Travel Allocations are available to fund individual graduate and professional students who are traveling to an academic or professional conference that relates to their area of study and will enhance their professional development. Typically the funds have paid for conference registration fees, meals, transportation or hotel costs. Travel allocations are up to $250 per student. A student may only receive one travel grant during their graduate career at UW. If awarded, the funds will be transferred to a budget number provided by the travel coordinator in your department. You will make all travel arrangements and reimbursements through your department travel coordinator.

Travel funds are available to any graduate or professional student at the University of Washington Seattle campus.

Right Here! Travel Allocations Application Form Or a hardcopy can procured from the GPSS Office (HUB 300).

Applications will be accepted and reviewed every three months by GPSS according to application deadlines. Your date of travel must fall within the specified date range for each respective deadline. The application deadlines for the 2007-08 academic year are by 6 pm on:

• Wednesday, August 1, 2008 for travel between August 15, and November 14.
• Thursday, October 31, 2008 for travel between November 15, and February 14.
• Friday, February 2, 2009 for travel between February 15, and May 14.
• Thursday, May 1, 2009 for travel between May 15, and August 14.

• Review GPSS funding policies outlined below as well as the University of Washington travel guidelines.
• Download the Travel Allocations Application Form and fill it out.
• Have your departmental travel coordinator fill out the travel coordinator section of the application. This will most likely be the administrator in your department.
• Have a faculty member familiar with your work submit a letter of recommendation of 400 words or less either in a sealed envelope signed across seal or emailed directly to the GPSS Treasurer at gpsstres at u.washington.edu
• Attach a printout of the conference homepage or a conference brochure to your application.
• Submit the completed application form along with supplemental materials to the GPSS office (HUB 300, Box 352238) by 5pm on any of the deadline dates listed above. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.

• If funded, the GPSS Treasurer will notify you and your departmental travel coordinator by email and funds will be transferred to your department. UW departments receiving GPSS travel support will be expected to coordinate with the SAUF Accounting Office to complete the funding process. Depending on when the student's travel occurs and the type of budget to be credited (e.g., discretionary, grant, state, local, etc.), the recipient department may be required to include a GPSS budget number in the student's Travel Expense Voucher, prepare a portion of a Request to Transfer Expenditures, or provide information for SAUF Accounting staff to prepare a crediting journal voucher. A member of SAUF Accounting's staff will contact the recipient department soon after the travel grant is approved by GPSS to make arrangements.
• You will need to work with your departmental travel coordinator to make travel purchases and get reimbursement before June 30 (even if your travel dates later in the summer).

The GPSS in consultation with the University of Washington has created several funding policies to govern the use of state funds in the Travel Allocations process.

• All travel funds must meet the University of Washington travel guidelines.
• Allocations approved by the GPSS F&B Committee must be transferable to a University of Washington budget other than thsoe controlled by GPSS. Your Department Travel Coordinator will assist you with this requirement.
• All requests must be submitted by 5pm on the day of one of the submission deadlines listed above.
• GPSS will fund requests only from graduate and professional students at the University of Washington Seattle campus.
• Travel Allocations Requests of more than $250 will not be accepted.

• Gifts or loans of any type
• Lobbying activity to influence legislation
• Activity that includes endorsements of any political candidate or initiative
• Travel to conduct research
• Travel for a study-abroad program

• Failure to follow any of the above guidelines may result in the denial of funding or the revocation of funding after approval.
• If the applicant does not travel for any reason, all funds must be returned to GPSS.

Congratulations to the following graduate and professional students who were awarded GPSS Travel Grants in 2006 - 07 to support conference travel that will further their academic development.

• Karol Cooper - English Department - Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference
• Katrina Hoffman - School of Marine Affairs - 2007 Puget Sound Research Conference
• Carrie Lee - College of Forest Resources - USDA 4th Greenhouse Gas Conference
• Katy Masuga - Comparative Literature - BAAS 52nd Annual Conference
• Sara Nelson - Epidemiology - Conference on Retroviruses & Opportunistic Infections
• Hsun-Hui Tseng - Anthropology - East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference
• Or Rogovin - Comparative Literature - LIterary Odysseys Conference
• Steven Vance - Earth & Space Sciences - Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
• Britt Yamamoto - Geography - Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
• Jonathan Santiago - Health Services, School of Public Health - Global Health & Migrating Populations Conference
• Nadia Jackinsky - Art History - Inside Knowledge Conference
• Sunil Aggarwal - Geography - Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences & Medical Humanities
• Mustafa Aksel Casson - Anthropology - Society for American Archaeology
• Laura Eshleman - Comparative Literature - Association of Chinese & Comparative Literature
• Mathieu Fregeau - Aeronautics & Astronautics - 5th U.S. Combustion Meeting
• Janessa Graves - Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences - IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion & Health Education
• Julie Kang - Education - National Association for Asian & Pacific American Education
• Erin Langner - Museology - Museums & the Web 2007
• Shelly Leavens - Museology - American Association of Museums
• Jennifer Rohan - Information School - American Library Association
• Seema Sohi - History - Asian American Studies Association
• LaTasha Taylor - Technical Communication/Astrobiology - National Society of Black Engineers
• Chris Wells - Communication - International Communication Association
• Vicki Wilson - French & Italian Studies - Graduate Students Association of Italian Studies
• Cari Anderson - Physical Therapy - Rehabilitation Medicine
• Umut Aydin - Political Science
• Katherine Deibel - Computer Science & Engineering
• Charles Todd Faubion - Geography
• Christian Hendershot - Psychology
• John Meitzen - Neurobiology & Behavior
• Wanna Net - Information School
• Allyson Sgro - Chemistry