Student Travel Support Selection Criteria

One of the hallmarks of the CEDAR program has been the ability to support a significant number of undergraduate and graduate students to attend the annual workshop. This support from the National Science Foundation has been critical in engaging and training the next generation of CEDAR scientists and preparing them for their careers as scientists. However, it may not always be possible to support all students interested in attending the CEDAR workshop, necessitating a selection process to determine which students will receive support.

Selection Guidelines

Student financial support is limited, and it is likely that not every student will be financially supported by the workshop. The selection procedure in the case where the demand for student financial support is greater than available funding is as follows:

1. Total available funding will be divided 90%-10% between graduate and undergraduate applicants, respectively.
2. Students comprising the applicant pool will be divided into four categories: graduate students whose participation at the workshop is contingent on funding support (Category 1);  graduate students whose participation at the workshop is not contingent on funding support (Category 2);  undergraduate students whose participation at the workshop is contingent on funding support (Category 3); and, undergraduate students whose participation at the workshop is not contingent on funding support (Category 4).
3. Successful applicants in Categories 1 and 3 will be selected by separate random draws until either all of the students in those categories have been selected or all of the available funding has been used.
4. If any funding remains after the Category 1 and 3 draws, a third random draw will be used to select the remaining successful applicants in a pool combining Categories 2 and 4. 

It is our hope that advisors will take this selection process into consideration and support students out of their existing grants when possible.