MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced
Heidi Opdyke
- Associate Dean of Marketing and Communications, MCS
- Email opdyke@andrew.cmu.edu
- Phone 412-268-9982
Four winners have received the Mellon College of Science Graduate Student Funding Award for fall conferences.
Associate Dean for Faculty and Graduate Affairs Dejan Slepčev and Director of MCS Graduate Affairs Gwen Stanczak announced the recipients. This round's winners include the following students and the meetings they plan to attend:
- Makino Xin, a Ph.D. candidate in Biological Sciences — the International Conference for the Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and other Marine Invertebrates
- Isabella Salas-Allende, a Ph.D. candidate in the Neuroscience Institute — the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
- Daniel Gaytan-Villarreal, a Ph.D. candidate in Physics — the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026 Conference
- Nathaniel Wesnak, a Ph.D. candidate in Physics — the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
The award offers students up to $600 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. Applications are open for conferences taking place any time from January 2027 through June 2027. Completed applications will be accepted through Dec. 1, 2026.
For more information and to apply for the award, students can visit the award website.
