4S Registration Grants
APPLICATIONS FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT HAVE CLOSED.
Overview
For 2020 year 4S will administer funds to support the participation of students and other low-income scholars in its annual meeting by covering the costs of registration. Three sources of funding are used for this purpose. The first two sources are exclusively available to support graduate students. They include the base funding provided by the Naitonal Science Foundation and a special fund created from proceeds from the 2010 meeting. This “Tokyo Fund” supports Asian, African, and Latin American graduate students who have a paper accepted to present at the 4S meetings. The third source of funding comes from the additional revenue generated from sustaining members and is used to support meeting participation by both students and other low-income scholars.
Awards are available for registration costs only. Note that the limited funds available do not allow us to award grants to all applicants. The funding decision will be based on the following criteria:
- Quality: Is the abstract of appropriate quality for presentation at 4S?
- Relevance: If a graduate student, is the student enrolled in a graduate program? Is 4S the right place for this paper?
- Completeness: Is the application complete?
- Availability of alternative funds: Does your home institution provide funds to cover registration? If so, please use those funds if awarded to you.
- Prior travel grants received: Did you receive 4S funding last year?
- Diversity: 4s is committed to inclusion and participation of under-represented groups and seeks each year to provide funding to these students.
Procedures
Applications open after acceptance notices are sent.
To qualify for an award, an applicant must be a student or other low-income scholar presenting a paper at the 4S Annual Meeting and a member of 4S. In cases of co-authorship, no more than one award will be granted for each paper presented.
For more information, please contact Prof. Paige Miller. In the subject line, put “4S Travel Grant Application: [name].”