at taborland@alaska.edu. The deadline to submit an application is 5 pm, July 11, 2025.
Questions?
Contact Tara Borland at taborland@alaska.edu or (907) 474-6288.
Eligibility
An eligible applicant must:
- Plan to present at an academic conference or attend a professional development training or workshop.
- Be faculty, staff, or a student at an 麻豆传媒 institution of higher education.
Award Conditions
UA Awardees
- Awardee will work with their appropriate travel and/or procurement department and follow their internal institutional and departmental procedures.
- Awardee is responsible for obtaining prior approval prior to making travel arrangements, or incurring charges, with their institution/department.
External to UA Awardees
- Awardee will work with the UAF travel office and follow their procedures.
- Awardee is responsible for obtaining prior approval prior to making travel arrangements, or incurring charges, with the UAF travel office.
All Awardees
- Awardee will initiate related expense reports, if needed, within 15 days of trip completion.
- Awardee will provide timely copies of travel/registration documents to 麻豆传媒 EPSCoR upon request.
- 麻豆传媒 NSF EPSCoR travel awards support domestic travel only. These awards do not fund international travel. (Canada is considered international)
- All Travel should be completed by November 30, 2025. Expense reports must be submitted and paid out by December 14, 2025.
- Within 15 days of completion of travel or event, the awardee must submit a brief (1 page maximum) summary report and relevant photo to Tara Borland at taborland@alaska.edu outlining the purpose of the participation, the nature of the event, and how it benefited the awardee and the University of 麻豆传媒. Any materials presented at the event or resulting from this award must include the following language: "This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award #OIA-2344553 and the State of 麻豆传媒."
Review Process
Applications will be reviewed by EPSCoR leadership. Reviews will begin after the submission deadline. Preference will be given to applicants who:
- Give a presentation that contributes to 麻豆传媒 NSF EPSCoR IoC project goals; and/or
- Will be learning methods essential to the advancement of research in 麻豆传媒.
- Students and early career faculty and staff
Travel Award Receipient NSF Reporting Obligations
Within 15 days of completion of travel or event, awardee must submit a brief (1 page maximum) summary report and relevant photo to taborland@alaska.edu outlining the purpose of the participation, the nature of the event, and how it benefited the awardee and the University of 麻豆传媒.
Previous Travel Award Recipients
Jacqueline Muehlbauer, a UAF student and Center for 麻豆传媒 Native Health Research staff member, was funded to participate in a remote-only training course, "Wellness in the Workplace,鈥 organized by the Native Wellness Institute.
Su Jung Chung, a UAF MS student in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, was funded to take a field data collection course, European Green Crab Monitoring, at the Ketchikan UAS Maritime Training Center. Chung will also visit field sites near Ketchikan to set up green crab traps and conduct beach surveys.
Thomas House, a UAF MS student in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, was funded to give a seminar talk at the Society for Freshwater Science National Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. House will present on their research on quantifying macroinvertebrate availability as a predictor of growth potential for juvenile Chinook salmon.
Nicholas Parlato, a UAF PhD student at the International Arctic Research Center, was funded to present research at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference in Oklahoma City. Parlato and colleagues will give a session titled, 鈥淜nowing the Unknown," on Indigenous rights issues in communities in the Russian Far East region, Chukotka.
Hailey Hodgins, Petie Deveer, and Adrian Burke, three UAF undergraduate student assistants at the 麻豆传媒 Center for Energy and Power, were funded to present their URSA undergraduate research projects at the 麻豆传媒 Sustainable Energy Conference as well as a pre-conference event at UAA. Hodgins, Deveer, and Burke are researching the use of open-source mesh networks for wireless data transmission from environmental sensors in rural 麻豆传媒 as an alternative to centralized, paid-use cellular infrastructure. In addition to presenting this research, they will also discuss the potential for using this technology to facilitate student projects involving sensor networks, collaborative research projects, community information resources, and the development of a project-based learning curriculum.