1. Work must be the result of a collaborative student/faculty research project.
2. Scholarly/creative merit: originality, timeliness, quality and completeness of proposed research.
3. Visibility: maximum scholarly audience at peer-reviewed professional conference.
4. Proportionality: balance between the cost of travel and the scope and  importance of the conference.
5. Please note that your application must be clearly written in a style that is comprehensible to a group of your colleagues who are not likely to be specialists in your field.
   
   How are these projects supported?:
   Limited funding is available for students for exemplary projects. Student members of student-faculty research teams may apply for funding to travel to conferences where the results of research are presented. Student grants are for amounts up to $500 for expenses for which the student will file original receipts. (Faculty members should remember that students are paid only for expenses for which the student has a receipt. Each individual must keep receipts separately and file individual expense reports within 30 days of the conference.) Faculty members who are co-presenting should also complete an Application for R&D Support to Travel and Present a Paper at a Conference.
   
   

What expenses are funded?:  The College will fund only the following expenses:

1. Round-trip transportation to the conference site, including associated expenses, such as mileage to and from the airport, tolls en route, parking, airport-to-hotel limo. Car mileage is figured at the College's standard rate.
2. Conference registration (not including membership fees) 
3. Per-diem expenses (lodging and meals): up to $150/day for no more than six days may  be funded through an R&D grant. Lodging is not covered for conferences less than 75 miles from your home. Students are encouraged to share lodging and travel costs whenever possible.
   

• Special application instructions for just this program:
• use the Application for R&D Support to Travel and Present a Paper at a Conference (see sidebar at left) 
• Attach documentation of your presentation, e.g. copy of the program or letter of invitation. 
• Students must provide the Committee with an abstract or copy of the paper which has been submitted and approved for presentation by the organizers or program committee of the specific conference to be attended.
  
  
• Special reporting requirements for just this program:
• After your trip submit to Associate Provost Christina Van Buskirk:
  • a copy of your paper or equivalent documentation of your presentation
  • an R&D Detail Worksheet/Expense Form completed and submitted ELECTRONICALLY to randd@dickinson.edu with ORIGINAL receipts sent in campus mail or delivered to the office of AP Van Buskirk, Old West, 2nd Floor, Room 17. (see Reporting Requirements)
  • website to look up exchange rates http://x-rates.com/
  • Please read the Updated Financial Operations Travel Guidelines
  
  

Please see sidebar at left for general instructions and application forms.