Student Travel Grants

SEPM has established a new student in-person travel grant program entitled SEPM Student Travel Grants. These grants provide travel funds for students that have abstracts accepted to SEPM approved meetings and conferences. An approved meeting is one that SEPM has reviewed and endorses the topic, program and operating organization. Meeting organizers must apply for approval. Contact Howard Harper (hharper@sepm.org).

**Note for the 2025 Mountjoy IV meeting both Students and Early Career Member presenters are eligible to apply for travel grants (see Approved Meetings list for details.)  All Mountjoy IV travel grant applications MUST be send to Howard Harper (hharper@sepm.org)  NOT Judy Parrish.

The rules for applying for an SEPM Student Travel Grant are:

1. Please submit your travel application via email with the following details to the Foundation President, Dr. Judy Parrish sepmfoundationpresident@sepm.org
   1. A cover page with your name, email address, institution, physical address and name and email address of your advisor. Please make sure the email addresses are not live links.
   2. Letter of recommendation from your advisor (please have your advisor send their letter separately via email)
   3. Full abstract
   4. Title, dates, place and URL of the requested meeting
2. Grants are only awarded to attend approved meetings. 
3. Applicants must be SEPM Student Members in good standing prior to applying.
4. Students can only receive one grant per year.
5. Application deadlines for meetings are two months prior to the meeting.
6. Forward the acceptance email as soon as you receive it if it is not available at the time of application.
7. There are limited number of grants per meeting and all grants are awarded based on merit and application date.
8. Student grant winners may be acknowledged on SEPM promotional pages. 

See approved meetings