Call for Travel Grant Applications

The AAEA Foundation seeks applications for Young Professional and Graduate Student Travel Grants. These grants defray housing and transportation costs associated with attending the 2010 AAEA, CAES, & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in Denver, July 25–27, 2010. Up to $400 will be awarded to each applicant, based on professional merit, financial need, and expected active participation in the Annual Meeting.

A qualifying applicant must be a graduate student or comparatively new junior professional engaged at an accredited U.S. college, university, or other institution in such applied economics fields as agribusiness, agricultural, consumer, food, development, environmental, health, marketing, regional, rural, or resource economics. On account of the Foundation’s goal of broadening participation in the Annual Meeting, preference may be given to individuals working under institutional circumstances not normally conducive to AAEA meeting attendance.

Applications must be submitted through the head of the applicant’s department or division. The application statement should include:

1. Applicant’s name, postal address, e-mail address, and phone number;
2. Indication of whether the applicant is an AAEA member and the history of any AAEA travel grants he/she has been awarded in the past;
3. Applicant’s current status, including: young professional or graduate student, department and institution at which enrolled or employed, degree program underway or recently completed, years at institution, brief resume of research area, and professional rank or anticipated graduation date;
4. Description of applicant’s planned participation in the Joint Annual Meeting;
5. Proposed travel budget, including other funding sources available, such as from the applicant’s institution; and
6. Department or division head’s certification of applicant's financial need, including certification that funding is unavailable from other sources.

Department or division heads will decide which applications to submit. Each head may submit a maximum of three applications. Applications will be accepted only from U.S. colleges, universities, and institutions. Applications, together with the department or division head’s cover letter, should be submitted electronically to travelgrants@aaea.org by 5 p.m. CDT on April 26, 2010.