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Travel Awards
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The
application period has expired. The list of recipients will be announced
on the VRA listserv the first week of December.
For 2009 we have several new awards at all levels, and have raised
the
amount of many of the awards:
- NEW! ELEVEN awards of $850 each (formerly $750): 6 Tansey fund
awards,
the Gallery Systems award and the Kathe Hicks Albrecht award (for
a
first-time conference attendee), plus 3 new VRA Association Travel
Awards
- An international member award of $1,000 (sponsored by Saskia)
- NEW! A second international member award of $1,000
- Two "New Horizons" awards, of $850 each. These new
awards are aimed at
members in the following categories: solo VR professionals, part-time
VR
professionals, geographically isolated VR professionals, VR professionals
in smaller institutions, and/or first-time attendees
- NEW! The Davis Art Images award of $500
- The Joseph C. Taormina Memorial Travel Awards: 2 new top-up
awards of
$250 each
- NEW! now we can offer up to NINE Tansey Top-Up awards of $250
to $350
each, aimed at supplementing the costs of attendees with partial
conference funding
- A "New Horizons" student travel award of $300, for
a full-time student
enrolled in an accredited degree program and considering a career
in
visual resources
Before you apply, PLEASE READ "Travel Award Rules and
Guidelines", "Tips for VRA Travel Awards Applicants",
and "Types of Travel
Awards", all linked here as PDFs:
http://www.vraweb.org/organization/committees/travel/index.html
Two notes about eligibility: you must be a VRA member to apply
for any of
the awards, and you cannot have won a VRA Travel Award in the last
three
years (2006-2008).
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