CEGE Travel Grants

•        You must be a current CEGE graduate student at the time of the application.

•         The presentation must have been accepted by the conference when the application is submitted.

•         Travel grants MUST be turned in before the travel takes place.

•         Travel grants can be awarded in the fall/spring/summer.

•        You must be a current (active) graduate student registered for 6-14 credits or for CEGE 8333 or CEGE 8444 in the fall/spring during your time of travel. 

•         If a summer grant is awarded – the student will be required to enroll in GRAD 4999. The  graduate program coordinator will be doing this. Grad 4999 is a zero credit, zero tuition course registration. This allows for the reimbursement to be uploaded into your student account.

•         You are ineligible for the travel grant if: you are registered for GRAD 999 or if the travel is after you graduate. 

• •          The travel grant will be applied to your student account ONLY.

  •          All travel expenses must be paid up front by you.

  •          The award must be used for the conference on your application. It can't be transferred to attend another conference. The grant will become invalid and you will lose your award. A new application must be filled out and approved by the DGS to attend the new conference.

  •          Travel grants will not be reimbursed to adviser’s research or discretionary accounts.

  •          The graduate program coordinator will email you once your application is approved.

To complete the application process you must do the following:

• Fill out the Travel Grant Application 

• Supporting documentation includes a copy of the acceptance to present your work (the DGS needs to see the full original confirmation. Do NOT cut and paste.)

• All applications must be complete to be reviewed. 

• The DGS will review the application and make a decision to accept or deny your application.

• The graduate program coordinator will email you once the decision is made with further instructions.

•      Keep all receipts. They will need to be uploaded as a single pdf into the CEGE Travel Grant Reimbursement Form. This should be done after your attendance at the conference.

•          The graduate program coordinator will post the travel award to your student account.

•          Travel grants will not be reimbursed to adviser’s research or discretionary accounts.

•          If your adviser is paying for the rest of your conference out of their research or discretionary accounts, you should fill out Chrome River – The University’s official reimbursement system.

•          Only put the costs your adviser is paying in Chrome River.

•          Do not put both reimbursements in Chrome River.

Do this if your adviser is using any of his research or discretionary accounts to help pay for your conference.

This is in excess of your travel grant.

•          Log into your MyU

•          Go to your key link and find U travel

•          Complete Chrome River reimbursement within 30 days of the trip return date.

Deadlines are on a rolling basis.

Another source for a travel grant is the Council of Graduate Students (COGS, Grants)

 Graduate Fellowship Office - Thesis Research Travel Grants (Travel Grants) 

Direct questions to the Graduate Program Coordinator at cegesps@umn.edu.