Research at Dalhousie Medical School

Faculty of Medicine

Graduate Travel Awards

Opens: Spring 2025  

The Faculty of Medicine Travel Award Program was established with the objective of supporting or partially supporting graduate student participation in national or international conferences for the presentation of their original research.  There will be two annual award competitions, one in April and one in October subject to available funding.

For the current competition, applications will open April 1, 2025 and close on April 30, 2025.

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Applications will be open April 1 - April 30 and
October 1 - October 31 annually.

 

Grant Amount and Authorized Expenditures

  • The Katheryn Weldon Travel Award, Northwater Capital Travel Award and the Faculty of Medicine Travel Award are currently valued at up to $1,000.
  • This grant is intended to help cover the actual costs associated with attending conferences, including expenses related to transportation, registration fees, accommodation, meals, and other essential expenses.

Eligibility Criteria

  • This award is open to all Dalhousie graduate students currently enrolled in a Faculty of Medicine graduate program, including Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Community Health and Epidemiology, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Medical Neuroscience, Medical Physics Microbiology and Immunology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Physiology and Biophysics, or Psychiatry
  • Eligible recipients must provide evidence of presenting an abstract and an oral or poster presentation.
  • Conferences and other travel eligible for the award will take place within 6 months before or after this award closing date (Dec 1, 2024 - Oct 1, 2025).
  • Preference will be given to graduate students in Faculty of Medicine programs whose supervisor holds a primary appointment in the Faculty of Medicine.

Submission Process

  • Applications must be completed by the student and the supervisor.
  • Applications must be submitted in in SharePoint and must contain the following
        A completed application form and,
        A copy of conference registration and acceptance.
  • File naming format for uploads: Student’s Last Name_Student’s First Name_Travel Award

Deadline and Competition Schedule

  • The application deadline for the current competition for the Katheryn Weldon, Northwater Capital, and the Faculty of Medicine Travel Awards is April 30, 2025.

Award Selection Process

  • The selection of award recipients will be carried out by the Scholarship and Awards Committee which is a sub committee of the Faculty of Medicine  Research Advisory Committee (RAC).
  • The selection criteria may include type of presentation, financial need, quality of the abstract and primary appointment of the supervisor. *Supervisors who have been appointed for greater than 5 years in the Faculty of Medicine and who hold start-up funding will be considered to have low priority with respect to financial need.
  • If more than one travel award application is received from the same supervisor, the supervisor must include a cover letter including the ranking of the submissions directly to mrdo@dal.ca prior to the application deadline.

 

Please email your questions to MRDO@dal.ca