WGSA Travel Awards
To encourage graduate students to participate in their professional and academic arenas, each year the Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation makes funds available for graduate students to attend conferences/symposiums for presenting research. These funds are administered by the Wildlife Graduate Student Association (WGSA). Further matching funds may also be provided by the Institute For Agricultural Sciences (IFAS).
The maximum travel award is $250.
Click Here for a list of Past Award Recipients
For complete instructions on how to apply and an applicaton, use this form: PDF | Word
To be eligible you must:
- Be a registered WEC graduate student who is actively participating in the WGSA at time of application.
- Be presenting a paper or poster display at a conference, symposium, workshop or meeting.
- Not have received a WEC Graduate Student Travel Award in the past 12 months.
Your application to the WEC Graduate Student Travel Grant will be strengthened if you also apply for the following travel awards:
- a. IFAS Graduate Student Travel Grant (matches WEC Award up to $250 maximum)- Available at http://cals.ufl.edu/current_students/travel_grants.shtml#TravelGrants
- b. Graduate Student Council Travel Award -Available at: http://www.mygatornet.com/graduate/UFGSC/GRANTS.html
Please note, both IFAS and GSC travel grants require matching funds from your department, so it is prudent to apply concurrently.
WEC Application Deadlines: A minimum of four weeks prior to anticipated travel dates
Contact the WGSA Treasurer for any further questions about this confusing situation
WEC travel award amounts and disbursement protocol
- Awards are normally $250 from WEC (with a potential for matching funds from IFAS).
- If money still remains, additional awardees can be funded for that award period. These additional awards however, may be smaller than for the other award recipients (e.g. If 6 awards are available for the period but $100 remains, a 7th person can receive an award of $100).
- Travel money not allocated at a particular deadline will be rolled over to the next deadline. This will therefor increase the available number of awards at that deadline. These additional awards however, may be smaller than for the other award recipients (e.g. If 6 awards are available for the period and $100 is rolled over from the previous period, a 7th person can receive an award of $100).
- All rolled-over money in addition to money allocated for that particular deadline will be divided equally among all recipients of awards (for that deadline) with no upper limit (however, IFAS will only match $200 of this award)."
Additional travel award opportunities
Institute for Food and Agricultural Science (IFAS): This award is a matching fund for WEC awards. Do not submit this application seperatley. It must be submitted to WGSA along with your application package.
Graduate Student Council (GSC)
Davidson Travel Grant (IFAS): There are two application deadlines for this grant; May 30 and October 31.
Graduate Student Travel Funds: This is an opportunity for graduate students to whose faculty/staff mentor is not in IFAS or Engineering to get $300 for travel, this is a 1:1 matching award.
