Postdoctoral Travel Grants

POSTDOCTORAL TRAVEL GRANT PROGRAM

To support the development of pathways to the professoriate, the Director for Faculty Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Development of the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) provides funds to Postdoctoral Fellows to help defray the cost of travel to professional conferences to present their research. The Postdoctoral Travel Grant Program provides awards of up to $700 each. The grant may be used for travel, lodging, and related expenses.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be NYU Postdoctoral Associates, Postdoctoral Fellows, Postdoctoral Lecturers or Faculty Fellows and may be from any department of FAS.  

• Applicants must be presenting a paper/poster at a scholarly or professional conference. Attendance only cannot be funded. Presentations at invitational or other seminars at other institutions also cannot be funded.

• Applicant salary may be from any source (e.g., NYU, NSF, Ford or other postdoctoral scholarships held by the postdoctoral applicant; NSF or other grant held by the postdoc’s PI). The applicant’s salary must be no more than $60,000 annually.

• Travel grant funds may be used to reimburse expenses related to the applicant’s travel (including food and lodging) to the conference and/or travel of a caregiver to the conference for the purpose of providing care/interpretation for the postdoc or care for the postdoc’s dependent child.

• Applicants with access to extramural conference travel support are ineligible for applying for support of their own travel.

• Preference will be given to applicants without a dedicated research or travel stipend/account and/or without access to a professional development fund.

• Preference will be given to applicants with an established track record of effort to diversify the academy.

Application and Selection Process

• Travel grants are awarded twice annually for travel during periods running from September to January and February to August.

• Deadlines are Nov 1 and Aug 1 annually.

• Applications must be submitted through the online form below by 5pm on the due date. This is a ‘received by’ deadline.  Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Late applications will not be accepted.

• Applicants may apply for only one grant per period.

• Confirmation of acceptance to the conference is required prior to disbursement of funds.  Further instruction will be provided when a grant decision is made.

• All correspondence will be via the email used in submitting the grant application.

• Awards are made based on competitive application review with notifications as below.

 Grant Application & Review Schedule*

** Confirmation of acceptance to conference required prior to disbursement.

Apply HERE

• Applicants must fully complete this application form. 

• Applicants are responsible for their own travel arrangements including visas.

• Please direct questions to the Director at facultydiversitydirector@nyu.edu

The following will be needed for your application

• Your name, email, department and other identifying information (including title, affirmation of salary and travel resources)

• Details regarding the conference including conference name; sponsoring organization; location and duration

• Date of conference start

• Type of award for which you are applying (to offset your travel or caregiver travel).  If relevant, affirmation of availability/or not of on-site childcare via host organization.

• Your Presentation Title and information on co-authors (names/institutions)

• Your Presentation Abstract (to cut and paste into an essay box)

• Approximate budget for this trip (e.g., airfare, lodging

• Short Essay to ‘Describe the importance of this presentation/conference to your professional development.’ (no more than one paragraph to cut and paste into an essay box).

• Short Essay to ‘Describe how you, your research, teaching and service activities contribute to broadening diversity in the academy’ (no more than three paragraphs to cut and paste into an essay box)