Student Travel Funding Available
Evolution 2005 Conference
Talks or Posters with an Arctic Focus
10-14 June 2005
Fairbanks, Alaska
The conference web site can be accessed at:
http://www.evolution05.uaf.edu/
The Institute of Arctic Biology (http://www.iab.uaf.edu/) and University
of Alaska Fairbanks (http://www.uaf.edu/) central administration have
generously committed funding to assist graduate and undergraduate
students presenting talks and posters at the Evolution 2005 Meeting,
which will be held 10-14 June 2005 at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks.
Limited funding to cover the cost of the conference registration (and
possibly more depending on the number of requests) currently is
available for graduate and undergraduate students who register and
present talks or posters that focus on themes of Arctic adaptation,
physiology, genetics, or other areas of research conducted within the
Arctic or sub-Arctic. These funds are intended to promote
interdisciplinary interaction and joint participation of students and
faculty in two Arctic-theme symposia that will take place at this
conference:
Saturday, 11 June 2005
8 a.m. - Noon
Ecotypic Variation in the Context of Global Climate Change: Revisiting
the "Rules"
Sponsor: UAF-University of Alaska Museum
Organizer: Link Olson
Saturday, 11 June 2005
1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Population Genetics of Adaptation to Arctic and Alpine Environments
Sponsor: UAF-Institute of Arctic Biology
Organizer: Matt Olson
The symposia schedule is available online at:
http://www.evolution05.uaf.edu/symposia.cfm
Students requesting funding should register their talks/posters online
at the conference web site
(http://www.evolution05.uaf.edu/registration.cfm) no later than 31 March
2005 and then submit an e-mail stating the nature of the financial need
and an abstract (250 words maximum) describing the research to be
presented. Please include the words "student travel in the subject line
of your application e-mail to:
Kevin G. McCracken
E-mail: fnkgm [at] uaf.edu
Please note that travel awards will be distributed after the 31 March
2005 talk/poster registration deadline and that students from Fairbanks
and Anchorage are not eligible for these awards.