SfN Travel Award

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Trainees:

The Dallas Area Neuroscience Group is pleased to participate once
again in the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Graduate Student Travel
Award Program.

The program provides a travel stipend to the SfN
annual meeting to a graduate student nominee selected by our
chapter. If you would like to be considered, please e-mail your
annual meeting abstract to info@sfndang.org before 5pm June 9th 2008.
For eligibility requirements, please see the SfN website:
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=TravelAwards_gradTravel

If you are a postdoctoral trainee and you would like to be considered
for a Postdoctoral Travel Award,please send us your SfN annual
meeting abstract to info@sfndang.org. For further details please see:
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=travelawards_postdoctravel

The abstracts (minus the author list and institute name) will be sent to an independent Professor and the abstract selected by the independent professor will be nominated by our chapter to vie for the award amongst other nominees from other
chapters in the nation. In the three occasions that we nominated a student, our students won the travel award.

If your abstract is selected, we will be contacting you immediately
for these digital documents:
• Completed application form
• Copy of the abstract submitted for the annual meeting
• A one-page curriculum vitae from the nominee including the
following information: education, including the date at which nominee
advanced to candidacy for the PhD, honors/awards, publications
(abstracts and manuscripts)
• A one-page letter of recommendation from the advisor

If you have any questions, please feel free to email info@sfndang.org