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Research Funding
Funding Sources for Faculty and Students
Funding Sources for Faculty
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Intramural Grant Opportunities
Stipend available from the office of Vice President for Research
Peer-reviewed publications with COMP Student(s) as co-author(s) are eligible for up to $500 support. Publication must show students’ WU affiliation to be eligible for support. Actual level of support will be decided by the Committee based a variety of factors including students’ authorship rank, whether the journal is listed in PubMed and journal impact factor. Application should be submitted by the party (Faculty or Student) who paid for the publication charges and after such charges have already been paid.
Funding Sources for Students
Conference Travel: Applications must be submitted at least 30 calendar days before the travel date. Exceptions to this rule will be made if the earliest registration date is less than 30 calendar days from the travel date. Eligible applicants must be COMP students and present a talk or/and poster. Individual presenters must be listed as first or co-first author on an accepted abstract. Multiple students presenting the same poster are eligible to apply if they are all listed as main authors (e.g., co-first authors, first and second authors,…). Depending on fund availability, individual presenters will receive reimbursement of up to $750, whereas group presenters will receive reimbursement up to $1000 per poster. Eligible costs (registration fee, transportation, accommodation and poster printing) are estimated at the time of application and actual costs will be reimbursed as long as they are within 10% of the estimate. Documentation of expenses (receipts, credit card charges) must be submitted to jtorresmendoza@westernu.edu within 1 month after the return travel.
Publication Support: Peer-reviewed publications with COMP Student(s) as co-author(s) are eligible for up to $500 support. Publication must show students’ WU affiliation to be eligible for support. Actual level of support will be decided by the Committee based a variety of factors including students’ authorship rank, whether the journal is listed in PubMed and journal impact factor. Application should be submitted by the party (Faculty or Student) who paid for the publication charges and after such charges have already been paid.
Publication Support: COMP students are eligible for up to $500 support per publication as long as they paid the publication charges. See Publication Support for Faculty for additional information.
Summer Student Research Fellowship Criteria
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Intramural Grant Opportunities
This is a competitive fellowship program. Students interested in this fellowship should submit a research proposal.