James Sulzer Student Travel Award to attend a conference: deadline Jan 15, 2025

The UT CARE Initiative would like to announce the James Sulzer Student Travel Award – Spring 2025, which will provide funds to support a student (graduate or undergraduate) to travel to a scientific conference, for up to $1600 in total support. This fellowship is intended for students attending (with or without presenting) a conference related to rehabilitation research and engineering.

The upcoming fellowship is available for travel in the Spring of 2025, with applications being accepted 12/9/24 until January 15th, 2025. The recipient will be notified 1/21/25, with funds available as early as February 1st, 2025.

Please include the following in order to be considered for this fellowship:

1. A copy of your CV.
2. Submit a 1-page summary of:

• Your involvement and interest in rehabilitation research and engineering thus far in your career,
• how the conference you would like to attend relates to rehabilitation research and engineering,
• how the conference will benefit your educational and career goals, and
• a brief description or breakdown of how funds will be spent, approximate dollar amounts included.

3. If you are presenting at the conference, or have authorship on a presentation that will be presented at the conference, please include the abstract for the presentation.
4. One letter of recommendation, preferably from one of the CARE faculty members.

Applications will be judged on the student’s involvement and interest in rehabilitation research, the justification for how the conference will support the student’s goals, the conference’s relevance to rehabilitation research and engineering, and the potential for the conference to serve as a learning experience, as well as the written recommendation by the faculty member.

As part of the travel award, the recipient will be required to submit a one-page summary report of the recipient’s learning experience at the conference, due no later than two weeks after the conference.

Applications for the UT CARE Initiative student travel award can be submitted to utcareinitiative@austin.utexas.edu

Please email Deanna Wallace Donovan you have any questions.

UT CARE Initiative team