Graduate Student Travel Award – Call for Applications

The deadline for application and recommendations for AAAL's Graduate Student Travel Awards is Friday, December 19 at 5:00 pm Eastern time.

Update: The applications have been graded and notification announcements should be emailed to all applications before February 13, 2009.  Check this page for more updates.

Purpose:
To help support travel (and some expenses) of 6 graduate student members of AAAL to the annual conference (www.aaal.org/aaal2009).

Eligibility:
You must be a student member of AAAL at the time of application, as well as enrolled in a university Master's or Ph.D. program in applied linguistics or a related field
You must be an accepted and confirmed paper or poster presenter at the upcoming conference. Previous GST award recipients are not eligible to submit. Students enrolled in a university program within a reasonable distance of the conference site may not be eligible to receive the award

Amount:
A maximum of 6 awards will be given: $800.00 each for up to four Ph.D. student awards and up to two Master's student awards. In addition, the awards include the waiving of conference registration fees. Two of the six awards - the ETS Graduate Student Travel Scholarship and the Multilingual Matters Graduate Student Travel Scholarship - will be awarded to the two top-ranked Ph.D. student applicants.

Guidelines:
This is a merit-based scholarship/award. The primary consideration in granting the award is the academic merit shown by the student.

Application Procedure:

Students must apply online at http://clear.msu.edu/tripleal/scripts/gstaform.php

Applications must include the following information:

Your institution and program of study (state your current degree objective)
Your recent/current contributions to the field of applied linguistics
Your career plans after completion of degree program
How conference attendance will benefit you and others
A biographical statement; and contact information

Included with the application should be the name and email address of a current professor who has agreed to provide a recommendation. It is the student’s responsibility to arrange for his/her professor to send a letter of recommendation to recommendation@aaal.org by the application deadline.

Key Dates:
December 19, 2008: Deadline for submission of applications
December 19, 2008: Deadline for submission of professor recommendations
February 1, 2009: Target date for notification emails to award recipients

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Register for AAAL 2009 here
Early registration ends February 20, 2009.
Late registration rates carry a $30 late fee. 

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Conference discount rates expire February 22, 2009

Presenters, Please Note:

1. It is not possible to reschedule presentations; presenters are asked to make their travel plans in accord with their assigned presentation times.
2. A computer projector is available in every meeting room, but presenters are expected to supply their own laptop computers or arrange to borrow one from another presenter.
3. Session Chair assignments have been emailed. Every effort has been made to schedule session chair assignments within one day of a presenter's own presentation. Session chair assignments cannot be changed.

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