Graduate Student Resources
- Funding
- Space Reservations
- Travel Grants
- GSA Awards
We know that it’s not always easy to scrounge up funds to present your work and rub elbows with the greats in your field, so we’ve worked hard to raise funds to help get you to your big conference.
GSA created a Travel Grant program to award graduate and professional students grants of up to $300 for in-state and up to $500 for out-of-state travel to conferences where you will present your own professional work. This program is funded by GSA, Graduate Division, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and the Office of the Chancellor.
Four rounds of applications will be held each year, one during each quarter. Funding will be awarded randomly from the full pool of eligible applications. Applicants must be presenting a paper or giving a talk on their own original research.
Have questions about the Travel Grants program? Email travel@gsa.ucsd.edu.
In order to qualify for GSA Travel Grant funding, all of the following must apply. You must:
All travel grant awardees will be invited to present a poster in the "Drinks and Dissertations: Graduate Research Symposium" during the quarter their award is allocated. Each quarter, an awardee whose research is (1) innovative, (2) demonstrates originality, (3) exceptionally motivating will be selected by the GSA Academic and Judicial Committee to present their research orally at the conclusion of the symposium.
Please submit the following:
Please check with your graduate program coordinator first to determine the appropriate travel reimbursement procedure for your program/department. Some departments have staff who handle the MyTravel steps described below, and they could help students in such programs to set up a MyTravel account.
General procedures are as follows:
Session |
Due Date |
Notification of Award |
Conference Starts Between |
---|---|---|---|
Summer 2020 |
N/A |
N/A |
Canceled due to pandemic |
Fall 2020 |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
Winter 2021 |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
Spring 2021 |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
Summer 2021 |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |