Student Awards
Students and New Investigators are the future. EMS strives to help students and postdoctoral level investigators to establish long-term relationships that will promote career development. The EMS offers a limited number of Student and New Investigator Travel Awards to assist students and new investigators to attend and participate in the EMS Annual Meeting. Applications for Travel Awards are solicited from graduate students and new investigators during the abstract submission process. Awardees must also be members of EMS; membership can easily be attained through the EMS Membership Page. The student and new investigators are instructed to submit their CV and have their mentor submit a letter of recommendation, describing why the student is deserving of special recognition. These materials must be compiled into a single PDF (labeled nameofaward-nameofnominee.pdf) and sent to Bevin Engelward, the EMS Awards Committee Chair.
EMS Student Achievement Awards:
To graduate students and young investigators, who are EMS members, to attend the
EMS Annual Meeting and present a paper or poster.
Young investigators includes those who have receieved their doctoral degrees
within the past 3 years.
Alexander Hollaender Travel Award:
For a student from a developing country currently enrolled in a graduate
degree program in the USA or Canada.
Bevin P. Engelward,
MIT Biological Engineering Division
77 Massachusetts Ave., 56-631
Cambridge, MA 02139
or via email to Bevin@MIT.edu.
EMS Student Travel Awards to EMS 2006 Vancouver, B.C.
Deadline: May 26, 2006!
Online application form here
(recommended). Application to fill-in and mail/FAX here
(MS Word format)
FASEB/MARC Travel Awards
As many of you are aware, EMS is a member of FASEB and one of the benefits of this association is that qualified students, postdocs and faculty are eligible to apply for FASEB/MARC travel grants to attend the EMS meeting in Pittsburgh. The awards help to defray travel-related expenses (lodging, transportation, per diem) associated with meeting/conference attendance. One does not have to be a member of EMS to take advantage of this opportunity. Information on these award can be found at https://ns2.faseb.org/marc/travel1.html.
There are two types of awards available:
Faculty/Students Travel Award
Each award would provide funding for one faculty member/mentor and two graduate or undergraduate students from a minority institution to participate in the EMS meeting. The faculty member/mentor member must nominate two graduate or undergraduate students who are pursuing research careers in a life sciences discipline.
Poster/Oral Presenter Travel Award
Each award would provide funding for one underrepresented minority graduate/undergraduate student or postdoctoral fellow who has been selected to give an oral or poster presentation at the EMS meeting.
Students and postdocs submitting an acceptable abstract before the deadline would be eligible to apply for funding.
Visa Alert
As part of new security procedures, many visa applications are being sent to the State Department in Washington, D.C. for review by a variety of federal agencies. Due to the number of visas being processed and the heightened security concerns, this review can take as long as six to eight weeks, or longer, depending on the applicant's country of origin. Therefore, we encourage scientists intending to come to the United States to apply for their visa as early as possible and to pay attention to U.S. State Department guidance on this matter. The National Academies has a very useful web site containing this information (see http://national-academies.org/visas). The most frequent reason that visitor visas are denied is because the applicant was unable to provide enough evidence, in the opinion of the consular officer, that he or she was not intending to immigrate to the United States (per Section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act). Therefore, we encourage you to pay particular attention to State Department advice on how to deal with this type of denial (see http://travel.state.gov/visadenials.html).
