Young Professional and Graduate Student Travel Grants

The AAEA Trust seeks applications for Young Professional and Graduate Student Travel Grants. These grants defray housing and transportation costs associated with attending the 2012 AAEA Annual Meeting in Seattle, August 12-14, 2012. 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 Trust’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 online application form. You will be asked to submit the following:

1. Your name, postal address, e-mail address, and phone number;
2. Your 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 summary of research area; and professional rank or anticipated graduation date;
3. Description of your interest and/or planned participation in the Joint Annual Meeting;
4. Proposed travel budget, including other funding sources available, such as from your institution; and
5. Nomination from a department or division head which includes written acknowledgment of the nomination and certification of your financial need, including certification that funding is unavailable from other sources.

Applications should be submitted by the individual seeking support; however, only two applications from each department or division will be accepted. In the event that more than two applications are submitted from a specific department or division, it will be up to the department head to decide which two will be considered. Applications will be accepted only from U.S. colleges, universities, and institutions. The deadline for submission is April 16, 2012. All submissions should be received using the online application form.