MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced
By Kirsten Heuring
Media Inquiries- Associate Dean for Communications, MCS
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After two years of virtual conferences, three winners have received the Mellon College of Science Graduate Student Funding Award.
Created by Glen de Vries Dean Rebecca W. Doerge to help graduate students attend conferences and workshops that will further their research, she and associate dean for faculty graduate affairs Manfred Paulini announced the first round of recipients since 2020.
This round's winners include the following students and the meetings they plan to attend:
- Karina Mueller Brown, a Ph.D. candidate in Biological Sciences — Streptococcal Biology Gordon Research Conference
- Evgeny Gutkin, a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry — ACS Fall 2022 Conference
- Yesukhei Jagvaral, a Ph.D. candidate in Physics — International Conference on Machine Learning
The award offers students up to $500 in supplemental funding for travel, prioritizing applicants who have secured other sources of funding.
Graduate students are encouraged to apply to future rounds of the Graduate Student Conference Funding Award. The deadlines are as follows:
- Sept. 15 for conferences in October, November and December
- Dec. 15 for conferences in January, February and March
- March 15 for conferences in April, May and June
- June 15 for conferences in July, August and September