Travel Awards

FASEB / MARC Travel Awards to EMS 2008 Puerto Rico.

Deadline: September 11, 2008!
Informaiton and application form here .

Student and New Investigator members who are eligible underrepresented minority* attendees may apply for funding support through the FASEB MARC Program. The FASEB MARC Program provides funding for travel awards to support the participation of Faculty/Mentors and Students, and Poster/Platform (Oral) Presenters at the Environmental Mutagen Society meetings. The awards help to defray meeting registration and travel-related expenses (lodging, transportation, per diem) for eligible underrepresented minority* undergraduate and graduate students, post-baccalaureates, postdoctorates, junior faculty and mentors/faculty scientists in the biomedical sciences. Awards up to $1,650 are available. For an application form and more information visit the FASEB MARC Program website. You may also contact Fran Yates in the FASEB MARC Program Office at fyates@faseb.org or by phone 301-634-7109.

FASEB Faculty/Students Travel Award: Each award provides funding for one faculty member/mentor and two graduate or undergraduate students from a minority institution to participate in one of the selected national meetings or conferences. The faculty/mentor must nominate two graduate or undergraduate students who are pursuing research careers in a life sciences discipline.

FASEB Poster/Oral Presenter Travel Award: Each award provides funding for one underrepresented minority graduate/undergraduate student or postdoctoral fellow who has been selected to give an oral or poster presentation at one of the selected national meetings or conferences.

Students and postdoctorates with an accepted abstract are eligible to apply for funding.

Please bring this to the attention of anyone that you think might qualify and who would be interested in attending the EMS 39th Annual Meeting in Puerto Rico.

Details about the meeting are located on the EMS Web site.

Important deadlines:

FASEB MARC Award application deadline is September 11

Advance Registration Deadline is September 15

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: http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/temp_1305.html