The Honors College offers undergraduate grants-in-aid for travel to professional meetings for presentations/participation including, but not limited to, Honors Capstone projects. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and applicants will receive a decision generally within 4 weeks of submission (more specific information will be provided to applicants upon receipt of a completed application).
Fundable Activities/Expenses:
- Students may request money to fund travel to attend and/or present their research at professional meetings (e.g., registration, flight, hotel) and presentation materials (e.g., poster preparation costs). Food/per diem is not funded under these grants.
- No individual award will exceed $500 and most will be less. The maximum allowable cost for posters is $75.00. Decisions regarding the number and dollar amount of individual awards shall be guided by the principle of encouraging the largest number of undergraduates to benefit from such participation. Priority will be given to students presenting their own original work, but students attending conferences, meetings or events without presenting a paper, or traveling to do research in their area of study, may also apply for funding. Previous travel awards received from the Honors College will also be taken into account.
- Each proposal will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
- the merit of the proposal’s likely impact on the student’s scholarly and/or professional development; and
- reasonableness of the proposed budget.
Eligibility:
- Applicants must be current UIC Honors College students in good standing for the duration of the conference/travel period funded by this grant. (i.e., a graduating student cannot receive funding to attend a conference that occurs, in part or in whole, after Finals Week of the semester in which they graduate).
- Funds are only awarded for conference travel that occurs after the application is submitted; the grant will not refund students/departments for past travel.
- Selected students must submit a 2-page report and photo at the end of the semester in which they receive funding documenting their use of the funds, and include a photo of themselves at the conference. Additional reporting requirements may be added at the discretion of the Committee.
Application: A completed application includes: (1) an application (available here), (2) a completed budget form (found here) and (3) a letter of recommendation sent to jangeli@uic.edu. Be sure to include confirmation that your proposal was submitted/accepted in addition to other budget documents. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Please submit completed applications, compiled into a single PDF or Word document, to Julianne Angeli at jangeli@uic.edu with the subject line “YourLastName Travel Grant Application.”
