Travel Grants

Quick Information 

• The Travel Grant Committee provides funding for graduate and professional students to enhance their professional and developmental goals through attending different activities and events, including conferences, workshops, wet labs, internships, preceptorships, courses, career fairs, etc.
• Effective September 2nd, 2022, GPSA grants application FORM 1 has been updated. Please read all instructions carefully. 
• Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on in-person conferences and events in FY 2022, the travel grant committee will continue funding both online and in-person professional and career development activities, except internships, preceptorships, and intercampus travels. For receiving reimbursement for these travels, an applicant should be physically present at the travel destination for a considerable period of time.
• GPSA travel grants are competitive: funding will be allocated based on eligibility, quality and completeness of your application. All students that apply are not guaranteed to fund.
• From September 1, 2021, this committee will no longer accept applications through the Zoom Grants platform. Due to the expiration of the contract with this platform, this committee will not be responsible for applications submitted through the Zoom Grants from this date. The substitute platform is known as Coug Presence. The link of access to each type of application is provided in each travel grant section. 
• Travel Grant Committee has a limited fiscal budget coming from the student services and activities fees (S&A fees) to be fairly distributed among all graduate and professional students. As our budget is coming from Pullman S&A fees, it is illegal to be used by departments and advisors. Please do not request reimbursement of travel expenses covered by the department's funding, advisor's grants, or other external or internal sources. This committee only considers those expenses which are paid by the applicant/traveler.
• This committee only reimburses business-related transportation expenses. For Personal Car Mileage and Rental Car requests, please check the section on Eligibility. All eligible expenses and details of the required documentation are explained there. 
• The application for Membership Grant was closed on April 10, 2022. Applications were processed and will be reimbursed from the 2021-2022 budget. This committee will no longer reimburse membership fees. 
• This committee will no longer reimburse flight cancellation fees for travel that is canceled due to the coronavirus.
• If you have any questions and concerns, please contact the Travel Grant Committee Chair at gpsa.grants@wsu.edu.