Travel Grant Information

Each year, the GSO awards six travel grants in the amount of $500 to deserving graduate students. Three awards are given each semester, with the intention of facilitating graduate student attendance at academic conferences and research forums.

Congratulations to the following Spring 2008 winners!

Carrie Anderson, Art History. Paper entitled: "The Role of Gift-Giving in the Normalization of the Dutch Image of Colonial Brazil." Carrie has presented this paper at the Globalization Then and Now: Cultural Exchange Across Borders conference held in New York City in March.

Brenda Phillips, Psychology. Paper entitled: "Young children can categorize novel tools by eavesdropping on others' intentional acts." Brenda presented this paper at the International Conference on Infant Studies held in Vancouver in March.

Astrid Runggaldier, Archaeology. Paper entitled: "What is Old is New Again: Patterns of Reuse in San Bartolo's Late Classic Reoccupation." Astrid presented this paper at the Society for American Archaeology 73rd Annual Meeting held in Vancouver in March.

All students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are eligible for the award, provided that a student representative from their department or program has attended 3 of the GSO meetings held during the semester prior to submission.

Eligible departments (Fall 2008):         

Applications must be emailed to the GSO at gso.bu.edu. Applicants who submit via email will receive email confirmation of receipt. PLEASE DO NOT send applications via USPS or campus mail, these methods usually result in delayed or lost applications.

For more information please contact the GSO Travel Grant Coordinator, Sue Mosher, at gsotravelgrant@gmail.com .