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The Visual Resources Association 2009-10 Travel Awards

The VRA Travel Awards are now available for attendance at the 2010 VRA conference in Atlanta, Georgia, March 17-20. The deadline for receipt of applications is November 13, 1pm Pacific Time.  The list of recipients will be announced on the VRA listserv the first week of December.

The following awards are available for the 2010 conference:

• Six Tansey fund awards of $850 each
• The Kathe Hicks Albrecht award of $850 (for a first-time conference attendee)
• Two New Horizons awards of $850 each.  These 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
• An international member award of $1,000 (sponsored by Saskia, Inc.)
• Five Top-up awards: These are aimed at supplementing the costs of attendees with partial conference funding. This year there are three Tansey Top-Up awards of $300, one award of $500 (sponsored by Davis Art Images), and one award of $250 (the Joseph C. Taormina Memorial Travel Award)
• 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

Conference information, including a preliminary schedule, hotel prices, and other costs, is linked here, along with the application form: http://www.vraweb.org/conferences/index.html

You will be guided to the Memberclicks page where you will log in to your account to access the travel award application. 

BEFORE YOU FILL IN THE APPLICATION, PLEASE READ the following documents which will clarify your eligibility, the best way to answer the questions on the form, and more: "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

Please watch the VRA-L (listserv) and the VRA website for further details about the conference.  Please email <[log in to unmask]> if you have any questions not answered by the documents noted above.