Fall MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced
By Kirsten Heuring
Media Inquiries- Associate Dean for Communications, MCS
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Nine winners have received the Mellon College of Science Graduate Student Funding Award for fall conferences.
Created by Glen de Vries Dean Rebecca W. Doerge to help graduate students attend conferences and workshops that will further their research, she and associate dean for faculty graduate affairs Manfred Paulini announced the fall recipients.
This round's winners include the following students and the meetings they plan to attend:
- Isha Dhami, a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry — the 18th Annual Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society
- Fiona Fitzgerald, a Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Sciences — Rustbelt RNA Meeting 2022
- Hannah Frame, a Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry — ACS Northeast Regional Meeting
- Benjamin George, a Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Sciences — Barrels XXXV Conference
- Manami Kawakami, a Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry — US Japan Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials Meeting
- Tong Liu, a Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry — 242nd ECS Meeting
- Alice Nam, a Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Sciences — Barrels XXXV Conference
- Michail Sarantis, a Ph.D. Candidate in Mathematical Sciences — AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting
- Mo Zhu, a Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Sciences — Barrels XXXV Conference
The award offers students up to $500 in supplemental funding for travel, prioritizing applicants who have secured other sources of funding.
Graduate students are encouraged to apply to future rounds of the Graduate Student Conference Funding Award. The deadlines are as follows:
- Dec. 15 for conferences in January, February and March
- March 15 for conferences in April, May and June
- June 15 for conferences in July, August and September