Division of Graduate Studies
Graduate Student Travel Grant
Ongoing throughout the year, all materials must be submitted at least 30 days prior to the conference.
For Spring 2025: please email interim dean, Elizabeth A. Lowham, with any requests for exceptions to this timeline.
The Division of Graduate Studies (DGS), in collaboration with ASI, awards travel grants to graduate students who have had papers and/or posters accepted for presentation at major professional conferences or society meetings. Recognition of the student's scholarly work in such refereed forums is a source of pride for the university, and the Dean of Graduate Studies provides these funds to encourage and promote professional advancement of our graduate students.
Funding supports the student who is making a presentation, and it is expected that the student will formally acknowledge this support from the California State University, Fresno Division of Graduate Studies in program announcements or during the presentation. Students are encouraged to include this award in their résumés.
Application for Graduate Student Travel Grant
Attach the following:
- Abstract of paper to be presented
- Copy of letter of acceptance of the work to be presented
- Announcement of the conference or meeting
Travel grant funds are limited and may not be sufficient to cover all of the requests made for such support. These funds are in addition to those normally available through the department or college/school and must adhere to state travel expense guidelines. Awards are made only to the student making the presentation. Co-authors who do not actually present the work are not eligible.
In those instances wherein several students from the same department have each had their papers accepted for presentation at the same meeting, students may only receive an equal and proportionate share of the base allocation for this meeting/conference. It is the responsibility of the applicants and department chair to ascertain the likelihood that more than one California State University, Fresno student will be participating at the same meeting and will be applying for a travel grant.
A student may not receive more than one travel grant from this fund and must be an enrolled graduate student at the time they are reimbursed for travel expenses.