The UIC Graduate Student Council Travel Award is available to students actively participating in academic or professional meetings. To eligible applicants, the GSC gives awards of up to $300, which may be used for reimbursement of transportation, lodging, registration, and meal costs.
Travel Award Eligibility
- Applicants must not be eligible for a Health Professions Student Council (HPSC) Travel Award.
- Applicants must be currently enrolled in a graduate degree program at UIC.
- Applicants must be presenting his/her own original work, chairing a session, or leading a discussion at a recognized meeting or conference.
- The applicant's department must have a currently active GSC departmental representative. An active GSC departmental representative is one who attends all of the regularly scheduled GSC departmental representative meetings in a given fiscal year (July 1 through June 30). In the event that a GSC departmental representative cannot attend a meeting, an alternate may attend in their place. If one meeting is missed by both the representative and the alternate, the absence may be "made up" through service to the GSC in a manner determined by the GSC executive officers. Such an absence at more than one meeting may result in that department's loss of active status for the reminder of that fiscal year.
- Applicants may only receive one (1) GSC Travel Award per fiscal year (July 1 - June 30).