IPER Conference Funding Policy
Ph. D. Program
May 31, 2006

This memo provides a description of IPER’s current conference funding policy.

We hope you’ll start attending professional meetings by the middle of your graduate career.  Normally we expect that conference / workshop participation will be covered by funding sources external to IPER, through grants to students and their faculty mentors.

If needed, IPER will offer doctoral students up to $2,000 in funding (total, over one’s graduate career*) for attendance at professional meetings.  Funding will be issued in the form of reimbursement for expenses incurred. To qualify for reimbursement, you must be delivering a talk or a poster.

Expenses eligible for reimbursement are:

-Transportation to and from the conference location and Stanford (i.e. airfare, or vehicle if more appropriate)
-Lodging
-Conference registration.

To process a reimbursement, please submit original receipts and a copy of the conference invitation/acceptance letter to the Assistant Director. You will receive a check/direct deposit within 3 weeks.

* Please note that this policy is retroactive- if you received funding for conference attendance prior to May 31, 2006, that amount will be deducted from your $2,000 balance.