Travel Awards
Travel Awards for Postdocs and House Officers
Description of Award
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is pleased to offer Travel Awards for Postdocs at NC State University. These grants are designed to provide supplemental funding for postdoctoral scholars and house officers traveling to present at domestic and international conferences. Postdocs are eligible to receive up to $500 for domestic travel, or $750 for international travel.
Application Deadline
We are currently not accepting applications for the travel awards and hope to re-open it in the spring.
Eligibility
1. Must have a current appointment at NC State University or affiliate research centers
2. Must have been in current postdoc position for at least 6 months prior to the submission deadline
3. Must use the award within one calendar year of receiving it
4. Must demonstrate evidence of attending at least one professional development program organized by The Graduate School, including workshops, courses, and events. A full list of current offerings can be found on the Professional Development website.
5. Limit one travel award per postdoc
Submission Guidelines
We are currently not accepting applications for the travel awards and hope to re-open it in the spring.
Required Materials
1. Travel Awards for Postdocs Application Form
2. Faculty Mentor Recommendation Form
3. Current CV
4. Proof of invitation from conference to present a paper, poster, or panel presentation
Domestic travel applications must be submitted 30 days prior to conference date. International travel applications must be submitted 60 days prior to conference date. Postdocs and House Officers who would like tickets, conference registration fees, and other expenses paid in advance must submit their applications at least 60 days prior to the conference.
Criteria for Evaluation
Applications will be reviewed on the following criteria:
1. Strength of application
- Merit of the application will be judged by the information provided in the application, abstract, and Faculty Mentor letter
- The application is submitted on time with all the appropriate components submitted according to the instructions
2. Clarity of application – The research brief should be written in non-technical language for a multi-disciplinary audience
3. Contribution to professional development
- Clear synopsis of postdoc/house officers career goals
- Compelling argument as to why that particular conference or workshop will advance or contribute to the career goals of the applicant
4. Financial Need
5. Evidence of involvement in Postdoc community and commitment to professional development
- Applicants must have participated in at least one professional development program organized by The Graduate School. Attendance is taken at most Graduate School events
- Other forms of involvement, including involvement in Postdoctoral Association (PDA) or other committees
Postdoc Deliverables
Postdocs who receive a travel award are required to submit the following no more than two weeks upon their return:
1. A one-page (double-spaced) write up of the conference, what was presented, and what they gained from their experience
2. At least two photos from the event that can be used by OPA to promote postdoc research experiences
NC State Travel Policies
Applications must adhere to the travel policies of NC State:
Travel Expenses Information & Policies
Travel Subsistence Rate
Past Travel Award Recipients
December 2019
Leendert Hayen, Ph.D., Physics
Presentation title: First-forbidden transitions in the reactor antineutrino anomaly
Presentation location: Conference on Neutrino and Nuclear Physics 2020, Cape Town, South Africa
Olgha Qaqish, Ph.D., College of Engineering Dean’s Office
Presentation title: Best Practices: Maintaining Successful Mentoring Relationships
Presentation location: 2020 National Postdoctoral Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA
September 2019
Camilo Mora-Navarro, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
Presentation title: Decellularized Vocal Fold Lamina Propria-ECM And Associated Matrix-bound Vesicles: Proteomic and In Vitro Characterization Of The TGF-β1 Mediated Fibrotic Response In Human Fibroblasts
Presentation location: TERMIS America Chapter meeting, Orlando, FL
Sheila Saia, Ph.D., Forestry & Environmental Resources
Presentation title: Improved Accuracy of Watershed-Scale General Circulation Model Runoff Using Deep Neural Networks
Presentation location: American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco, CA
Briana Whitaker, Ph.D., Plant & Microbial Biology
Presentation title: Direct and Indirect Effects of Fungal Inoculants on Switchgrass Physiology in Drought and Well-Watered Conditions
Presentation location: ASA-CSSA-SSSA (Tri-Societies) International annual meeting, San Antonio, TX
June 2019
Eduardo Hatano, Ph.D., Entomology & Plant Pathology
Presentation title: Habitat assessment by the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, via volatile cues from chemical degradation of conspecific cuticular hydrocarbons
Presentation location: Entomological Society of America annual meeting, St. Louis, MO
Amanda Krentzel, Ph.D., Biological Sciences
Presentation title: Estradiol rapidly modulates excitatory synapse properties in a sex and region specific manner in the nucleus accumbens core and caudate putamen
Presentation location: Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Chicago, IL
March 2019
Bruno Kanieski da Silva, Ph.D., Forestry & Environmental Resources
Presentation title: Harvest Schedule under Price Endogeneity: Linking Field Operations to Market Decisions
Presentation location: XXV IUFRO, Curitiba, Brazil
Muntazar Monsur, Ph.D., Landscape Architecture
Presentation title: Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) Technology to Teach Construction, Materials and Methods In Landscape Architecture
Presentation location: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture annual meeting, Sacramento, CA
Ana Zuleta Correa, Ph.D., Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Presentation title: Suitability of Ensiled Biomass Sorghum as a Lignocellulosic Feedstock for Fermentable Sugar Production
Presentation location: ASABE annual international meeting, Boston, MA
December 2018
Adam Kokotovich, Ph.D., Forestry & Environmental Resources
Presentation title: Risk Assessment, Value Judgments and Synthetic Biology: A Role for Public Engagement
Presentation location: American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, Washington, DC
Abhichart Krissanaprasit, Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering
Presentation title: Genetically Encoding Functional RNA Origami: Anti-Coagulants
Presentation location: Gordon Research conference: RNA nanotechnology, Ventura, CA
Zheng Li, Ph.D., Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Presentation title: Noninvasive Diagnosis of Tomato Late blight via Smartphone Fingerprinting of Leaf Volatiles
Presentation location: Spring American Chemical Society national meeting, Orlando, FL
September 2018
Paul Beata, Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering
Presentation title: Floating-Point Autotuner for CPU-Based Mixed-Precision Applications
Presentation location: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, & Analysis, Dallas, TX
Dimitri Blondel, Ph.D., Biological Sciences
Presentation title: Ecology of Invasive Mus musculus on Islands
Presentation location: GIBRd annual meeting, Exmouth, Australia
Olena Leonchuk, Ph.D., Psychology
Presentation title: Methodology for developing alternative expert-opinion based bibliometric for emergent multidisciplinary fields
Presentation location: American Evaluation Association annual conference, Cleveland, OH
Shuang Liu, Ph.D., Crop & Soil Sciences
Presentation title: Soybean genotype and soil type shape the bacterial community structure in soils
Presentation location: SSSA International Soils meeting, San Diego, CA
Tahira Pirzada, Ph.D., Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Presentation title: Plant parasitic management in sub-Saharan Africa through wrap and plant technology
Presentation location: European Society of Nematologists conference, Ghent, Belgium
Xinyu Zhang, Ph.D., Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center
Presentation title: Visual training for intermediate scale bioreactors
Presentation location: Learning and Teaching Expo, Hong Kong, China
June 2018
Aurore Canoville, Ph.D., Biological Sciences
Presentation title: Microstructure, chemistry, and skeletal distribution of medullary bone in Neomithes – Paleobiological implications
Presentation location: Second Joint Conference on Evolutionary Biology, Montpellier, France
Benjamin Gingold, Ph.D., Molecular Biomedical Sciences
Presentation title: Measurement of peripheral muscle oxygen saturation in healthy horses using a near-infrared spectroscopy device
Presentation location: World Congress of Veterinary Anesthesiology, Venice, Italy
Lucie Guertalt, Ph.D., Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Presentation title: Geomorphic identification of physical habitat features in a large, altered river system
Presentation location: River Flow conference, Lyon, France
Qandeel Hussain, Ph.D., English
Presentation title: An acoustic and articulatory study of the three-way laryngeal contrast in coronal stops of Balti
Presentation location: ICSTLL & PSJ, Kyoto & Okinawa, Japan
March 2018
Greer Arthur, Ph.D., Molecular Biomedical Sciences
Presentation title: Roles for MS4A4 in Fc-epsilon-RI signal transduction and store-operated calcium entry in human mast cells
Presentation location: Immunology annual meeting, Austin, TX
Rishi Aryal, Ph.D., Horticultural Science
Presentation title: Differential gene expression during blueberry fruit ripening
Presentation location: Plant Biology annual meeting, Montreal, Canada
Josefina Patricia Fernandez Moreno, Ph.D., Plant & Molecular Biology
Presentation title: Differential gene expression during blueberry fruit ripening
Presentation location: Plant Biology annual meeting, Montreal, Canada
Emily Moore, Ph.D., Biological Sciences
Presentation title: Genetic variation at a conserved non-coding element contributes to microhabitat-associated behavioral differentiation in Malawi African cichlid fishes
Presentation location: Genetics Society of America Population, Evolutionary, & Quantitative Genetics conference, Madison, WI
Kunwar Singh, Ph.D., Forestry & Environmental Resources
Presentation title: Trading milk for water: Evaluating hydrologic impacts of reduced alfalfa cropping in California’s Central Valley
Presentation location: American Association of Geographers conference, New Orleans, LA
December 2017
Chad Highfill, Ph.D., Biological Sciences
Presentation title: Natural genetic variation for cocaine and methamphetamine consumption, tolerance, and preference in drosophila melanogaster
Presentation location: Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Erin Lashnits, Ph.D., Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Presentation title: Statistics and modeling in infectious diseases
Presentation location: University of Washington Department of Biostatistics Summer Institute, Seattle, WA
Shay Logan, Ph.D., Philosophy
Presentation title: Constant domain semantics for contractionless first-order relevance logics
Presentation location: Joint Math Meetings, San Diego, CA
Shauna Morin, Ph.D., Education Leadership, Policy, & Human Development
Presentation title: Worldview diversity and inclusion in higher education
Presentation location: Dalton Institute on College Student Values, Tallahassee, FL
Sheila Saia, Ph.D., Forestry & Environmental Resources
Presentation title: Integrating hydrological models and census data to prioritize climate change preparedness
Presentation location: United States Regional Conference for the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Chicago, IL
September 2017
Melanie Hedgespeth, Ph.D., Forestry & Environmental Resources
Presentation title: Municipal wastewater applications to forests: Using participatory science to understand human exposure and risks to chemical contaminants of concern
Presentation location: SETAC North America annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN
Alan Jacob, Ph.D., Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Presentation title: Effect of roughness on concentrated colloidal suspensions under flow
Presentation location: Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology, Denver, CO
Haritha Malladi, Ph.D., Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering
Presentation title: Low-temperature vacuum drying procedure for rapid asphalt emulsion residue recovery
Presentation location: Transportation Research Board annual meeting, Washington, DC
Vladimir Pozdin, Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering
Presentation titles: Strain sensors on thermoplastic polyurethane films for lightweight epidermal sensing; Low-cost flexible inorganic optical devices for flexible sensors; Modular design for epidermal temperature sensing
Presentation location: IEEE Sensors meeting, Glasgow, Scotland
Kurt Schab, Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering
Presentation titles: Antenna bounds for reduced basis problems
Presentation location: International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, Verona, Italy